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[exoleet]

This is a thread about the true dwarven heroes, those who, despite overwhelming odds or lack of limbs and/or vital organs, have persisted to achieve greatness.

I got the idea after noticing that one of my military sworddwarves had lost the ability to stand, yet was able to drag himself around with his arms and act as an effective member of the fortress military. He's an inspiration to dwarves everywhere.

[BastiBasti]

I read on the wiki that even if you lose all you limbs, you can do surprisingly well just rolling around biting things. That makes me laugh every time.

[Elifre]

Cacame, Elf King of Dwarves.

The only filthy tree hugger spawn elf awesome enough to rule over dwarves.

[Loud Whispers]

Dagger AncientMace, captain of the Ink of Blotches, last to hold out against the antman disaster.

[MoonLightBird]

Random brewer #4, for keeping us drunk!

[Elf Lover]

My Legendary+5 Crutchwalker, who systematically raped a goblin ambush using only his crutch, a silver warhammer and a full suit of steel armour.
And a boatload of luck and drunk goblin crossbowmen.

[TheGazebo]

Urist McSoaper who calmly threw an entire goblin ambush off a mountain in his quest for the socks of my fallen military.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Urist McWarveteran who foguht in 5 sieges, who was reduced to naught but a rolling head and torso, and fought in a sixth, before dying from the F**K the world protocol I install everywhere.

[Reudh]

Zaneg Meetingcrypts the Blockaded Recluse of Justice. Fought in four sieges, severely crippled by the end of her life (no right leg, no right hand, a rotted left foot, left hand and stomach and a single eye injured) yet was the strongest fighter in the fort, without even any candy.
She went down after passing out after killing ten goblins, four trolls and a macaque alone. Four of her new recruits stood over her dead body and defended it with their lives... but they weren't enough to hold back the tide.

Domas Chaosstockades the Raw Blanket. A miner, hurriedly drafted to try and break the siege and the last able dwarf of Zalisiden, managed to break the siege before succumbing to his injuries. He got ten kills, among them a mace lord, two Voracious Cave Crawlers at once and an Elite Crossbowgoblin.

[Coolnesstod]

Urist Labryinthhalls. He was my only military dwarf armed in full iron, he killed 45 Goblins along with 20 trolls and a Goblin warlord, he died of old age in year 345, 35 years after the fort started. His injuries listed of no teeth, no fingers on his left hand, both legs gone, no left eye, and his Right foot was immobilized. Dwarfs rule.

[LibidoMax]

Ast McSpeardwarf, Militia Commander of my first fortress, Inkspoiled. Early in it's settlement, a horde of 25 crazed Elves attacked. They promptly beat all of the livestock and one soapmaker outside of the gates to death with their wooden swords. Ast, only an adequate speardwarf, led the ramshackle militia against the menace. The animals pastures were soon covered in elven blood and limbs. Ast had destroyed more than half of the ambushing elves with her trust Bronze Spear. Later, a goblin swarmed descended on the fort. After a bloody melee I pulled my dwarves back behind the drawbridge. I built a ballista pointing at the entrance with what was left of my warriors behind. I opened the drawbridge as the goblins swarmed inside. THe ballista turned the first goblins into a red mist and wounded many others. Ast then charged and sunk her spear into goblin flesh. Crisis averted  Several years later, the goblins returned. Ast went down in a blaze of glory, full of goblin arrows, and caving in the skull of a goblin with her copper shield.

[imperium3]

Sigun Masusbomrek, the first Militia Commander of my fortress. His heroic deed was to lead his squad against an invading bronze colossus, and duel it personally armed only with his imported steel shortsword. The entire squad was cut down around him and still he fought on. With a mighty blow he severed one of its arms, but this only made it more dangerous as it resorted to kicking, and nobody wants a kick from a bronze colossus. Sent flying with many shattered bones, he was somehow rescued and brought to the painfully over-capacity hospital, where he rested comatose in a corner waiting for attention (since for some crazy reason I'd put the CMD in the military and he was now dead, this would be a doomed enterprise). He was elected mayor while still unconscious due to the bloody death of the previous office-holder at the hands of a hastily elected CotG who should have been made militia captain instead. Sigun finally died when one of the other dwarves in the heap of injured went berserk, massacring the unconscious dwarves around him. It was a terrible waste of a mighty warrior indeed, and Tinfound now has an entire chamber dedicated to his memory (and the imprisonment of aforementioned bronze colossus).

Also, he liked bronze.

[Mitchewawa]

Logem Bomrekikal, the skilless woodcutter who, while on top of a slippery bridge and with no combat experience, took on a whole squad of goblins. And won. He ended up dying to a second squad because I forgot to set a burrow alert, but still...

[warwizard]

in .38 I had a fortress loyality cascade survived by three dwarves, one of this trio is a legandary mechanic, and for the next 5 years he maintains and reloads the multiple crossbow traps, eventually he's the last surviving dwarf. He does get a few kills from killing kobold thieves that manage to unlock the doors to the fortress, twice he's dealing with these invaders when a force of darkness arrives, just barely managing to reclaim the interiour door just 4 spaces away from the lead goblin, with the goblin falling dead from the multiple crossbow bolts to the heart from the trap behind the outer door. After three years of solitude, more immigrants finally show up.

[ledgekindred]

in .38 I had a fortress loyality cascade survived by three dwarves, one of this trio is a legandary mechanic, and for the next 5 years he maintains and reloads the multiple crossbow traps, eventually he's the last surviving dwarf. He does get a few kills from killing kobold thieves that manage to unlock the doors to the fortress, twice he's dealing with these invaders when a force of darkness arrives, just barely managing to reclaim the interiour door just 4 spaces away from the lead goblin, with the goblin falling dead from the multiple crossbow bolts to the heart from the trap behind the outer door. After three years of solitude, more immigrants finally show up.

Why does this make me think that this dwarf probably wore a red button up shirt, overalls, work boots, a hardhat, welding goggles, thick insulated gloves and fixed everything by whacking it real hard with a big monkey wrench.  And when off-duty, sat around and played guitar and contemplated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNgNBsCI4EA