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[Ganthan]

1. Start a new embark.  If you already have a somewhat young fortress going you may use it instead.

2. The first/next dwarf baby born in your fortress becomes The Chosen One.  Can't migrate to your fortress as a child or baby, HAS to be born there.  The parents can either marry at the fortress or arrive already married, it makes no difference.

3. The Chosen One must die of old age in your fortress.  No death by goblin, accident, madness, tantrums or anything else.  Must live out entire lifespan from birth to old age death in that fortress.

4. Only one Chosen One at a time.  Should he/she die before old age, you can try again with the same fortress but you'll have to wait for the next birth.  No assigning Chosen One runners up for *just in case*.

Something like this obviously needs a scoring system to prevent everybody from just turning off all migrants and sealing themselves in for 160 some years for an easy win.  I haven't yet figured what each of these should be worth, but here are some ideas:

Total created wealth.
Total exported wealth.
Chosen One marries.
Every child the Chosen One has.
Every friend the Chosen One has.
Every non rusty skill at legendary at time of death.
Chosen One gets liked animal as a pet.
How many kills the Chosen One has.

I get the feeling that this is the kind of challenge that would be dominated by people with somewhat powerful computers.

[Hitty40]

Sounds cool, but I recommend saying that the Chosen One must have an entirely gold bedroom, counting chests dressers, etc. And if the Chosen is going into the military, he must use only his fists and wear no metal armor, leather only.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Sure, you could use gold if you wanted to go the cheap route, but if you're looking for actual value, adamantine is where it's at.

[Lordraymond]

Sounds cool, but I recommend saying that the Chosen One must have an entirely gold bedroom, counting chests dressers, etc. And if the Chosen is going into the military, he must use only his fists and wear no metal armor, leather only.

Sounds like a wonderful way to get your chosen one killed horribly in the first siege.

[King DZA]

If I didn't already have a nearly seven year old fort going, I would love to take on this challenge. It's difficult enough to provide a neat challenge, yet simple enough to where it doesn't completely derail whatever other plans I may have for the fortress.

[Ganthan]

If I didn't already have a nearly seven year old fort going, I would love to take on this challenge. It's difficult enough to provide a neat challenge, yet simple enough to where it doesn't completely derail whatever other plans I may have for the fortress.

You could still do it with an in progress fortress.  Because of that requirement of the Chosen One needing to be born in your fortress, it could potentially take any length of time for it to begin anyway.  Just make the *next* baby born into your Chosen One and go from there.  In fact, I'm gonna edit the OP with another rule.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Or just find the oldest fort-born child and go from there.

[i2amroy]

Anybody who wants to accomplish this better hope that they get it with the first chosen one, or at worst the second, since else wise they will probably also classify as the longest run fort in the community while they are at it (dwarves take a minimum of 140 years to die of old age you know).

[Oliolli]

Didn't someone try a millenium fort? You know, dragon breeding and all that?

[Iton Ibrukrithzam]

It seems like the main challenge here isn't so much the chosen one himself, as it is making the fort last this long without FPS death.

[King DZA]

If I didn't already have a nearly seven year old fort going, I would love to take on this challenge. It's difficult enough to provide a neat challenge, yet simple enough to where it doesn't completely derail whatever other plans I may have for the fortress.

You could still do it with an in progress fortress.  Because of that requirement of the Chosen One needing to be born in your fortress, it could potentially take any length of time for it to begin anyway.  Just make the *next* baby born into your Chosen One and go from there.  In fact, I'm gonna edit the OP with another rule.

Awesome, In that case:

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[Captain Xenon]

hm. well, the easy solution as i can see it is to first set the chosen one to pump operation. thats a safe and easy legendary. next, assign them a workshop and que up a lot for them to do, such as crafting stone mugs, or a magma smelter, and so on. for his room, i suspect a tower made from gold bars would be much more impressive...

my current fort is on year ten, i shall have to watch for the next baby born. (pop 240, 39 are children, and 3 of those are babies, already had one legendary child grow to a peasant).

[acetech09]

It seems like the main challenge here isn't so much the chosen one himself, as it is making the fort last this long without FPS death.

Building a fort to exclusively cater to one dwarf shouldn't be hard with a pop cap of 40.

[Lordraymond]

I'd like to propose that you add specifically, under "Number of kills" affecting how well you did, you add "Number of Megabeasts/Forgotten Beasts slain"

It should count for more killing a dragon than killing gobbo #2314 in the forty-billionth siege.

Also, perhaps a bonus for having your Chosen One in a position of power such as Mayor or Baron?

[Dsarker]

I'd like to propose that you add specifically, under "Number of kills" affecting how well you did, you add "Number of Megabeasts/Forgotten Beasts slain"

It should count for more killing a dragon than killing gobbo #2314 in the forty-billionth siege.

Also, perhaps a bonus for having your Chosen One in a position of power such as Mayor or Baron?

With more points if he has hard to satisfy mandates.