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[Furious Fish]

Back in the old version, engraving dwarves would occasionally create images of "a demon. The demon is in a fetal position" or "The demon is swirled into a spiral", even before you'd reached the adamantine.
I've never seen this in the new version, but I've never found adamantine either. If you're on a site with adamantine, will the dwarves detect its presence (and the demons) and engrave accordingly?
It's a very hypothetical long shot, but it'd be awesome if there were a way to detect whether or not your map had adamantine.

[Skanky]

A way to detect hidden fun stuff? Yes, that would be useful...  

Only works on the embark stage.

[Karlito]

"A Demon" refers to the mega adamantium game ender guy.  Supposedly they engrave the images of the Demon because of ancient stories about him being sealed away or somesuch.

[Sean Mirrsen]

It's similar to the civilians in towns telling you of a "demon encased in adamantine in a time before time". I don't doubt that in adventure mode, the engaving will show as "related to the encasing of So-and-So the demon in adamantine in 0."

[Akroma]

I don't care what demon engravings indicate.

I want to indicate what an engraving in my current fortress indicates:

The evil unwelcome paints of suffering.
Engraved on the wall is an exceptionaly designed image of a dwarf and cheese. The dwarf is making a plainitive gesture, the cheese is laughing.

here is my rendition of said engraving:

engravings like this are all over my fort
I think it is the symbol of my civilization or something, but I have yet to mint some coins

[Sean Mirrsen]

I demand a screenshot.

Or a save.  

[ColonelTEE3]

Akroma i want you to know i made that my desktop pic  

[Jothki]

Adventurer mode should give you more detail about the context behind art images. Back up your save and send an adventurer down there.