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[Sallen]

Today my fortress was attacked by two simultaneous goblin ambushes. Upon reading the announcement I prepared my trusty militia and waited for the enemy at the gates.
Leading the army was a goblin hammer lord. As soon as I unpaused the game, the goblin soldiers tore the hammer lord to pieces. And proceeded towards my fortress.

What was all that about?

[Astrid]

He might have been from a different civilisation for some strange reason, as to why and why they
didnt notice until that moment however is a mild mystery.
You might be able to find out more by digging his name out of Legends Mode.

[Duuvian]

Yeah, please do. Anomalies of this sort are usually interesting.

[Sallen]

I don't even... I must have been confused about the whole affair. After losing the fortress to the goblins I went to legends mode, but there is no goblin (or anyone for that matter) with the hammer lord's name. The only hammer lord ever in my fortress was a dwarf, but his name was different!

Anyway, I probably just mixed up the names and the bloody pulp that ended up next to the goblins was actually a dwarf. Case closed

... or is it?

DUN DUN DUNNN

[§k]

Goblins, supposed to have a different language, have their unique names, usually with "ng", "zb", "xusp", "baox", "strodno", etc. So it is easy to tell the hammerlord's race.

A dwarve's last name is translated into English in some occasions, but not in others, which may make his name look different.

[RenoFox]

I once had a human law-giver leading the goblin army, and the goblins killed him like your goblin hammer lord. It happened in a community game, so I even screenshotted it:

[Sallen]

I once had a human law-giver leading the goblin army, and the goblins killed him like your goblin hammer lord. It happened in a community game, so I even screenshotted it:

This must be it. He had a dwarven name but was not a citizen of the fort.

[dirkzen]

I once had a human law-giver leading the goblin army, and the goblins killed him like your goblin hammer lord. It happened in a community game, so I even screenshotted it:

"The Goblin Pikemaster stabs The law-giver in the right testicle with her ({*silver pike*})  and the severed part sails off in an arc!"



Jesus christ

[Gnomeknows]

Thank you dirkzen, that post was better than a whole pot of coffee.