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[Ioric Kittencuddler]

I think you're bweing too direct. This is clearly a reference to Shakespeare's the Tempest. The fact that the Tempest was about colonization is incidental.

The goblins are Caliban, the Elves are Ariel, the Forgotten Beasts are Prospero, and the clowns are Sycorax. Players are left to have their own various noble characters, of course.

I'm pretty sure this also makes no sense.

[Soadreqm]

The Dwarves are in purgatory, atoning for their sins. The migrants are recently dead dwarves, and the fortress is the ironic punishment for their various sins. Mostly greed. And sloth. That's why they have no sense of self-preservation; deep down they know that when they die, they are merely tossed back to the wheel of reincarnation.

[Vester]

I'm pretty sure the constant drunkeness also counts toward gluttony.

[Deimos56]

...were the old tentacle clowns lust?

[Soadreqm]

Gluttony: Even newborn babies need alcohol to get through the working day. Eating in a legendary dining room will offset any tragedy these short hairy hedonists face.
Lust: Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more.
Greed: The dwarves so value shiny trinkets that failing to present sufficient tribute to your rulers is punishable by death.
Sloth: It doesn't matter that the fortress is on fire, invaded by skeletons and out of food, if a dwarf wants to have a break, or a nap, he will.
Wrath: Obvious. The dwarves' natural response to unhappiness is to hurl objects about or attack someone or something.
Envy: The dwarves are quite open aboout demanding better lodgings, dining rooms and burial arrangements than those they consider to be below their station.
Pride: The engravers often engrave murals commemorating legendary engravings they made themselves. The best thing that can happen to a dwarf is making an artifact. One of the most common activities in a dwarven fortress is building giant projects to make your name go down in history.

Also: The elves obviously represent Jesus. They want your dwarves to abandon their evil ways and join them in living in harmony with the universe and being kind to animals. And then you kill the diplomat they sent to forge better relations between your civilizations.

The goblins are such an obvious allegory for the Antichrist that I won't even bother explaining it.

[Vester]

That actually sums it up pretty well.

[Pandarsenic]

I miss tentaclowns.

[docawesome]

dwarfs make a poor colonist stand in because the colonist believed god wanted them to do it while in DF if given the chance we would be killing everything with god bone bolts.

[Poojawa]

dwarfs make a poor colonist stand in because the colonist believed god wanted them to do it while in DF if given the chance we would be killing everything with god bone bolts.

Player = Armok = Blood God = Dwarven secret master (or Mistress, for our lady players)

[mostlikely]

EPILEPTIC TREES, and now that you've wasted 3 hours reading useless unrelated trivia...

I hate you.. and myself

[HexagonalBolts]

Why white people?  White people weren't the only people to colonize places.

Edit:  And it's totally possible to play the game without treating elves badly or even cuttong down trees or mining.   So, really, your critique is pretty biased and built upon suppositions that are hardly cold hard fact.

I think you're taking the statement a bit too seriously Capntastic, I don't think anyone is making a racial statement -the vast majority were white in the case of America. Also it was totally possible to colonise america without dicking on the natives etc...

[eerr]

I miss tentaclowns.

They're not gone... they're just 'busy' somewhere else.

[shadowclasper]

I got this feeling first time I breached the underworld >_> all the various beast-man tribes below and my dwarves going down to colonize... anyway.

[Lekegolo Khanid]

EPILEPTIC TREES, and now that you've wasted 3 hours reading useless unrelated trivia...

damn you.

[Caesar]

Ahaha, I laughed through that. I'm surprised you didn't mention the poor treatment of other traders in the quest for globalization (humans) or declaring cultures who defend their land as savages (goblins). And of course, all that digging around in the earth to find the precious oil (the blue stuff).

I'm sure this analogy can be extended further. And Caesar, it's humour

Damn. I didn't get it back then.