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[umiman]

What's the symbol of your fortress as chosen by your dwarves?

Mine is:

quote:This is a stack of 500 Athel Arek 1054 Gold coin.
This is the Gold currency of Athel Arek from the year 1054. On the front of the coin is a rendition of an exceptionally designed image of a diamond. On the coin's back is a masterfully designed image of dwarves. The dwarves are speaking with the dwarves.

The symbol of my fortress, Empireshammer, is actually the diamond. I believe it's because it's the only recurring symbol that appears on all my coins as well as quite often in engravings. I also have no diamonds on my map.

I believe what the symbol means is that since my fortress is a trading hub, the diamond symbolizes wealth and the dwarves symbolize the trading. Simple.

It's pretty cool how dwarves choose a symbol for themselves. Are there any interesting ones?

[JoRo]

I believe mine is an image of cabinets, engraved under the title "The Oaken Sling."  This might be the civ symbol, in which case an image of a dwarf called "The Guise of Orbs" is the symbol.
I have no idea what a cabinet might symbolize.

[Mike Mayday]

Neither do I, but I know what symbolizes a cabinet.

[Sykirobme]

The first fortress I made after the z-level version was released had a dead dwarf as its symbol.  Every other engraving was of a dead dwarf...and this was long before any of my dwarves died.  My guys loved looking at those images in their grand dining hall and the adjoining statue garden, though....

[Necro]

Maybe it was some medieval "super star" like Roland?

[Sykirobme]

Yeah, I imagined it was a tragic dwarf-hero who'd made my chosen civilization what it was through amazing feats of strength and craftsmanship.

The engravers in that fortress seemed to have a sense of humor, too.  The mayor had a love for boxes and bins, so he was constantly mandating their production (the map had tons of trees and I needed a way to store all those stone blocks, so I loved this guy).  After every mandate was ended, an engraving of a dwarf surrounded by boxes was bound to be produced.

[Nite/m4re]

The symbol of my fortress is a frog demon... Hmm, what could that mean?

[Fishersalwaysdie]

That reminds me of Bullfrog production who made Dungeon Keeper...
Wait a minute Bullfrog -  Toady one.
Coincidence? I think not!

[umiman]

Conspiracy!!!

[McDoomhammer]

Dragging us kicking and screaming back onto topic, mine seems to be "hidden moons".  Not quite sure what that means- the opposite of a full moon, perhaps.  It's on some of the coins, and also a lot of the engravings.  I suppose it's appropriate for a fort called Twilightaura.

[Kagus]

Wow.  You guys actually make it to the point where you do coins and stuff?  Awesome.

[McDoomhammer]

I minted some coins.  Partly so I could find out the symbol for the purposes of this thread, in fact.  Doesn't mean I have anything I can do with them  

[Jusal]

I haven't had any fortresses with the economy for a while.

However I clearly remember my dwarves minting coins with the engraving of two walruses the last time I had it. What's wrong with the poor bastards?

[Markavian]

Since its relevant, but a bit old now, the symbol for my fortress of Inkflew appeared to be a cave lobster, of which I drew I picture because it was so incessantly engraved on every other wall in the fortress see here.

- Markavian

[Tyrving]

Mine appears to be three suns... they're on the front of all three coin types. This seems odd, considering the flood of vomit I get every time I send my military outdoors.