Speaking of "Name generator spits out surprisingly familiar historical figure name", I'll never forget the best quest I ever received in Adventure Mode.
It was several versions ago, some iteration of DF2010 shortly after Toady added the first Night Creatures (what are now called the Trolls, I think). The world I genned was absolutely overrun with them - after taking out the first bandit leader or two (back when those were still pushovers, and not the invincible death gods they've become recently) my quest targets list was completely dominated by them. As I traveled around the greater area around this capital, hunting down their lairs, I was noticing that all the ones I was being sent after were the offspring, bride-of-X types, and they were all the same type; it seemed like all the trolls besieging my civ were converts made by the same original. (I'll never remember the type ... I think it was Skinless Freak, but it doesn't really matter.) Finally after slaying about 7 or 8 of this mysterious unseen Troll patriarch's offspring I get the big quest -- "You have gained great respect in the eyes of our people," blah blah blah -- to go take out the originator himself. At last, I knew the name of the beast.
My Quest Log recorded in very plain terms what was to be my final mission:
Well at least he just had sex 
You're more correct than you think -- when I went into his lair (with my 2 companions only) I damn near died because there was actually one last Bride-Of living in the lair with him that I hadn't been told to expect by anyone; I had engaged her not really paying attention and thought she was Akon for about 10 turns before the actual him came charging out of the back and tried to, ahem, 'smack that' (where "that" was my character's skull, into the wall).
Fortunately my meat shields (RIP) soaked up enough of their attention that I was able to kill both the beasts and make it out alive. I tromped back to the Capital in glory, turned in the quest, then hauled myself up north across the river to a border Fortress of the neighboring civ to begin the next chapter of my quest,
only to discover that sometime after killing Akon I'd developed the Nemesis Load Error glitch, and could no longer leave the fast travel screen to any new area without the game crashing.
Moral of the story - If you kill Akon, expect the world to go with him. I guess he was more like Atlas.
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