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[SPOILERS] What does it mean when a dwarf has nightmares?
« on: August 26, 2014, 09:43:56 am »

I don't care about spoilers, but please don't go too far with spoiling. XD

What does it mean when a dwarf has "had a terrifying nightmare about an army of the dead" or "has been tormented in nightmares by the dead lately"?
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Re: [SPOILERS] What does it mean when a dwarf has nightmares?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2014, 12:25:28 pm »

I don't care about spoilers, but please don't go too far with spoiling. XD

What does it mean when a dwarf has "had a terrifying nightmare about an army of the dead" or "has been tormented in nightmares by the dead lately"?
The latter is something that can happen when you have a ghost in your fortress.

The former is something which never actually happens - it is merely an unused fragment of code from long before the first ever release of Dwarf Fortress (related to a Wizard visiting your fortress and taking one of your dwarves on a journey to stop a necromancer - if you refused to help, one of your dwarves would have that nightmare, then you would get an undead invasion). You can read a bit about it in DF Talk #21.
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