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Time for some heroic swimming?...no?

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Find a dead tree or other long object, work as a group to hoist it across. (With emphasis on actually finding said object...)

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Invent some absurd creation involving rope and stuff which slowly pulls tied up people across…

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75-138

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Classic Df
89-Due to a huge surge in population size the dwarven production kept increasing rapidly. It was during the following 100 years that the Mountainhomes halls were dug out.
100- The era of pick and axe.
138 The northern continent is discovered. Often referred to only as “The scorching waste”.

That was kinda uneventful

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498-602

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500 The blood era
505 Many disliked Raal’s way of ruling but he was quick to punish those who opposed him. However Raughelm the righteous challenges him to a duel where the winner took the throne. Raughelm lost the duel but still got the position as Raal was mysteriously murdered.
550 Post-Df
583- The first realm war.
Years of peace had made the dwarves weak, so when the elves started what is often referred to as the first realm war. Raughelm was very confident in his army as it has for centuries been considered far superior to anything that the elves or humans had managed to muster up. He sent them straight towards the elven troops and the two forces meet in a forest. Much like in the elf-dwarf war of 316 the elves had an edge once in their own element but this time they were much more organized.
On that day the dwarves lost a shameful defeat, Raughelm’s pride suffered far worse than that of the others for he was now the first dwarven king to ever lose a war. Some says he went insane on that day others claim that his actions simply were fueled by a burning desire for vengeance.
The Dwarves went into exile and the elves took over large parts of the dwarven territory. For many years people believed that the dwarves had died. Meanwhile Raughelm had begun his plan for revenge.  The plan was made up of two key components. The first- He began a massive production of armor, armor of brilliant quality but far too large for any dwarf. Thousands of pieces of armor were created, it is said that the massive production increase utilized the artifact sock of Silverdrop. The second part involved digging one of the longest tunnels ever seen. The tunnel took 7 years to dig but stretched all the way from the Mountainhomes to Capitol.  In secret Raughelm struck a deal with the human king.
591-The second realm war-Human-dwarf alliance.
The humans order of knights were arguably the best warriors of that time, they fought with the speed of an elf and the strength of a dwarf. Raughelm had paid a vast quantity of gold for their aid, a sum of gold that rivaled the entirety of the human economy. Simply an offer the humans could not decline. As if they weren’t enough on their own Raugehelm also gave each knight a set of armor unparalleled by any human workmanship.
The knights were led by General Tyrnall, the warrior with the most kills throughout history. Raughelm gave him “the dwarven treasure” to ensure victory (the sword of y. 460). The elves suffer defeat after defeat; their weapons can’t pierce the dwarven armors and Tyrnall alone has slayed more than the collective elven force. During the final battle Tyrnall’s will begins to waver, he had fallen in love with the queen of the elves. Tyrnall throws the legendary sword into the “Sweet Sea” and thus ending the war, after that Tyrnall never returned to the lands of men and dwarves so Raughelm was considered to be the hero instead. The dwarves took back their lost territory, the humans suddenly had more money than ever before and the elven civilization was bleeding.
Raughelm was considered a hero but he himself can only see the blood spill. Soon he took his own life from guilt. Between the years 592-636 the dwarves had no king but were instead ruled by the 6 richest families. New trading opportunities with the humans covered for the losses during the war.
600 The Gray era

