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[Propman]

I recently generated a map over the course of five hundred years, and in that time, humans managed to capture an elven forest retreat, while the dwarves managed to capture a human fort, giving them an actual physical presence in adventure mode.

[Jacos]

I had been attempting to mod in a race of fairly friendly, peace-loving gnomes (who, unlike other gnomes, could actually speak). However, upon searching through legends, it appeared that they had been involved in a war against the goblins, which lasted over 100 years. During this time, they pillaged the same location over 50 times, and slaugtered countless goblins, and never once lost a battle against them.

Oh, and there was a necromancer gnome, whose last name was "Slaughterfriends".

And they were supposed to be peaceful!

[smjjames]

I had been attempting to mod in a race of fairly friendly, peace-loving gnomes (who, unlike other gnomes, could actually speak). However, upon searching through legends, it appeared that they had been involved in a war against the goblins, which lasted over 100 years. During this time, they pillaged the same location over 50 times, and slaugtered countless goblins, and never once lost a battle against them.

Oh, and there was a necromancer gnome, whose last name was "Slaughterfriends".

And they were supposed to be peaceful!

To be fair, the goblins would see a peace loving race as pillage bait. Kind of hard to be a truly peaceful race with such warmongers like the goblins around.

[Julien Brightside]

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I've been waiting for a chance to tell this story to someone (though it's been long enough that I've forgotten the awesome narrative I had planned out, so please forgive the quality).  What follows is the tragic history of one of my marksdorfs (whom I made captain after I learned all this), Bomrek Olinrimtar.

As a child, Bomrek was abducted by a goblin.  Shortly thereafter his captor kidnapped another dwarf, Momuz, and the two became friends.  Many years later the two finally obtained their freedom, and they went their separate ways.  Momuz settled in a small dwarven outpost and became a farmer.  Two years later, he was reunited with his parents when they fled their old hometown due to a goblin raid.  Driven by a sense of duty, he became a ranger; the next year he joined in his civilization's retaliatory strike.  The target was the goblin civilization's largest fortress, and the attackers were outnumbered two-to-one.  Many dwarves had already died by the time the goblin's general came out.  Knowing that the one responsible for his family's pain was upon the battlefield, Bomrek charged forward, killing nine goblins before reaching their leader.  However, once he laid eyes upon that monster Bomrek froze, for what he saw was not a filthy goblin, but... a friend.  It was Momuz, the kind dwarf with whom he grew up.  Bomrek wondered what could have happened to Momuz, and who could have been responsible for his actions.  But he knew it didn't matter.  What stood before him was not a dwarf, but an enemy.  And so Bomrek struck down Momuz.  Afterwards Bomrek returned to life as a farmer, and later emigrated to the glorious fortress WorthyBoulder, where he was, begrudgingly, drafted into the militia and quickly rose to the highest ranks [note: interestingly, before becoming an elite marksdorf the "irritated by the draft" and "long patrol duty" thoughts had him in a perpetually shitty mood, with far lower happiness than any of my other soldiers].

Though Bomrek would never learn of Momuz's life between their separation and fateful encounter, history did:  After escaping from GoblinCiv1, he joined GoblinCiv2.  He killed their general and took that position for himself.  With his newfound power he avenged his and Bomrek's pain and obliterated GoblinCiv1, leaving not a soul alive.  However, with this power came responsibility-- responsibility towards those he led.  GoblinCiv2 had been in a perpetual state of war with the neighboring dwarven civilization for decades, and Momuz couldn't change this.  Perhaps feeling a tinge of guilt, he chose to attack only a small outpost and brought only a very small force [note:this force really was about an order of magnitude smaller than any of GoblinCiv2's other recent attacks].  Ironically, this choice is what led him to damnation.

That has to be one of the saddest dwarf Fortress stories I have read.

[BoogieMan]

I'm not sure how common it is, but one of the last worlds I generated almost every faction leader was a Vampire. Every Dwarf and Human Civ had a Vampire Monarch, and there was about 8 of both.

