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[Axedwarf]

In my fort, there's 3 engravers : two new ones, that came from across the ocean, and have been tasked so because of the enlarging of the dining room; and their master, a High Master engraver.

Their first training was in the first dining room, where only 3 squares of the room were made of stone (silt layer, I think). Note that the two students began their work before the master started.

Here is what we got :
-Urist mcApprentice did a picture of a square. Damn professional.
-Urist mcWorststudentever did a pic... well not really since he just badly carved a cross on the wall.
-and then, Urist mcProf did a masterful picture of the beautiful goddess of jewels and engravings, half naked, and laughing.

imagine the goddess dying of laughter, pointing at the two horrors next to her. Imagine the reaction of the dwarves :
"aye prof, whad'ya think of ar' works?"
"wait 'bit dwarf, m'not finished yet..."


also: your best engraving, or set of engraving (for bonus points). Not particularly a long and epic one, but a well placed one.
statues are okay too (I have a masterful golden statue of my mayor in my duchess' room, for example).

[Jacob/Lee]

My best? The picture showing the mayor surrounded by purring maggots and looking terrified. The best part? It was in his bedroom. Next to his bed.

[Ostrogoth]

My mayor has an engraving of himself raising a scepter above his bed.

[Vehudur]

The engraver must have disliked the mayor.

[Sonlirain]

My engravers always seem to draw people getting killed by dragons ar being on fire (caused by the said dragons).

Every single bleeding engraver does it.

[Kirbypowered]

In one of my forts, the only thing the engravers liked to engrave were different versions of grisly bears killing dwarves. I didn't realize this until after I had a legendary dining room full of masterful depictions of dwarves being mutilated.

[BodyGripper]

One time there was an engraving right under the mayor's bed of a dwarf dying of dehydration.

[Telgin]

I need to check my engravings some more I think.  The most interesting one I recall was an engraving of one of my citizens snapping from a failed mood and having her head kicked in.  Most of my other engravings were just related to the founding of my fort.  I guess when I had them made not much interesting had happened.  Boy how things have changed...

Time to get engraving!

[Jacob/Lee]

An engraver saw it necessary to engrave a picture of deaths on the floor of the danger room.

[Tevish Szat]

Bears.  Constant, endless engravings of grizzly bears killing named humans in legendary battles.  These sorts of engravings make up a significant percent of all engravings in my fort (I wouldn't be surprised if they were 10% or more).  I've logged 33 separate battles represented by the engravings, and no two engravings of the exact same killing.  As best as I can discern without poking around in legends, the humans appear to have fought some great bloody potentially multi-generational war with Grizzlies in the past, and were on the losing end as unnamed, faceless bear soldiers tore them apart.  I think I have one image of one of the "bear war" battles that shows a human shooting an elf, but I think the elf probably wandered onto the battlefield and got caught by a stray human arrow as the tall folk tried vainly to resist their grizzly fate.

The real kicker is that the fortress is Ironbear (which I keep mentioning and need to get around to ending and telling properly).  I've yet to get a "grizzly bear caravan" or my very own grizzly bear siege, so I have to assume that there's either some spectacular victory for the humans my dwarves don't bother recounting as they honor the bears, or else that the humans I get as traders are now working under the thumb of their ursine overlords.

[Jacob/Lee]

a stray human arrow as the tall folk tried vainly to resist their grizzly fate.

That looks like a pun to me! TO THE PUNGEON WITH YOU!

[DisgruntledPeasant]

Bears.  Constant, endless engravings of grizzly bears killing named humans in legendary battles.  These sorts of engravings make up a significant percent of all engravings in my fort (I wouldn't be surprised if they were 10% or more).  I've logged 33 separate battles represented by the engravings, and no two engravings of the exact same killing.  As best as I can discern without poking around in legends, the humans appear to have fought some great bloody potentially multi-generational war with Grizzlies in the past, and were on the losing end as unnamed, faceless bear soldiers tore them apart.  I think I have one image of one of the "bear war" battles that shows a human shooting an elf, but I think the elf probably wandered onto the battlefield and got caught by a stray human arrow as the tall folk tried vainly to resist their grizzly fate.

The real kicker is that the fortress is Ironbear (which I keep mentioning and need to get around to ending and telling properly).  I've yet to get a "grizzly bear caravan" or my very own grizzly bear siege, so I have to assume that there's either some spectacular victory for the humans my dwarves don't bother recounting as they honor the bears, or else that the humans I get as traders are now working under the thumb of their ursine overlords.

That is fantastic!

My current (ex) Baron's tomb is filled with engravings telling the story of his life,  from his ebarkation as the group leader, being appointed as bookeeper then Baron,  and eventually his descent into madness- with pictures of him smashing someones skull in.

[AWdeV]

I bet it wasn't a "bear war" but just some asshole elves sending bears at hapless humans.

[Mitchewawa]

With short history all I usually get are 'The founding of X'. About a decade later there's a lot more interesting engravings; in my zoo there are engravings of my legendary tame Giant Cave Spider and scores of goblins and elves getting their heads fanged to death.

It was always hilarious watching my spider walk through a squad of poorly trained goblins and running away from a second squad, only after all the first goblins are all on the ground, twitching and paralysed and suffocating to the spider poison.

[Russell.s]

I had several engravings made of my mayor embracing various animals: sharks, llamas, water buffalo, cats, dogs, giant eagles, a scorpion... I'm not sure if he ordered them himself, or if the dwarves have some kind of in-joke concerning the mayor's.. er... preferences.
On the other hand, perhaps my mayor is just a really friendly fellow?