Spring 284
Despite the deaths and the tantruming and berserking, there are still 106 bipolar dwarves living at the great capital of Blockedlance. The 106th was born this new year.
He was named NobodyPro, an ancient moniker of great meaning in an old dwarvish tongue long since dead.
By all accounts he is a calm and unassertive child, taught well what his rank was from an early age. It would be dangerous for him to have delusions of grandeur as he was last in a growing line of Princely inheritors.
There were other newly named faces in Blockedlance this year. Urist had spared the lives of two legendary Khamerite armorers, Who Two, and Vucar. Vucar is an ardent worshiper of the Blood God, and revels in chaos and disorder. In Spring, to celebrate his continued loyalty, the Empress renamed him Nahere.
Having two armorers that were Khamerites worried Urist, and so she decided she should teach one of the Kurkish peasants some blacksmithing skills so that the knowledge could not be monopolized. The peasant was named Berndarmin, and she was a shy dwarf, socially crippled by paranoid thoughts that everyone was speaking about her behind her back.
Another member of the Kurkish clan - a dwarf named Giovanni - has also stepped forward to take a leading role in the construction of the growing fortress. There were plans in the air to build a new entrance to Blockedlance, and Giovanni had an artistic vision of creating a large tower over the main entry way....a tower that would reach the heavens! Nevermind that it had been an old dream of the Khamerite Imhotep, Imhotep was playing with wood now. The Empress was not very eager to start another new construction project, especially one which she may not even live to see finished...but perhaps the confident willpower of Giovanni would win her over in the end?
(NOTE - Fuzzybeard, I havent forgotten you, you have the next royal baby)