History LetsPlay / TheMuseum

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Pictham goes down with a weapon in her hand, fighting against a horde of undead goblins]]; she’s even specifically called out as this by the narrator.

** Moldath Mournsaints has been been to Hell and back (both literally and otherwise), is cursed by various afflictions (if being a necromancer that needs to drink blood isn't bad enough, he [[spoiler: caught a contagion that slowly rots his body. His ''[[AndIMustScream very immortal]]]]'' body), to the point where he's little more than an ambulatory corpse in perpetual physical pain. He’s still going strong by the 850s.

** The elves are down to a few hundred of their kind still in their ancestral lands, a number which has only been dropping as adventurer rampages and time gradually take their toll.

* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler: Kosoth]] goes from an idealistic young soldier seeking to prove himself to an [[spoiler: AxCrazy PlagueZombie that is used to spread the Obin Blight far and wide.]]
** This applies more generally to anybody bitten by a Blighted Thrall – the infection immediately renders them [[OmnicidalManiac opposed to life]], to the point where they will immediately attack both their erstwhile allies and even the creature that turned them [[note]] Briefly, at least: the infection does not reset conflict levels immediately, so a human-turned-thrall will still fight the thrall that turned them until the site is unloaded and re-entered – upon which they will be neutral/allies with the thrall that turned them.[[/note]].

** For [[spoiler: Vafice Wispcrypts]], her reckless DoNotGoGentle attitude. While her goal to immortalise her {{DyingRace}}’s exploits is arguably rather noble, it leads her to [[spoiler: travel to The Realm of Silver with inadequate equipment and training, which sees her unceremoniously ripped to pieces by a group of [[PlagueZombie blighted thralls]] within days of her arrival.]]

** Arcturus Cinderfang is an honourable warrior and deeply loyal to his friends and civilization. He’s also a rather brutal OneManArmy with a [[BerserkButton deep (if somewhat justified) hatred of elvenkind]] and isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty if it means killing more elves for his perceived and actual humiliation by their kind.

* IrrationalHatred: Goblin Rage, a strange mental condition that affects multiple adventurers. Those who are affected display an [[BerserkButton extreme hatred of goblins]], which frequently manifests as [[UnstoppableRage homicidal aggression]] toward any goblin unlucky enough to be in the sufferer’s vicinity.

** Zolak Wretchedmaligned, one of Orid Xem's first known Blighted Thralls. While Zolak created very few Blighted thralls in turn, their descendant-by-curse (having been infected by another adventuerer, Hannibal Valleyball) [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Shethbah Pagetribe]] was responsible for [[spoiler: infecting Kosoth Salvesank, who would proceed to unleash the [[MysticalPlague Obin Blight]] on a near-worldwide scale]].

* TookALevelInBadass: Galka Kinddrummed went from a slave in the Realm of Silver's mines to a [[spoiler: Blighted thrall-slaying vampiric badass.]]

* AxCrazy: Raki Umberclan the Bulbous's marble count was roughly in the negatives for most of his on-screen time, which saw him siring [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Weremammoths]] all over the place and writing unhinged rants about his intent to kill those responsible for decimating the megabeasts of the world.
** Moldath Mournsaints. Sometimes he'll kill a whole warband, sometimes he'll kill megabeasts, sometimes he'll kill [[LastOfHisKind the last living roc]], [[BadBoss sometimes he'll kill allies as collateral damage, sometimes he'll kill his own worshipers]], sometimes he'll kill undead... and sometimes he'll just raise undead [[ItAmusedMe because he feels like it]].
** Kosoth Salvesank becomes this as [[spoiler: the interaction between the Obin Blight and the FantasticDrug controlling him gradually degrades his faculties.]] By the time [[spoiler: he finally succumbs to its effects]], he’s reduced to rabid aggression against anything that gets in his path.

** Moldath Mournsaints the Ardent is a downplayed case of this; while he delights in inflicting (often sadistic) violence on anything that stands in his way and is certainly somewhat unstable, he can at least reign his murderous impulses in enough to interact with others.
* BadassArmy: Most of Ironwards’ military was extremely heavily trained, with a few even having hundreds of kills to their names and high-quality adamantine gear.

[[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175875.0 The Museum]] is a VideoGame/DwarfFortress SuccessionGame on the Bay 12 Forums. The main quirk of the game is that it is played mostly in adventure mode; players create a character and explore the world, trying to find an item to submit to the eponymous museum while writing an emerging story along the way.

** Moldath Mournsaints has been been to Hell and back (both literally and otherwise), is cursed by various affections (if being a necromancer needing to drink blood isn't bad enough, he caught a contagion that slowly rots his body. His ''[[AndIMustScream very immortal]]'' body), to the point where he's little more than an ambulatory corpse in perpetual physical pain. He’s still going strong by the 850s.

