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[Chattox]

Less of a question and more of a discussion point, who do you think we, as the players, take the role of in fortress mode? I wouldn't say we play from the perspective of the ruler of the fortress at the time as you can essentially order him to kill himself, and what dwarf would do that? I guess we could be cast as one of the many dwarven gods, but every dwarf in the fortress seems to worship a different one, so that also seems unlikely. Perhaps some kind of mind-controlling higher being? What do you think?

[Strife26]

You're Armok. There's a nice long post describing how it works exactly, but I can't find it off the top of my head.

[Dariush]

We are
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[FrisianDude]

I play as me.

[Necro910]

We are
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lol.

[Naz]

Lol goddammit... I just spent 5 minutes trying to click that spoiler...

Also I think we represent the amoral gestalt will of your fortress.

[Lagslayer]

We are the dwarven hive mind.

[Lectorog]

We are Armok.

Our commands are suggestions that transmit themselves through the dwarven beard network. When we say to do something, one or more dwarves get the idea that that thing would be good to do, and do it. We are both a high god and, in a certain time range, the center of a fortress hive mind.

[Kentti]

We are the booze that flows through dwarven brain beard and from there we give impulses which direct them dwarves.

[celem]

Whoever is being cool at any given moment.

I am the noble who mandates battle axes, the legend who makes them and the lord who decapitates giants with the product.
I reserve the right at any moment to disassociate myself with any of my bearded underlings should they displease me.....they will know, I am not a subtle being.

[Shook]

In fact, i believe we are to represent Armoks beard. It is the very symbol of dorfism (beardy and probably soaked with blood, booze and puke), and hence can command the little tubs of alcohol to burn the world with magma pumped out of the planets core, should it so please. Armok himself would just blast a hole in the planet with his breath, but since we only command the dorfs, i postulate that we are Armoks beard. Or maybe just individual strands of it. That would explain how we can be so many at once.

[snoopychicken]

I don't think we are Armok. After all if I was Armok, badgers and other nasties would explode when they entered my embark site and cotton candy would materialise out of thin air. I think we're either a lesser God or the dwarven aspect of Armok

[Flying Dice]

We are the alien overlord which controls the dwarves via the mechanism of beard technology.

[Lortath]

If we are a god, we can't lock/unlock door in our fort, I think.

I don't think we are Armok. After all if I was Armok, badgers and other nasties would explode when they entered my embark site and cotton candy would materialise out of thin air. I think we're either a lesser God or the dwarven aspect of Armok

You can maybe with modding the blood temperature of badgers..

[Naryar]

Spirits of the fortress, aka demigods with as parent the local civ's god of fortresses.