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[Zruku]

Normally this would just be an average badass artifact, but the last image on it just cracks me up. All the axe is surrounded or decorated with bones, dark steel, or turtle shell. Then theres an image of a cute vermin in CLOTH on an axe.

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My game is heavily modded, that explains some of the odd materials.

[MelloHero]

Some of these were so great (or so awful), they begged for artistic representation. Given that, I've made the next best thing: sketchy drawings.
Luckygorged the Deified Plank

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Fightcalled

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Shakentremble the Plan of Butterflies

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TheBeardyMan's artifact braies that no dwarf can wear

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[Quantum Toast]

Anyone else think about giving visual interpretations to some of these?

Something like this?

[MelloHero]

^Please tell me you used that as a trap component.

[Quantum Toast]

Planning to, haven't picked a spot for it yet.

[Satarus]

Trap nothing.  Give that baby to one of your champions.

[Kyrus]

Way back when I started my current fortress, I got this as my first artifact:

And it was literally my first artifact, since this is my first fortress! It's worth an entire 2400 dorfbucks, so it really boosted my fortress' wealth when some dwarf hammered it out. Oh, and I'm pretty sure it was the result of a possession, so I didn't even get a legendary mason out of it. That's the exact instant I knew that DF and I were going to be best friends.

As for my best at not being underwhelming artifact?
Value-wise:

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Worth 177600 dorfbucks. Although the instant legendary armorsmith was valuable enough.

Most...interesting...:

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The game says the dwarf who made it doesn't have a great aesthetic sensitivity, but it was clearly very wrong about that.

Oh, and the war hammer depicted on said loincloth is this. My personal favorite in this fortress. Decorated with turtle bone/turtle shell, encircled with iron/pig iron, and has an image of itself on it? It's almost poetic.

EDIT:I forgot the absolute best thing about that war hammer. My first hammer was pretty awesome(although making sure that she never had the ability to pulverize criminals probably helped - no sheriff or fortress guard means no hammerjustice either) - a season or so after she came to my fortress, there were several goblin ambush parties that attacked at once. She took it upon herself to singlehandedly kill eight goblins, earning himself a title. My hammerer's full name now? Erush Atticsprays the Image of Evaporation. I gave her a nice big sand tomb with lots of green glass furniture(hey, she liked sand and the color dark green) for that. Atticsprays spent some free time evaporating a groundhog and two wolves when it was peaceful, but come the next goblin ambush she charged right back out to kill some more...except for the part where she was killed before she got to smash anything. A season or two after this? One of my smiths gets possessed, and the result is that iron war hammer. Clearly Ms. Atticsprays the Image of Evaporation wasn't quite done pounding gobbos with a hammer yet, so she made sure that a future hammerdwarf could keep on evaporating goblins in her place.

[Lord Shonus]

One of my immigrants from the first wave had a masonry mood. I couldn't understand at first how he started construction so quick, as the masonry shop he grabbed wasn't in use at the time. Turned out he went to the ore stockpile and grabbed a chunk of truesilver (civ forge mithril ore.) From that one peice of stone, he created a truesilver coffer worth 180000. I had 14 dwarves at the time.


Now to prepare for the hordes of orcs, and worse, migrants.

[bluetrust]

Cavernstyles the Even Medicine

This is a raw dragon scales chain mail.  All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.  It is encircled with bands of raw dragon scales, obsidian and turtle shell.  This object menaces with spikes of turtle shell.

Basic value: 19,326,000
Contents: "blood covering"

The value of this thing is through the roof. 

My dwarves didn't even kill the dragon.  He was set upon by a wave of orcs.

[Rockphed]

Cavernstyles the Even Medicine

This is a raw dragon scales chain mail.  All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.  It is encircled with bands of raw dragon scales, obsidian and turtle shell.  This object menaces with spikes of turtle shell.

Basic value: 19,326,000
Contents: "blood covering"

The value of this thing is through the roof. 

My dwarves didn't even kill the dragon.  He was set upon by a wave of orcs.

Well, it is probably the most stylish thing ever, especially with that blood covering.  Whose blood is it, do you know?  On the other hand, the dragon was killed in his attempt to invade your fortress by other invaders, thus making it totally awesome.  On the other hand, I think you might have put the value of dragonscale just a bit high since adamantine normally doesn't get values much over 2 million.

[Kadzar]

Muzishfubeg, "Martyredstutters", a dwarf bone cage

Made in a Butcher's Shop.

[blue emu]

I've never had a really GOOD Weapon or Armor artifact... so this is likely the most useful thing I've gotten:

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... a stone bed worth over three-quarters of a million Dwarf-bucks. Quite handy, considering that my King just arrived this year. That ought to keep the fat bastard happy.

[balath]

I mentioned it elsewhere, but my fortress's created wealth just went from 200,000 to 2,000,000 due to an adamantine artifact early in the game.

I'm too lazy to screenshot; it's just a pair of shiny greaves.

[mythmonster2]

Have fun with those sieges.

[SomethingCreative]

Product is 100% rhesus macaque!

First artifact in my new fortress. It contains an image of my last fortress which was abandoned.

The coffins' name is also similar to Valhalla.

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