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I saw in some of the myth generator screenshots mentions of souls. Will it be possible to have a Stormbringer-like magical artifact that can kill souls?
Will souls retain any of their qualities or traits from life, if they are reincarnated or sent to another plane?
Speaking of Stormbringer, is there a possibility of sentient or semi-sentient artifacts?

I think souls iirc as it stands now incorporate all the mental data of an intelligent being (Name, mental skills, knowledge, motivations etc.) as seperate Datastructure to the body. There were some experiments where people summoned (DF-Hacked) the soul of gods into usefull idiots willing subjects.
Since gods are bodyless entities and keep theyr data i would say that they do retain data. If a souls skills rust in Limbo is to be seen.
As for souled artefacts ... i think the last word on it was "Planed but no ETA"?

I am 30 and am here for about 10 years now. I found DF back in November 2007 and joined the forums as "Heph" in January 2008.

Shit a 1/3rd of my life got better because of Toady and the people i have found here. Even the love of my life.

In that time i had education and about 7 Jobs, some mayor breakdowns, transition, my niece was born as was the little girl that could be my daughter.
I still know how i fared in the early days, dorfs starvin and dying of thirst while i tried to figure out the Z-level controlls. Well now 10k dorfs later i thinkn i got the starvin part figured out.

My life is less bleak because of DF and the community around it. So thank you toady and thank you people :3

On the topic of the new worldgen system in the works: are certain creatures in the game slated to be removed in order to better suit this system? I understand that mundane creatures like cats and dogs will probably be kept so that completely mundane worlds can be more easily created, but what of creatures like gorlaks, satyrs, etc? Will they be replaced with randomized creatures when fantasy worlds are created, or will they remain to some extent?

I realy dont see the need to remove them. With plants it was different since you had a few generic placeholders but with gorlaks and such its a different thing. They are original creations and having non-mundane non stereotypical critters as Stock-options is in my mind good.

You can still have all te random things you like after all.

Iirc atleast treetoes story "Root" goes into detail somewhat about the outside appereance of the Animal people i think there was another one with a rhino person?

Anyway i think the representation so far are good but the prefstrings could be a bit clearer ... not that it changes much.

Btw. one of the oldest Animal people depictions is the so called "Löwenmensch" carved from mamoth-ivory and estimated to be 35 to 40 Thousand years old.



One could also argue that many middleeuropean Fables are "furry" for depicting humans in human like behaviour and posses. Sadly "puss in boots" is the only one most northamericans seem to know.

I have my clear definition of a man and woman

[sarcasm]And damnit they can vote now too![/sarcasm]

Naturally there are some difference due to the way our biology acts but our bilogy doesnt decide everything. Much less things then mariage. Human evolution has geared us towards polyarmouros relationships, eating primarely vegies and walking long distances every day.

Nothing of that applies today for good or worse. And largely religious motivated genderroles dont apply either. I dont care what some idiot said 6k to 7k years ago. Heck even formal mariage wasnt invented by christians but was a legal contract to regulate inheritance at first.

The thing is though you can adhere to your ideas of Gender on your own. That is freedom. Telling other people that they have to adhere to your ideas of Gender - that is oppression.
We dont fight for special rights or some such, eventualy it all comes down that we fight to be treated equaly in all regards before the law and in society. It doesnt mean that girls get lower standarts and such but a opportunity to compete at the same standart as everyone else.

I do believe in Feminism when it fights for equality, i believe in mans rights if its for equality. I believe in anyones rights as long they are grounded in equality and fairness.
What i refuse to believe is that this powerfull notion, that everyone on this beautiful planet is equal in rights and value, can be hindered by people that claim the priviledge to dicate what is "normal", "Acceptable" based on race, sex, gender, age, place of birth and so on.

Lets not foget XXY people or people where the Y chromosome or the testosteron receptors are turned off (and variations i forgot). They are either on a spectrum between male and female "norm" or just outwardly appear female while being male on the phisical plane of genetics.

Postapocalyptic huh? How about "AI" cores that are bolted to the reactores which tell the people how to build them NEW bodies.