-Diary of Dr Delerl "Hacksaw" Gutthirst-
It has been 6 years since the beginning of this expedition, and 4 more before that since the (re)discovery of the Codex. So much blood split, gold spent and resources plundered, all to ensure the Brotherhood's sole goal is not lost with time, as we were so sure the Codex had been.
A long forgotten fort, 10 winters past, was reclaimed by a party of great hammerdwarfs, stout and true to a dwarf. By Armok's blessing, the leader was sympathetic to the Brotherhoods ancient cause, and was able to spirit away the Codex from a crypt deep beneath the fort for study by our greatest booksmiths. 56 Chapters of impossibly valuable ancient knowledge were quickly devoured, and after a mere four years we were ready to put once-lost knowledge into practice once again. It was clear, with modern fortressbuilding knowledge, where our ancestral brothers-in-arms had gone wrong. The designs they had used left so many clues, clues we were able to weave into a new and foolproof plan.
The "Codex of Secrets of Dwarven Childcare" had been reclaimed, and the Brotherhood of Uristic Retrograde Nurture was alive with purpose anew.
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I arrived with the first expedition, to help found this now-mighty fortress, while two brothers in arms, now appointed Captain of the Guard and Mayor respectively, followed suruptitiously with the migrant waves that came shortly after. None of us has spoken to any of the unitiated about our true purpose here. No one knows that we even have a connection that predates the fortress founding, let alone the existence of the Codex or Brotherhood.
Now, six years from the fortress' inception, our uniquely dwarven experiment, some might say THE dwarven experiment, is nearly ready to commence.
Fortress Screamrags, the Bloody Children. Auspicious names indeed....
Tomorrow we strike earth on my laboratory complex, and before year is out, the experiment shall begin....