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Rondol:
The world is 1050 years old by the time we start in DF... I imagine there would be old fortresses scattered about that have been abandoned/sealed off over the ages. That would be an interesting find for your miners... along with whatever it was that emptied the fortress out in the first place.

Tamren:
There was a topic a while back about seperating the history of DF into different "ages". Each age would have a different level of technology and a different world to deal with.The age of creation would be essentially the caveman era. Then would come expansion, warfare, culture and tech advances like agriculture and different levels of metallurgy.Each "age" would have its own events that carry over to the next age. Say 2 ages back from the current day a fortress was built, overrun and built in a landslide. Back in the day it would be common knowledge. A couple ages on it would be nothing but a myth. Later on in the age of myth you would hear about this fortress as a tavern story, and eventually uncover and explore it.Is that sort of what you meant? It would allow you to play in different eras of history, and your actions would carry on into the next age.

Lightning4:
I like that, the aging of historical records. Not until the practice of history-keeping is widespread with written works would knowledge survive longer than a certain amount of time.Plus, if you accelerate the time to say, 700 years, when it takes 900 for knowledge of a highly skilled adventurer to fade... you could ask around and eventually find scant knowledge possessed by a village elder or somesuch who would keep such old historical accounts. He would tell you that long ago, a great adventurer took up the fight against evildoers, and singlehandedly killed minotaur, giants, ettins, the vile undead... before finally being vanquished himself by a great dragon. The name of the adventurer is unknown, the dates are a rough estimate, the names of the things he killed are gone, so are the place names (maybe a general name though like "a cave", "a ruin"). Knowledge of the dragon would exist if it is still alive.Plus, this adds the potential for a nice legendary little spin on history. People might embellish the facts or make gods out of past heros.
If you somehow take an adventurer on a journey across the world, helping many civilizations... vanquishing many great beasts singlehandedly like hydras, dragons, bronze colossi... then you dissapear one day, killed by the last ounces of strength from a dying dragon.
That has all the potential to become a god story. :P
People would say that you went off back to the realm of the gods, perhaps to return someday in the future. There would be no way of knowing how he died unless somehow someone saw the him and the dragon lying next to each other.
But even that would just spawn more stories, like that the dragon was really a great demon in disguise and they were locked in a fierce battle of good and evil... and with a great blow from each side... both fell, to continue their battle on the spirit realm.

isitanos:
Oh yeah, it would be awesome to dig and find an ancient grotto with caveman paintings.Then charge visitors who want to come and see it  :) .

mickel:
"This is a cave painting of a stick figure and stick figures. The stick figure is brandishing a stick. The stick figures are running."

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