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[TheFlame52]

I wrote a 5-page story on The Great Elven General Yonali Smithwings, but I can't find it.

[Enemy post]

You mean this story?

Yonali Smithwings
The greatest general who ever lived

Yonali was born in 49. She was the eldest child of Inevi Mistcarnage and Alino Coupleman. Her parents were clothes-makers, weavers, and woodcrafters. She helped run the shop as a trader with her siblings.

But her life changed when the current princess, Thilu Chancestyled, became queen in 62, and Yonali was chosen for the position. At the time, the position was relatively boring, as The Skin of Lions, her civilization, had not been at war with anyone since 24 and no elf had ever died as a princess.  The position was only where you waited to become queen. But in 64, tragedy struck as Thilu was abducted by a night creature and changed into one of them. Instead of becoming queen, Yonali chose to put Afe Delightgrowths, a daughter of a previous queen, on the throne. Afe still remains on the throne today.

In 65 Yonali married Inefa Motherpaint, an herbalist, and together they had 8 children. Sadly, 2 of them were lost to night creatures, and 2 were lost to a bronze colossus. Her eldest son Rayeli married in 88 and his wife had Yonali’s first grandchild, Nemo. She married in 95 and had Yonali’s first great-grandchild, Emima. She married in 109 and had Yonali’s first great-great-grandchild, Cata. She married in 122 and had Yonali’s first great-great-great-grandchild, Itha. She married in 135 and had Yonali’s first great-great-great-great-grandchild, Sareve. Truly, elves breed quickly.

Then, tragedy struck in 137 when her husband Inefa was lost to another night creature, and her brother Mawada was killed trying to kill a minotaur. This made a huge change in Yonali. She wanted blood. She wanted someone to pay. But the night creature had vanished like smoke, and she had no outlet for her rage. She began amassing a huge standing army, while honing her own skills. She was helped by the druid, Yarare Skirtfords, who had been in the army for a long time.

In the late autumn of 147 she declared war on The Prestigious Letter, a small dwarven civilization close to the north. Her army, now 7000 strong, completely destroyed the dwarves' small settlement of 500. They didn't go down without a fight, though - every dwarf took at least three elves with them. That night, the elves feasted on the flesh of the treekillers, and their whole civilization rejoiced with them. The army's ranks swelled with new recruits drawn in by the promise of fresh meat. Among the recruits were her own mother, sister, firstborn, daughter, son, and many other family members. They would stay with her throughout her conquests.

But the dwarves would not stand to be slaughtered. They sent an army of 800 toward a tiny forest retreat near their mountains. Yonali met them halfway, and the battle claimed half the dwarves but only a small fraction of the elves. Her men pressed toward the retreating army, and eventually caught up to them at a dwarven mountainhome. There they killed the rest of the army, and all within. Yonali pressed on, destroying another mountain hall. She lost about 2100 men, while the dwarves lost 800. More recruits came, but not many; however, one recruit was her youngest child, and another her queen. By this point almost her whole family except for her father and a few others were part of her army. He stayed back at home and carried on the family business with the help of a hoard of his now-grown many-great-grandchildren.

Then she came upon the great fortress Churchwheel, sparsely defended by only 300 dwarves. But this was no ordinary fortress, and no ordinary dwarves. This was the Mountainhome itself, the pride of The Prestigious Letter, last bastion of dwarfkind, and manned by well-trained men. Yonali lost almost 3000 men taking the fortress, charging uphill toward heavy crossbow-fire, being sliced apart by traps, forced to fight one-on-one underground in tight hallways against berserkers. After the battle was won and all the dwarves were slain, Yonali and her army celebrated over the spoils of war. This was the Mountainhome after all, and its treasures were innumerable. They had conquered the dwarves utterly, and now the only dwarves remaining in the world were enslaved to various other civilizations.

But the elves' bloodlust was not yet appeased. Yonali and her army marched back through their country and attacked The Empire of Bars, their human neighbors to the south. They attacked one hamlet, killed 3000 humans and took 4000 losses, danced amid the ashes, and walked home to nurse their wounded and mourn their dead. Yonali returned to her life of training and raising her children.

After 12 years of inactivity, Yonali began to itch for the battle field once more. She once again declared war on their southern neighbors. But the humans were ready, and had positioned their army on the outskirts of their territory.  The two armies met in a large hamlet. Her army, numbering 5500, lost 4000 while the enemy, numbering 3500, was completely obliterated. Yonali also made her first actual kill during the battle when a small group of elite soldiers fought their way through the elven ranks to kill her. After the battle, the elves feasted on the flesh of the humans they had slain and buried their dead. The army went home after the humans begged for peace.