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683-784

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683 The goblins who came from the west managed to get a strategic foothold in the realm and their troops were slowly advancing.
685- The third realm war.
Dwarves, elves and humans united to create an army only rivaled by Tyrnall’s forces back in 591. Hundreds of thousands souls on both sides fell. In the end the dark ones were pushed back…However they were persistent and changed their course for the elven capital. The elves pleaded for the aid of the other races however the Gray king chose to retreat his forces and return to his safe mountains. The humans followed the decision of the Gray king as that relation was valued higher than that to the elves. The elven capital was burned to the ground and those elves who managed to escape enslavement either fled east to Seraté or north to the Scorching waste.
700 The era of man.
709-Scoutings of a goblin structure in what used to be elven territory was confirmed from many sources. It appeared as if they had manifested there and were slowly consuming surrounding villages. Nearby settlements such as Rocklod and Peasantville were under constant attack.
710-The Gray king whom has always been considered both cruel and insane takes a turn for the worse. He starts a lot of nonsensical projects redirecting workforce to strange things and killing many innocent dwarves including his wife.
711-Multiple reports from different sources claims to have been in contact with a new sentient race, it appears to be a mixbreed between elf and goblin. Little is known about them but they do not appear to share the elven ideals nor ally with the dark forces. 
714-A strange man in the the city of Capitol claims to be the last mage. Few take his claims seriously but he quickly manages to rise towards the top of the political ladder. Goes by the name of Renatum Urbanus.
719-The Gray king dies. After the tyrannical reign of the insane Gray king the dwarves elected a leader with contrasting traits. Mina Lithtreck was bland, calm and considerate, perhaps just what the dwarves needed to heal the wounds the gray had caused. Lithtreck’s accomplishments were few, apart from being the second dwarven queen not much can be said about her rule. 
729- Without the gray king the dwarves lost a lot of influence, and most of the elves had been wiped out. The humans took this opportunity to expand their territory.
731-Mina forbids the usage of Jesterherb, Mina whom previously had been completely unopposed had now gained a small group of adversaries.
747-General Kartack claims that Mina’s poor knowledge of military strategy makes her unfit to lead the dwarves and she’s replaced by Lurved deMelkon. As the political power of the realm has shifted in favor of the humans, deMelkon spent a lot of effort attempting to both keep a good relationship with the humans and at the same time surpass them in multiple fields.
764-Renatum becomes the kings advisor, arguably more influential than the king himself. Old kings fall and new ones rises but Renatum’s authority is never questioned.
784-Due to human influences some dwarves move away from the dwarven ideals, especially the nobles. Armok is no longer considered to be real, the worshiping of other dieties such as Litarette the mother of prosperity or Gili Stonehelm the god of fire/crossdressing became popular. Many older dwarves were strongly opposed to this.

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800-844

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800 The scientific renaissance.
811-deMelkon is perhaps best remembered for the year of 811 when he attempted to rival the human fleet by building the greatest warship ever witnessed. People were very impressed until it sunk.
812-It is decided that deMelkon perhaps wasn’t such a good leader after all. General Kartack whom at this point in time had left the military force and worked under the title of master strategist instead attempted to take the vacant position for himself. Others claimed that the daughter of Mina Lithreck- Ori Lithreck- was to be crowned instead.
814 Civil war breaks out between the followers of Ori and the military. During this time the Mountainhomes loses a lot of control over its provinces, in Silverdrop and Kobaltine the mayor rises to a position similar to that of a king.
842- Raughelm the second. After over 30 years of political insecurity a young heir to Raughelm the first claims the throne. The legend of Raughelm as well as people’s tiredness of poor rulership allows him to take the throne quite easily.

[AfellowDwarf]

I can't see your image, I'm afraid.
Edit: never mind.

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The elven capital was burned to the ground and those elves who managed to escape enslavement either fled east to Seraté or north to the Scorching waste.

Oh carp.

All, right. Nothing we can't fix. We need to start up aggressive breeding programs and have the elves drum up as many warbeasts and beastmen as we can. We'll attack via the caverns, using one of the abandoned dwarven forts, to make use of its ferocious wildlife and multitude of beastmen and so we won't be noticed by the rest of the world.

We'll put fake dwarven nobles in place and rule blackgate from the shadows using hiden observers and elf-loyal warbeasts pretending to be pets while the real Gov't hides in the caves behind beastmen. Anyone trying to expose the elven rule will be taken down by a well provided* fortress guard under the ruse that they're part of some weird kind of cult.
_{*Free and good quality drinks, well decorated homes and whores if we can drum them up}

We'll put a stop on the food exports(under the ruse of nobles), and start importing as much as economically feasable. Next, we raid the human villages, or at least sabotage their crops. They might have the numbers, but the numbers can starve.

Now, the first thing we need to do is check the lower caverns for suitable entry points.(An entrance with a forgotten beast in the way is less of an entrance then a steel wall. Just saying.) The lowest caves would be ideal, since that'll allow us to raid the magmaforges more easily.

Edit3: I wonder if the elves have whores. It'll probably be hard to get any young ones in blackgate.

[Tirion]

Re: Elven whores: they are immortal just like goblins (if this is vanilla), so even one of the Firstborn, existing since Creation, would not look older than a young adult. And the experience...
Seeing how goblin-elf halfbreeds exist, I'd say they can be persuaded to do some interracial  (well, at least some greenskin incarnation of Salladhor Saan managed to convince them). Or they are/were sex slaves... who would be very grateful for a rescue 

[AfellowDwarf]

Or they are/were sex slaves... who would be very grateful for a rescue 

I don't think we should be a pimp to such slaves. They might resent being put into a similair situation, and we don't want them to inspire rebellious thoughts into the military. We need whores who are fully loyal to the elven empire.

Also, we don't know if immortal will mean eternally youthfull here.

