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[Imic]

It is done.

I have seen terrible things. I have done terrible, shameful things. But, for the first time in centuries;



The Walled Dye has a Mountainhome.

Not a dark, featureless cave.


Not a nearly empty ruin, silent save a lonely handful of souls.


Not even Treatyseed, the monument to a thousand lost souls in the infinite slaughter of its deep, cursed halls.

Beneath the mountains, life has flourished. Those who forgot the Dwarves shall remember them. Soon enough.
My official contribution to the Museum is a bar of steel, taken from the magma forges of the Mountainhome. Once, this metal was thought lost. Once, its secrets were known only to a select few Dwarven elders. Once, the steel that existed in the world was all the steel that ever would exist, that ever could exist, and every lost scrap was a loss worth its weight in gold. Now, all across Dwarvendom, the blast furnaces roar, and like the Dwarves themselves, it has returned, and in force. Let the world look on the truest treasure of the Dwarves: Not gold, not gems, nor even the cursed cloth-metal of the great beneath - The true treasure of the Dwarves is steel. Steel for tools and armour, steel for nails and buckets. Strong, sharp, flexible, and practical. Wars were not won with gems or trinkets. Fortresses were not kept standing with soft, malleable gold. Now and forever, since the dawn of time until the end of days, steel is the legacy of the Dwarves. So it shall always be.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I meant to end this long before today, but life threw unexpected things in my way, in the form of some unexpected family business I was not informed of beforehand. I won't be able to finish the writeup of Obok and Kadol's story for a week or so due to further IRL things, so I'll summarize it here. Obok and Kadol gradually journeyed around the mountains, arguing and fighting and debating, slowly getting to know each other better, until after a climactic fight with a pack of wolves which almost killed the dog Olin and left her crippled for life, they began to become friends. When they reached the tundra of heroes, Kadol offered to look the other way whilst Obok went across the mountains back home and tell the King that Obok had escaped in the night, but Obok decided to continue north with Kadol willingly, since he had privately come to a conclusion: He liked to build and design things more than anything else, and this could very well be the last time he was ever given such an opportunity. After discussing it with Kadol, he made the ultimate decision that under the condition that there was an emergency escape route for him, above or below board, getting to design something like Duskhome again was worth the occasional Royal Restriction placed on him. I wasn't sure if I wrote the friendship in a way that didn't come across as abusive on one level or another, so until I'm back at my PC again to do a proper writeup imagine that something magical and entirely natural happened on the way up that made them completely stop hating each other. Might not be nuanced enough, but it's as much as I can manage for now. When Obok finally met the King, he gave a single command: Build a new Mountainhome for the Walled Dye. Obok spent the next decade doing just that until finally leaving for Boltspumpkin once the King was done with his services, where he retired and has for now settled down.

After all was said and done, I went to the mountains, found the monarch, found a suitable site on the world map, I started the Fortress, and the suffering began almost immediately. I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but in the end DFhack became a very close companion during the nightmare that this Fortress was. I didn't think I would be doing that when I started, but when I started, I didn't think I'd end up with the following screenshot.


As mentioned previously, I genuinely did originally intend to be done by friday/saturday, but then Family Business happened and the rest is history. I apologise for the inconvenience caused, I didn't intend for this to play out the way it did.

As a last note, originally the Museum submission was a wolf skull, being a part of the development of Obok and Kadol's friendship, but in the end I decided that since I wasn't going to be able to write up the whole story before IRL got real busy and at the time I didn't expect myself to so thoroughly summarize the Adventurer story in this post, I decided to replace it with something else. Was this the right move? Or the wrong move? I don't know, it's three in the morning and my brain hurts. There's a story behind the steel, it's a part of Obok and Kadol's adventure, it has greater meaning in and across Orid Xem, and the wolf skull was a random wolf skull. If I went too far outside the rules by doing that, I apologise, it won't happen again, but I just really wasn't satisfied with that wolf skull.

Also, last little note here; Bizarrely enough, two brand new Hillocks got founded in the lowlands near the Fort and were economically linked to me. I genuinely didn't know that was possible in the circumstances. You learn something every day, I guess.

And  now, at long last, after thoroughly losing my sanity to this game for questionable reward, I can rest.
Dies

[Glloyd]

That is an achievement for sure, and I can't wait to see somebody go explore it. Dare I ask what year it is now?

[BluarianKnight]

By the gods.

Give me a bit and I'll claim the file - got caught in slight business, officially claiming either today or tomorrow at the very latest.

[Quantum Drop]

Good god above. Considering how good your last works were when uninhabited, I can't wait to see what these ones'll look like!

[Imic]

Dare I ask what year it is now?

It is the year 780. I saved and retired the Fort on the first of granite, Obok and Kadol set off for Boltspumpkim two weeks later, and they arrived two or three days after that, so it’s still in the very early days of the decade now.

[Lurker Z]

Welp, congrats and all, but let's hope it still runs at all lol.

24 new artifacts and 4 thousand new "Art", whatever that means. Over 600 new historical figures, which means either discovered or born.

