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[HAMMERMILL]

I think this sort of thing would be better served by say, violating the ethics in such an offense manner that the angels swoop down with flaming swords to smite your fortress.

Say, some deity is really fond of cats, and all you do all day is toss cats off your 20 z level tall execution tower. It could be anything that could provoke any random deity.

Rather then like, building 25 up/down staircases toward the sky and claiming a bunch of +golden harps+ and crap from some friendly angel people.

[Josephus]

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[Jake]

Spoiler: HFS (click to show/hide)

Well, we can already recreate the first act of the Salvation War series out-of-genre with the new and improved HFS, so why not be able to invade Heaven as well?

And as for how these angelic beings should look? Well, let's face it, it's a rare DF player whose fortresses don't end up as somewhere Gendo Ikari would feel right at home.

[Josephus]

Spoiler: HFS (click to show/hide)

Well, we can already recreate the first act of the Salvation War series out-of-genre with the new and improved HFS, so why not be able to invade Heaven as well?

And as for how these angelic beings should look? Well, let's face it, it's a rare DF player whose fortresses don't end up as somewhere Gendo Ikari would feel right at home.

Dude, if we were recreating the Salvation War, wouldn't be we winning against the demons?

As to the angels, sticking to the pre-humanoid angels of the Renaissance would be hilarious, and would probably make our dwarves vomit in fear.

[Cotes]

Ehh... Non-hostile would be boring. But there's something in there. You know, like connecting Heaven and Hell with a closed hollow pillar and see who wins.

[Rowanas]

I think this would have to wait until constructed walls can be demolished. Otherwise there's no risk.

[FallingWhale]

I think this would have to wait until constructed walls can be demolished. Otherwise there's no risk.

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[Ultimuh]

I think this would have to wait until constructed walls can be demolished. Otherwise there's no risk.

[d][n]

He's talking about 'demolisheddestroyed by the enemy'.

[Dvergar]

I think this sort of thing would be better served by say, violating the ethics in such an offense manner that the angels swoop down with flaming swords to smite your fortress.

This, if we are going to have a Judeo-Christian style heaven with angels and cherubs and whatnot, then their realm should only be reachable through magic means (after magic is invented).  I am seriously doubting that we would have heaven with angels though.  I think it more likely we would have a randomly generated Pantheon of Gods based in nature (like the gods of greek fame (and Tolkien), hiding out in mountains, under the ocean, in the forrest, occasionally shape-shifting into mortal forms)

[dragnar]

Then we must storm the gates of Olympus!

[Dakk]

It sounds interesting, but the DF idea of random gods and pantheons would make it weird to have a generic place really high on the sky full of angels and etc. Maybe there could be randomly generated, hard to reach places were gods could phisically live in. Imagine, randomly generated mount olympus, valhalla, garden of eden and whatnot, holding all sorts of artifacts and creatures.

[tHe_silent_H]

You Know,you could be "somewhat dwarfy"* and build your own heaven as listed in the mega projects page on the wiki.

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*still new to this whole dwarfism thing so i'm not sure exactly what counts a being a DF Dwarf other than magma and finding insideos ways for elves and noble to meet an "accident".

[Sensei]

There's been discussions on this before. As usual, my stance is that we should have clouds as a terrain that can be dug though and built on. Maybe you can farm special cloud-plants there. Also, hostile ghosts of every creature your dwarves have killed.