** In an interesting difference to the usual demon tropes, Egu Craftslenses the Key of Trading had several domains that you wouldn't usually associate with demons, such as birth, crafts, creation and rebirth.
* OverpopulationCrisis: A [[ZigzaggedTrope strange case]] of an InUniverse crisis having an out-of-game effect - a bug lead to ridiculous numbers (as in, 2.5 '''billion''' by the time the issue was solved) of [[OurOrcsAreDifferent necromancer experiments]] spawning in a few hamlets, to the point of crashing the game if someone tried to enter the settlements and rendering the popular Legends Viewer utility unusable due to an overflow error. It was eventually solved by using Dfhack's gm-editor to delete the populations of the hamlets, after which the bug did not reoccur.

** For [[spoiler: Tipi Fatewalks]], her [[CuriosityKilledTheCast curiosity]], desire to satisfy her [[{{Pride}}]] with the attention of others, and lack of combat skills. The former two eventually lead her to explore a [[CorpseLand visibly derelict and corpse-littered dwarven fortress]], where she [[spoiler: runs into a [[OmnicidalManiac husk]].]] [[CurbStompBattle The result was about as pleasant as you might expect.]]

[[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175875.0 The Museum]] is a VideoGame/DwarfFortress SuccessionGame on the Bay 12 Forums. The main quirk of the game is that it is played mostly in adventure mode; players create a character and explore the world, trying to find an item to submit to the eponymous museum while writing an interesting story along the way.

* AxCrazy: Raki Umberclan the Bulbous, who spent most of his on-screen time siring [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Weremammoths]] and writing unhinged rants about his intent to kill those responsible for decimating the megabeasts of the world.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[IncurableCoughOfDeath Urus Ghostumbral]] strikes one of these with [[{{Plaguemaster}} Gopet the Putrid Cyst]], after [[spoiler: unwittingly reading a scroll containing the secrets of life and death; though this cures him of his illness, Gopet demands repayment from Urus in return.]] The nature of this deal become clear later on, as Gopet [[spoiler: manipulates Urus into learning further [[{{Necromancer}} necromantic secrets]], placing a large source of vampire blood within arm's reach of numerous unscrupulous adventurers, and finally slaughtering over a thousand goblins in Gopet's name - the last of which is implied to have given him significantly more power than before.]]

* MeatgrinderSurgery: [[FrontierDoctor Hannibal Valleyball's]] specialty; he refers to a scimitar as a scalpel, his story opens with him citing a 'successful' operation (a goblin with an injury list summarisable as "his everything is gone") then dissecting (read: dismembering) a blighted thrall, and he's indicated to be a butcher by profession rather than a surgeon.

* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: After seeding several settlements with werebeasts, Raki Umberclan the Bulbous committed ritual suicide in the pyramid of [[MeaningfulName Monkeycurse]] while leaving instructions on how to resurrect him, intending to return as a nigh-unstoppable [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead werewolf lion tamarin man necromancer]]. [[spoiler: The plan worked, though not entirely on schedule - most of his sired werebeasts were gone by [[GodOfEvil Gopet the Putrid Cyst]] forced [[TheExile Irthu Bladebroken]] into resurrecting the mad monkey, and Raki himself was ultimately (and this time, permanently) killed before he could put his plans into action]].
* MythologyGag: Moldath's name and origin is one; the original Museum had an amulet ('''Mournsaints''' the Fire-Ruler of Rewards) which would randomly teleport from site to site. Moldath pops into existence one day out of thin air, similar to most depictions of teleportation, and is heavily implied to ''[[GeniusLoci be]]'' the amulet, having [[DimensionalTraveler travelled from one universe to another]].

* ThePenance: [[HunterOfMonsters Lonelythrall]] [[ReligiousBruiser the Hideous]] is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced plunging his face into ice-water then whipping himself bloody with a birch rod, praying for Armok to forgive him for the 'sin' of being a Hand of Planegifts as he does so]]. While it's not shown on-screen, he's also mentioned as doing this after killing his first Roc (out of shame at giving into his bestial nature and PummelingTheCorpse) and after [[spoiler: uncovering the breach into hell at Deepvaulted the Tower of Stars]].

* HeritageDisconnect: Nine Shovelmurders is an elf raised by dwarves, with this as the result. She notes that the elves' morality tales come off as inane, expresses discomfort at sleeping under trees and the open sky rather than underground or in a building, and is revolted by the elves' SapientEatSapient practices, courtesy of her being raised by enslaved dwarves in a human civilization.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Despite being physically frail, extremely weak, and overall the [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys of the Museum]], kobolds still managed to kill off several adventurers during ambushes by lucky hits and weight of numbers.
* MistakenForUndead: Logic Legendfinder (the first adventurer of the first Museum) was accused of vampirisim and left his hometown to escape [[TorchesAndPitchforks a brewing mob]].
* ResurrectiveImmortality: [[ButtMonkey Sluguflonkus the kobold]], who kept returning to life whenever the adventurers of the Museum killed her. By the time the game ended, she had been killed about six times, with at least one of her corpses [[DeadGuyOnDisplay displayed as a Museum exhibit]].

