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[☼!!Troll Fur Sock!!☼]

also the hammer lord has one more kill than the swordmaster.

But that troll counts as two!

[Iamblichos]

This is both the most awesome and skeeziest artifact I have received to date...

Robarzokun Tadrodum, "Homagesiege the Crowded Bowels", a badger bone pick.
This is a badger bone pick.  All craftdwarfship is of the highest quality.  It is encircled with bands of badger bone.  This object menaces with spikes of badger bone.  One the item is an image of Glorieslimb the silver scepter in badger bone.  On the item is an image of baguette cut gems in pyrite.

I read the name... then read it again... then poured Clorox in my ear to get that image out of my head.

[poisoned_salami]

Well, I can tell you the WORST artifact I've ever gotten. "This is a copper short sword. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with copper." And that's it. No engravings, no menacing spikes, nothing.

What I want to know is how the weapon-smith became legendary from THAT.

[Rockphed]

Well, I can tell you the WORST artifact I've ever gotten. "This is a copper short sword. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is studded with copper." And that's it. No engravings, no menacing spikes, nothing.

What I want to know is how the weapon-smith became legendary from THAT.

Because he sharpened it with his fingernails and sunlight.

[PDF urist master]

could be worse. a copper sword is better than a silver sword, or worse, a wooden one.

[poisoned_salami]

True, it could have been worse. But after a streak of several useless artifacts, I kind of expected my weaponsmith's mood to produce something at least semi-badass.

[flabort]

Well, if rockphed is right about how he fashioned it, that's pretty badass.

[Nyxalinth]

Yesterday one of my war dogs saved a kid from being snatched and was badly wounded as a result.  Broken lungs, broken brain, etc.  so I had him put down by butchering.  Not five minutes later, someone gets a possessed mood, and grabs his bones to use in their stone project.  It was just a very boring bracelet, but I like to think that the possessing entity did it to honor the dog's spirit.  I think there's a god devoted to children worshiped by my civ, if I recall rightly.  Sometimes, the RNG is cool.

Also, I had a pretty nice weapon stand.  That went right into the barracks.

[poisoned_salami]

It was just a very boring bracelet, but I like to think that the possessing entity did it to honor the dog's spirit.

Now, how can you be sure that it wasn't the dog's spirit itself doing the possessing?
Or, more likely, they did it to mock the dog's spirit.

[Erils]

I've played a few more fortresses and my best artifact is still a masterwork wooden table. Why don't my dwarves get more creative?

[klefenz]

"Shovedfences the Viper of Flames" a steel battle axe. It menaces with spikes of steel.

[Inarius]

A copper sword without anything still has  an history. Give it to your best warrior, send him alone fighting the biggest creatures, horde of goblins, keep it to an unique family with several children, all of them warriors. And your boring sword will become legendary.

[Meme]

WRong thread sorry!

[Sutremaine]

Not a proper artifact, but a named weapon.

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Imeshgim, Sprinkletwists, a bronze pick.
"This is a bronze pick."

It sure is, Lor. I should probably swap it for something better, but the thing does do its job.

[MrsStick]

Silk trousers with an image of a magnificent pig tail fiber sock.

I submitted a screenshot to the Dwarf Fortress tumblr and it got posted (a few weeks ago...).