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[Enemy post]

Essentially, interesting/odd/cool stories found in legends mode.
For example, from memory, I saw one goblin who had been captured and enslaved by the demon-lead human civilization, then eventually escaped and was wounded twice more in the future by humans. Finally, she participated in a battle (I think the battle was like 12 people on the goblin side, to 200+ on the human) in which she just went on a rampage, killing numerous humans before finally being shot and killed by the demon ruler of the humans. There was also a goblin who survived having its head ripped by a crocodile.

[Enemy post]

Nothing?

[Gavakis]

Not mine, but...
The Elf King of the Dwarves, Cacame Awemedinade Monípalóthi

In a nutshell, Dwarves at war with elves, conquered by dwarves, became a guard at the age of 12, went to war, noted to be "fiercest and deadliest warrior" where his wife died. He tried to ressurect his wife, but he returned riding a zombie wyvern, failing to bring back his wife. He moved too the capital. He then killed a red dragon naked sokrox, with nothing more than competent hammer skill. Later on, he became king.

[Enemy post]

I saw a wolf demon who had once lead a goblin civ, and eventually was taken captive and and enslaved by a human civ after a defeat. Only a few years later however, it became leader of the human civ and eventually quit I think , going off to wander the wilds.

[Dante]

Some sort of human ranger went on an expedition to tame wild animals every single year for eight years - giant lions and eagles and so on and so on - until he got killed by a hydra. I imagine that in an alternative universe, he managed to tame that too, and just kept on going.

[Matoro]

Legends mode, ah how awesome it is.

I probably generated my dream world a week ago. It's pretty normal 65x65 world with evil mountain peak, but what makes it so awesome is the weakness of dwarven civilization. The Blameless Books, dwarven civilization, is located in small southern mountains. It's the only non-evil mountain range in the world. So there was only one starting location for dwarven civ, so it's 1 dwarven civ vs. 5 elven, 5 goblin and 4 human civs.

The Blameless Books was surrounded by the elves. The first hundred years went peacefully - dwarven dynasties were long-lived and they waged war againts demon-led goblins. They and humans destroyed every goblin settlement from the eastern part of the world. In the west there was still a great valley with full of towers. Humans had formed great empires, covering 2/3 of the world. They ruled the great plains of the north, while elves had the forests of the south. Nobody dared to go to the cursed mountains. Dwarven mountains rose from the elven forests.

Elves, apparently, didn't like non-elves. First, they destroyed a human civ that tried to colonize the forests. They attacked dwarves, too, but lost the battle with massive casualties. But it was the end of golden age of Blameless Books.

The king died, killed by hydra, and his son become the monarch. This new king, however, didn't admire traditions much. He cursed the Dwarven Gods and profaned the temple. He accused the gods for helping the elves and killing his father. He was cursed.

Then begun the downfall of the dwarves. The elves declared war on them and quickly crushed dwarven armies with sheer numbers. Massive armies of elves raided the mountain halls. The vampire king fled. New king died.

Elves pillaged the halls again and again - they crushed every dwarven army with massive numbers of elephant- and bobcat-riding elves. There was just too much of them and too few dwarves. They couldn't destroy the mountain halls, but they raided them. They killed the king every single year. And still dwarves kept electing a new king. And so went whole 4th century. There was sometimes short peace treaties, but they didn't last. Elves wanted to drive the dwarves extinct. They even made alliance with goblins, who also begun toi raid the halls.

As we are speaking, the population of the Blameless Books is about 50. Those lone scavanger dwarves live in the ruins of once great mountain halls. But they won't surrender. They won't surrender as long as mountains are still at their side.

[Sprin]

This wasn't my personal legened, but I remember someone told me about a fly that killed 12 people...

[Tevish Szat]

Of course, we have Cacame, and unless I am mistaken before him the legend of Tholtig Cryptbrain


Some of my own:

Legend discovered in fort mode of a brutal duel between an ordinary elf and an elf-raised-goblin.  For bonus points this was first discovered as decoration on an artifact wooden ring

Zom, the Gila Monster Monster, took over a human civilization and then preceded to sit in the fortress of Cavernshadow and... write books.  A couple early entries were about the underworld (Including "Pathways to the Underworld"), but the vast majority were about Zom, Cavernshadow, The Sun (one of Zom's spheres), or some combination of the three, producing such titles as "Cavernshadow", what I assume is its sequel "More Cavernshadow", "The Sun: Natural or Supernatural?", and "Can the Law-Giver Save The World?".  That's it -- All Zom did was write books, store books (eventually writing books about book storage), and create positions "as a matter of course".

There was a Cave Fish Man Vampire that fell in and out of power over a human civ, escaping defeat at the hands of the dwarves (led by their own Vampire King), only to re-emerge as king of the humans again a few years later after a brief interregnum where the Confederacy of Vegetation had no leader.

And this happened...

