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[Fleck]

I've just been looking through the list of deities of my fellow dwarven civilizations and found this funny little pantheon:

The Rampart of Morals, Dwarves
 Worship List
  Ral, deity: earth
  Aran Renownsieged, deity: fortresses, war
  Asen Depthechoed, deity: jewels, wealth, mountains, caverns
  Conngim, deity: beauty
  Tunur, deity: love
  Sedil Honorsavior, deity: forgiveness
  Tesum the Bright Hardiness, deity: thunder, lightning, storms

The deities in bold are the ones that almost made me spit my drink on the keyboard. I'm still new to dwarf fortress, so I'd like to know if this is normal. Such a bunch of wussies doesn't look very dwarven to me.

[Dameleth]

Enjoy the beauty of gem and stone so masterfully crafted.
Love the smell of burning elven retreats in the morning.
Forgiveness lies at the business end of the hammer, any dwarven hammerer can tell you this.

[bluea]

Don't worry. Your Dwarven artisans will express their love with beautiful menacing spikes, and forgive the elves for pulling the magmashower lever.

[Grendus]

Love: have you seen how many kids a champion shoots out? There's a whole lot of lovin' going on in those barracks.

Beauty: after a few mugs of dwarf ale, everything is beautiful. Dwarves walk around with permanent beer goggles.

Beauty could also refer to beautiful craftsdwarfship, which is very dwarfy.

Forgiveness: oooook, that one I can't explain. I vote you horribly murder any dwarf who worships her.

[Argonnek]

Forgive: 4.    to cease to feel resentment against: to forgive one's enemies. - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forgive
You can cease to feel resentment against your enemies by watching them burn in the magma, would that explain it?

[Count Dorku]

...The collective message of this topic is that dwarven forgiveness is delivered by +elf bone bolt+.

[shadowform]

Beauty is perhaps the most dwarvenly value of all.  For any dwarf that has lost his children, his lover, and all that he holds dear, there is nothing in the world more beautiful than a lushly engraved dining hall and a statue garden featuring a centerpiece of a masterwork aluminum statue encrusted with (imported) diamonds of every variety.

It's also worth noting that in the Dwarven language, the word for 'Forgiveness' also translates as 'Lava', depending on the context.

[Vester]

...The collective message of this topic is that dwarven forgiveness is delivered by +elf bone bolt+.

It would be particularly interesting if the elf said +elf bone bolt+ came from is still alive, having had his leg chopped off by a dwarven axe and subsequently caged, whereupon you can use the elf bolts you made from his legs on him later on.

[Firnagzen]

... Can we do that?

[Vester]

There's no harm in trying!

To succeed you'd need a single axedwarf in a room full of hostile elf siegers, the floor of which is lined with cage traps.

[Grendus]

There's no harm in trying!

To succeed you'd need a single axedwarf in a room full of hostile elf siegers, the floor of which is lined with cage traps.

You'd probably want to use a [trAPIMMUNE] race, like modded orcs, to do that. Axedwarf hacks off the elf's leg, knocking him out from the pain and caging him. Elves in cages are locked in stasis as far as I know, so even if he will die the instant the cage is opened he's stuck. Wait for the leg to rot, process, arm, release, shoot.

It's also worth noting that in the Dwarven language, the word for 'Forgiveness' also translates as 'Lava', depending on the context.

So dwarf forgiveness is magma that's met air? That's dwarfy.

[Vester]

Right. I'm too used to having Dig Deeper orcs ravaging my dwarves.

Well, I suppose you could give the Elves [trAPIMMUNE]

[Nadaka]

or you could place your trap room where the elven liason can see it on the way in. Once the liason has seen a trap, the elves avoid it IIRC.

[Lordinquisitor]

I once had an god of Trade, wealth and death.

The elves and humans shared not my laugh.

Well, anyway.

1. Trap and Torture an Elf. Crime? He is an elf.
2. In the end forgive and release him.
3. Forgive Magma it`s occasionally crimes and release it, too.

[Quantum Toast]

It's too bad nobles can't forgive workers for failing to supply them with toy hammers or whatever else they decide their life's great passion is.

...The collective message of this topic is that dwarven forgiveness is delivered by +elf bone bolt+.

It would be particularly interesting if the elf said +elf bone bolt+ came from is still alive, having had his leg chopped off by a dwarven axe and subsequently caged, whereupon you can use the elf bolts you made from his legs on him later on.

It's just a shame elves can't regenerate legs...