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[Aquillion]

When an enemy boasts in Adventurer mode, it'd be cool if they played up the importance of artifacts and other important objects, too.  For example, if they're wearing or wielding an artifact, they might say something like:

"Fool!  You dare to challenge Thorin, son of Glorin, wielder of Ixialdor, the Breeze of Sorrows?"

It could be 'bearer' for things that are just carried -- eg if someone is carrying something like the One Ring, that can be more important than their titles, etc.

Similarly, they could mention your artifacts, if you're wearing, wielding or carrying one:

"Even Yaganor, the Tomb of Silence will not avail you here!"  Or even "I will take Yaganor, the Tomb of Silence from your cold dead corpse!"

(If they created an artifact, they might boast about that, too, but I'm not sure if they do already or not.)

[Maklak]

Does the artefact show up in "thoughts and preferences" page? I think it should.

[Niyazov]

Makes perfect sense, especially once artifacts are a little more interesting and play more of a role in worldgen.

Rationally, an enemy shouldn't boast about their own artifacts unless they have a reason to think that you have heard about the artifact and will be intimidated (or unless they are immodest and just like talking about their cool stuff). This adds a degree of complexity but could be handled in a number of interesting ways. It would be nice to see kill boasts rationalized a little more too since right now they are practically meaningless unless through some miracle you know exactly who it is that they're talking about.

Likewise, an enemy would have to be able to recognize your artifact in order to comment on it.

As for creator boasts, I don't think they exist in-game yet or every necromancer and escaped demon that you met would rant about it since they all tend to write like a million books.

[Aquillion]

As for creator boasts, I don't think they exist in-game yet or every necromancer and escaped demon that you met would rant about it since they all tend to write like a million books.

Oh man, I forgot about the books.  That would lend a somewhat different tone to it, especially given how prosaic some of the book titles are.

"TREMBLE, fool!  I am the great mage Nizziblark, author of 'Elves:  Fact or Fiction?' and 'The Book: The Definitive Guide.'"

It is...  not quite as intimidating as boasts usually are.

[Sirbug]

Hey, it indicates their mighty intelligence.