[callisto8413]

I found the Legend history very interesting.  The First Dwarf Civilization in my current game was founded by a Vampire Dwarf.  In fact there seem to be a lot of vampires and Evil Humans in my history.  It got very confusing as Evil Humans were fighting wars against Elves and every once and awhile Dwarfs would ally themselves to both sides in some of the wars.  In one war there were Dwarfs and Goblins fighting Dwarfs and Goblins....all very confusing.  I am not even sure how that works...

I know the races have different ideas about how to handle the dead and to treat animals and such, but I just can't figure out how the Dwarfs got split into two like that.  Was one side ruled by Goblins and the other side ruled by Dwarfs?

[golemgunk]

In one of my fortresses, I noticed that my dwarves very often engraved their goods with images of the human "Tul Foggygrasp" being struck down by the alligator "Bandedkeys". It came up so often that I copied the save to look at legends mode and see who this person was. It turned out that Foggygrasp was an adventurer I had played long ago and forgotten about! Her adventure was short: I ran out of water after leaving the starting town, and was dismembered by an alligator when I went to fill my skein at a nearby river. It was such a brief and inconsequential journey, to me, but for some reason my dwarves fell in love with it. It was like the game was mocking my failure.

That fort went on for decades, and they never stopped telling the story of foolish Tul Foggygrasp and the hungry alligator, Bandedkeys.

[Enemy post]

I found the Legend history very interesting.  The First Dwarf Civilization in my current game was founded by a Vampire Dwarf.  In fact there seem to be a lot of vampires and Evil Humans in my history.  It got very confusing as Evil Humans were fighting wars against Elves and every once and awhile Dwarfs would ally themselves to both sides in some of the wars.  In one war there were Dwarfs and Goblins fighting Dwarfs and Goblins....all very confusing.  I am not even sure how that works...

I know the races have different ideas about how to handle the dead and to treat animals and such, but I just can't figure out how the Dwarfs got split into two like that.  Was one side ruled by Goblins and the other side ruled by Dwarfs?

My guess would be that the goblins conquering dwarf sites and kidnapping their kids resulted in the goblin civ having a large dwarf population.

[Enemy post]

I saw a battle in which the elves attacked a settlement containing two clowns and won. One was killed by a elephant and the other was taken captive and hacked to pieces by the elf princess.

[MDFification]

I once saw a goblin who was born in a site occupied by dwarves and eventually rose to be that sites administrator. The site was then taken over by elves and his family eaten, but he was imprisoned. Somehow (I never found out - didn't say. Maybe he escaped?) he wound up in one of the last goblin civs and married a snatcher. He then led a raid that took back his home, but everyone in the tribe but him ended up dying.
He was still alive at the end of worldgen - he just sits in the dark fortress he once ruled and fights off sieges.

Take a minute to think about how awesome that is. A goblin rises peacefully through the ranks until the harsh violence of the world destroys his life. He then gets back in touch with his roots and finds love, before trying to take revenge - only to find that once again violence takes everything from him. He then proceeds to several last stands, refusing to let anyone take the ruin that was his city.

It's like a tragic action movie.

[sambojin]

Keep that world gen. You might be able to run it for a few more years in DF2014 and see what became of him.

[MDFification]

Keep that world gen. You might be able to run it for a few more years in DF2014 and see what became of him.

Regrettably, that was on my old laptop. His spirit however will always be with the goblins in worlds I gen.

[Zale]

I've just skimmed through the genealogy of a elven couple that had over a hundred children over the course of almost 7000 years.

[pisskop]

Oh.  hmm.  Here.

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So . . . is that elf a vampire now?  Or are Elves so evil that that body of the beast actually purifies them some?

[Xazo-Tak]

I've just skimmed through the genealogy of a elven couple that had over a hundred children over the course of almost 7000 years.

Someone should have brought a cork.