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[Inconspicuous Idiot]

I just noticed in my current fort that 2 dwarves (that I know of) just showed up to my fort own their on (not part of a migrant wave).
(Relevant: I can control them and assign them jobs)

One of them was a Administrator that also had suspiciously high combating skill, that later I noticed that he was part of a squad from one of my previous fortresses.
The other one was a random farmer wich would seem normal had his job description not been "Infected" and he was missing half his body parts. I name dwarves that I know have been bitten by werebeasts as "Infected" as precaution for situations like these. Problem is I can't expel him, because he isn't with his family.

Now some context. I have been getting a quite constant stream of visitors from both my tavern and library, and a few days prior to me realizing this was a full moon, and with it came a human wererabbit.

I guess the macedwarf came along as a mercenary and just thought to himself "Might as well stay here" (there was no petition).
And I guess the were-something guy just showed up on the full moon and joined the fort.
Both of those were previously part of my civ.

Any ideas how did this might have happened ?

*EDIT* It seems that even though the "Infected" guy is covered in the blood of at least 4 different dwarves and also of werebisons he is, in fact, not a werebeast himself, as a full moon has just risen and nothing happened to him. However, how he arrieved is still a mystery to me.

[snow dwarf]

I know dwarfs can migrate and very often will from previous forts, but.... are you sure that they came on their own didn't just slug behind a migrant wave?

[Inconspicuous Idiot]

I know dwarfs can migrate and very often will from previous forts, but.... are you sure that they came on their own didn't just slug behind a migrant wave?

Pretty sure they didn't. I keep a close eye on every migrant wave to filter out dwarves as soon as they arrive and I'm pretty sure they didn't come in any wave.
Maybe I'm just going crazy.

[anewaname]

If you are using Dwarf Therapist, you can sort the dwarfs by when they arrived at the fort (grouped by seasons I think). Also, sometimes it appears a migrant wave is over because some grazer is parked on the migrant-have-arrived tile and then it take a while before it moves and allows the next migrant to appear on-screen.