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[rabidgam3r]

This is a thread in which you state your favorite dorf of your fortress, and the reasons why. Let me begin!



'Rock Lobster' Lobsterrock, my best wrestler, got stabbed in the foot by a kobold shortly before ripping it to pieces. She lay on top of the mutilated corpse, unable to stand and focusing her inner !!MAGMA!!. I, determined for her to live, built a makeshift, bed-less hospital in about thirty seconds. I looked back, and she wasn't there, and i found her standing at the food pile with a tiny scar on her foot, grumbling mildly about an injury.

[Scootagoose]

Ice Cube Jawworks. The leader of my military, crossdresser and a fan of cows. He killed ten goblins, five humans and seven elves in his time. He uses two sword, a shield and a spear.

[AbacusWizard]

Monom "Dragonbane" Datanasen, in my first big fort back before DF2010. She strode boldly into combat clad all in shimmering steel, with a war hammer in one hand, a shield in the other, a baby under each arm, and a few toddlers following behind... and killed a dragon in one blow. Don't mess with Momma Bear.

[Loud Whispers]

This is a thread in which you state your favorite dorf of your fortress, and the reasons why. Let me begin!

How can you have a favourite? Do you laud the humble farmer who feeds hundreds unthanked? The soapmaker who is magma'd for excessive hygiene? The carpenter, who makes the beds your Dwarves so admire? The blacksmith and the mechanic who keep your Dwarves at the pinnacle of military technology?

[Larix]

I tend to spread no-quality jobs among a great number of dwarfs, to ensure the job just gets done when it's needed. Thus, i have no specialist soapmakers, beekeepers, butchers or cheesemakers (since i just bulk-order 'shear animal - spin thread - milk animal - make cheese', sometimes with a plant processing job thrown in for good measure, every dwarf intended for farmer workshop use gets those five jobs all enabled). I appreciate the work of my soapmakers, but usually there's not a dwarf who is _the_ soapmaker.

I have a soft spot for dwarfs who did something notable for their fellows - the furnace operator who was the only one willing to regularly work in the hospital, who in spite of a total lack of skill managed to get a dwarf with a broken skull back on its feet. The pair of starting miners who bravely chased a couple of Draltha all across the fort and finally back out to the caverns, while suffering no serious injury - one became my military commander, the other my duchess.

I also tend to pay special attention to dwarfs who got severely hurt, trying to better their lot - my most vivid memory is of a dwarf child who got paralysed from the waist down when a magma crab entered the fort through the improperly plugged magma workshop. He was reduced to crawling around forever, but i set up a workshop specified for him, with a stockpiles of rope reeds and whip vine and a bedroom nearby, and let him work his way up to legendary thresher over a couple of years. Out of curiosity, i then switched off his labours and stuck a dwarf girl of similar age into his bedroom. It took about seven years, but the two eventually married and started to make babies.