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[rylen]

While dwarves live we get huge amounts of info on them.  When then die, it all goes away.  I'd like to see some of that info when I (v)iew their corpse.  Basically, who they were.  What they did.  How they died.

For example:
Bob the Builder.
He was part of the first wave of migration to the settlement.
He arrived as a peasant.
He became a farmer.
He received minor wounds from a snakeman.
He claimed a craftdwarf workshop and planned construction.
He went insane from frustation because the rough gems he wanted weren't available.
He went berzerk.
He was hit by a crossbow bolt fired by Marksdwarf.
He bled to death.

Hope that's a cool story.

If we get this, I'd also like to see Memorial Statues.  These are named statues -- hopefully made of valuble material -- that are placed in the graveyard for dwarves who don't leave corpses.  So we can remember the dwarves who drown in the river or fall into the chasm.

Rylen

[Toady One]

Core38 is about this somewhat (history triggers and production tracking) as well as the Ghost Arc, and the various art image bloats.  The general idea was that *all* of the statues/engravings/art you produce would have some kind of content, often related to your fortress, and more and more content as you get up to the masterpiece level, and that you'd be able to examine these things very closely in Adventure mode.  Now, there are some issues with this design, especially since some people won't like Adventure mode even when it's more complete, but the interlacing of the modes in this fashion is the current idea for how memorials/histories/etc would be fully realized.