The Destined Realms

A jumbled collection of disparate landmasses and peoples

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About:

Dwarf Fortress:

Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress is an indie pc game originally published in 2002 by brothers Tarn and Zach Adams. Best known for being notoriously complex to learn and for its procedural generation of insanity and Fun, the game received a graphics package for its 2022 release on Steam and Itch.io. The original freeware version is still available for free in its original ASCII format, but as a new-wave player and filthy casual, I can't cope with the fast-paced gameplay without the visual shorthand of recognizable images.

This Blog:

Cadenicamade-The Destined Realms is a jumbled collection of disparate landmasses and peoples, divided by oceans and cultural differences. I've played in this particular game for a few in-game decades, beginning in year 100, and at this point the amount of legends and lore I've collected and endured burdens my mind and soul. Blogging about my hyperfixation has been emotionally and creatively fulfilling in the past, and it's technically my own source material here, with absolute respect to the Adamses for the power they have gifted to me. I do not make the best possible use of it, but I'm not a god of prosperity. Armok is the Dwarven god of Fun.

Me:

hi yall, its hal. im an adult living in one of the less on-fire states in what used to be the united states. my personality primarily lives on my main blog @torpidgilliver. pronouns are they/them and it/its. you wont find a dni here; fascists of all kinds are blocked on sight but im not here to gatekeep my public blog. dont be an asshole to a stranger on the internet and you can interact or not at your leisure.

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My roommate figured out that she could use DFHack to tame clowns and the first one she bred took over her fortress

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this mf been stalking me for almost 60 years

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Dwarf Spotlight: Zuntir Såkzuldolil-Trumpetlocks, dungeon master and baroness of Irthunen Urdim Zarut

I received word from the outpost liason that the monarch has elevated Newlife to a barony. That sounds more impressive than it is; a fortress is governed directly by a democratically elected mayor, but any settlement that lasts long enough to accumulate a decent population and some semblance of wealth is honored (read: forced) to nominate one of its own to the position of governing noble. These dwarves are meant to be layabouts who report back directly to the monarch, but in practice it rarely works that bureaucractically. Nobody can afford not to work out here, and a settlement worth the dirt it's dug out of will strive to nominate someone who can be expected to prioritize real work over issuing unnecessary work orders.

Enter our nominee: Zuntir Trumpetlocks

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As you can see from the attached transcript from her interview, she has no particular attachment to any produced goods. Believe it or not, a simple list of preferences is step zero of the selection process. Personality testing doesn't come at all if the candidate has any item preferences whatsoever, which can sometimes prove problematic. Our dungeon master was actually the third dwarf to pass the pre-interview.

Compared to the first two candidates, both of whom dreamed of bathing the world in chaos, (and who doesn't, at least a little, right?) she's almost too perfect. The everydwarf can always appreciate a noble who hates the weaponization of power, and her personally hating war and sacrifice and valuing fair trade make her absolutely shiny compared to any of the rest of the unwashed masses here.

It's always good to have nobility who are just a little broken in from life at your settlement. You don't want some fresh-faced kid whose beard is still growing in patchy to suffer his radical personality shifts while in office and decide that he wants to wage war on the nearest neighbors.

We're looking forward to seeing what she makes of the place from here. Assuming that she lives long enough to make any sort of difference, that is.

We're out of soap, and the order we put in for the caravan might well never make it here, since this year's caravan never left. But more on that later.

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Active site: Irthunen Urdim Zarut

Newlife the Tower of Insanities was originally established in Granite 126 under the more traditional name of Newlife. Erected on an otherwise uninhibited landmass, the expedition party of The First Morality departed from the war-torn land of their home for something a bit more peaceful, where a grand project could be undertaken in relative peace. The fortress's epithet, Urdim Zarut "the Tower of Insanities," was earned by its nature; a sun-intolerant species, Dwarves typically carve their fortresses out of mountains—or, in a pinch, a hole in the ground—for both safety and resources. That those dunderfucks across the channel have opted to construct a wooden skyscraper in the middle of the savage badlands is a baffling bit of trivia to share over a goblet at a nice dark inn, back in civilization.

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