** Raki Umberclan has a reputation for [[spoiler: setting off a series of werebeast outbreaks (and for his UndignifiedDeath).]]

* MeatgrinderSurgery: [[FrontierDoctor Hannibal Valleyball's]] specialty; he refers to a scimitar a scalpel, his story opens with him citing a 'succcessful' operation (a goblin with an injury list summarisable as "his everything is gone") then dissecting (read: dismembering) a , and he's indicated to be a butcher by profession rather than a surgeon.

* DownerEnding: Frequent, due to the high-mortality nature of the game, though several stories stand out due to being tragedy-focused.

** [[spoiler: Amala Fragranceshaft [[AmbiguousSituation either kills her sister or indirectly causes her death]] due to [[EvilWeapon Okirramtak's]] influence, then ends her life out of guilt after entombing her sister's body.]]

* EldritchLocation: Multiple fortresses were rendered inaccessible by FPS issues or bugs with the save; these are explained InUniverse as becoming these, with the paths to the fortress looping back on themselves or time slowing to a crawl whenever an adventurer endeavours to approach the settlement.
* GhostCity: The larger abandoned (or destroyed) player-made fortresses often come off as this, prior to some unlucky adventurer or reclaim party running into whatever doomed the fortress.

* LeftHanging: Sometimes happens when a player posts some of their turn's story but doesn't finish writing it up, or when a multi-turn StoryArc's author drops out of the turn list for whatever reason. The Historians Guild was created with the intent to try and [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] the former issue; the idea being that volunteer users could look through Legends Mode then write up their interpretation of the turn based off the events they discovered.

* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: Many new adventurers end up meeting retired ones during their travels.
* RedBaron: Frequently acquired (both in and out of universe) long-lasting or unique adventurers, such as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Dishmab]] [[OneManArmy Northmanor]] [[NighInvulnerable the Twice-Husked]]/[[HeroKiller the Lord of Death]], [[TheUndead Moldath]] [[MasterOfOneMagic Mournsaints]] [[HandicappedBadass the Blind]] {{Sadist}}, or [[BearsAreBadNews Arcturus "Apocalypse Bear" Cinderfang]].

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=104399.msg5317071#msg5317071 Dishmab]], having defeated every last foe that The Portentous Domain could throw at him, is elevated to godhood by [[TopGod Armok]] in recognition of his power and deeds. [[note]]The out-of-universe reason was that Dishmab essentially disappeared at some point, rendering it impossible to find him in-game; since he was easily one of the most powerful adventurers in all of the Museum's continuities and had a reputation as an unofficial MemeticBadass among the Museum's players, this was written in as an explanation for him vanishing.[[/note]]

* CouldntFindAPen: [[spoiler: Istrul Tababehal]] writes his last diary entry in his own blood, as he lies dying from a Kobold ambush.

* EnslavedElves: Played with. The elves are at least partly under the boot of the western human kingdoms, but at least one independent nation of elves exists.

* {{Gorn}}: One of the exhibits in the first Museum consists of 31494 items made of human body parts, all stacked into a pile. Several exhibits in the third are little more than massive piles of corpses and body parts.

* ResurrectiveImmortality: [[ButtMonkey Sluguflonkus the kobold]], who kept returning to life whenever the adventurers of the Museum killed her.

** Averted in the case of Dreamypuzzled the Eternal, who is every bit as evil as you might expect of a [[spoiler: [[DemonicPossession Demon-possessed goblin]].]]

* EndOfAnAge: Double-subverted. Orid Xem actually switched between the Age of Myth and the Age of Legends [[UpToEleven three separate]] times prior to [[HunterOfMonsters Lonelythrall's]] adventure, after which the game shifted to the Age of Heroes and remained as such.

** Moldath Mournsaints is blind [[spoiler: thanks to a syndrome [[EyeScream rotting his eyes into uselessness]].]] It doesn't stop him from being a lethally strong weaponmaster who [[{{Sadist}} enjoys inflicting violence and pain on others]], [[spoiler: particularly after he begins [[OurVampiresAreDifferent accumulating]] [[MasterOfOneMagic multiple power-ups]] [[BackFromTheDead through several methods]].]]

