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[ManiacallyChallenged]

While adventuring in a 200th year world, I came across an Elven Retreat in the middle of the plains.
The strange thing is, it's actually a human town in composition. The ONLY inhabitant is an Elven Lord who lives in a small house on the outskirts of town.

He is at war with the other elven towns, and keeps asking me to assassinate Druid leaders of other Elven Retreats.

Strangely enough, I can start out at this town, and it's considered a Human town by the character creation menu.

Is this kind of thing normal?

[Gothmog]

Is this kind of thing normal?

No, it's AWESOME.

As for an explanation... sometimes civs conquer each others citys and this leads to non-humans (like elfs!) living in a human civ, so an elven Lord is perfectly normal in a human town. My guess is that the elf is this towns last citizen and defends it against the attacking elf-hordes (that's why he gives you quests to kill druids - the human civ is at war with the elves).

You should write his name down or something and If when you die you could look up what kind of things happened in his life in legends mode, I bet it would be quite informative. 

[ManiacallyChallenged]

Good idea, I'd forgotten about legends.

This is the same region that has TWO, count 'em TWO goblin fortresses completely run by Dwarves. Well, one of them has an errant Goblin Guard, but she hardly counts.

The other notable thing about this file? My adventurer is missing her left eye. Her companion, is missing her right eye. Great team. 

[Neruz]

Sounds like he got adopted by the human civ, and then the humans were wiped out by attrition; since he's an Elf though he doesn't age, so he's the only one left alive.

[assimilateur]

since he's an Elf though he doesn't age, so he's the only one left alive.

I know it should probably be like that in D&D or Lord of the Rings, but is that really implemented like that in DF?

[Doomshifter]

since he's an Elf though he doesn't age, so he's the only one left alive.

I know it should probably be like that in D&D or Lord of the Rings, but is that really implemented like that in DF?

Elves don't have a maxage in their creature entries. They don't die of old age. The goblins do the same.

[assimilateur]

I see, thanks for clearing that up.

[Neruz]

That's one of the reasons why the Elves tend to win wars of attrition; because they never die, their population just increases exponentially until they outnumber all the other races combined.

Goblins are the same; but they're at war with everyone so they tend to keep their numbers down that way, but because Elves only go to war rarely, they have time to build up gigantic hordes in the peacetime.


Elves are basically DF's Zerg.

[Christes]

Goblins aalso murder each other iirc.

[cowofdoom78963]

I once found a hermit as well. It was a human town composed of a hovel in the middle of a clearing owned by human spearmaster.

I dont think he was at war with anybody though, I think he just was the only person in the "town." There were no ruins or anything like that.

It actually was pretty serene. I guess he just wanted to get away from it all!

[uran77]

post the file, we need to know more about this elf.

[Satarus]

What likely happend is the elves and the humans were at war.  The humans conqured the elvish retreat that the elf there was in.  Elf then becomes a member of the human civ.  Since he can out live everyone else he eventually works his way up to become the leader of that human town.  Read teh story in another thread in the DF Fortress Mode about the Dwarven King being an Elf.

[Cody1750]

That would be Cacame and theres also a D for Dwarf page in the wikipedia on him.