The elves should love us! We're life!
Oh wait...they probably would hate us for fucking with nature. HURRAY ELF CORPSES!
I've bee suggesting making more creatures for two reasons. One; I find making stuff fun. Most of the reason I'm playing this game. Two; It's worked exceedingly well for us in the past. The thorn wall, the plant soldiers, all the stuff that let us survive Maher's army(I think, I could be wrong, it's almost 50 pages back after all), was stuff we created as creatures. I am counting Tiberius in that.
But, with the fortress starting, and our mole mining, we don't need anymore right now.
Sooo, let's start trying to trade silk to the people in the city. Also, we shouldn't trade raw firenectar. It would let other people do too much, and we won't get as much money with it. Instead, sell it as alcohol, a specialized healing solution, a specialized sweetener, or in explosive flasks. But not raw. Raw silk though, mainly because we don't know how to process it yet, I do not believe.
Normally, I would be against giving people boons...but give Lara a Life boon for healing, so she can teach the kiddies. Give a few others, the first of our followers, minor fire boons, and let's attempt to give someone a chaos boon.
Next, we should I suppose, have backup mechanical weaponry on the fortress, but that shit is heavy, and inaccurate. Even dwarven stuff. I'd rather have the equivalent of biological machine gun turrets. Also, there should be an open hole in the center, and braziers all over. And pools of water. That way, when we get a water god in our alliance(you know we will), everyone will be able to help in it's defense. Have nests for various existing and new creatures(meaning 'real' and ours), some set aside specifically for snakes. Ask Uristiel to make the fortress with a very disorganized theme. One that functions to confuse attackers and allow us to fight effectively, but still rather...chaotic. He's a War god, he should be able to do that.