** Zolak Wretchedmaligned, one of Orid Xem's first known Blighted Thralls. While Zolak created very few Blighted thralls in turn, their descendent-by-curse [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Shethbah Pagetribe]] was responsible for [[spoiler: infecting Kosoth Salvesank, who would proceed to unleash the [[MysticalPlague Obin Blight]] on a near-worldwide scale]].

* {{Necromancer}}: Surprisingly common throughout Orid Xem, with numerous adventurers and historical figures alike learning the secrets of life and death.

** Moldath's very first words.

* ThePlague: The early days of the game had the Silver Plague, a disease which killed just under half of the human population in the world (around twenty-five to thirty thousand people, and even more in the years since) [[note]]From an out-of-universe perspective, it was the explanation for [[https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=11536 a bug that caused large numbers of 'outcast' populations to appear and then suddenly disappear after an adventurer encountered them]][[/note]]. The disease is indicated to attack the respiratory tract, taking root in the lungs before spreading out to the rest of the body; most victims either choke to death on their own blood or suffocate as their [[BodyHorror lungs become covered in necrotic sores and then dissolve outright]].
** Much later on, the [[MysticalPlague Obin Blight]], which turns anyone infected by it into [[PlagueZombie blighted thralls]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler: Bralbaard Hammerfishes]], who is disturbed by [[EmotionSuppression the effects of]] [[TheDarkArts his undead nature]] and admits there is much he would give up to live again. [[spoiler: Part of the reason for his founding of Herograves was to avert this trope for future adventurers.]]

** The Obin Blight began as a downplayed example of this; the [[PlagueZombie blighted thralls]] involved in spreading the Blight were mostly confined to The Realm of Silver and a few settlements outside of it, but their ability to travel between sites like regular histfigs and [[ViralTransformation convert others via bite]] swiftly resulted in them beginning to spread uncontrollably.

* ArtifactOfDoom: Necromancer slabs.

** Lonelythrall also drops a 40K reference when killing his first Roc:

** In turn, [[spoiler: [[GodOfEvil Gopet the Putrid Cyst]] or [[NebulousEvilOrganisation the Abyssal Cult]]]] plays this role to Ketas Indigovaulted, being the one who [[spoiler: instructs Ketas to spread his comrade's "[[MysticalPlague gift]]" across the world, setting off the Obin Blight and all the mayhem, deaths, and disease that resulted]].
* ThePlague: The early days of the game had the Silver Plague, a disease which killed just under half of the human population in the world [[note]]From an out-of-universe perspective, it was the explanation for [[https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=11536 a bug that caused large numbers of 'outcast' populations to appear and then suddenly disappear after an adventurer encountered them]][[/note]].

** In turn, [[spoiler: [[GodOfEvil Gopet the Putrid Cyst]] or another [[{{Plaguemaster}} disease and plague-affiliated god]]]] plays this role to Ketas Indigovaulted, being the one who [[spoiler: instructs Ketas to spread his comrade's "[[MysticalPlague gift]]" across the world, setting off the Obin Blight and all the mayhem, deaths, and disease that resulted]].

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler: Bralbaard Hammerfishes, after his ascent to the throne.]] Later zig-zagged after his deposing; while he's no longer a member of the royalty, he's still definitely in the business of doing things.

* WeaponOfChoice: Any weapon given a name by an adventurer is usually this by default.

* BodyCountCompetition: An informal and out-of-universe example. Several adventurers seem to be competing for the highest body count possible, to the point where the [[https://dflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Orid_Xem_tops#Most_notable_kills wiki for the game has a list of the ten adventurers with the highest body counts]] (at least, for Museum III).

* RedBaron: Frequently acquired (both in and out of universe) long-lasting or unique adventurers, such as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Dishmab]] [[OneManArmy Northmanor]] [[NighInvulnerable the Twice-Husked]], [[TheUndead Moldath]] [[MasterOfOneMagic Mournsaints]] [[HandicappedBadass the Blind]] {{Sadist}}, or [[BearsAreBadNews Arcturus "Apocalypse Bear" Cinderfang]].

* AnyoneCanDie: Adventuring is hardly a safe profession, and PC deaths are a common occurrence.

** [[spoiler: Nine Shovelmurders dies a pointless, brutal death [[DyingAlone in the middle of nowehere]] at the hands of several bandits.]]

** [[spoiler: Amala Fragranceshaft [[AmbiguousSituation either kills her sister or indirectly causes her death]] due to [[EvilWeapon Okirramtak's]] inluence, then ends her life out of guilt after entombing her sister's body.]]

* MasterOfOneMagic: Several adventurers accumulate massive amounts of knowledge related to necromantic magic over the course of their adventurers, becoming this in doing so.

** Taken UpToEleven by Moldath later on, [[spoiler: as he becomes a form of Intelligent Undead, further boosting his already impressive durability]].