[iamthelol]

Some sort of human ranger went on an expedition to tame wild animals every single year for eight years - giant lions and eagles and so on and so on - until he got killed by a hydra. I imagine that in an alternative universe, he managed to tame that too, and just kept on going.

he ran out of pokeballs when confronting the hydra, didn't he? He's should've known to release some of his giant eagles to fight it, and once the eagles are dead, the hydras all his. *Pokemon theme plays in background

[Julien Brightside]

I have a vampire queen in my fort who was the mother of 10 or 12 children at the dawn of time and half the fort consists of her offspring.

[BlackFlyme]

In my current fort I've noticed that most of my statues and figurines are of a human named Tolis Dawnfocused, who apparently set out to hunt great beasts in the year of 29.

I figured I'd investigate further, since there weren't any engravings/statues of her doing anything else. It turns out that in the year 10, when she was 5, she was attacked by a thunderbird, and barely managed to escape. For the next several years she wandered about, until she eventually married and had several kids. Then one day, in 29, she figured she would try and hunt down the beast that attacked her. Spoiler alert: she failed. Kind of expected when she's going up against a megabeast.

Wait a minute, one of her kids has a title? Alright, lets see this. Threbe Petsoaked the Squeezing of Cacti. Heh... Anyways, she probably didn't know her mother that well, only being three when she left, but shared her mother's wanderlust, moving from town to town. Eventually, she settled down and married a man named Or Planesbited, and even became the warlord of a human civ. Why is her husband worth mentioning? Simple; one day, her husband became concerned with his own mortality, and left her. He found an apprenticeship with an experienced necromancer, and eventually became a master to another apprentice himself. He then spent years writing books in his tower until my adventurer came along and caved his skull in with one of his own poems. Oops.

Anyways, upon being abandoned by her husband, Threbe became enraged and profaned a temple, earning the ire of the gods and being forced to assume the form of a were-antelope. She spent years terrorizing lands, eating livestock but never successfully killing anyone, despite her best efforts. Until the year 103, where... Oh. She was the one that attacked my fort, and was killed by a recruit that was conscripted just because he was the closest to her at the time. Some warlord she turned out to be, getting killed by an unarmed milker.

There are also a lot of statues of another human, Ol Blazedcrew, who set out to "hunt great beasts", but because that was 2 years before world gen ended, he never actually killed anything outside of a few random animals. Though he did survive an encounter with a Bronze Colossus that left his leg mangled beyond recognition.

[Bolzan]

There was a town that was apparently raided and sacked by the same organisation over a hundred times in the span of less than 50 or so years, which was pretty depressing :c

[Enemy post]

Of course, we have Cacame, and unless I am mistaken before him the legend of Tholtig Cryptbrain


Some of my own:

Legend discovered in fort mode of a brutal duel between an ordinary elf and an elf-raised-goblin.  For bonus points this was first discovered as decoration on an artifact wooden ring

Zom, the Gila Monster Monster, took over a human civilization and then preceded to sit in the fortress of Cavernshadow and... write books.  A couple early entries were about the underworld (Including "Pathways to the Underworld"), but the vast majority were about Zom, Cavernshadow, The Sun (one of Zom's spheres), or some combination of the three, producing such titles as "Cavernshadow", what I assume is its sequel "More Cavernshadow", "The Sun: Natural or Supernatural?", and "Can the Law-Giver Save The World?".  That's it -- All Zom did was write books, store books (eventually writing books about book storage), and create positions "as a matter of course".

There was a Cave Fish Man Vampire that fell in and out of power over a human civ, escaping defeat at the hands of the dwarves (led by their own Vampire King), only to re-emerge as king of the humans again a few years later after a brief interregnum where the Confederacy of Vegetation had no leader.

And this happened...

Doesn't a ruler creating positions "as a matter of course" repeatedly mean that they were conquering towns?

[Enemy post]

Maybe it's necromancy to use this thread, but I was reading legends and found a human named Eslo Buttonheart who was attacked by night creatures four times, when he was 1,2,3 and 6 years old. Each time, he was defeated but escaped unscathed. Then he was abducted by a goblin at 8 years old, became a member of the goblin civ and lived a uneventful life.

[Urist McKiwi]

Well, if we're going to resurrect it, here's something else...today I generated a world that ended up in the Third Age of Myth (yeah, the titans and megabeasts are winning this one so far). In legends, I encountered a few wars between various factions, mostly caused by the elves eating people.

Then I found a titled elf. "Mame Ruledaxes the Short Targets of Sun". Born in 74, died in 123. He fought off the attack of a "crone bridegroom" or something like that, then was enslaved. He escaped, and made a new life for himself as a mason. Then, in the year 123....the peeps who'd enslaved him decided to recapture him as part of the war with the civilisation he'd joined after escaping from them. He wasn't so happy about this.



Sadly only a month later a second army turned up and offed him. Still. This is an elf with relatively low combat history that took two armies to kill him.

Here's an abridged version of his life history. I've cut out a load of kills and even more random eating people to save on space. It's a big image, so I'm spoilering it.

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