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[davros]

Actually, blood for the blood god originated in warhammer FANTASY. 40k was a parody.

[tomas1297]

Actually, blood for the blood god originated in warhammer FANTASY. 40k was a parody.

...which became much more popular and badass. 

[m4davis]

Some one tell me how many heads does armok have and how many cats must be eaten to summon him

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

Actually, blood for the blood god originated in warhammer FANTASY. 40k was a parody.

...which became much more popular and badass. 

BECAUSE DA RED ONES GO FASTA!

[Greiger]

Armok is from the first game in the series that was trying to be something like current DF adventure mode.  It had 3D graphics but the project was apperantly bogged down by said graphics (likely one reason why  DF currently has minimal graphics).

In Slaves to Armok God of Blood you were Armok, creating world after world and then entering the body of an inhabitant to cause shenanigans.  Magic was implemented but it included very interesting spells, such as a teleport spell that could target individual tissues or organs and the ability to use any part of your body as feet or weapons.  Perfectly possible to have a dragon who walks on it's head. Fun to play around in once or twice, just to see more insight into the history of DF through it's predecessor.

Armok in DF is missing.  I myself figure just like in Slaves to Armok 1, you are Armok, possessing adventurers, or groups of alcohol sponges.  Though it isn't stated anywhere other than legends mode where it only implies that folks you controlled were controlled by unknown forces, so other theories are perfectly valid. 

I do believe that Toady mentioned that Armok is nothing more than an old holdover nowadays.  Though judging from Threetoe's latest story there might be plans for him in the future.  And yes, Armok got his name from the ARM_OK variable.

[truckman1]

I honestly always imagine Armok to look like this:



And seriously, Armok needs to be added to the game! I don't care if he was a joking reference to mechanics, he should be official now. The way I imagine it is that Dwarves worship their various gods with random and often ridiculous spheres, but Armok is the chief deity of all of Dwarfkind.

[Soapalope]

EDIT: Oh yeah, "Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!" isn't a creation of DF, it's the battle cry of the followers of Khorne in W40k.

Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! Let the galaxy lightly bake until golden brown!!!

[truckman1]

Who would win, Khorne or Armok?
Or I guess the fight should be between followers of each, so Dorfs vs. Berserkers (not sure if it should be Fantasy or 40k).

This idea is actually like this idea for a fanfiction I had (although I would never write it since A. I'm a bad writer, B. I don't even LIKE writing, C. even if I did I'm not the fanfiction writing type, and D.I'm so lazy that even without points A, B and C I'd just never get around so it. Also the idea is really stupid and clichés, but that's okay/inevitable since I spontaneously daydreamed this up a few months ago, and I would probably ignore any canon that got in the way.).
Spoilered since I am UTTERLY INCAPABLE of describing stuff like this without it being insanely long. No hard feelings if this is TL;DR

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The idea is: Some warband of chaos cultists and/or Chaos Spess Marines go to one of the many barren, desolate planets which used to be a Squat homeworld prior to the Tyranids eating them all. They're there to look for Chaos artifacts rumored to be buried there. While heading through a derelict fortress they, note the artwork, such as an engraving depicting an Ork striking down a war-grox, or one of an Eldar making a plaintive gesture, or a statue of the its own sculptor being eaten alive by a tyranid while he was making it.
a few completely normal-looking, alive squats. The only thing odd about them is the obvious fact that all the squats were devoured centuries ago. (I assume Chaos God fuckery and the Chaos macguffin would be the reason they're there, but it shouldn't be explained in the story. Maybe the demons of DF are a specific group of entities in the Warp, or maybe Armok is a minor chaos power, or even a subsidiary aspect of Khorne. Or it could be Malal or Tzeentch, since they're still anti-Chaos and are disrupting the activities of other servants of Chaos)*shrug* I don't really care)The squat's would act in a subdued but casual manner, and be indifferent to the Chaos affiliation of the Warband. The Warband leader would find this slightly weird but suspect this is an effect of the Chaos-whosiwhatsit they're looking for, and a sign they're close. He's then like "I would suspect the Dark Gods have given you your seeming undeath to stand vigil over the [stuff they're looking for], but now we True servants of Chaos are here to harness [it/them] against the Imperium. Now what happens? Do you despawn, or prove our worth by killing you? Hell, if you wish you can just tag along with us and fight as a summoned demon squad."
"Yeah no. You guys aren't getting through our fortress. Now fuck off, Chaos worship isn't fit for an Eldar." The squats start to look more spooky, like, maybe gradually turning into skeletons or something.
The Cultist Leader gets pissed and is like "I would have been happy to honorably duel you to prove my worthyness, but now you'll really get it! how dare you blaspheme the very Gods who've given you life anew!?"
One of the Squ-(fuck it they're dorfs)dwarfs shoots the guy in the throat with some 40k-styled crossbow-bolter thing, with an adamantium bolt. The dwarf then says "We don't really care." . The dwarves keep turning skeletal or start rotting, or gain demonic features or something(can anyone else picture the kind of scene I'm trying to get at?). As the guy is falling to his knees and dying, another dwarf says "We don't really care about anything anymore".(Yes, pretty much this whole scenario was imagined around an excuse for them to drop that line).
Then more undead dwarves in full Adamantium power armor with adamantium masterwork weaponry,  like bolters or chainaxes and stuff, start jumping out of coffins and dark corners and charge the cult. They're all in martial trances and have red eyes glowing with the power of Armok, or maybe its even the ork-like/TTGL Spiral Power-like tangible effect of their concentrated dorfiness, or something like that. The cult realizes it's screwed and retreats, but they get torn apart by traps and the last few get crushed by some ancient Dark Age of Technology era matter-annihilation drawbridge device. Yeah if you read all that for some reason, sorry.