But the peace did not last. During the short peace, a new law-giver came to power over the Empire of Bars. Unlike the last law-giver, she was an extreme religious. Her missionaries came over into The Skin of Lions, trying to convert elves to her religion. They were largely unsuccessful, but the few elves that changed deities were soon chased out of the country.

Yonali and the humans fought another war 11 years later in 171. But the humans were feeling scared. Their population was shrinking rapidly, and their villages destroyed one by one. But the elves were enjoying themselves. Fresh meat and all the loot you can carry! The population wasn’t even shrinking, due to the size of The Skin of Lions. They trusted in Yonali, and her amazing reputation. After all, who will oppose you if you kill the enemies’ generals? By this point, the core of Yonali’s army was battle-hardened, experienced veterans. Most had been with her since the dwarven wars. All the dying was being done by the new soldiers.

Yonali fought the humans again in 182. This battle was different. In this battle, elves fought elves. All the enemy were slain as usual, but the elves found it unnerving to have to kill their own brethren. What could be so good about their religion that they would fight against their former countrymen? Even Yonali was not unaffected.

Yonali felt the itch for battle once more in late 192. She led her army down again, and conquered the waiting army. But this time she ignored the stuck-up law-giver’s pleas for peace. She kept conquering, and took the entire region with less than a hundred casualties in total, while slaying more than 11000 humans. Yonali claimed the region as a vassal state of The Skin of Lions and returned home victorious.

In 203 Yonali learned that the dwarves still lived. They had crawled out of their holes in the ground and began rebuilding out of sight. Yonali and her army crushed all four mountain halls with ease and distain. The dwarves were once again no more.

In late 204 queen Afe summoned Yonali to her court. At this point Yonali was a global legend, victor of 47 battles. Afe told Yonali about the encroaching goblin threat. They were led by a demon and rapidly expanding. They had already taken over the land the dwarves had left vacant after their defeat, and were looking for more room to grow. Yonali was ordered to put her skills to the test and conquer the goblin nation.

Yonali launched her attack in the spring of 205. Her army of nearly 8000 marched across the plain toward a small goblin fort. Yonali signaled the attack from her war elephant. But the goblins were ready. They had an army of over 3000, headed by the demon Liwa Boggorged the Ruthlessness of Bristling. The two armies collided with a roar.

Yonali shouted orders left and right. Liwa waded through the elven army, spitting webs at any elves who came to close. The lizard demon wielded a great iron axe the size of a small tree, and he bisected elves with every swing. Swords, spears, and arrows bounced off his scaly hide.
“I’M COMING FOR YOU, GENERAL!” he roared over the din of battle.
“I’d like to see you try!” Yonali shouted back. Liwa jumped the last thirty feet before Yonali’s elephant, roaring in anger. He swung his axe in a wide circle, aiming straight for Yonali. She jumped from the elephant’s back, landing on the ground with an acrobatic roll. She knew she couldn’t possibly take Liwa head on, but she could dodge his attacks and try to stay alive. She successfully evaded Liwa for a full ten minutes, during which time the entire goblin force was defeated. This left Liwa and Yonali in the center of an elven army of 4000. One of Yonali’s rolls took her into a patch of webs, sticking her fast.
“I HAVE YOU NOW, LITTLE ELF!” Liwa roared. He swung his axe around, aiming for Yonali. She raised her sword and shield to try to block the blow—

The axe cleaved through sword, shield and body alike.

The elven attack redoubled, tears streaming from their eyes. They threw themselves against the demon, hoping to overwhelm him with sheer numbers. But it was all in vain. Eventually, an old swordself named Liceyi Coastmatches called for a retreat. They could not defeat such a monster. She and the remains of the army fled from the battlefield, carrying with them Yonali’s body. They buried her in the capitol under the central tree, surrounded by the family members that survived the battle. Among the dead were Yonali’s mother and eldest child, along with the druid. Only 1500 men had survived the battle.


Liceyi became the new princess. She was the descendant of a queen, and had been with Yonali since her first battle. She made peace with the goblins. In 210 the elf Cethire Cageadore slew the plains titan Iger Oakensinks the Fog of Beaches, passing the world into the Golden Age.

Wishing to continue the legacy of Yonali, Liceyi declared war on the humans on the continent to the west in 217. She led her army of over 9000 against the humans’ army of 6500. She was killed in the attack, taking more than 6000 casualties while only killing 4000 of the enemy. The army retreated in shame.

