The Dwarvern River Canyon Fortress with a waterfall has begun to blossom into something epic. Rather than take a sane approach to Fortress creation, I decided it made far more sense to create a fairly intricate fortress that weaves in and out of the canyon walls, connected by retractable bridges here and there. I've also had a few masons and engravers to clean up the copious amounts of granite stirred up by my fortress, so I'm going to have the finest walls this part of the country has ever seen.
However, this is not what makes this fortress epic. What makes this fortress cool, is the copious amounts of Native Gold, rare gemstones, and Galena found naturally occuring in the walls of my fortress fortress. Due to the very odd nature of my fortess, this means that I my fortress is going to rapidly become very rich as soon as I can get a stable smelting industry going. To make it even better, I've had three really good metalsmiths arrive recently. I shall soon deck out my soldiers in the finest silver armour!
But, this will be very difficult as I landed in an area with almost no trees, only cactuses. There is no doubt I'm going to have rely extensively on the caravans for wood. Not that its a terrible thing, just an inconvienience. That and I seem to have issues with getting wagons to path to my fortress. When I finally finish with the living quarters, I'm going to have to get my miners to build a path that allows wagons. Also, I have a feeling that my fortress will be very weak against any air attacks, and the river freezes partially during the winter, leaving a path into the fortress through the fishing bay. But I don't think this will be too much of a weakness. Afterall, I don't think they are quite smart enough to attack that entrance.