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We discussed that a few pages back, Dokalfar/Schwarzalfar are generally assumed to be dwarves by another name since they live underground are are meant to be swarthy as opposed to the Alfar being beautiful and elegant.

EDIT: I think I'll make Alfar a race of human sized ambushers who steal children. They'll have metal, eat animals and chop wood with impunity but I'll also make them run easily like kobolds, who in many ways they'll be replacing for the mods purposes. Trapavoid ambushers who steal kids will be quite hard to deal with but [FLEEQUICK] will make them run when they get resisted.

The Dvergar will be friendly by default and I'll make them have access to a variety of useful things, rare metals, special creatures and the like.

I might try to make Nair (undead from helheim) a proper race in addition to Draugr (who will be the necromancers).

Right, I tested what happens when weight is reduced for jotunn weapons. They slaughter any norseman put against them, their size modifiers give them a huge advantage, so I'll shift their gear back to being huge and heavy. They'll usually outnumber the norsemen anyway so it should all balance out.

I may put anglo-saxons in since they'd fit in territory otherwise unused by the races but I'd rather avoid mixing too many things into spawning area conflicts. I also haven't decided which civs will be friendly at the start of world gen. Elves and jotunn will be babysnatchers, dwarves and fire + frost giants I was planning to make item thieves, but that would leave us with no trade partners other than the home civ, so I might make dwarves and frost giants be friendly by default.

In order to avoid going insane I've taken a break from studying and the language and done some work on a basic jotnar civilisation. Jotunn are basically just giants with a few cosmetic changes for now, but there are three versions in the RAWs I've made.

Tribal ones which live in small underground groups like cave animal people, which have clubs and spears as weapons (huge weapons).

The wanderers which just meander like animals in caves and mountains, these can be tamed and trained for war, but have a really high pet value. They take 100 years to reach adulthood but they make great bodyguards for important people and double as prestigious pets. This is to represent a giant being taken in by humans.

The former two versions are intended to simulate trolls as they were in earlier folklore: giants in an antagonistic role. The last is meant to be the giants of jotunheim, a crude civilisation seeking to cast down both men and gods. They use giant clubs and axes, wear mail shirts and helmets.

All jotunn weapons are far too large for humans to use, but they can be melted down for a large amount of metal (if my knowledge of material stuff is correct). I intend to make giants a bit more bestial in time, probably just claws and some animal headed versions to save complexity but for now they'll do. I'll make the frost giants next, maybe a bit smaller and with some kind of numbing and impairing breath to imitate cold, then fire giants with the obvious immolation and fire breath.

You could bodyswap with the king then go adventuring.

True, and Proto's computer troubles may prevent save uploading so I guess we'd better revert. I might as well take down the poll then. Feel free to get started whenever you want Splint.

Blowguns are actually pretty nasty weapons, there's a typo or something in the RAWs that makes them shoot 10x higher velocity than bows and crossbows as I recall. The lack of ammo is the real problem.

I like the picture Lisard, it is indeed studded with baldness. 

If the caverns are open we could start chopping down cavern wood to make charcoal to process our ores so we can improve our fort a bit more, it's dangerous for the woodcutters and haulers but it would be useful. Lava, while fun, is a bit of a risky thing to get, and even when you do get it you also wind up with crundle swarms running up and down your multi-cavern stairways.

Yes you can get an extension. But do make sure not to take more than 2 days.