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So I created a world with the excellent PerfectWorld tool, and I got this amazing Mirkwood-like forest in the northern part of the map. I'd really like it to be an evil biome, but whenever I set the number of evil squares in large regions to 1, the only biome becoming evil is the ocean surrounding my land mass. I know for sure that there are other regions classified as 'large', since when I input a ridiculously high number into the 'evil squares in large biomes' field, other biomes, including the forest in question, become evil as well. But when I allocate but a single biome to be evil, the ocean will be it every single time. Might this be a bug? How does the algorithm work? May it be that the single largest biome is selected first when the game decides which one to pick?

edit: I tried to trick the algorithm by allocating a single 'good square in large biomes'. But in a hilariously-tragic counter-troll, the game still makes the ocean the evil biome, while turning my would-be terrorforest into a benign fairy-wonderland. Well played, game. I've started about two dozens world generations now, and every time, the ocean is evil. There certainly seems to be something fishy here (no pun intended).

I am really enjoying adventure mode, the vastness and richness of it even in it's current state really makes me itch for the great things to come! Nonetheless, NPCs sometimes do quite funny stuff I can't really make anything out of.

One example: I was travelling a forest area. On the overland map, an asterisk appeared out of thin air and headed straight at me. After it catched up, I found myself surrounded by dozens of metal weaponry wielding elves! One of those guys walked up to me and addressed m with my name (I wonder how he knew it, I literally just started that character). I asked him what he was up to and what his profession was, and he stated that he was on an important mission for his leader Seku Faintdrinker. After checking the Legends Viewer, I learned that I just ran into a group of displaced Elven refugees! I was pretty excited about that, even though I was pretty sure they would beat the whack out of me, considering they all were closing in and cornering me. But alas, they did nothing. At all. Just surrounding me and yelling my name repeatedly. After waiting a while, I just moved on, and guess what, the whole troupe of +30 elves was following my every step! When trying to enter fast travel mode again, the game told me that it was "too dangerous to travel".

I guess they were supposed to attack and kill me? Why didn't they? The game didn't say "Ambush" like it does when ambushed by Goblins or wild animals, though. I'm so confused!

I'm currently playing in adventure mode, and I'm using the excellent Legends Viewer to delve into my world's lore. There seems to be a quite frustrating obstacle, though. Character names are sometimes displayed in their native languages, when examining corpses or reading slabs for example, and sometimes translated into their English equivalents, for instance in conversations.

My problem is that Legends mode seems to only recognize names in their English version. Thus, I cannot find characters in legends if I do not know the English translations of their names. Does  a translation tool exist?