Amayi Earthenuttered became the next princess, and had been with Yonali since her conquest of The Empire of Bars. Embittered by the elves’ loss, in 228 she declared war once again on the humans to the west, and led her massive army of 11000 against the humans’ army of 6400. She was driven back after taking nearly 8000 losses. However, only 150 men were left from the opposing army. Amayi forged a peace with the humans that lasts to this day.

Turning her anger south, Amayi attacked the Empire of Bars in 239. She led her army of 9000 against the humans’ army of 3600. Her army suffered nearly 5000 losses while only inflicting 2700 on the enemy. She was forced to give back all the occupied towns in the peace treaty. Sad and angry, Amayi led the army home and declared that there would be no more wars. She simply could not hope to match the accomplishments of Yonali Smithwings, the greatest general who ever lived.

[TheFlame52]

Yep, that's it!

[Julien Brightside]

That was a great story.

Though, every battle seemed to give the elves rather big losses.

[TheFlame52]

Yeah, at first I thought it was an elven thing, but looking at a lot more legends battles, it seems to be an attacker's thing. I've seen far worse losses from attacking armies, especially when the defenders are the last of a civilization of goblins. Even if you outnumber the enemy 10 to 1, its still not a good idea to attack an army composed entirely of weapon lords. Besides, Yonali's successors did much worse than she did on the casualties front.

Also, thanks. I really enjoyed writing it but it just sort of died after I posted it.

[sal880612m]

Genned a new world with a 125 year history. In the last five years two wars occured. The second was between goblins and elves, and the elves lost. The first was between humans and goblins surviving humans:395, surviving goblins:1.

Looked into it more, and found that the survivor had been a demon, and in the period of about two years gained 749 notable kills, and has over one thousand other kills :O. I generally get far less interesting worlds.

Going to see what else happened.

[TheFlame52]

Once I had a world where the last surviving member of a goblin civ was a demon hanging out in a captured fortress. It fended off 2 dwarven, 1 elven, 1 impish, and 2 human sieges before finally succumbing to one last human siege. It was killed by an unnamed human. The demon had 23,000 kills at death.

[TheFlame52]

I have several 'last left' people in a new world I generated.

First one is Id Anguishedarrow. He is a dwarven vampire and king of the Wire of Depressions. He is the only one of his civ.

Next are Iyathi Cherisheddabbled and Salo Punchprairies. Iyathi is the queen of the Large Glade and Salo is her subject. Salo wanders the wilds. They are also the only ones.

All three are former captives of a demon civ called the Wickedness of Masters.

[nomoetoe]

I once found a necromancer that was married to a man who is elephant werebeast, was quite interesting sadly the werebeast never got to spread his infection for he always killed his victims before they could escape, then he died. I put miss necromancer to rest. c: hue

[Adi Grateles]

There was one Tura Cangoramkal, a human, who became law-giver of Anthath Sedme (The Confederation of Murk) at just age 31. She forewent marriage in order to fully dedicate her life to her country, and in its short-lived history, Tura's 46-year-reign lasted longer than any of her predecessors. Much of it was spent taking on the confederation's mortal enemies from Anthath Eri (The Confederation of Magic). In 6 skirmishes with their nasty neighbours, Tura built quite an impressive killcount.

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Tura had brought 272 of her foes to the blade, and her achievemenents in battle lead to her enemies dubbing her The Superior Grip-Pits of Lathering. A name that surely struck fear into many hearts.

History had portrayed Tura as an active leader who slayed all comers. History also forgot to say that Tura was quite terrible at this leading business.

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Not a single person who joined Tura in battle lived to tell the tale. Through her worship to Cadap Palathluto, the god of Gambling, it may be assumed that her strategies did not involve a lot of self-preservation. It's a miracle she managed to escape so many battles with her own life intact.

Nevertheless, Tura managed to slaughter hundreds in the name of Anthath Sedme, and in this world of war and bloodshed, her prowess in battle is all she needs to be remembered for.

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I really love legends mode. There's so many neat little stories you can uncover for a single person.

[Julien Brightside]

I am impressed she was the only survivor in most cases.

[Spehss _]

Found a dwarf named Logem Wheelhermit. He was one of the first of his kind. He began wandering the wilds in Year 11 of the world. He wandered for 8 years. In that time he fought with 4 different night trolls, and each time he was defeated but"escaped unscathed".