4 events discovered from the First Age of Myth (roughly 1st century) and 8 from the Third Age of Myth (the big chunk between 2nd and 8th century).

Almost 10 thousand new events created.

Still in Age of Heroes.

I'll say that's a lot.

Congrats once again and for infusing new life into this thread.


Huh, my char became the lord of Nodduli and the High Priest of one of the religions of... Dunem Meteosman? Weird. He's still officially just a worshiper of Bikdá.

Check your chars, folks, 10 years is enough time for some changes.


Lonelythrall finally became a Leader of a group too. Should have happened decades ago considering his achievements.


Nish Singetomb* finally became a Baron of The Walled Dye.


Uhhhh, did Iden know that settling in a Vault is going to get him killed next month? Cuz he got killed next month.


Leto Searchpraise* changed (noble) professions. I assume he went up the ladder. Or he just likes beasts better than building.


Also our adventurers are starting to claim artifacts from afar. Oooooooooooh boy, that's going to create some drama.


New Omon Obin Law-Giver, and it's a werebitmammoth.

Uja, the vampire former Law-Giver I confronted settled in my character's hometown, Señamatem.

Gods damn it, guys, what the hells are you doing? Exiling me to swamp country while you go back to your dark creature worship?! %#%^#%^#%^#%^%$#$%@$


*I don't know all of who's the adventurer of who, I'm just browsing the still living adventurers in Legends Viewer.

[Imic]

-snip-

The art is probably engravings, statues, figurines, etc. around ~40 or so children were born in the Mountainhome, and the artifacts were either all or mostly me. The best one, a native aluminum harp, actually got stolen, so... I’m going to officially put out a bounty for the artifact native aluminium harp-like instrument created in the Mountainhome and stolen by a visiting Goblin working with a local Miner. I can’t currently access my PC and I won’t be able to for the next week, so I don’t have the names, at least not right now. The selection isn’t great, but whomsoever is able to retrieve the artifact may take a book or artifact from the Mountainhome’s own library/museum. Like I said, the selection isn’t great, but hopefully it’s good enough.

[Bralbaard]

So I have updated the map of Orid Xem(in spoilers, because it's big)

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It's interesting to see that the northern half of the map is almost completely overcrowded with sites, but the south is almost pristine.
In addition here is an update of the demographics for the the Universes of Myth:



I'll add the missing harp to the missions section.

[Eric Blank]

Aw man, Championvaults isn't the mountainhome anymore

Good job on the mountainhoming.

[Imic]

Aw man, Championvaults isn't the mountainhome anymore

Good job on the mountainhoming.

I think, and I could be very wrong here, that the death of the old King ended its tenure as mountainhome, regardless, I’m sorry about that, despite me being aware that the King has moved there it never until just now clicked that Championvaults was the Mountainhome. I apologise, I didn’t mean to steal Championvaults’s glory.

[Bralbaard]

I have to say that it's good to have a bit of competition in the mountainhome department. We never have enough epic fortresses.

[Imic]

Forgot to say, stick me back on the turn list. It’s nice to have adventurers who survived their first adventure, even if their story isn’t written yet.

[BluarianKnight]

Just started up - sorry for the wait, hit the clock.

[Bralbaard]

You're back on the turn list Imic.

Also it's interesting to see how the dwarves have recovered over recent decades. Here is a comparison of the centre of the dwarven empire at the start of the game (on the left) and the same area now (on the right):
 

[Quantum Drop]

Huh, so they're reclaiming the old, abandoned/destroyed fortresses and mountain halls before (presumably, going by the appearance of a new hillocks in the top left) expanding outwards? Makes sense, I guess.

Other bits observed from legends-diving that might be of some interest:

• Most of these forts have one or two dwarves, and maybe an animal in them, as opposed to being 'properly' reclaimed.
• Many of the small-reclaim forts were reclaimed c. 733-744, in little waves of reclamation; that little cluster of eight forts near to the lower good biome were all reclaimed around 733, with one or two in 34 and 35. Wonder what triggered them to send expeditions out there?
• The human civilization known as The Armoured Confederacy seems to have quietly died out somewhere along the line; it'll be interesting to see if their presumably-extant remnants somehow pull a Staff of Kissing and come back to life.
• Artha Peacefulsong (Luckyowl) has also become a noble - a Lady, to be precise - and has spent the last decade and a half leading squads against The Most Sin during their efforts to take over Divedact.
• Erith Whippedumbral somehow got resurrected while in Coveredashes, back in 770 - anyone have an idea as to how that happened?
• Lonelythrall becoming a group leader seems to down to the last member of the group (except him) dying of old age, apparently causing the group ownership to default to him. He also killed some random Dwarf recruit back in 770 for no discernible reason.

Spoiler: Also... (click to show/hide)

With the demise of The Armoured Confederacy, the sucker at the top of the Civilizations of Orid Xem dead pool is The Curious Horror, reduced to four civilized goblins, a couple escaped necromancer experiments, and one Elephant Fiend. Time will tell if an adventurer or civilization deigns to finish them off.