[Note: just a somewhat-short fluff story about this reptile man that's been having a multiple year duel with a forgotton beast beneath my current fort.]
Axekiss was the name given to a small dwarven settlement built to house the workers that constructed the
Marble Wall of the Dangerous Castle, a massive piece of engineering originally some 1200 tiles in length, now reduced to several smaller pieces, some ruined, and some still almost untouched. One of the earliest stories from this settlement, and the only thing that kept it from being entirely eclipsed by the nearby Goldgates, was the story of Shulmik and Enolosoya.
In the caverns beneath Axekiss once lived a small tribe of reptile men, some nine in number. They eked out a meager existence on the shores of the caverns lakes, subsisting off of fishes and lobsters pulled from those darkened waters. Although no formal contact was ever maid and they remained distant, they were seemed friendly to the first few dwarven miners that happened across them.
But, as always happens, eventually the dwarves found more sinister things roaming beneath the earth, and sealed the caverns off, from then forward observing the caverns solely through viewports carved high above the cavern floor. It was from this vantage point they recorded the tale of Enolosoya.
Though small, this unnamed tribe was by no means defenseless. One dark creature, an eyeless porcupine with wings, saffron colored hair, and fiery breath, was quickly struck down in the year 1074 by one of their tribe when it wandered too close. Sadly, though, its fiery breath had already claimed the lives of two of his companions. The dwarves dubbed the creature 'Tofi' and the reptile man that slaid it 'Enolosoya', or Swambook, and thought little more of it. Having now claimed the life of such a mighty creature, Enolosoya named his black-cap spear Abanececoame, "The Last Socketed Skull", and his shield Elalecofari Miracameda, "Saintauthored the Violet Blood".
Later that year, a creature they called Shulmik pulled itself from the pond that Enolosoya's people drew their sustenance from, violently attacking the tripe. It was a gigantic six-legged feathered crocodile, with fiery breath and long, broad feathers. It nearly wiped out the tribe with its fits of rage, and soon, it was locked in a duel to the death with Enolosoya. The beast took him by the left leg and bit it cleanly off, but far from being hindered by this injury, Enolosoya was hardened by it. He continued to fight against the beast as the hours turned into days, and then weeks, and then months.
Time passed, and the charred bodies of his tribe rotted into skeletons. The sharp crack of Enolosoya's black-cap spear against Shulmik's body and the sound of Shulmik's own enraged fury echoed through the caverns, eventually drawing another ancient beast: Arani Rethivilela Yonali Conibo, or "Arani Diedphantoms the Lake of Coasts". It was a towering, gray-scaled mite with large mandibles set into a bloated body and fiery breath. A single well-placed thrust from Enolosoya brought it to its end.
For months, and then years, Shulmik and Enolosoya's duel raged, with Enolosoya never able to truly injure the massive beast he fought against, but too swift to be struck in return. Legends say that, even to this day, the sounds of their combat can be heard echoing throughout the depths beneath Axekiss.
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