* RedBaron: Frequently acquired (both in and out of universe) long-lasting or unique adventurers, such as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Dishmab]] [[OneManArmy Northmanor]] [[NighInvulnerable the Twice-Husked]], Kaslun Wadsomber [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Whirling Anguish]], or Arcturus "Apocalypse Bear" Cinderfang.

* CouldntFindAPen: [[spoiler: Istrul Tababehal's]] last diary entry is written in his own blood, as he lies dying from a Kobold ambush.

* DeathIsCheap: Heavily [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]]; while there are plenty of necromancers capable of resurrecting dead characters and several adventurers have been brought BackFromTheDead as intelligent undead, actually ''finding'' the corpse of a dead adventurer is a task in its own right and there's no guarantee that the body will be in good enough condition to resurrect.

* {{Determinator}}: Galka Kinddrummed. Despite [[spoiler: finding out that the Realm of Silver's glory was a lie to justify enslaving others, being badly injured by aggressive wildlife, and facing offf against murderous hordes of Blighted Thralls,]] he refuses to give up.

* EndOfAnAge: Double-subverted. Orid Xem actually switched between the Age of Myth and the Age of Legends [[UpToEleven three separate]] times prior to [[HunterOfMonsters Lonelythrall's]] adventure, after which the game shifted to the Age of Heroes and remained as such. Later played straight during turn 73, as the deaths of the last great megabeasts in Orid Xem drove the world into the Golden Age.

* FamedInStory: Owing to the setting and premise of the game, several adventurers have become this.

* KnightInSourArmor: [[spoiler: Galka Kinddrummed]] becomes this by the end of his story; while he's much more world-weary and [[TookALevelInCynic cynical]], compared to his bright-eyed self at the start, his last appearance has him helping a young boy to achieve his dream and he's implied to be watching over a group of dwarves as a protector of sorts.

** The Obin Blight is a downplayed example of this; the [[PlagueZombie blighted thralls]] involved in spreading the Blight are mostly confined to The Realm of Silver and a few settlements outside of it, but their ability to migrate from settlement to settlement and [[ViralTransformation create new thralls through their bites]] gives them the potential to spread elsewhere and begin causing havoc.

[[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175875.0 The Museum]] is a VideoGame/DwarfFortress SuccessionGame on the Bay 12 Forums. The main quirk of the game is that it is played mostly in adventure mode; players create a character and explore the world, trying to find an item that to submit to the eponymous museum while writing an interesting story along the way.

* BreatherEpisode: In between the short tragedies and grand adventures, a few of these can be found. One of the most recent examples would be [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175875.msg8353202#msg8353202 that of Maloy Craftsoars]], in which a [[BeastMan Wolf Man]] and his pet dog ([[ItMakesSenseInContext and a possibly-sentitent ear]]) explore the world.

** [[spoiler: A very literal example in the case of [[SquashedFlat Yufluggus Cavernslides]], who accidentally triggered a drawbridge to fall on him.]]
* DueToTheDead: The Tomb of Heroes and Herograves were both founded on this principle, as a place where dead adventurers could be buried rather than left to rot or to be resurrected by {{Necromancer}}s.

* LeftHanging: Sometimes happens when a player posts some of their turn's story but doesn't finish writing it up, or when a multi-turn StoryArc's author drops out of the turn list for whatever reason.
** The Historians Guild was created with the intent to try and [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] the former issue, by having volunteer users look through Legends Mode then write up their interpretation of the turn.

* CouldntFindAPen: [[spoiler: Istrul Tababehal's]] last diary entry is written in his own blood, as he [[spoiler: lies dying from a Kobold ambush.]]

* {{Gorn}}: One of the exhibits consists of 31494 items made of human body parts, all stacked into a pile.

** Moldath Mournsaints is blind [[spoiler: thanks to a syndrome [[EyeScream rotting his eyes into uselessness]].]] It doesn't stop him from being a lethally strong weaponmaster who [[{{Sadist}} enjoys inflicting violence and pain on others]], [[spoiler: particularly after he begins [[OurVampiresAreDifferent accumulating]] [[TheArchmage multiple power-ups]] [[BackFromTheDead through several methods]].]]

* ThePlague: The early days of the game had the Silver Plague, a disease which killed at least 40% of the human population [[note]]From an out-of-universe perspective, it was the explanation for [[https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=11536 a bug that caused large numbers of 'outcast' populations to appear and then suddenly disappear after an adventurer encountered them]][[/note]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler: Bralbaard Hammerfishes]], who is disturbed by [[EmotionSuppression the effects of]] [[TheDarkArts his undead nature]] and admits there is much he would give up to live again. [[spoiler: Part of the reason for his founding of Herograves (in-character) was to avert this trope for future adventurers.]]

