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[Sylverone]

Firstly, what does the last part of this deity description mean? It has me intrigued.

Mistrum Playfulgolds was a deity... depicted as a human and was most often associated with luck, games, and gambling. Its nature is still an intriguing puzzle to the learned.

Secondly, I noticed that in my histories that the goblins and elves had a war (one of many) over "a disagreement concerning the devouring of sapient beings". I've been away from the game a while, but I'm quite sure that both elves and goblins have no problem eating their enemies, so why are they fighting about it? Neither of them had been conquered, so they were using their original belief systems. Do the beliefs of individual civilizations vary in the current version, or is this just something that happens?

Third, another deity puzzle:

Disa was a force which was said to permeate The Forests of Heather. Disa was associated with rivers and nature.

This is curious. Could anyone tell me if this has any gameplay effects. Can a "force" or deity turn out to be an actual worldgen demon? I'll have to visit the forest in question.

[Untelligent]

Not sure about the first bit.

As for the second bit, from glancing at the entity raws it seems that elves are only alright with eating sentients if the eater personally kills the victim, maybe that has something to do with it.

[Man In Zero G]

Disa was a force which was said to permeate The Forests of Heather. Disa was associated with rivers and nature.

This is curious. Could anyone tell me if this has any gameplay effects. Can a "force" or deity turn out to be an actual worldgen demon? I'll have to visit the forest in question.

The deities aren't "real" yet, so no, there's no real gameplay effect. A force is what the elves worship instead of dieties, it's nothing more mysterious than that. Spoilered because some people might not know this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Forces and dieties are not worldgen demons, but worldgen demons do try to impersonate the human deities to gain control of their civilizations.

[Sylverone]

Alright. That's all fairly unsurprising, but thanks a lot for helping me know what's going on. I have another question. Looking at the historical maps in the legends, I've noticed that there are what appear to be civilizations, but they don't belong to the goblins, dwarves, elves, or humans. On the historical maps screen, moving the cursor over a normal civilization gives the civ's English name, such as "The Evils of Insight", a goblin civ in my world. Yet, these anomalous civs have untranslated names, such as "Trogokograylgin", "Gridiblursnis", and "Thlangis". I've tried using string search on several legends screens to find clues, but I can't find anything. They aren't listed as entities of any kind. I haven't yet tried tracking down messages about then in the event histories. I'd like to know what these are.

[Adamantine Fist]

Those are likely Kobold civs. I'm feirly sure Kobolds have the [UTTERANCES] tag or something like that, as their civs/individuals have random gobbledygook names not pulled from any language raws.