He settled in the mountain halls of Sunkenfences for a year before wandering the wilds again in year 20. He fought with several more night trolls, but he neither killed any nor was he injured. Then, while wandering, in the early spring of 28, Logem fought the one eyed freak Zustop Shadowdied. The one eyed freak smashed Logem's right eye. Logem escaped, but he was turned into a one eyed dwarf by a one eyed freak. How fitting. He fought a roc while wandering in year 30, but he was unable to kill it. He smashed the roc's leg open, but had to retreat despite the roc's wounds. He continues wandering for a while, but is unable to kill anything. The closest he got was injuring a roc.

Logem doesn't seem cut out for glory and adventure. He settles in Minestangled in year 39, with 27 years of wandering under his belt, and no kills. He becomes a thresher while in Minestangled, presumably he settles down to farming life. Then, in year 45, after 6 years of peaceful life as a thresher, he begins worshipping Egul, the dwarven goddess of law, and he becomes a member of The Order of Law. He promptly starts adventuring again, and begins wandering the wilds.

Suddenly, Logem's abilities seem to pick up. He wanders for 15 years before confronting the gloom woman Mondul Skullstomb the Crypts Ash of Shadows in year 60. He strikes the night troll down. In year 61 he confronts the troll of twilight Zitha. He strikes the night troll down. In year 63 he confronts the midnight ogress Meli. He rips of the night troll's right arm before he then shoots and kills it. In year 64 he confronts the winged creature Osod Buriedskull, who he shoots and kills.

After this sudden killing spree he wanders for another 23 uneventful years before dying of old age in the wilds. He lived in civilization for 7 years of his life, and wandered the wilds for a total of 80 years, and wandered alone up until he died of old age as a decrepit old dwarf. He was an ardent worshipper of Egul at the time of his death, and had killed 4 night creatures. He died with the title of Logem Wheeledhermit the Incinerated Reign.

So, he's a godless and unremarkable wannabe ranger wandering the lands alone, who settles down and tries to live a peaceful life as a farmer after losing his eye to one of the beasts he tried so hard and failed to fight. For 27 years he was picking fights with these night creatures, and he was always outmatched. Then he starts worshipping Egul, and suddenly he's killing night creatures with ease. It's almost as if he became a born-again worshipper and zealous dwarf paladin of Egul, spreading law and order in the name of Egul to the chaotic night creatures of the lands, and taking vengeance for his lost eye.

[Baleur]

15 artifact books in my world. The only artifacts that exist, are books.
One of them quite struck my fancy, i must be honest.. Partly due to the title and contents, but also the author who must have had a lot of personal 'experience' in the subject matter..

"Could it be The Darkness?" was a legendary chrysoberyl-bound book. The written portion consists of a 19 page essay entitled "Could it be The Darkness?".
Authored by Sunir the Minion of Moles, it concerns the cave "Thronecave the Entrance of Seduction", the writing is as vicious as can be.
In the late autumn of 26, "Could it be The Darkness?" was created in Anguisheddrum by the eyeless monster Zutosp.

[pisskop]

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What?  What use could . . .?

[Cragspyder]

Legends Mode is the most amazing thing I have ever encountered in any game, ever. I can't believe the narratives it can generate. Here's all the neat stuff from the ONE world I've generated, called the Dimension of Souls. Sorry for wall of text.

250 years, average settings on everything, 2 of each type of Empire: Dwarf, Elf, Human and Goblin. All still standing at the end of worldgen.

Hellchewed the City of Assassins

Hellchewed is the biggest city in the world, by a wide margin; there are over ten thousand goblins there, five times more then any other city; but it is decadent and corrupt, apparently. The most interesting part is its population of 232 Abducted Elves who spend all their time murdering (or as I like to think, assassinating) everyone, including each other.

I say "assassinate" because of this: The first Ruler of this Goblin Civilization was a male black brute Demon, who was murdered by an Elf abductee named Mina Dreampack. A different Elf replaced the Demon as ruler for one year before he was ousted (but not killed in the battle) by the female black brute Demon. She was then murdered by a Dwarf abductee, who was then murdered by an elf, who likewise was murdered by another dwarf, then finally another elf, who is the current ruler.

And remember the first Elf assassin, Mina Dreampack? She ended up being the first death in a eight person long chain of elf-on-elf murder. Talk about intrigue!

The Titan and the Queen

Ozob Sunkwaxed was a Hill Giant who terrorized the Human civilization in the north, the Grand Union, for 140 years. He ranked up 71 notables and 17 rampages total before finally being put down by some Dwarf. However, on his very first rampage of Graniteflowers, in year 3, he killed the queen of the Grand Union. Her successor was called Pimra Washbeauty.