** Whatever [[spoiler: Ezif Aroirum found in the ruins of Gor and Duskhome is implied [[GoMadFromTheRevelation to have ''not'' been kind to his sanity.]]]]

* OneManArmy: Most of the adventurers with [[BodyCountCompetition particularly high kill counts]] are this by default. Taken UpToEleven by Kosoth Griffonblaze, whose combat skills BrokeTheRatingScale [[note]]DF's skills normally go to Legendary+5. Kosoth's melee combat skill alone was Legendary '''+548'''[[/note]].

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=104399.msg5317071#msg5317071 Dishmab]], having defeated every last foe that The Portentous Domain could throw at him, is elevated to godhood by [[TopGod Armok]] in recognition of his power and deeds [[note]]The out-of-universe reason being that Dishmab essentially disappeared at some point, rendering it impossible to find him in game[[/note]].

* EndOfAnAge: Double-subverted. Orid Xem actually switched between the Age of Myth and the Age of Legends three separate times prior to Lonelythrall's adventure, after which the game shifted to the Age of Heroes and remained as such. Later played straight during turn 73, as the deaths of the last great megabeasts in Orid Xem drove the world into the Golden Age.

** Bil Hammertome is indicated to be this, having [[spoiler: slain Oddom Girdergrove and destroyed her [[ArtifactOfDoom slab]].]]

* KnightInSourArmor: [[spoiler: Galka Kinddrumed]] becomes this by the end of his story; while he's much more world-weary and [[TookALevelInCynic cynical]], compared to his bright-eyed self at the start, his last appearance has him helping a young boy to achieve his dream and he's implied to be watching over a group of dwarves as a protector of sorts.

** Zolak Wretchedmaligned, one of Orid Xem's first known Blighted Thralls. While Zolak themself created very few Blighted thralls in turn, their descendent-by-curse [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Shethbah Pagetribe]] was responsible for [[spoiler: infecting Kosoth Salvesank, who would proceed to unleash the [[MysticalPlague Obin Blight]] on a near-worldwide scale]].

* ShoutOut: Moldath's very first words.

->''"[[TemptingFate So we've started this with the idea to fill the museum with wonderful artefacts, items and happy visitors. A place where young and old can marvel at the wonders of the world. An educational experience for the kids, a place you can visit with the entire family.]] We are currently three turns in, [[PaintTheTownRed and the main hall is coated in blood, intestines and random corpses.]] There's a huge pile of 3000 items [[CreepySouvenir made of human body parts in a corner]] NoodleIncident and the remaining members of the staff of the museum are, as I type this, being slowly choked to death by one of our adventurers.''

[[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175875.0 The Museum]] is a VideoGame/DwarfFortress SucessionGame conducted on the Bay 12 Forums. The main quirk of the game is that it is played mostly in adventure mode, with the ultimate goal of the game being to find and display an item in the eponymous museum while creating an interesting story along the way.

The sequel, [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=143382.0 The Museum II]], which began in 2014 and finished in 2015.

* ToHellAndBack: Multiple times, by multiple different adventurers.

* CultureClash: [[MeaningfulName Nine Shovelmurders]] left the elven civilization over this - due to being [[RaisedByRival raised by dwarves from an early age]], her values were deeply different to the those of the typical elf, resulting in her [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walking out in disgust]] when given the choice between immediate exile or [[SapientEatSapient eating meat cut from slain dwarves]].
* {{Gorn}}: One of the exhibits consists of 31494 items made of human body parts, all stacked into a pile. Several others are various body parts or even entire corpses.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Despite being physically frail and weak, kobolds still managed to kill off several adventurers during ambushes by lucky hits and weight of numbers.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: [[ButtMonkey Sluguflonkus the kobold]], who kept returning to life whenever the adventurers of the Museum killed her.

* ArtifactOfDoom: Necromancer slabs.
* AxCrazy: [[ManiacMonkeys Raki Umberclan the Bulbous]], after seeing the Museum's inside.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[AwesomeMcCoolname Avolition Holyblood the Autumnal Kingdoms]] beat at least a thousand goblins to death [[ThrowTheBookAtThem with the tube agate book Common Sense Goblins]].

* MythologyGag: Moldath's name and origin is one; the original Museum had an amulet ('''Mournsaints''' the Fire-Ruler of Rewards) which would randomly teleport from site to site. Moldath just pops into existence one day out of thin air, similar to most depictions of teleportation, and is heavily implied to ''[[GeniusLoci be]]'' the amulet, having [[DimensionalTraveler travelled from one universe to another]].

* UndignifiedDeath: Overlapping with DisneyVillainDeath. [[spoiler: Raki Umberclan the Bulbous, having been resurrected as a powerful form of undead, gets knocked into a BottomlessPit by a [[FragileSpeedster Devil of Steam]], permakilling him in something of an ignoble end for a previous VillanProtagonist.]]
* VanishingVillage: Gor (The Pit) and Duskhome both vanished due to a bug which erased any trace of the fortresses made there.

