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Over fifteen years ago, I read a short story about a dying dwarf who was the last member of his clan.  Everybody else had either abandoned the fortress or died in combat with the reptilian horrors which were invading from the cave river.  Also, there were a tribe of elves living on the top of the mountain which contained the dwarf fortress, and they worshiped a giant tree which was as much a part of the dwarves' lives as of the elves.  The story was the dwarf remembering the most significant events of his life before he decided to end it.

So for his death, he first killed a dozen or so reptiles in brutal combat with his artifact war hammer, then, bleeding from mortal wounds, he pulled the lever which would trigger a series of intricate mechanisms that would collapse the entire fortress, dropping the mountain ten feet or so.  So, he died in the arms of the mountain, clutching his life's greatest work, surrounded by the bloody ruins of his defeated enemies.  His last thought was something along the lines of, "My only regret is that I don't get to see the looks on those elves' faces."

If I still had the story, I'd take the time to type it up for the enjoyment of this forum.  For something that predated DF by at least a decade, it's the most DF-like piece of fantasy literature that I've ever read.

(edit)  I can't remember the exact name of the story.  It was something like "Doogan's Rest", where Doogan was the name of the dwarf.

Sooo 99.9% of the world does not use the official definition given by dictionaries and the likes?

I think that by trying to quell all of this OP bashing (of which there is some, but not an outlandish or nightmarish amount), a larger problem is being created simply by focusing on all this negativity.   It's really getting to me, all this fingerpointing, countermeasuring, etc.