so this is spoilers for legend mode, i guess. if there is such a thing.
i asked this in a "legend mode changes" thread, but its falling off the page and I wanted to get some attention to the question. what the heck does this mean?
I've got all sorts of monsters and demons and devils and such, seemingly randomly generated. They roam the underworld in the time before time, and find their way out somewhere around year 1. Some of them find civilizations, and become leaders of them. I have seen them take positions, and even CREATE positions like "Master" and "Law-Giver" either by "force of persuasion" or by "threat of violence".
Tequil the Ravining One-Eyed Marmot Monster (whos fire you should be warry of) didnt have to create the position of master, it looks like he just eased into it about year 6. He then proceded to war on a Dwarf Mountain home, and largely kick ass and take names. burrying people alive, buring them to death, hacking them, to pieces. it wasnt pretty.
Anyway, next -- and this is where my question comes in -- he heads BACK to the underworld. presumeably he still has some homeys back there, or maybe someone owes him on fantasy bloodbowl bet or something. he proceedes to Tame the Giant Cave Swallows, Elk Birds, Giant Olms, and Rutherers in the depths of the world.
He heads back home to murder an elf in his capital, and kill a mountain titan in self defense. BACK to the underworld, he continues to tame Voracious Cave Crawlers, Cave Crocodiles, and Jabberers.
So what is he doing with this massive menagerie? do they show up as pets wandering around his home town that will be seen in adventure mode? does his home town have some sort of enterance to the underworld in it? will those tamed creatures show up if his civilization sieges me in fortress mode?
(sadly, ol' Tequil was struck down and eaten by a hydra some 200 years after his last trip to the underworld, but it might be worth regenning that seed to see what happens if i try to go visit him.)
edit - interestingly, I just discovered that Tequil was the last of his civilization, the dwarves humans and elves had been all killed off in previous years (pocket world here) and Tequil's dark tower was the last bastion of civilization before that Hydra wiped them out in 399. Now its an unending age of myth.