Editing 40d:King

{{quality|Exceptional|16:46, 4 August 2011 (UTC)}}{{Noble
| noble=King
| office=Royal Throne Room
| quarters=Royal Bedroom
| dining=Royal Dining Room
| tomb=Royal Mausoleum
| chests=10
| cabinets=5
| racks=5
| stands=5
| mandates=5
| demands=10
| arrival=
* [[Duke|Duchy]], high [[value]] of architecture, roads and offerings to a Dwarven [[caravan]]
* '''or''' discover [[Adamantine]]
| function=
* Promote [[fortress]] to Mountainhome
}}{{av}}

The '''King''' is the [[dwarf]] named as ruler of the dwarf civilization in the [[civilization]]s screen. When the King arrives, your fortress will be promoted to Mountainhome and capital of that civilization.

The king may, in fact, be a '''Queen'''.  She will be referred to as such in text relating to the process of her arrival.

==Requirements==
Once your [[fortress]] becomes the capital of a [[Duke|duchy]], 'The Incoming King' will appear on your nobles screen. You will need to reach a certain architectural [[value]], [[road]] value (whether from paved roads or [[bridge]]s), and [[Trading|offerings]] required (to the dwarven civ's merchants) for the King to arrive. The values needed for each vary from fort to fort, but can be viewed by examining 'The Incoming King' on the nobles screen. Offerings to merchants must actually reach the king: the merchants must make it safely off the map with your offerings.

Alternately, if you find [[adamantine]], this [[noble]] will make a surprise arrival, dressed as a [[peasant]].  Despite arriving dressed as a peasant, he will make the same room and furniture demands as otherwise.  

The adamantine king was bugged in some previous versions,{{version|0.27.176.38c}} where you were not guaranteed the ruler when you discover adamantine, but instead the first dwarf in the full civ list.  This may have been fixed.

==Arrival==
If the king arrives normally (i.e., not from adamantine), he will come with some Royal [[Guard]]s and an [[advisor]].  The spouses (if any) of the king's entourage will also arrive at this time, all in the form of peasants.  The [[king consort|king's spouse]] will also arrive if he or she is still alive (this is dependent on history generation).

A king that comes dressed as a peasant will have no entourage, and therefore no advisor and no royal guards.

The arrival of the king makes your fortress the mountainhome.  The foremost consequence of this is you will no longer receive a trade [[liaison]] from your civilization, so can no longer make special request of them, and you can no longer make offerings to the caravan. 

===Wounds===
Occasionally, a King or Queen will have received crippling [[Wound|injuries]] during world generation, long before they arrive on your map.  These injuries will be permanent - either lost limbs ([[Wound|dark grey]]) or non-healing spinal/nervous injuries.  That's life.

Under certain circumstances its reported possible for the Monarch to die of old age immediately upon entering your map.  This is believed to be caused by the time taken for you to reach capitol status plus the monarch's age during worldgen exceeding lifespan

==Mandates==
Due to a bug (which has persisted to many later versions), the king has no [[preference]]s of any sort; as a result, the king will be incapable of making any [[mandate]]s.

==Non-dwarven Rulers==
It is possible to have non-dwarven rulers.  In these cases your liaison may be of another race other than dwarf and when the king arrives, he will also be of that race.  All other nobles that come will still be dwarves.  Non-dwarven kings make no room demands, and they do not move into your fortress, instead hanging out at the edge of the map where they first arrived.  In the unit list, they appear as "Friendly", and they do not appear on your [[Nobles screen]].  The length of their reign is usually limited to the next [[siege]] unless you take measures to protect them.

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