[slowpokez]

You guys have been watching too much Game of thrones -_____-'
5 pages of history and all you get out of it is whores!? There isn't even a mentioning of a whore and yet somehow you manage!
On the subject of elves...I'd go for simply aging slowly...The part about immortaliy can easily be written off as dwarven superstition. 

[AfellowDwarf]

On the subject of elves...I'd go for simply aging slowly...The part about immortaliy can easily be written off as dwarven superstition.

I suppose this means there'll be less elven adults then we'd have expected.

Edit: lets use our old chestnut bag to collect a few odd looking plants. We can get them examined later, or use them for something random in a pinch.

[Kaos]

You guys have been watching too much Game of thrones -_____-'
5 pages of history and all you get out of it is whores!? There isn't even a mentioning of a whore and yet somehow you manage!
On the subject of elves...I'd go for simply aging slowly...The part about immortaliy can easily be written off as dwarven superstition.

*ignores 5 pages of history just to troll slowpokez*

- Whores!? where!?

[AfellowDwarf]

Something I hadn't noticed before: this 'jesterherb' plant. Would it still be forbiden? If so, would people still reconise it, and its effects? We might be able to mix it with some moss, plants we don't use or minced cloth to make it unreconiseable, then let the nobles have it to leave them drugged and stop them from interferring.

[Tirion]

Something I hadn't noticed before: this 'jesterherb' plant. Would it still be forbiden? If so, would people still reconise it, and its effects? We might be able to mix it with some moss, plants we don't use or minced cloth to make it unreconiseable, then let the nobles have it to leave them drugged and stop them from interferring.

It's effects are unknown.

[AfellowDwarf]

It's effects are unknown.

To us, maybe. But if this herb was some useless nonsense plant, it would not have earned Mina any opposition. People knew it did something back then; if we can get our hands on a herbalist's catalogue, we'll see the herb somewhere. We may need to get an old one, though.

Edit:
Oh, and we should look into the gray king's insane dwarftasks and projects. Perhaps he was studying dwarf psychology, or attempting to build a superweapon. It would explain why he went murderous; the people he killed came too close to his research.(The fool should've gotten a dumber wife with a poorer memory. Why'd you think I prefer the senile?)

Edit2:
A book about herbalism will be multipurpose, and especially usefull if we decide to venture out of the fort.

Edit3:
Maybe we could disrupt the aquatic ecosystem near human towns by releasing vicious, aquatic cavecreatures (War-trained by a elven vampire, perhaps?) in their rivers. They'll eat the fish dry, robbing the humans of a food soure.

We could also try to dump large quantities of toxic metal(Lead, tin, maybe zinc if we can find enough?) Just put all of it in a large, heavy cage(made of lead, maybe) dump it into a river and wait for the humans to die. Maybe we could also utilise the large quantities of female animals we'll have, and dump loads of sour milk into the river.

Edit4:
Killing the humans will leave the field open for the goblins. Their rapid expansion suggests a demon at work; it'll take but one well placed catapult shot to take the scrawnier ones out. If we're up against a tougher demon, I would guess we'd just draw his attention with a catapult, and have to resort to the gauntlet to kill him. I guess we'll have to get creative to capture whoever uses it.

The user of the gauntlet will have to be someone of great willpower and fighting skill. We'll point another catapult at his location, and have a bunch of seasoned warriors with nets (I'm guessing these will be made from heavy chains or something) stationed nearby. We'll make the warrior kill the demon, and sound one horn to call the warriors in to capture him. We'll let the warriors restrain him after throwing their nets(if he manages to resist the gauntlet, he'll coöperate.) and let a medic inject him a tranquilizer. Then, we'll remove the gauntlet(with disenemberment if we have to) and tend to his wounds.

If all fails, we'll sound the second horn, signaling the catapult to launch at the gauntlet's location and the warriors to retreat.

Without leadership of demonic strength, the goblins will feud instead of being a real threat. We can then either play them out against one another, or side with their most altruistic faction.

[Tirion]

WHY HURT THE HUMANS AT ALL? THEY ARE OUR NATURAL ALLIES AGAINST THE GOBLINS.

[AfellowDwarf]

WHY HURT THE HUMANS AT ALL? THEY ARE OUR NATURAL ALLIES AGAINST THE GOBLINS.

Filthy human-lover. All humans are gready, racist demon worshippers. They are no better then goblins, just more skilled at hiding their utter depravity. Not to mention that they make us dwarves seem small.

Also, we can't really declare war on the elves(no threat) or goblins(already in conflict). Dwarves will get tricky as well, since we are a dwarf at present. We'll need a good scapegoat if we want to rise in power through leading a war.