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Saneb Spattershoveled the Silken Speachlessness of Meals was born in Ironstopped in year 11.  She was a gnome (size 3) living in the violent world of the Relentless Assault mod (where humans are babysnatchers and werewolves and ogres are CAN_CIV creatures of sizes 9 and 12 respectively).  While she was still a baby, her parents were killed by the demon leader of the werewolves who lived in the tundra to the north .  While the attack that killed Saneb's parents only resulted in a pillaging, the werewolves soon returned to destroy Ironstopped.  Still only a child, she fled to the newly founded town of Boltedcaskets, but the same pattern repeated there.  Saneb fled a fifth time to Wonderpick.

There were 8 years of peace there, but in 25 the werewolves returned.  The initial siege was repelled with half of the 100-strong invasion force dead, but the 32 out of Wonderpick's 36 able-bodied gnomes died in the process.  The outlook for for Wonderpick was grim.  In year 26, another 100 werewolves invaded, and of the dozen gnomes left to defend Wonderpick, only one surived--Saneb Spattershoveled the Silken Speachlessness of Meals, who had came of age  that year and killed 25 werewolves, mostly via crossbow.  Until 32 Saneb fought in Wonderpick alone, repelling 7 werewolf sieges averaging about 80 werewolves and 7human sieges of 10-20.  Since there was no one to grow any food, Saneb would occationally devour a slain enemy--eating sapients is more of a personal matter in gnomish culture.  A few surviving gnomish children started to come of age in 33, but most didn't last long. In 36, Saneb led an poorly thought-out offencive campaign against the werewolves.  60 werewolves caught her and her companions on the open ground.  Three of the red-shirted gnomes were devoured, taking only 6 werewolves to hell with them. Saneb fled back to Wonderpick to find that the humans had overwhelmed the small garison she'd left behind.  She and the other surivior tried to found a new town, Paintglistens, but they only had time to construct a couple of hovels before the humans found them.  Without fortifications, the 2 gnomes surrendered.  The humans brought in a gnome they had kidnapped seven years previously to rule the town, but she was soon killed by a cyclops, who was then killed by Saneb.  Although Saneb would liver for more than another century, this was the last creature she killed; in only 11 years of fighting she had defeated 310 sapient entities, mostly werewolves with a few dozen humans for spice.

When Igniz, the gnome who had co-founded Paintglistened with Saneb, was killed by a cyclopes in 64, Saneb was the only gnome born under the Perplexing Tongs known to still live; she'd already began ardently worshiping a human god of birth and rebirth.  She would stay in Paintglistened for another 60 years, but in 125 a band of humans managed to drive out the werwolves and their demon leader from a werewolven city, Scourgeposts (note that this is the same demon that killed Saneb's parents).  Saneb and a few humans moved in, but the werewolves launched a devestating counterattack in 127, killing all defenders and retaking the town, although their demon was killed in a duel during the battle.  For some reason, Saneb didn't participate in the battle but was instead captured and taken to the old werewolven capital, Gurglelies.

She was imprisoned there for the next 80 years (I wonder if that means I could stop worldgen early and easily recruit her in adventure mode?).  In 206 she managed to escape, and returned to Paintglistened.  Perhaps aware of her impending mortality, she converted to a new religion (same god) and became a babysnatcher the following year.  She kidnapped six ogres, passing on her ways of birth-god-worshiping and werewolf slaying to one of them, Irne Tombsatin the Rhyming Deity of Tools.  She died of of natural causes in 214 at 203 years of age.