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[Iapetus]

So I decided to engrave my dining room.

The overwealmingly most popular subject for my engravers turned out to be images of ogres devouring humans.  (There was an ogre civilization in a cave near my embark site, which was repeatedly sieged by a nearby human civilization during worldgen).  Still, it could have been worse (they put the image of a human being devoured by a tentacle demon in the barracks).


What other particularly inappropriate combinations of subjects and locations have your engravers come up with?

[Satarus]

On a succession fort, I had an engraver start engraving the baron's new quarters.  The engraver put a lot of flies all over the room.  The baron hated flies. 

[Nikov]

I had an engraver engrave (Alliteration? I should say carve) an image of the expedition leader surrounded by rats, his most hated vermin. Inappropriateness? It was in his luxurious bedroom.

Wouldn't that suck. Every day you wake up to see a great big mural of yourself falling off a skyscraper, or speaking in public, or trapped in a tiny box, or submerged in water, or whatever your phobia was.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Not exactly an engraving, but I had to recently relinquish an aspiring metalsmith's artistic privileges (ie, disable labor) after discovering his perverse love of aphid demons (for their bloated appearance). He made eight of ten nickel statues of the things. He's a hauler now.

[Hyperturtle]

I had a very popular mayor die, which caused some tantruming but I was able to get it under control.

The fortress was large enough that I would simply assign brand new rooms to the nobles when I got a new one, and carve out an additional tomb connecting to the old bedrooms.  This reduced a lot of the hauling jobs to place items in a tomb that belonged to the noble.

So I carved out a new room, made it shiny, carved out a new tomb for the new mayor.

The engravings were mostly about the election of the previous mayor, the artifact the previous mayor had made, the masterful work the previous mayor had done, the previous mayor laughing at goblins making plaintive gestures... and a few about cheese and plump helmets.

So the new mayor's rooms were almost shrines to the old mayor. 

[Corona688]

Poor chap.  You could at least let him make figurines to sell to the caravan.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Poor chap.  You could at least let him make figurines to sell to the caravan.

And waste my precious metal? D:

[Corona688]

It's already being wasted on STATUES, what's a figurine in comparison?  Gold is pretty and useless and valuable, one season of gold crafts kept my fortress in trading for years.

[shadowform]

Aphid demons bad?  Are you KIDDING?  I would love to have a dozen statues of aphid demons to line my tombs with instead of these sissy statues of cows, or statues of yeti striking down people that my dwarves have never even MET.

[Naz]

The vast majority of my engravings are about 4 different subjects.

My first mayor and the other dwarves in my fort heaping praise upon her
Symbols of my dwarven government
My fort being founded
Assorted depictions of goblins bleeding out while my dwarves laugh

I think I've built Dwarven North Korea

[Skorpion]

The vast majority of engravings are of the fort's founding, the first mayor, masterful engravings, or the HFS I released, due to this being a 40d fort.

However, the trade depot has images of drowning elves, the great wealth of artifacts, and a few of a giant bat carrying away dwarves.
But there's a load of engravings of the flies and spiders that plague the fort. Flies because of the fields of rotting goblin bodies, and spiders that bite people.

[FreakyCheeseMan]

I never get any good ones.

Dozens of geometrical objects, a lot of political ones, the occasional really nifty bit of cheese.

Oh, and, as I said once before, about a hundred pertaining to "The release of the Demon Fetha Taintclashed from the darkest depths of Kab Ator in 1012 by careless miners," and not a single one of "The rapid, hammer-induced return of the Demon Fetha Taintclashed to the darkest depths of Kab Ator in 1012 by a bored champion."

[Sphalerite]

Not engravings but statues:  on a recent fortress I decided to liven the dining room up with some statues.  The mason decided to make several statues of giant roaches.  I placed them in the dining room anyway.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

It's already being wasted on STATUES, what's a figurine in comparison?  Gold is pretty and useless and valuable, one season of gold crafts kept my fortress in trading for years.

I was building the nickel statues to train his metalworking.

1. Build Worthless Statue for XP
2. Melt Worthless Statue for Worthless Metal
3. Build Slightly-less-worthless Statue for XP
Repeat as necessary until he's levelled up and can reliably make ☼Platinum Statue☼s.

[Ethereal.Frog]

When I was engraving the tombs to honor my fallen, the engravers carved walking elves into the tomb. ELVES!