Four years later, the Titan returned for a second rampage and killed two of her infant sons, while Pimra herself was unable to defeat him and escaped, despite the help from a random heroic Kobold (the only Kobold that I ever saw that did anything in my world, and he also lived) and two other notable humans. In 14, he killed another of her children in a different city.  In 20, he returned to Graniteflowers again and killed two more of her children. One of the surviving daughters also began to worship him.

After his Fourth Rampage in Graniteflowers, Pimra herself began to worship him, I assume in some kind of insane Lady MacBeth obsession. In his 5th rampage, he killed another of her children. Finally, in his 6th and final rampage of that city, he killed Pimra herself as well as another child.

As a final tragedy, another of Pimra's sons died to Ozob in 81 after fighting him once and escaping in 74, long after he had left the Graniteflowers area.

However... remember the daughter of Pimra that began to worship Ozob? Her name was Acath Bearpeaked. She succeeded Pimra as Queen of the Grand Union, and died of old age in at 119 years old. She never had any children.

Sut Hatedcrypt the Terrors of Evil, and his reign of Terrifying Evil

Sut the Demon Fox is what got me interested in Legends mode to begin with. I was looking through the list of historical figures starting with the first created. Legends mode is hard to read, so I was just skimming the entries...until I got to Sut.

His entry was over ten times as long as anyone else I had seen. All kills.

Through further research, I found out that Sut had killed the Goblin king in year 3 (of the second Goblin empire, all the way across the world from the first), and became law giver for about 80 years. At around 74, the biggest war of the world started, between one of the Dwarf Empires and Sut's Empire. The Dwarves won twenty battles in a row under their mighty general, Oddom Cobaltlegends. However, in year 81, the Humans from the Nation of Strife (I'll get to them in a minute) got slaughtered in a one battle war at the Goblin capital city. Sut won nearly singlehandedly, but they somehow captured him anyways, since he wasn't the one "leading the assault". As a result, Sut was ousted from Leadership, even though he almost immediately escaped and came back to the goblin capital.

This was the worst thing that could have happened for the Dwarves. The final battle of that long war came in 84. Sut was now the general and killed 360 of the 419 attackers, including Oddom Cobaltlegends as well as the Queen of that Dwarven Empire, who was also there.

Over the next 150 years Sut fought and won every attack that was lead against his empire, mostly by himself. He killed two more Dwarven kings and racked up over 538 notable kills and 2271 others, from both the Dwarf and Human Empires flanking his civilization. No other character has even close to this number of kills in my game.

And yet...his death was as ignominious as his life was legendary. In 242, Sut was murdered, just murdered, by a random abducted Dwarf in his home city that he had ruled and defended for over 240 years.

Her name was Xuspgas Citydooms, and she came from a line of abducted dwarves that had fought under Sut's leadership for years. There was nothing else notable about her that I could find.

(Yes, I know he's no Tholtig Cryptbrain but I didn't know about her when I first found this guy)

One Final Story

The Nation of Strife is a Human nation on the west coast of my world. It has been ruled by a Demon (the female fox demon, actually) pretending to be their Diety of death, Quazi.

Zemel Spreadhero is a female human necromancer, the only one in this world, who received her powers from Quazi directly. She is also ex-Nation of Strife, so she might be the only one who knows the truth about the Demon ruler.

Zemel is also apparently a Pulitzer-prize winning author. 15 artifacts existed in the world after worldgen, 1 being the tablet granted to Zemel for her powers and the other 14 are books written by Zemel.

10 books are about Zemel, her coven, her structures or her other books.
3 books are about a region called the Hill of Adventuring, a large region in the north where over eight thousand characters and over a thousand notables have died, over the course of five battles and uncountable duels.

And one was about someone named Mimale ReleasedSquid. I had no idea who that was, so I looked her up.

She was the daughter of the first Druid of one of the Elf nations. Her mother was killed by a troll and her father by our titan buddy, Ozob. She was attacked by a night horror when she was eight, but escaped. Then she was abducted at 11 and had to grow up in a Goblin city, far from her family, until she was finally pressed into service and died in battle versus Humans in the Hill of Adventuring.

Even the authors IN THE GAME write about interesting events! Mind = Blown

And I could go on! About the first king of the Nation of Strife who lasted three years before turning into a were-goat and rampaged for another 150 years. About the Last Minotaur, with 431 kills (100% notables) and 18 rampages to his name, who is the only living member of his species and the biggest killer of notables after Sut Hatedcrypt. About the vampire Olm Man.

But I won't. Hope you enjoyed the read.