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wasn't it changed so hammerers administered beatings by hand instead of hammer now? Supposedly to make things less lethal

I don't think so. The Fortress Guard always use their fists nowadays, but I'm 99% certain hammerers still hammer.

Pretty sure I'm just gonna go with a patriarchal list. I can't mod the raws to follow the correct trends, but every male dwarf who enters the fort will grant his name to his familial line from then on down. His wife will have to deal with it.

I think I'll do English translations, too, since dwarvish requires special characters that escape my ability to input. Can someone direct me to a dwarven dictionary (for the first names)?

I can get you a pastebin of the edited language file from Phoebus that doesn't have any diacritics so you can search it!

Speaking of no diacritics, that's just what I do. ่rith becomes Erith and such.

Quote from: Lielac on January 23, 2014, 10:05:15 pm

Laborfords
5th Opal, 221

Sarvesh Abyssink-Twinklingdiamond has been ecstatic lately. She gained a sibling lately.

Rakust Abyssink-Twinklingdiamond is 16 days old, born on the 17th of Moonstone in the year 221.

Lielac has been quite content lately. She has contemplated portmanteau surnames lately. She has pondered dwarven familial relationships lately. She wants to ask VerdantSF a question.

Oh, also there's a werellama. Whaddever.

ON the @VerdantSF question: you've got an obscenely long-lived fort, right? I'd like to check out the familial relationships there, because the wiki is under the impression that only royalty has grandparents, uncles/aunts, nieces/nephews, or cousins, and I have two walking disagreements. Well, one, because Sarvesh just grew to become a child, but whatever. Rakust still exists.

Also, I did away with the numbering of childerbrats. Too much of a pain.

Well, he went with patriarchal due to his current monarch being male, with the family name going back to the farthest observable male family member in fort mode. For me this is usually maybe two generations back. Femdorfs who marry take ona hyphenated name of thier original and thier husband's surname while the kiddies are named with the father's surname. Any relative who migrate then take on whatever the in-fort established surname is for the whole family to save the headache of renaming large numbers of dwarves.

I went with matrilineal surnames because there really aren't enough matriarchies around, but it does turn out that my current monarch is a queen. For me it works like this:

Dwarves without in-fortress parents take on the translation of their surname. Children of these dwarves take and keep their mother's surname. Grandchildren take on a hyphenated name, although I might start doing things like "Sarvesh Abyss-Twinkling" instead of "Sarvesh Abyssink-Twinklingdiamond" or give in and do the matrilineal thing because when I finally get great-grand children oh fucking god. But I want a way to distinguish between "yet another of Minkot's brood" (she's still at 20 kids but her youngest is 9 months old, and her children are more than half the native-borns) and "another grandkid! W00T!"

... Maybe I'll go with bilineal desce--

11th Obsidian, 221



Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

--descent like I do with grandkids. Then all of Minkot Abysssink and Inod Shakenchanneled's kids will be Abyss-Shaken, and the late Id Twinklingdiamond and Cilob Paddlemirror's Twinkling-Paddle, and then Sarvesh and Rakust will be Abyss-Twinkling because it always takes the first half of the name and the mother's name-part goes first. So it'll be sort of matrilineal. Minkot is gonna have so many people who can trace their ancestry to her...

Also, Sarvesh got possessed on 2nd Obsidian and is now scampering around getting stuff.

Edit: Nope, hyphenated names look ugly, and frankly Minkot deserves to lord it over the rest of the fortress because she's a friggin' matriarch. (I have three living, by the way. Minkot of Abyssink, Alath of Utteredinks, and Ushat I of Holeportals. Id of Twinklingdiamond was my only matriarch who married in-fort and left 7 children [2 of which are dead], while Minkot, Alath, and Ushat have 20, 20, and 17. )

Alright, so i need to make my "guard squad" have 1 guy in it with crap military skills, and give him a training weapon?

One guy who's clumsy, weak, quick to tire, and slow to anger.

Lielac, why is it that whenever I see you've posted here I know I'm going to get a hearty chuckle, as opposed to my standard half-arsed grin?

I have no idea, but thanks!

Quote from: Lielac on January 23, 2014, 06:16:22 am

Laborfords
Early spring 221

A year ago the first native-born couple married, and on Opal 7th their child was born. Only now did I realize that 2201107 Basementinsight is the first ever second-generation native born to one of my forts.

Such a good feeling, isn't it .  Grats!

Sarvesh is definitely going to be coddled and treated like a queen.

Also, I'm going to shamelessly rip off your full-name-replacement thing and see what matrilineal lines I get. 20 Abyssinks...

-cackles-

I have a black bear bone scepter named The Tongue of Moistness. Different type of bad joke, but it... suggests things to me.

I don't know how it got there but there's a capybara running around my fort and I don't know how to get it out.

Miner(s) and/or woodcutter(s) in an impromptu squad, sic squad on capybara. Should take care of the problem.

I have a fortress with noxious clouds that cause everything to bleed to death within seconds. Should I undertake the monumental task of roofing over my entire embark area in order to render the surface survivable to my dwarves? It would make sieges more interesting, since at the moment all they do is show up and die. It would allow me to recover twenty years of lost goblinite. And my magma landmines are already powerful enough to repel most sieges that show up...

HELL. YES. Roof it, roof it all, it's the dwarfiest thing! Don't forget to tally the bodycount!