* DueToTheDead: The Tomb of Heroes and Herograves were both founded on this principal, as a place where dead adventurers could be buried rather than left to rot or to be resurrected by {{Necromancer}}s.
* EldritchLocation: Multiple fortresses were rendered inaccessible by FPS issues or bugs with the save, which are often explained InUniverse as becoming these.

* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: The eponymous Museum; since there are no real restrictions on what can be submitted (or where they need to be put), exhibits range from the corpses of titanic beasts and priceless articles of jewelery to bags of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent husk]]-creating dust and collections of dice. Overlaps with MishmashMuseum, as the vast majority of the exhibits are located in one area with little regard for categories.

* OneManArmy: Most of the adventurers with [[BodyCountCompetition particularly high kill counts]] are this by default. Taken UpToEleven by Kosoth Griffonblaze, whose combat skills BrokeTheRatingScale [[note]]DF's skills usually go to Legendary+5. Kosoth's melee combat skill alone was Legendary '''+548'''[[/note]].

** The dwarves are arguably a downplayed case of this; while [[EvilSorcerer Oddom Girdergrove's]] wars royally wrecked their empire and greatly reduced their population, the creation of new player fortresses and adventurers has been keeping their population at least somewhat stable.
* EndOfAnAge: Double-subverted. Orid Xem actually switched between the Age of Myth and the Age of Legends three separate times prior to Lonelythrall's adventure, after which the game shifted to the Age of Heroes and remained as such.

** Lonelythrall is famous InUniverse for [[spoiler: clearing a [[BrutalBonusLevel vault]], killing several megabeasts and night trolls, and being the first adventurer in Orid Xem to enter {{Hell}} and kill several of the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent HFS]].]]

* MythologyGag: Moldath's name and origin is one; the original Museum had an amulet ('''Mournsaints''' the Fire-Ruler of Rewards) which would randomly teleport about from site to site. He's heavily implied to ''[[GeniusLoci be]]'' the amulet, having [[DimensionalTraveler travelled from one universe to another]].

* OverpopulationCrisis: A [[ZigzaggedTrope strange case]] of an InUniverse crisis having an out-of-game effect - a bug lead to ridiculous numbers[[note]] as in, 2.5 '''billion''' by the time the issue was solved[[/note]] of [[OurOrcsAreDifferent necromancer experiments]] spawning in a few hamlets, to the point of crashing the game if someone tried to enter the settlements and rendering the popular Legends Viewer utility unusable. [[note]] It was eventually solved by using Dfhack to delete the populations of the hamlets, after which the bug did not reoccur.[[/note]]

[[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175875.0 The Museum]] is a series of VideoGame/DwarfFortress LetsPlays conducted on the Bay 12 Forums. The main quirk of the game is that it is played mostly in adventure mode, with the core goal of the game being to find and display an item in the eponymous museum while creating a story along the way.

The game has gone through three separate incarnations:

* EldritchLocation: Multiple fortresses were rendered inaccessible by FPS issues, which are often explained InUniverse as becoming these.
* LeftHanging: Sometimes happens when a player posts some of their turn's story, but doesn't finish for whatever reason.
* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: The eponymous Museums; since there are no real restrictions on what can be submitted (or where they need to be put), exhibits range from the corpses of titanic beasts and the weapons used to kill them to bags of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent husk]]-creating dust and a collection of dice. Overlaps with MishmashMuseum, as the vast majority of the exhibits are located in one area with little regard for categories.
* OneManArmy: Most of the adventurers with [[BodyCountCompetition particularly high kill counts]] are this by default. Taken UpToEleven by Kosoth Griffonblaze, whose combat skills BrokeTheRatingScale [[note]]DF's skills usually go to Legendary+5. Kosoth's melee combat skill alone was '''Legendary +548'''[[/note]].

* RedBaron: Frequently acquired or given to long-lasting or unique adventurers, such as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Dishmab]] [[OneManArmy Northmanor]] [[NighInvulnerable the Twice-Husked]], or Kaslun Wadsomber [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Whirling Anguish]].
* ToHellAndBack: Several times, by different adventurers.

* CultureClash: [[MeaningfulName Nine Shovelmurders]] left the elven civilization over this - due to being [[RaisedByRival raised by dwarves from an early age]], her values were deeply different to the those of the typical elf, resulting in her walking out in disgust when given the choice between immediate exile or [[SapientEatSapient eating meat cut from slain dwarves]].
* {{Gorn}}: One of the exhibits consists of 31494 items made of human body parts, all stacked into a pile.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Despite being physically frail and ridiculously weak, kobolds still managed to kill off several adventurers during ambushes.

