From the Journal of The Mad Fool Enshalastesh:
Whispers in the dark....
It took me a long time, but my endeavors are slowly coming to fruition. I never before realized just how much I had been held back by the petty moralities of my fellow dwarf. Morality! Pfah! As if such sentiment was even relevant, given the magnitude of what I am trying to accomplish.
The Danger Room was quite a breakthrough in it all. I should have realized it sooner, but it took the collapse of the first fortress for the idea to truly sink in. Dwarves thrive in adversity. They grow strong with pain! The weak die, the strong survive and become stronger. That is nature. That is dwarf-kind! And so, whispers in the dark become the light of inspiration.
I had to dig deep to conceal my activities. They'll understand eventually, but the time for that is not yet at hand. The plan is simple, really. Begin early. Waste not a second of a Dwarf's life. And so they are refined, with claw and spear and fire. The children will grow amidst the wild dogs, and those that claw out from the ravening heap shall be strong by their very birth. And then they will be baptized. A baptism of fire, such that they will not fear the flames of hell nor the tips of spears, for their very skin shall be forged from the boiling blood of the deepest earth. They will train within a rain of blades, until they are nothing but hardened bone, steely muscle, and iron will. From twenty I will refine one. From a hundred will emerge five.
And then we will delve deep. They shall be clad in impervious adamantium, and in their hands will be hammers of purest silver. The red light of the molten depths will turn blue when reflected upon the axes they draw, and by that light the Voidspawn and the Demons and those blasted vermin kobolds will cower and flee.
They will be my Murdermachines, and they will know no fear.