Legendsteels has reached year 15. I'm pretty proud of this fort, so I've put together a little tour for those interested.
Here's the main workshop area of the fort, centered around the Great Forge where our smiths churn our steel arms and golden crafts. Magma is supplied by a 45-level pump stack powered by the waterwheel "battery" in the SE corner. The magma runs to the glass furnaces and kilns in the SW also. To the east are the woodworks and cloth/leather shops; west are jewelers'. The room to the north is the "Shrine of Turqoise", temple of Sedur Tealiron, goddess of jewels: artifacts made of precious gems are displayed within. To the south (not fully shown) is the Mason's Hall where all out stonecrafts are done.
Up one level is the administrative district. West is the ecumenical temple, "The Shrine of Tenderness", in the center of which is the Holy of Holies: golden statues of the five goddesses surrounding an altar of cobalt, closed to the outside by a door of bronze. A dormitory for the homeless (S) and the hospital (N) complete the temple complex.
North of the forge is the judicial hall, where the mayor and captain of the guard live. The hall also contains "The Blanketed Shrine," temple to Kogsak goddess of laws. Just at the top you can see hammerer's quarters, guarding the fortress prison: a 9-level pit walled with cages, capable of housing 75 prisoners. It's completely excessive, but Captain-of-the-Guard Udib was "outraged at the lack of cages and chains"...
East of the forge is the Great Hall that runs the length of the fortress, and the main gate to the fields outside. It's usually covered in vomit.
Up another level: the current main housing district, future manor district. Once I've relocated the residents I'll turn these houses into great mansions for the fort's most prestigious inhabitants.
South of the main area is the old heart of the fortress. Duke Kubuk's palace is west - it used to be the king's palace. The duke likes grates, and he likes rose gold, so I put rose gold grates in his room. His wife likes llamas and silver, so she has a silver llama statue in her chamber.
In the center is our main tavern, "The Complex Dates." It has rooms for twenty-two guests and, as you can see, is quite popular with entertainers. The first tavern keeper was a human named Sitsu, a fat lady, utterly shameless and fond of parties - too fond, really, as she eventually drank herself to death. The new keeper is a dwarf, and he's much better at holding his liquor.
Here's the Trade Gate from the outside, overlooking the Main Plaza. The Blue Road leads into the trade depot through an iron portcullis; ramps on either side go up to the temple of Tosid, eagle goddess of mountains. Down in the corner you can see the training area of the Foreign Legion, my all-mercenary squad. They don't seem to need as much stress-management as full citizens, so they train pretty much constantly. Most of them are pretty old though, but new mercs show up from time to time.
Below this is the Old Fort. At one point this was all there was to Legendsteels: houses, workshops, tavern, temple, library, hospital, even the duke's mansion all down here. With the move to the upper fort it went long unused, but I've been repurposing it as a "suburban" housing area around a garden and arboretum. Right now it's just a muddy cave, but once the moss grows it'll make a nice park. You can see in the NE the flooded room I used to water the place, which was once a well gone horribly wrong.
Below the Old Fort, under the temple of Alron, goddess of earth, is the crypt. This picture shows two levels. On the left is the old crypt containing the earliest tombs, along with the royal and ducal mausoleums. South is the Hall of Heroes, where dwarves who died in battle are buried. East are the foreign graves, where the bodies of visitors (who can't actually be buried) are housed reverently. On the right is the newer catacombs.
The (new) Royal Palace, at the northern end of the fort. On The first floor is the audience chamber where King Vabok sits on the steel throne (he's not sitting now, but that bright purple guy in the corner is actually the king). Behind the throne is a bronze statue that used to be the colossus Nonub Routgrowls, slain by my fortress guard. Behind the throne room is the Royal Library (most of whose books were, admittedly, stolen from the elves). North are offices/quarters for fortress functionaries.
The third and fourth floors are the royal residence. The dining hall is adorned with statues of imported malachite (the king's favorite stone). Two artifact armor stands flank the door, and behind the king's chair is an artifact statue of himself.
The royal bedrooms are at the top. The king's room (east) has two artifact chests and an artifact door leading to the balcony. The queen's room (west) is decorated with zinc figurines of loon men - zinc is her favorite metal, and loon men her favorite animal. The other rooms will be used for the royal children, when they arrive.
Here's the palace from outside. In the Royal Plaza there's a statue commemorating the four soldiers who were killed in that very place by elven invaders: they entered combat early, holding off the enemy by themselves, and even poly-legendary steel-clad warriors can only fight for so long - one by one they fell, exhausted, and were slain. But their sacrifice bought time for the rest of the military to show up, and the attackers were slain to a man.
Legendsteels' place in the world, at the southern end of the Good Crest. The elves to the north, the Silken Forest, have been our foes throughout all history, driving us to the brink of extinction. With Legendsteels, though, we've struck back, raiding and razing their sites. The humans to the south, the Union of Perfection, have been our allies in this endeavor, and as you can see have already conquered much of the elven heartland.
A shot overviewing the main part of the fort, showing the fields and outer wall as well.
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