* AxCrazy: [[ManiacMonkeys Raki Umberclan the Bulbous]].

* DeathIsCheap: Heavily [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]]; while there are plenty of necromancers capable of resurrecting dead characters and several adventurers have been brought BackFromTheDead, actually ''finding'' the corpse of a dead adventurer is a task in its own right and there's no guarantee that the body will be in resurrectable condition.

* DyingRace: The kobolds of Orid Xem number a few dozen at best, and it's only been dropping since the game started.

** [[AdventurerArchaeologist Bralbaard Hammerfishes]] has become this following his [[spoiler: ascent to the position of King of The Walled Dye and subsequent return to adventuring.]]

** Raki Umberclan is (in)famous for [[spoiler: setting off a series of werebeast outbreaks (and for his UndignifiedDeath).]]

* MadeOfIron: Moldath Mournsaints. He endured being shot repeatedly with arrows and getting his limbs broken, [[BodyHorror having his entire body rot]], having most of his rotten flesh ''flayed off'' by a [[WorstAid amateur surgeon]], and being beaten fifty times with a hammer (''twice'') as part of a judicial sentence.
* MythologyGag: Moldath's name and origin is one; the original Museum had an amulet ('''Mournsaints''' the Fire-Ruler of Rewards) which would randomly teleport about from site to site. He's implied to ''[[GeniusLoci be]]'' the amulet, having [[DimensionalTraveler travelled from one universe to another]].

* UndignifiedDeath: Overlapping with DisneyVillainDeath. [[spoiler: Raki Umberclan the Bulbous, having been resurrected as a powerful form of undead, gets knocked into a BottomlessPit by a [[FragileSpeedster Devil of Steam]], permakilling him.]]
* VanishingVillage: Gor and Duskhome both vanished mid-game due to a bug which erased any trace of the fortresses made there.

* ThePlague: The early days of the game had the Silver Plague[[note]][[https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=11536 a bug that caused large numbers of 'outcast' populations to appear and then suddenly disappear after an adventurer encountered them]][[/note]], a disease which killed at least 40% of the human population.

* EndOfAnAge: Double-subverted. Orid Xem actually switched between the Age of Myth and the Age of Legends three separate times prior to Lonelythrall's adventure, after which the game shifted to the Age of Heroes and remained as such so far.

** Whatever Ezif Aroirum found in the ruins of Gor and Duskhome is implied [[GoMadFromTheRevelation to have ''not'' been kind to his sanity.]]

* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: The eponymous Museum; since there are no real restrictions on what can be submitted (or where they need to be put), exhibits range from the corpses of titanic beasts and the weapons used to kill them to bags of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent husk]]-creating dust and a collection of dice. Overlaps with MishmashMuseum, as the vast majority of the exhibits are located in one area with little regard for categories.
* OneManArmy: Most of the adventurers with [[BodyCountCompetition particularly high kill counts]] are this by default. Taken UpToEleven by adventurers such as Kosoth Griffonblaze, due to their absurdly high combat skill levels.

* {{Gorn}}: One of the exhibits is nothing 31494 items made of human body parts, all stacked into a pile.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Despite being physically frail and ridiculously weak, Kobolds still managed to
* ResurrectiveImmortality: [[ButtMonkey Sluguflonkus the kobold]], who (despite being killed several times) kept returning to life while leaving a corpse behind each time.

* BearsAreBadNews: Well, bear ''people'' are, as Arcturus Cindefang can certainly attest.

* {{Necromancer}}: Surprisingly common throughout Orid Xem, with numerous adventurers and historical figures alike learning the secrets of life and death.

* OmnicidalManiac: [[EvilSorcerer Oddom]] [[{{Necromancer}} Girdergrove]], the dwarf responsible for launching several wars against literally every other civilization in Orid Xem. She managed to drive the elves and dwarves to near-extinction before being stopped, with the overall death toll from her wars being in the thousands.

* ThePlague: The early days of the game had the 'Silver Plague'[[note]]Out of universe, [[https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=11536 a bug that caused large numbers of 'outcast' populations to appear and then suddenly disappear after an adventurer encountered them]][[/note]], a disease which killed at least 40% of the human population.

* MuseumOfTheStrangeAndUnusual: The eponymous Museum; since there are no real restrictions on what can be submitted (or where they need to be put), exhibits range from the corpses of titanic beasts and the weapons used to kill them to bags of husk-creating dust and a collection of dice. Overlaps with MishmashMuseum, as the vast majority of the exhibits are located in one area with little regard for categories.
* OneManArmy: Most of the adventurers with particularly high kill counts are this by default. Taken UpToEleven by adventurers such as Kosoth Griffonblaze, due to their absurdly high combat skill levels.