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[Zollarr]

He still sounds like a candidate for the royal guard.

Who knows, he might make captain.

[Albedo]

I'm liking the legendary conversationalist approach, but will the child-turned peasant hobble out to the meeting area or just stay bed-ridden? Guess I'll find out...

He needs an unassigned bed, right?  Put it in the meeting area.

[Eviltyphoon]

*pokes the carpenter in the spine*
"GNWHGGaaah! my spine!!!"

"You call that breaking my spine?!"

TF2 fan?

[Wild Goose]

No, don't do that! He'll be that crazy old dwarf who clamps onto every single dwarf he can find, saying: 'Did I ever tell you how I lost my leg?' That's horrible!

"Not with mustard."

Though, we don't have mustard yet.  Dwarven Syrup, perhaps?"

[ZeroGravitas]

I have a child who was dismembered- lower right leg and everything attached is gone (dark gray). I think it got snagged by a trout when being carried around by its mother during infancy. Ever since, the child has occupied a room in the fortress and been kept by the dwarves (food and water at regular intervals). This has been going on for... years.

I don't really mind- not a big deal that the child doesn't do anything and requires regular feeding/care, but I'm curious about its future. In a few more years the child will turn into an adult (how many? dunno. is there a way to tell age?). I highly doubt that puberty or the transition from child to peasant will cause the leg to grow back. Once the child is a one-legged peasant and forced to do labor, though, will it be able to?

I think I've read that dwarves will continue to work (or attempt to) even if they're missing limbs, but maybe they just cancel the jobs? Will this dwarf be permanently bed ridden even in adulthood? Is it worth it to find out or should I just wall off the room and hope her parents don't freak out too bad when she starves to death?

Severed limbs never grow back. The dwarf is bedridden for life. If you don't want to keep feeding it, wall off the room. The parents won't freak out too much if they're otherwise ecstatic and the body gets buried in a timely fashion. If the body rots, you might be in trouble.

[SomGuye]

*pokes the carpenter in the spine*
"GNWHGGaaah! my spine!!!"

"You call that breaking my spine?!"

AHHH God!  My blood!  He punched out ALL my BLOOD!!

[pushy]

Well, legendary stats make for quicker healing. My legendary tanner got shot by goblins, moderately wounding a few limbs, mangling his spleen, pancreas, and kidneys, and breaking his spine. He recovered totally. Somehow.

It was only a flesh wound.

Has to be done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4

[Time Kitten]

Oh, damn, now he is more powerul than ever.

Everyone knows once you join Armok at a base value of 0, you gain one of the l attack, which can indeed easily remove legs.

[Skorpion]

Sorry for monopolising the thread, but am I the only one whose fortress and royal guard accumulates spinal and head injuries at a frightening rate even without the crippled veterans?

EDIT:
And do spinal injuries ever heal?

[WJLIII3]

Sorry for monopolising the thread, but am I the only one whose fortress and royal guard accumulates spinal and head injuries at a frightening rate even without the crippled veterans?

EDIT:
And do spinal injuries ever heal?

Spinal injuries can heal just like any other injury, but they take an enormously long time, and very seldom go back to unharmed. They usually heal to a permanent "lightly wounded" (light grey).

[Skorpion]

So, broken dorfs are likely to be completely useless. Into retirement they go.

[Aspgren]

So, broken dorfs are likely to be completely useless. Into retirement the pit they go.

[zchris13]

So, broken dorfs elves are likely to be completely useless. Into retirement the pit they go.

[Carcer]

Lets be fair about this. A sufficently tough elf can be a useful Goblin Arrow catcher and retrieving device.

[Tcei]

There's a chance he may one day wake up, and when he does he'll slowly make his way to the meeting area, passing out every 2 steps and spaming you with passing out messages, eventualy he may get to legendary in something and have the stats to overcome the pain.
In the end tho, its really much more merciful to set his bed outside for the next goblins eige to take care of, his mother would have wanted it that way.