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[CaptainBadwheel]

When I first started playing this game while searching for embarks I would see the Evil areas and wonder if there was any sort of back story behind why that particular area is more evil than the area right next to it. I don't know what exactly causes an area to be genned as "evil". I always figured that it was the site of some historical battle, or where a dark lord settled down and was overthrown. Like Mordor after the 1st defeat of Sauron. Embarking at a site across the street from Utumno or Angband would probably be challenging.
I suppose that deity x could have punished civilization y out of boredom, spite, or humor. Or some necromancer lord could have cursed the area just for giggles. Maybe a Battlefailed sequel took place and the area has become a dwarf Superfund site until the lethal levels of soul radiation fades to background levels or the universe ends.
It would be interesting to see how these sites came to be, depicted in legends mode. Thoughts?

[the woods]

Probably a bunch of complicated reasons that can be modeled but not fully reconciled, like any thing that can occur. Like how lightning is modeled as the movement of negatively charged particles (loosely speaking), but the actual minute interactions that occur in reality may have more factors that can't be measured, and are also indifferent to labels of 'positive' and 'negative', which are only additive or subtractive in a specific, arbitrary context, and even when modeled accurately enough for observation and description in natural language, there are thousands and thousands of variables to monitor. A wizard did it.

[Telgin]

I believe Toady has plans to make evil areas arise out of historical events in some far off future update.  What would qualify for this sort of thing?  Not terribly sure, but battles would be a natural choice.  With the new necromancers I can imagine that they'll cause areas to become evil or something too, potentially.

Or just curses from the gods, perhaps some silly dwarf (or human, since they're the only ones who go searching for stuff like this in the upcoming version I think) ticked off a god and the god punished his folly by cursing the lands around him.  I dunno.

[Psieye]

As Toady removed the hard definitions of "zombie" and "skeleton" in favour of a more gradual sliding scale of 'undeadness', I believe he also said one day he intends to remove the "good, neutral, evil" and savagery axes in favour of more fluidly (and randomly) defined regional states. That is when he will probably come up with reasons why region X had quirk Y. How that will interact with the different planes of existence he's planning to have for the magic arc (decades down the line), we don't know.

Who knows, maybe one day aeons later, the player might be able to influence the alignments of regions. Why is this region raining blood with eerie glowing mists that make victims explode? Because YOU desecrated the land.

[KtosoX]

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Who knows, maybe one day aeons later, the player might be able to influence the alignments of regions.
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OMG... Every fort is not only capable of leaving a giant hole in the ground surrounded by corpses, but it may also bring massive amounts of mutated freaks in to the world. Causing an area to change alignment is the cherry on my fallout cake

[imperium3]

Who knows, maybe one day aeons later, the player might be able to influence the alignments of regions. Why is this region raining blood with eerie glowing mists that make victims explode? Because YOU desecrated the land.

Most plaers would do that at the drop of a hat just to weaponize them - eerie glowing mists make great siege defences!

[Telgin]

Assuming the gloom can be controlled... I presume that it won't wander through walls, but who knows?  I'm sure there will be hilarious bugs anyway for a while.

Now imagine if the gloom can form spontaneously inside your fort...

Or imagine that the gloom makes the goblins immune to pain.  Could backfire in a very dorfy manner.

[Loud Whispers]

Most plaers would do that at the drop of a hat just to weaponize them - eerie glowing mists make great siege defences!

No. How could you weaponize eerie glowing mist? Clearly it is meant for hospital use only.

[orius]

Who knows, maybe one day aeons later, the player might be able to influence the alignments of regions. Why is this region raining blood with eerie glowing mists that make victims explode? Because YOU desecrated the land.

Well between mermaid farms, dwarven child care centers, constant elf slaughter, and Project Fuck the World devices, the typical player should probably have no problem turning the whole map purple!