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[KVC627]

So after I losing my last fort, I generated a new world and embarked in a wilderness.  As my miners began digging I get a message, wood cutter had bled to death.  What?  I look around, sure enough there is his body, but no animal near him.  But I do see a single black square.  As my fisher dwarf passes by, the black square pops open and out rolls a Consort of Shadow. (I'm using Mayday graphics so its a lime green spider looking thing.  After whacking my fisher, his 2 hunting dogs he attacks my fort and kills all but 1 dwarf.   I gave up at this point..

What the hell is a Consort of Shadow?  I couldn't find it in the wiki.  Searching here there was one post about an adventure game..

[Naina]

You stumbled onto the lair of a Night Creature! It's a vaguely new feature to enter both adventure and fortress modes. They're you vampires, werewolves, boogeymen, etc.

[Fayceless]

That's an awesome embark.  Sounds like a night creature.  Normally you only encounter them in adventure mode, when you're given a quest to go kill one.  But you just happened to embark right on top of one's home, it seems.

Anytime you lose in less than 5 minutes, Armok has smiled upon you.

[Psieye]

Night creatures are the randomly generated 'undead' of DF. Generic fantasy settings use vampires, werewolves and other such familiar monsters to make the night scary - DF randomly generates them each worldgen. Now a "Consort" of Shadow means this isn't a pureblood night creature. It used to be some human/elf/dwarf who got kidnapped by an original and got morphed - think vampires making more vampires.

[Jeoshua]

I always turn night creatures off.  For some reason, having even 1 makes them spread throughout the entire world and kill off just about every person.

Last world I genned, I did a little experiment.  I used the exact same seeds, and only changed the night creature count.  On one, I had no night creatures.  On the other, 1 night creature.

End result? The world with no night creatures ended up with a population of 10,000 or so.  The world with 1 single solitary night creature?

2,500 people.

What is this I don't even....

Yeah I'd like to keep boogiemen, but they fact they reproduce by stealing kings and queens, who then steal more kings and queens, and the fact that they NEVER DIE... just kind of ruins the whole idea for me.  They seriously need a nerfing in Worldgen.