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StupidElves

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« on: March 31, 2015, 03:54:36 pm »

Not sure if right board, but here goes.

Since we're getting libraries soon, I figured I might as well ask the following questions.

If you can receive books from outside your fort, could you possibly get a book from a necromancer that contains the secrets of life and death?

Following that, could a curious dwarf read that and become a necromancer within your fortress?

Could that necromancer live like a vampire does, minus the feeding, and then flee once people start to question why he never ages?
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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2015, 06:20:27 pm »

We have to wait for Toady to be sure,  but i can assume that none of those thongs will be present in the upcoming release. If you take a look at the latest Future of the Fortress reply you can see that, at least for now, books will be more a "flavour" thing than an actual knowledge repository.
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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2015, 06:27:31 pm »

You can already get books from necromancers in your fort. Master necromancers sometimes bring them when they siege. Dwarves never read them and I don't know if that's changing. Toady said that he might add dwarves going to libraries and reading in their spare time, which again he said he might add. If he does though then you can probably get dwarves to learn the secrets of life adnd eath.
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