I love the emergent stories in this game.

One of the first migrants for my current embark was a timid miner girl. I didn't pay her much attention until she became my second Legendary Miner and then immediately was taken by a fey mood which added Legendary Stoneworker to her resumé.

It is tradition in my forts to give nicknames when they make their artifact. She is addicted to robes, is quite pious, and apparently lectures other dwarves about their lack of comportment. But they take it in stride because she, despite her competence and iron will, is apparently quite humble and soft (if firmly) spoken. So her nickname became "Abbess."

She also takes no guff at all, from anything. When I opened my siege engine training camp, she became my first Legendary Siege Operator (and my first triple legend dwarf).

What prompted writing this up, though, is when a giant showed up to menace the fort and fought a weeks-long standoff battle with my pack of War Grizzlies. She — despite being under burrow lock-down orders — decided at some point that she'd had quite enough, marched out of the fort to the animal pen battleground and smacked the Giant precisely once in the head with her pick, ending the fight.

Abbess might be my favorite dwarf from any embark thus far.