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[Fastler]

I am currently playing through Dragon Age: Origins, and I wandered through their depiction of a dwarven fortress called Orzammer. It was arranged roughly in two semicircles in a giant cavern ambiguously connected, though both cut into a rock face that was above a lake of magma and all throughout the city there were magma flows just flowing down the walls. And I thought to myself: Hey, how dwarvenly indeed. I should make something like this. So this thread serves two purposes.

One: Has anyone ever created a fortress like this, suspended in a giant cavern above a lake of magma?
Two: Can anyone give me a site that hopefully has soil, no aquifer and hfs, but definitely a magma pipe and deep roads. Because I want to recreate this place.

[Shaostoul]

If I recall correctly (currently playing a dwarf rogue on Dragon Age) Orzammar seems to be completely underground. I don't remember seeing the entrance/exit. Your exit would be on the deep roads (which are actually in Dwarf Fortress, just finding them is hard).

Making a large lake of magma is very time consuming, but is very possible. Make sure you find a good method for allowing magma to fill in chambers. This way you don't have the magma cooling too quick.

I have something going, but it's taking ages to fill.

[Danarca]

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How much have you played the game? You clearly come across the entrance, the one from the aboveground encampment to th hall of heroes which leads to the main cavern.

[Bryan Derksen]

If you want to examine the layout of Orzammar in more detail, you can download the Dragon Age toolset at http://social.bioware.com/page/da-toolset and use it to view Orzammar from any angle you like. The rest of the Deep Roads too, for that matter.

[Doomshifter]

I've never played Dragon Age and I don't really have any idea what it is. I looked up some pictures on Google, and DAMN. That's a dwarven fortress if I ever did see one!

I found this map of the commons, and a couple of pictures.

[Fastler]

I don't remember seeing the entrance/exit. Your exit would be on the deep roads (which are actually in Dwarf Fortress, just finding them is hard).

Yea, The entrance is through a large gate into a hall full of statues. And I know that the deep roads exist, I have just never found any. It would be so awesome if I could actually build on one of them.

[Doomshifter]

I don't remember seeing the entrance/exit. Your exit would be on the deep roads (which are actually in Dwarf Fortress, just finding them is hard).

Yea, The entrance is through a large gate into a hall full of statues. And I know that the deep roads exist, I have just never found any. It would be so awesome if I could actually build on one of them.

I built inside a goblin deep road once. You've got to set the init setting to ALWAYS, and then you can see them all over the place, between Dark Fortresses and Dwarven fortresses.

[XSI]

I've read tunnels take at least a worldgen of 200 years or more to start popping up, but you can always make your own. The world gen ones aren't too impressive, at least not as much as the dragon age ones.(Though I fully expect the roles to be reversed after a lot more versions of DF)

I've played a bit of dragon age, makes me wonder if the designer of Orzammar played dwarf fortress, it seems to have it all, magma, deep pits, annoying nobles, more magma, shitty housing for the poor(Economy anyone?), regular arena combat and a large and elaborate entrance with statues in it.

It would not surprise me at all if they had a magma trap in there, and after playing around a bit I felt like trying to make the place in DF. I never actually started making it, and just had it put in my list of potential megaprojects.

[killaconcarnage]

the problem is the hole city has to be in a mountain  not under it and i had the same idea yesterday you thief and i was gonna make this thread 

[Kietharr]

I've read tunnels take at least a worldgen of 200 years or more to start popping up, but you can always make your own. The world gen ones aren't too impressive, at least not as much as the dragon age ones.(Though I fully expect the roles to be reversed after a lot more versions of DF)

I've played a bit of dragon age, makes me wonder if the designer of Orzammar played dwarf fortress, it seems to have it all, magma, deep pits, annoying nobles, more magma, shitty housing for the poor(Economy anyone?), regular arena combat and a large and elaborate entrance with statues in it.

It would not surprise me at all if they had a magma trap in there, and after playing around a bit I felt like trying to make the place in DF. I never actually started making it, and just had it put in my list of potential megaprojects.

Eh, all fantasy works with dwarves (including DF) borrow very heavily from Tolkien. Obviously similarities are going to be common, you'll also see parallels within the forgotten realms, everquest, Dungeons and Dragons, ect. too.