This shall be the tale about a group of dwarves belonging to a once great dwarf empire, who when returning to the mainland after a long expedition across the ample seas find the continent on chaos, and become themselves orphans of empire, provisionally establishing themselves besides a river crossing a great plain, in a place that would be known as Shelteredship. It is the year 250 after the foundation of the Empire.
These are the rules for this fort.
First of all, on creation:
* The beginner 7 will consist in 5 legionnaries, 1 decurion and one scribe/scholar.
* The standard imperial foot soldier equipment is an iron plate armor, iron shield, and either an iron short sword or iron spear. Auxiliars and archer troops will have either iron mail shirt or leather armor, and either short swords, spears or crossbows depending its role. You can choose to begin with, without or with only a part of your equipment, reason being you lost it or traded it for other items to get to this site. Though the main reason is there's not enough embark points for everything...
* For the same reason, the soldiers' initial skills should be mostly military in nature, and specialized in army-issued classes of weapons, though some knowledge about other weapons or civilian skills is acceptable.
* The decurion will be the acting leader as well, and should choose the skills accordingly.
For the rest of the story, this rules will be observed.
* As a refined dwarf civilization, imperial citizens and soldiers may have extensive knowledge about working underground, but find distasteful to live inside the earth, preferring the more "civilized" ways of aboveground towns and camps.
* Steel is initially unknown to the fort, and we will be unable to create it until either a steel object is found and observed enough, or else a knowledgeable foreign smith teaches us. Blue cotton is known but very scarce for obvious reasons - even trained legionnaries don't stand much of a chance against the legends that guard that metal.
* Any newcomers that want to join the fortress will have to be either drafted or assigned exclusively to auxiliar roles for the military squads, at least for a whole year or until they do enough merits. Then they will be considered "free" citizens, being able to choose either to stay in the military or to pursue other careers.
* As the last bastion of true civilization, all military personnel will try to be structured and equipped following the old Imperial schemes. This may or may not be plausible initially. If a ragtag squad must be formed with non-standard weapons it will be considered an irregular militia and not real imperial soldiery.
The starting dwarfs are these below:
Bowie, legionnaire
Sarvesh, decurion
Nanomage, the scribe
Ahra, legionnaire
Girbim, legionnaire
JacenHan, legionnaire
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