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[Oxinabox]

This is what I get for making "Fertile Imagination" a prerequisite for becoming an engraver...


I'm pretty sure this didn't happen, ever in the history of this world.
it is currently year 1061, (though not in the fortress mentioned, it was engraved in my fortress "Dishmabesis)

THis can't be world gen history stuff either. the world has had a couple of fortresses on it, (only one of significance other than this one, i'm not entirly certain that the civ there wasn't crimson bells, but in anycase they were whipped out when i released HFS, to make it a better adventure location :-P).
and I think even this fortress has been going for more that a couple of years.

So does havign a high imagination stat mean the dwarf comes up with fiction engravings?
They definatly come up with less boring ones.,
I hardly ever see "This is an image of a triangle" even when they were just starting out.

[Urist McCyrilin]

Most. Awesome. Engraving. EVER.

[darkflagrance]

I suspect this is true, and I always ensure that my engravers are creative, though I have never been able to determine conclusively whether it has an effect on anything.

[Oxinabox]

It is something I can imagine dwarves doing though,
"Hey that leopard is an awesome warrior, lets make him the head of out military."
...
couple of years latter,
"We're not satified with your performance as militairy commander. You're not leading any of our soldiers into battle, and sometimes you just suddenly attack and eat them.We're going to have to let you go,"
leopard walks out sad and dejected.
dwarves put a elephant in it's place as leader

[Oxinabox]

I just realise my current civilistion "Group Name" was the Cimson Bells.
so its a story about if my current goup had built a differnt fortress, and had a leopard militairy commander...

[Virodhi]

I just realise my current civilistion "Group Name" was the Cimson Bells.
so its a story about if my current goup had built a differnt fortress, and had a leopard militairy commander...

Alternate history? Urist Turtledove.

[Oxinabox]

Sometime, i should conduct some testing of this.

use a freshly crafted world (With or without history? I guess if I stoped world gen at year 0, it would make there be nothing true for them to write about)
and use runesmith to max out a dwarves engaving skill and imagination trait. (combine with tests on the perfectionist stat), also fiddle with the creativity trait.

should be interesting to see the resualts.

[Gearheart]

Your engraver is hallucinating.

He's high on magma.

[Sensei]

Upload the save, I want to look at the history.

[Omegastick]

IIRC you can only stop the world gen at year 3 or later.

[Fayceless]

Well I did a quick not-very-scientific test in which I embarked, gave the 2 dwarfs with the best and worst creativity proficient engraving skill and had them each engrave a 6x6 area.  They seemed equally likely to draw boring or interesting engravings.  Nothing bizarre from either one though, unfortunately.

[Oxinabox]

Upload the save, I want to look at the history.

which files do i need to upload?
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EDIT:
Ok did some testing.
Runesmithed a godlike engraver.
By playing aroudn with his artisicsness, creativity, imagination, perfectionism, kinathetic sense, i didcoverd that no matter what i didn he still mostly engraved this human taming giant eagles.
about 3/4 of his engravings were of that, of the reszt of his engavings  some showed the same human on a juourney,
and the rest were varios symbols of dwarven organisations.

thsi may have been a resualt of only ~150 years of history?

[Sensei]

Upload the save, I want to look at the history.

which files do i need to upload?
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Should be DwarfFortress\data\save\region#, I think.

[Oxinabox]

Uploaded:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/8dpjy274dp4988d/region2.zip
If you want to check the engraving, it is on  one of the walls in the oval dinning room, 2 or 3 layers above the 1st cavern layer.

Tell us what you discove rby searchign though the world history.