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[Findulidas]

Just had my engraver do masterful engraving of a purring maggot on the floor, something which gives him bad thoughts. Couldnt he had done cheese or sheep, which he loves, both of which he mustve seen a lot of since they are numerous in my fort.

Further down in the same corridor another engraver made a masterful engraving of a previous battle where his wife and baby died. It worries me that he says hes ecstatic after that tbh.

Does anyone else have some engravings worth mentioning?

[Sirbug]

I remember that during my focus on war dogs breeding, they mortally wounded lots of goblins. For some reason engravings of this events depicted exclusively as "The dog is laughing".

[Findulidas]

I remember that during my focus on war dogs breeding, they mortally wounded lots of goblins. For some reason engravings of this events depicted exclusively as "The dog is laughing".

The dwarves seem to suffer from some sort of psychopathy at times tbh

[Iamblichos]

I think my best one was a masterful engraving of flies right at the entrance to the throne room.  Of course, the queen absolutely detested flies.  Passive aggressive midgets for the win!

[Findulidas]

I think my best one was a masterful engraving of flies right at the entrance to the throne room.  Of course, the queen absolutely detested flies.  Passive aggressive midgets for the win!

I wonder what makes them do engravings of vermin.

[Illogical_Blox]

I had two elf skulls. What a manly dwarf!

Also, a marble-bound book called: Hauling is My Life.

I even got a memorial to a human's foot - an engraving of a giant lion mauling a man's foot. In that world, I had several statues and engravings of elves and humans being slaughtered by giant lions.

[Sirbug]

I also remember once finding an image "Urist is dead" related to his death from dehydration. That's quite morbid.

[unitled]

One of my Master engravers seemed to have a particular fondness for images of himself engraving masterful engravings. He covered the expedition leader's office in pictures of himself. I thought that took a... special kind of ego.

[Thisfox]

I've had a lot of engravings-of-someone-elses-masterfully-designed-engravings, and on a few occasions of the engraver himself engraving something. 

In the walls of my dwarfwash in Grippedurn, there were a lot of engravings of floodgates. I was told that it's a symbol of a political party...

Personally I loved the sculpture of a dwarf who had died of dehydration in the first year (An unrelated story involving several bad injuries and the only water source being infested with alligators... Almost everyone lost a limb at some point or another. I got a lot of spam like "Urist McLefty cancels give water: Interrupted by Alligator") Anyhow, I liked the sculpture, because it was done by his widowed wife, and I like to think she felt good that it was masterful, and that it was carefully positioned as a sculpture garden below the waterfall and in front of the well. "Be grateful that we know how to keep the alligators out" was only part of the beautiful message. She also made several masterful sculptures of alligators. I figured she was going through some art therapy

My favourite engraving, though, was of the (then) mayor surrounded by peahens. The mayor was, according to the engraving, terrified. It was in his dining room. He departed from office soon after. I looked it up: He didn't appear to hate peahens. We did, on the other hand, have them in our egg collection area. I had someone slaughter, butcher and cook the peahens, and hoped that the former mayor got some. We ate hen eggs after that.

[Walrusking]

Well one engraver seems to be fond of engraving a certain hydra that eats humans and elves, the same hydra each time. One mayor's office had about five of them.

Then there's the odd superiorly engraved cheese we keep having.

On a side note, anyone know how to look at statues? I put some in my aristocrats' cabins and I'm curious as to what they are.

[Ganb]

mason/engraver just kept making mosquito engravings and statues, but absolutely detested mosquitos. If I still had the fort I would just surround his room with his own mosquito statues... and maybe block the doorway with one when he gets inside.

Or maybe set up a sacred pasture for a giant mosquito, with a gold throne. Line the halls with mosquito statues. All hail lordsquito.

edit: I always use T to look at my statues.

[Insanegame27]

Cheese eating dragons... nuff said.

In other news my dwarves decided to engrave the walls with wasps (look at sig) striking down dwarves with the wasp striking a superior look. The one after that was a masterfully engraved image of wasps surrounded by dwarves. the dwarves were bowing. The wasps were striking a ruling pose

[Nyxalinth]

I remember that during my focus on war dogs breeding, they mortally wounded lots of goblins. For some reason engravings of this events depicted exclusively as "The dog is laughing".

The dwarves seem to suffer from some sort of psychopathy at times All the time tbh

FTFY

[Thisfox]

Cheese eating dragons... nuff said.

Pardon me, but with the English Language being what it is... is that dragons-that-eat-cheese, or cheese-that-eats-dragons?  and... a cheese that eats a dragon would actually be pretty epic. A cheese that eats anything, I guess, would be pretty epic.

Urist McInsomnia is carving the reason she is too scared to sleep...

(edit: If you want to see the statue when it's in a furniture pile, use "k". If you want to see a statue when it's been erected, use "t")

[Chevaleresse]

I got a kick out of one fort that adopted two forgotten beasts as its symbol after they were walled in for two years straight due to. . . two forgotten beasts.

Engaging a firebreather in melee on grass, never again.