Here's my issue;
My latest fortress has done something that few fortresses achieve, its gained, and maintained my interest. It's not a bad 3x3 site, it has no flux, but plenty of iron. What makes this fortress great though, is the dwarves themselves. 150 years of history, yet all of them have a great deal of character. But none more, than those of the Avuzor family or in human speak "Minedrunken".
During a migrant wave, two millitary dwarves arrived, both competent, one a swordsdwarf, one a axedwarf. I placed them in a 3 man squad, and told them at least two of them must be training at any one time. Only those two trained, and they did it constantly. The third, an axedwarf, never exchanged shifts. Lazy.
These two trained together for quite some time, and they sparred through most of it. They also killed a couple thieving gnomes and kobolds. They trained so much that in a year's time, they became Great in their weapon skills, and both High Master fighters. Immediately after, the axdwarf gave birth to a baby girl, while training with the swordsdwarf. Oh, I hadn't realised she was married. Who is she married to... Led Treering? Who's that?
Led was the Swordmaster that she, Olon Avuzor, had been training with. This is when I fell in love with this fortress. I made them royalty. I gave them the best room in the fortress, I named them Lord and Lady of Clan Avuzor, and made a mental note to make sure their children would be great millitary dwarves too. When Pulleylaw becomes a Barony, one of them will be the Baron.
Then came a necromancer siege. It was beaten, with lots of cage traps, (is there any other way to beat necromancers?) but alas, I had not built enough traps. They were the first into the fight, with the remaining two dozen zombies, Olon with baby in hand. They tore the rotten fiends apart with ease.
One day, I was looking through Olon's relationships when I noticed something bizarre...
Inod (Surname) Dwarf Woodcutter Necromancer
Strange... Why is she in that list?
Cousin
Cousin
Cousin
This is now my favourite fortress.
But... now I don't want to kill her. Even though she is a filthy, traitorous corpse-lover, she's family.
In the thread about Cacame, the elf king, the OP mentioned he used Dwarf Companion to make a captured hostile goblin a citizen.
So, in your experience, what is the best tool to do this with? I want to make Inod a member of my fortress.
I looked at Df companion, but it requires a lot of supporting programs to also be downloaded. In addition to this, it looks confusing as hell, and I believe it's only updated up to 40d.
Dfhack was another option and it's up to date, but I couldn't find out if I could do this using that tool.
I could just give her the PET token, and train her as a tame animal, but I believe she might still be hostile, and cause loyalty cascades, like goblin mounts. In addition this doesn't really achieve the effect I wanted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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