[Gokajern]

How can you tell? Maybe its Adventureception. An adventurer within adventurer within adventurer.

We need to go deeper. The fourth level of adventurer will be so full of adventures you'll stay trapped there forever.

[Duuvian]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Who would win, Khorne or Armok?
Or I guess the fight should be between followers of each, so Dorfs vs. Berserkers (not sure if it should be Fantasy or 40k).

This idea is actually like this idea for a fanfiction I had (although I would never write it since A. I'm a bad writer, B. I don't even LIKE writing, C. even if I did I'm not the fanfiction writing type, and D.I'm so lazy that even without points A, B and C I'd just never get around so it. Also the idea is really stupid and clichés, but that's okay/inevitable since I spontaneously daydreamed this up a few months ago, and I would probably ignore any canon that got in the way.).
Spoilered since I am UTTERLY INCAPABLE of describing stuff like this without it being insanely long. No hard feelings if this is TL;DR
[spoiler]The idea is: Some warband of chaos cultists and/or Chaos Spess Marines go to one of the many barren, desolate planets which used to be a Squat homeworld prior to the Tyranids eating them all. They're there to look for Chaos artifacts rumored to be buried there. While heading through a derelict fortress they, note the artwork, such as an engraving depicting an Ork striking down a war-grox, or one of an Eldar making a plaintive gesture, or a statue of the its own sculptor being eaten alive by a tyranid while he was making it.
a few completely normal-looking, alive squats. The only thing odd about them is the obvious fact that all the squats were devoured centuries ago. (I assume Chaos God fuckery and the Chaos macguffin would be the reason they're there, but it shouldn't be explained in the story. Maybe the demons of DF are a specific group of entities in the Warp, or maybe Armok is a minor chaos power, or even a subsidiary aspect of Khorne. Or it could be Malal or Tzeentch, since they're still anti-Chaos and are disrupting the activities of other servants of Chaos)*shrug* I don't really care)The squat's would act in a subdued but casual manner, and be indifferent to the Chaos affiliation of the Warband. The Warband leader would find this slightly weird but suspect this is an effect of the Chaos-whosiwhatsit they're looking for, and a sign they're close. He's then like "I would suspect the Dark Gods have given you your seeming undeath to stand vigil over the [stuff they're looking for], but now we True servants of Chaos are here to harness [it/them] against the Imperium. Now what happens? Do you despawn, or prove our worth by killing you? Hell, if you wish you can just tag along with us and fight as a summoned demon squad."
"Yeah no. You guys aren't getting through our fortress. Now fuck off, Chaos worship isn't fit for an Eldar." The squats start to look more spooky, like, maybe gradually turning into skeletons or something.
The Cultist Leader gets pissed and is like "I would have been happy to honorably duel you to prove my worthyness, but now you'll really get it! how dare you blaspheme the very Gods who've given you life anew!?"
One of the Squ-(fuck it they're dorfs)dwarfs shoots the guy in the throat with some 40k-styled crossbow-bolter thing, with an adamantium bolt. The dwarf then says "We don't really care." . The dwarves keep turning skeletal or start rotting, or gain demonic features or something(can anyone else picture the kind of scene I'm trying to get at?). As the guy is falling to his knees and dying, another dwarf says "We don't really care about anything anymore".(Yes, pretty much this whole scenario was imagined around an excuse for them to drop that line).
Then more undead dwarves in full Adamantium power armor with adamantium masterwork weaponry,  like bolters or chainaxes and stuff, start jumping out of coffins and dark corners and charge the cult. They're all in martial trances and have red eyes glowing with the power of Armok, or maybe its even the ork-like/TTGL Spiral Power-like tangible effect of their concentrated dorfiness, or something like that. The cult realizes it's screwed and retreats, but they get torn apart by traps and the last few get crushed by some ancient Dark Age of Technology era matter-annihilation drawbridge device. Yeah if you read all that for some reason, sorry.

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Haha, that was awesome

[Organum]

How do you know that you are not Armok controlling an individual, and that individual is a "slave to armok"?

@detonate And exactly how is that preventing from Armok being in dwarf fortress lore? Sure it may be a play off of arm_ok but that doesnt mean Armok isnt real in dwarf fortress. and blood for the blood god would make sense because armok is god of blood. Now would you stop being a killjoy?

guess It depends on how you think but in adventure mode I think I'am the adventurer not someone else manipulating him

If you've ever read the legends report of one of your adventurers, it says something like "Although it is not known for certain, it is universally agreed
 that s/he was manipulated by forces unknown."

[CriticallyAshamed]

I think that depends on your class doesn't it? You get "it's universally agreed that he/she was of divine parenthood" from being a demigod.

[Putnam]

Peasants get the "manipulated" one.

[BodyGripper]

I think that depends on your class doesn't it? You get "it's universally agreed that he/she was of divine parenthood" from being a demigod.

And just who do you think that divine parent is? 

[Putnam]

I think that depends on your class doesn't it? You get "it's universally agreed that he/she was of divine parenthood" from being a demigod.

And just who do you think that divine parent is? 

...Kurtulmak?