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Fantastic news!  Oddom Kindlerelics, the child with the burnt hands, has had her hands heal from red to yellow in spite of having no toughness level!  Normally this wouldn't be notable, but if you read the sad, sad story of Oddom, I'm REALLY looking forward to turning her into a legendary warrior or something.

[Edit] And my broker just got a fey mood, causing a diplomat to leave unhappy.  Fortunately, he's a jewelcrafter, so this should end well.

[Edit 2] Babin Tharith, "The Friend of Hurricanes", a Kunzite mini-forge.  Studded with gold, decorated with one-humped camel bone, encircled with bands of Kunzite, clear glass, platinum, and Ash.  Adorned with hanging rings of turtle shell, menaces with spikes of Kunzite.  On the item is an image of dwarves in Granite.  The dwarves are traveling.  The artwork relates to the foundation of this city.
168,000 dwarfbucks.  I like it.

Build walls around them.

I want to be able to control fluid flow into the aqueducts in case I need to clean them out.  There's going to be a second set of pumps that sends water back into the reservoir (which I don't need to worry about, since this much is easy), and possible a tomb or treasure vault hidden inside the aqueducts.  I want to make this as interesting for adventurers as possible.

So, the dwarf decided to make the BLADE out of fish bone and DECORATE it with steel?

Rakeglazes has been left behind, and now Firediamonds has been claimed.  This fortress will be a grand underground palace - a king's throne spanning 5 Z-levels, 21x15 wide, a reflecting pool, two massive, engraved pillars, and (planned) statues and furniture to bring the settlement's name to life.

The city's main hall is 7 tiles wide with a (currently empty) waterway splitting it down the middle.  There are three levels of this (seperated by the waterway levels), and ramps to allow wagons to access any level.  These three levels - currently - hold 3x3 quarters for a total of 144 dwarves, plus noble quarters.  Soon, the sole signs that there is any Dwarven presence  in this lands will be the ramp that leads down to the fortress proper, and the 15-story hole that leads to the new garbage stockpile.

As with all new lands, though, this one is not without tragedy.  The first life lost was a dwarf known only as Tosid.  During the first wave of immigrants to Firediamons he straggled behind the rest, and was picked off by a giant jaguar.

Ustuth Plannedstake, a metlacrafter, was the next.  A design oversight left the forges open to the volcano from below, and eventually his industriousness caught the attention of a pair of fire imps.  They attacked Ustuth and her child, burning them both.  Sarvesh Rampartconstruct, a nearby woodcutter, charged the imp with his axe and sent it flying into the wall where it blew apart, but the damage had been done.  Shortly after she went mad from the pain of being separated from her child, who was simply left to lay on the ground while she was taken to a bed to rest.

Her child, though, is perhaps the saddest case of all.  Both its hands have been burnt to uselessness.  Like her parents, she worships Obok the abbey of Wire, a Dwarven got associated with creation, crafts, metals, and minerals.  I fear she will never have the opportunity to honor her god through craft.  For now, she crawls the halls of Firediamonds, ignored, and uncared for.  With luck, great luck, she will recover.  With luck.

Kib Rooterchambers was a mason, one of the first seven, and the creator of an unparallelled stone coffer called The Dourness of Ruin.  He sealed himself within the mountain, and only after his death by starvation was he noted as missing.  He had only even spoken to one person after his journey to Firediamonds, preferring to spend the rest of his time carving from rock what would be needed for the grand palace.

If you want to ENSURE your Duke has combat skills, set up one (maybe two) cages with goblin thieves or wrestlers in a small room with a lever, and set the lever to unleash the goblins and seal the door (or lock it yourself).  If they have some decent stats from social skills, they should wreck the goblins (after some running around; nobles don't like getting into fights) and get some wrestling skill.  No armor or actual weapon skills, but hey, training a noble up to legendary wrestling can lead to some Fun tantrums.

I don't think dwarven insanity is brought about by realization of their place in the universe, but by the quiet.

As the dwarves sit in their workshop, daydreaming of the grandeur they will achieve once their opus is complete, they think.  And they realize.  Their father was killed in a cave-in.  Their mother died in a goblin ambush while chasing a sock - a petty sock!  They lost a brother to starvation in some forgotten hellhole on the reaches of dwarven civilization, and for years now, they have ignored the deaths of their friends and family, pain, suffering...  and for what?

A really spiffy dining room.

And as they realize all that they have sacrificed for their truly trivial gains, and that this is not just theirs, but the sacrifice of their entire civilization, all for the sake of a nice place to eat lunch, that is when they go insane.

If that tag does what it sounds like it would do, then it might allow them to bring GCS as mounts when they siege you.  Now THAT sounds like Fun!