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I've gotten a few of those before, too.  I always assumed that they died during world gen, and were resurrected by an evil biome. 

I recently unretired a relatively stable fortress, but now some problems have arisen.

The least troubling issue is related to the myriad of "hostile" diplomats and merchants scattered around the caverns.  They seem rather peaceful, but the game is listing them as hostile.  Also, around ten "merchants" are now citizens of my fort, lazing around, doing nothing.

And something rather trifling occurred, too; all of my nobles are failing to recognize that they have offices and rooms.  However, the game still recognizes that the rooms belong to them.  This means that they'll whine and be unproductive unless I unassign and reassign their respective rooms.

The worst issue, though, is my missing alcohol.  Prior to retiring the fort, I had somewhere around 2000 units of liquor for my ~60 dwarfs, but now they have completely vanished.  I believe my food supplies are fine, though.

I know that the hostile bug is common enough, but I've never heard of the rest occurring.  Has anyone else had these issues?

I believe that's a world gen only feature.  Hopefully that feature will be implemented into Adv mode some day though. 

But you can settle for killing rulers and becoming the ruler of that civ, although this feature doesn't amount to much currently, and everyone in that area will just spit at you and call you a murderer. 

And as for your stats, I believe that the game still recognizes that they're legendary even though it doesn't say it.  I would suggest testing it out a bit to be sure, though.

  A...a plump helmet man lord with dark aspirations.  It makes you wonder how a mute and blind walking fungus is able to "argue" his way into leadership.  I want to believe it had something to do a bloody battle to the death between the plump helmet and the hamlet's greatest warrior, but I don't think that's a sufficient explanation.

Okay, I just added +3 discipline tokens to all civilized beings, and I made the dwarfs and humans warmongering savages who abhor peace and tranquility.  Well, I ended up attacking a group of nobles in my adventurer's city, and, while one noble fought back relentlessly with a scroll--you'd think he would've chosen his knife, but to each their own, I guess--the one soldier in the area rushed in and did nothing.  So, taking advantage of this ridiculous situation, I asked him to join me, which he begrudgingly did...At least he didn't join me in slaughter.

On the bright side, though, legends mode has some pretty interesting stories because of the perpetual war and unwavering will of the people.

I remember having a human necromancer who, with a horde or 50+ goblin skeletons, crippled an opossum demon, flicked coins at him, which fractured his bones, and smashed his skull in with a warhammer.  Not a particularly great feat compared to what most of the community accomplishes, but he was certainly my best adventurer.  He was a legendary hammerman, dodger, and fighter, with superhuman strength.  And you have to admit, battering a demon with coins is a little badass.

Well, you could trade it to a caravan, for one.  On the other hand, you could use it to create a cage trap, which captures enemies sometimes.  I'd suggest selling it, since cages are simple enough for dwarfs to make.

I always liked that glitch.  I've done characters where I would get a companion, he/she would be brutally slaughtered by some creature, bandit, or...often me--yes, I'm a sadist--and I would return to my lord, or wherever, and see my companion in the flesh, with his/her starting weapon and clothing.  I just think, "hey, buddy...sorry about that thing before, but I promise I'll protect you next time.  (Probably not, though)"  I believe I've even had it happen about 3 times in one world once