Athira Etha Interlude: Tales of Kings and Demons

*An edited, illustrated and narrated playthrough of the game Dwarf Fortress. This episode deals with "Legends mode" in particular.*

Today we're peeking into the endless library of the former capital and pulling out some interesting stories that helped to build Athira Etha! So, sit back, relax, learn and be entertained as we gain some context from history itself!

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Thanks to everyone who helped out with this episode!

-Mrs K for her unending support and expert waxwork (she colors all the drawings. With crayons.)
-And of course, you, for watching. Thank you for watching, my bearded bastard.

[NoGoodGame]

I *love* the fact that a demon lord, basically the equivalent of the Devil went to a sporting event. It's like a folk tale - amazing flavour

[henrisummers]

The story of a wrestler and a demon lord bonding over their shared enthusiasm for athletics sounds like a good pitch for a movie.

[fluffskunk]

"That's not my bag."

> creates life stories for characters that only have like 8 lines of text

[gimmick]

the demon visting the human town just to enjoy his hobby and make a friend was my fav.

[GillfigGarstang]

I love how you draw your elves to be so gangly and awkward looking. My head cannon is that your art style is actually meant to reflect your dwarves’ point of view, and to dwarves the typical tall willowy graceful Tolkien Elves we are used to seeing just happen to look unappealingly tall, thin and snooty.

[jacksonduruy]

Demon lord enters the world.

Decides to just chill.

Gets into wrestling.

Bonds with one of the wrestlers over their shared love of the sport.

His friend dies in war with his own evil nation.

What a tragic story.

[Andri]

The story of the Demon Lord who loved wrestling and his human buddy was hilarious and wholesome. I think there's a possibility here for short stories if you trawl hard enough through Legends Mode.

[smivan.]

The story of Wealthydeath and Kisnast is worthy of a sumerian tablet, two bros duke it out and become friends.
Brilliant.

[Top_Hat_Walrus]

Spoilers: 11:38











Logam giving Athel’s mom a sword called Ballkisses is such a troll move. Really sells the friendly rivalry

[Ottonymos]

11:55 Perfectly straight-faced delivery.

[GirmGent]

I love these drawings. They are so unique and a breath of fresh air from normal fantasy lore.

[Anarkopsykotik]

holy shit the dwarf who drowned in northbridge was a mathematician that discovered division in that world ?

[wizardom]

Whenever I see a Dwarf Fortress Legends episode, I go "HELL YEAH!!"
DF is a story generator.
I once generated a world, where a multi-racial library was attacked by goblins again and again, but each attack was fended off by a *single* vampire. He killed thousands of goblins to protect the written records. I'm just in complete awe of such stories.

[innocentqwa]

I love how we're learning more about the world we'll see more stories in. 😊

[johnniewoodard]

I liked your description of the Elves and their Circle of Life. Explains the Elves a little better....They want to be tree food.

[ishill]

i imagine Akam manifested Ranarethi as a result of a bet or game of chance which occurred in the spirit realm. I imagine goblin clerics argue about which diety won the bet as well. Him going to and enjoying festivals seems very correct for a being of his particular mystical nature, gambling and chance and all that. That whole wrestling thing could be a shoenen anime and i would watch it.
As for tamecanyon attacks not appearing in legends mode, i imagine now that rather than official acts of war those were done by a hardliner sect of their civilization. While such war parties are officially denounced or disavowed, really its understood as a way for elves to return to the cycle with honor.

[malec]

You know when Krug uploads it's gonna be a good day.

[-Sere-]

The starting of year 1 tied to the appearance of Goblins: that's genius! That's going to be my headcanon now. Also the Elven Wheel and suicide-by-battle. I wish the Elves were actually MADE of wood: the mobile fruit of their home-trees

[monseurwanksalotte]

like a shonen manga protagonist that ne man stepped up to wrestle and somewhat befriend the demon
what an amazing guy

[IlPane]

I LOVE this kind of videos. I found your channel back in 2019 thanks to the video about Epeve the elf. Still my favorite to this day!