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[Karnewarrior]

We need more updates. This thread is derailing faster than my avatar

I'll write a story if Mittens gives the all clear.

[kilakan]

First of all, your avatar disturbes me.  Second of all, can we get some stories about Cacames great grandparents, and the like.

[Karnewarrior]

Here we go.....

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Red River Home

Cacame sat benath the trees, looking up at the stars. It was his costom when on duty. He sighed, content with his lot in life.

A high pitched wail rang out through the night, a terrible cry filled with fear and pain. Cacame snatched up his Oaken sword, one of the best made, and scrambled tword the source of the sound.

As he followed the sound, wooden sword absorbing the sweat from his palms, his apprehension grew. He knew this place. He knew it well. Cacame ran all the harder.

He crashed through a line of shrubs, which grew so tall as to obscure his view of the area. He charged his way into a clearing, a small brook meandering its way lazily around some rocks. But though the surroundings were serene, the scene obseved by the horrified elf was anything but.

An elf (One of his own kin!) knelt before the mutilated corpse of his dear wife. The grass was stained red, Nemos lifeblood spilling into the brook, turning it red.

Cacame dropped as if all the world had crumbled beneath his feet. His head was spinning. Vaugely he saw the other elf lift his head. Then it was all to clear. In the sharpest detail, he saw the murderers sharp nose, her flowing blonde hair dyed by the blood of his precious wife.He saw in her eyes no remorse for what she had done, no regret for the life she had taken

Cacame saw all this, and for what felt like hours, though it could only have been seconds, he looked in to the black eyes of Amoya. In that interminate amount of time, his grief turned to hate, his hate into rage. Cacame no longer mourned his wife. He now existed for one purpose, one single thing. He would Kill this elf.

But before he could get close enough, Amoya leapt into the trees,her vile act unpunished.

For now.

I usually try to write happier, but there always has to be a "beginning" story. this is Cacames.
(also, I realize he doesn't use a sword. someone has to write a story of how he started useing warhammers. [mauls?])

[Holy Mittens]

I actually have my own ideas about his origin and whatnot.

The updates as to the fortress have been spotty because, well, not much is happening. It's a mature fortress that pretty much runs itself. If anything interesting happens, I'll post it.

If you guys want to see more about his family tree, I can post up who they are and whatnot.

[Vester]

Yes please!

Although, wasn't his entire family, like, eaten?

[Sensei]

I still say we need to invent a story about how he got his hammer in the first place.

[Holy Mittens]

Ok, I looked through his entire family history, up to the origin of the family on both maternal and paternal sides. Incredibly, everyone related to Cacame EXCEPT his brothers and sisters is dead. They were all killed one of two ways: in the war with the dwarves or in a war with the gibberlings (75% of them ended up being eaten, the others killed by gibberlings seemed to avoid being eaten). The split seems to be about 50/50 on who killed them. The vast majority of them aren't all that impressive, some having one or two kills before getting killed themselves.

His brothers and sisters are all still alive and living in one town together and have done absolutely nothing beyond get married. They're also still part of the elven civilization. So when the dwarves came knocking, his brothers and sisters went running and left him behind.

The only member of his extended family who is really notable is his maternal great grandfather, this guy:

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He killed one MegaBeast and fought with another. He was also the leader of the elf civ.

[Vester]

Haha, wow.

Are his brothers and sisters with the Elf Civ, or were they born into dwarfiness?

[Sensei]

Elven.

Also: He joined the civ who killed his heroic great grandfather? I wonder if he knew.

[Hungry]

He didn't really have a choice, his government was overtaken by dwarves....

[Sensei]

Did any of you read the whole thing??

It said his brothers and sisters stayed with the elves- so surely Cacame had a REASON to do otherwise.

His brothers and sisters are all still alive and living in one town together and have done absolutely nothing beyond get married. They're also still part of the elven civilization. So when the dwarves came knocking, his brothers and sisters went running and left him behind.

[Vester]

Did any of you read the whole thing??

It said his brothers and sisters stayed with the elves- so surely Cacame had a REASON to do otherwise.

His brothers and sisters are all still alive and living in one town together and have done absolutely nothing beyond get married. They're also still part of the elven civilization. So when the dwarves came knocking, his brothers and sisters went running and left him behind.

Hm, right. I just skipped straight ahead to his great grandfather.

[CobaltKobold]

I always imagined warhammers in DF as being Mauls (see Elder Scrolls for my confused interpretation). If I'm correct though, you can only hold one, so it makes sense- maybe in DF, a warhammer is meat-tenderizer-shape-free, as opposed to a maul which is a hammer with a spike on the end?

Mauls are ALSO in DF. They're too big for dwarfs to use though.
Toady said somewhere that mauls are basically the big mass of metal on a haft i.e. sledgehammer-style, and that warhammers were warhammers.

[Holy Mittens]

His brothers and sisters were never part of the Dwarven civ. Remember, Cacame's town wasn't conquered until he was 6 or something.

[JubalHarshaw]

http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Cacame_Awemedinade

I did upload some of the artwork you guys did in this thread, properly credited of course - let me know if you want me to pull them.

Kind of curious to see if this article sticks around. Personally, I think it's worthy for D for Dwarf.