However, what I didn't notice was a stoneborn axeman hiding in the middle of them
Mowgli found an axe and decided to use it to avenge his animal friends.
I retired at my hometown of Pastlegends, figuring that there isnt much glory in dying when I can't even walk. Wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight.
You shouldn't have given up so quickly. You could've traveled to a mead hall and picked up a crutch -- after you've gained enough Crutch Walking skill you even would be able to walk faster with the crutch than if you had never lost a leg at all.
Anyway, my adventurer recently stormed the capital of the local gobbo civ, specifically the slade tower. I rescued 25 children (though one has a mangled heart) and killed innumerable goblins, trolls, and beak dogs. I lost my companion though. I attacked a goblin and decided to back away once it started running away faster than I could chase it, but my companion continued to pursue. I later found his mangled carcass in a hallway filled to the brim with blood and goblin bodies. I took it to later burn or maybe even entomb it.
Edit: Umm...the children seem to have started attacking each other. It's not everybody-attacking-everybody, just occassionally one of the children somehow stops being my companion and gets attacked by everybody else. This may have been because I told one child that I was starting an insurrection, and then that child told everybody else, so now those who support my claim are fighting those who don't.