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[de5me7]

ive read past threads on tombs, some sort of similar things have been suggested but i dont think this has exactly

Legendary champions should get private tombs, and should be buried with their armour still on and weapon in hand. An exception to this is if they have a child that will inherit their gear.

my reason for suggesting this, is that it will give adventurers and Kobolds a reason to raid tombs

It may also be worth considering burying dorfs with some of their possessions.

[Mapleleaf]

Extra happy thoughts for all friends of the deceased? I guess that would be a logical result.

And I love this idea, since I tend to build my champions mausoleums and catacomb complexes, this would only make it seem more awe-inspiring.

[AngryToad]

Extra happy thoughts for all friends of the deceased? I guess that would be a logical result.

Maybe, it could also function like a statue garden, giving happy thoughts to those who go to visit the heroes past or pray to them and such.

Just a though.

Anyway, it would help adventure mode along, because raiding old forts would seem more epic and less finding a bucket of adamantine on the front lawn.

[Keevu]

I love this idea! I actually plan on building tombs after my class!

[ChairmanPoo]

as an adittional bonus, if dwarves got buried with their stuff, forts wouldnt get cluttered with dead dwarves belongings anymore.

[HatfieldCW]

I like it.

How about if any dwarf can get a fancy-pants burial if they just have a private tomb assigned to them?  If the tomb contains an armor rack, then their armor or clothing worn at time of death is put on it, and if there's a weapon rack, their weapon/shield gets hung there, and a coffer will be filled with their personal belongings from their other rooms when the rooms default to "unowned" status, and if the tomb is assigned to them before an engraver does the walls and floor, then he'll prefer to illustrate it with events directly pertaining to the buried party, etc.

Not just soldiers, but leaders, brokers, miners, masons, anyone can have a sweet mausoleum.

[BurnedToast]

Dwarves already get buried with their stuff if you give them a tomb (before they die, of course). Clothes will get shoved into cabinets, trinkets will get shoved into chests/etc and if there is not enough room in containers they drop everything on the floor.

They don't get buried with armor and weapons because those don't belong to the dwarf, they still belong to the fortress. I'm not sure if I like the idea of them keeping the armor or not (masterwork steel/adamantine armor does not grown on trees you know) but if it was made a toggle then everyone wins.

[RantingRodent]

Dwarves already get buried with their stuff if you give them a tomb (before they die, of course). Clothes will get shoved into cabinets, trinkets will get shoved into chests/etc and if there is not enough room in containers they drop everything on the floor.

They don't get buried with armor and weapons because those don't belong to the dwarf, they still belong to the fortress. I'm not sure if I like the idea of them keeping the armor or not (masterwork steel/adamantine armor does not grown on trees you know) but if it was made a toggle then everyone wins.

If burial of armour and weapons depended on the presence of armour/weapons racks, that would basically be a toggle, right?  I like this idea as well, for much the same reasons others have mentioned.

[kalida99]

Perhaps the warriors burial with weapons could tie in with ghosts?

A warrior whose tomb is desecrated from thievery would rise as a vengeful spirit and  never rest until his armor is returned. Maybe even give minor spiritual rewards for helping him return to the afterlife?

[HatfieldCW]

Oh, man, that would be sweet.  You could even use the ownership tag as a link to the "soul", so that every piece of gear in the tomb would become a little bit haunted in some cases, which could feed a quest generator in adventure mode and make catacombs and mausoleums into sources of adventure.

[silhouette]

Well, im not sure if ghosts are a creature in vanilla df, but if they arnt then this could be a creature suggestion tied in with this.

If their tomb gets sacked or anything taken from the owner whos now dead, a "restless ghost" would be spawned at the tomb and haunt the whole fortress, or prehaps just the person who is currently weilding the equipment.
Now the ghost can be killed but it will respawn untill its crap is returned to the tomb. (like a ghost spawns each season or something)

Dwarf would get a  unhappy feeling once it sees a ghost, " saw a restless ghost".

Now, haver certain items that are worth way to much to have a ghost haunting them would be an exception, like circus peanuts a.k.a... you know...

[Shurhaian]

I have to disagree with that last point. A champion's spirit won't care LESS about an item because it happens to be genuinely precious - far from it, s/he'll probably be especially attached to it.

Deal with the clowns before the champions start dying, and the loss of those peanuts won't be quite so bad.

The upcoming update will make dwarves get attached to particular items - that would be a sensible guide for what dwarven spirits would want to be buried with, although if those items are destroyed or lost, other offerings might eventually appease the spirit(but not nearly so easily as that one item they wanted).

[jocan2003]

If i were a dwarf fighting off hordes and hordes of ennemies with the same equipment i would love to be buried with it why? because in a way this armor and weapon were ALSO an extension of myself built specificly to protect me, myself and the other dwarf behind me. I would feel attach to these item as they saved my ass mutilple time and killed numerous ennemy. I would kno w the best of these items, each and ever detail of my armor and weapon, when you end up knowing more about your weapon than the other around you... *Insert what you may think here*

[Keevu]

Good Ideas. What if the dwarves get attached to weapons and armour? Then maybe they will not part with the weapons ever? Even after death.

[silhouette]

Wait, this rises to angry BERZERK SPIRITS.
they run (float) around your fortress killing dwarves with their ghostly ghost powers!

And i added in that last part in my previous post to make it so you didnt lose very valuable objects.
But sacrificing to apease the ghost would be better so you can reclaim those items.