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   In-game, dwarves are supposed to be friends with both humans and elves.
Humans=Drinking Buddies.
Elves=Those guys with the cloth and war-tigers.

   Humans hate elves. We are all human. We impose that upon our dwarves, making them elf-hating warriors.
If dwarves and humans weren't friends, the dwarves would refuse to obey our commands and instead try to wrestle tha sock out of the alligators mouth ALL the time due to not having anything else to do. More on this later.

   We have our dwarves kill the elves so that friendship is averted, so they don't get the "wrong" ideas about us humans. We keep control.

   Back to the wrestling dwarves. Dwarves, being dwarves, will end up ultimately training combat skill. They will survive seiges and reproduce and an insane rate, like they do in our fortresses. This means more wrestlers. Dwarves eventually defeat all the goblins and humans, making them closer to being the master race. They realise their own potential on their own and wage war with the elves. After killing the elves, they are the only ones left. They spend the Age of the Dwarf building up a government a lot like that of either Athens or Sparta.In pursuit of either economic growth or more adequate opponents, they either dig deep, or advance technologically. Let's focus on the former.

   They strike addy and the economy/military technology booms. They keep digging and hit demons. The demons either kill them off or get walled off if economic, or the dwarves Aussie-ize if military. Either way, there is finally one master race (if walled off, demons still aren't the master race, dwarves are still better off, and tech can grow.

   If tech grows, then the dwarves advance to our level or higher. If all goes well, they have such great technology as to be able to conquer hell. Dwarves might produce a game called Human City, or Elven Retreat, or even Goblin Tower, causing a paradox. Again one master race.

   What I'm getting to is that we humans are there to prevent dwarves from advancing. Most deaths are player-related, and those that aren't are inderectly responsible (Dwarves not allowed to suck it up outside coming to mind). Dwarf Fortress is a game not meant to be played.

TL:DR, We cause dwarves to not be the master race, and we might suffer in the end.

Quote from: Headhanger on June 23, 2012, 03:45:16 am

Yeah HH try to eavesdrop on some nuthatches.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe24.htm

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Sigurth took Fafnir's heart and cooked it on a spit. When he thought that it was fully cooked, and the blood foamed out of the heart, then he tried it with his finger to see whether it was fully cooked. He burned his finger, and put it in his mouth. But when Fafnir's heart's-blood came on his tongue, he understood the speech of birds. He heard nut-hatches chattering in the thickets. A nut hatch said:

32. "There sits Sigurth, | sprinkled with blood,
And Fafnir's heart | with fire he cooks;
Wise were the breaker | of rings, I ween,
To eat the life-muscles | all so bright."

the idea that a horses will blindy run at a wall of pointy things is crazy.