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Draft version Template:L

Introduced in v0.31.17, and further expanded in v.3?.01, Night creatures are a class of hostile creatures. Many of them are generated procedurally, whether as a full creature, through an Template:L changing a normal creature, or a mixture of both. Due to their larger exposure, Template:Ls are generally called night creatures on the forums.

Each type of night creature is depicted in the game as either a ñ or Ñ of a different color. The currently existing night creatures are the following:

• Template:Ls, which abduct certain civilized creatures of the opposite gender, transform them into a spouse, and mate with them. They are represented by a dark green Ñ.
• Template:L, which ambush lone travelers at night, chasing them relentlessly until the victim can retreat indoors or manages to survive until daylight. They are represented by a dark grey ñ.
• Template:Ls, the restless spirits of the dead that weren't properly memorized. Depending on circumstances, they have various ways to interact with the living. They are represented by a white Ñ.

• Template:L are the skeletons and zombies that arise in evil regions or under the thrall of a necromancer. They are represented by a dark cyan Ñ that slowly flashes over their basic creature tile.
• Template:Ls are historical figures that have found secrets of life and death, becoming immortal and gaining the ability to animate the dead. They are represented by a light magenta Ñ.
• Template:L are the dead rulers of civilizations, interred in grand Template:Ls. They will arise if disturbed by graverobbers and lay curses on the trespasser. They are represented by a yellow Ñ.
• Template:Ls are people cursed by the gods for profaning their temple, or those to whom they transferred that curse. At the full moon, they will transform into a ravenous monster. They are represented by a brown Ñ.
• Template:Ls are undead blood drinkers that can often pass for living, moving on when suspicion on them grows too much. Occassionally they might start immortality cults instead, and might make a bid to seize power over a whole civilization. Vampires that don't pass for living are represented by a dark red Ñ.

In addition to the existing night creatures, Dwarf Fortress Talk #14 reveals future plans for other types of night creatures, which are as follows:

• Dark magenta night creatures will be Template:Ls, undead that arose from brutal killings and executions, taking on aspects related to their death.
• Light cyan night creatures will be Template:L - undead creatures that do not fit into the other categories of undead.
• Light red night creatures will be Template:Ls. These are creatures like Frankenstein's monster, with mismatched limbs, sutures, and grafted weapons.
• Light grey night creatures will be Template:L, to be found in certain haunted houses, making sounds, moving about, and attacking the unwitting soul entering them. Their Ñ is supposed to be flashing over their basic furniture tile.
• Light green night creatures will be various sorts of evil beasts, such as evil rotten cabybaras or evil animated trees.
• Dark blue night creatures will be monsters of the sea, including aquatic hags and trolls such as Grendel.
• Light blue night creatures will be cursed people of the sea, such as undead pirates or seafarers.

Draft version Template:L

Night trolls are a type of Template:L introduced in v0.31.17. They are supernatural monsters which kidnap non-Template:L Template:L beings, transform them into spouses, and then mate with them to produce young. The children are all the same sex as the night troll, never that of the spouse. In Template:L, night trolls and their spouses can be given as quests.

Like Template:L, Template:Ls, and Template:Ls, each night troll is randomly generated and different from all the rest. Not all night trolls are named as such - the possible names, apart from words indicating night, evil, or darkness, include crone, freak, hag, horror, man, monster, ogre, ogress, troll, and woman.

Their lairs are mounds or holes in the ground with doors or hatch covers. Depending on the night troll, they can contain various tools, small amounts of discarded coins and clothing from their victims, corpses, organs of sentient creatures prepared as food, cauldrons of blood, bone meal, and ground vermin.

The night trolls' lairs, according to Toady One, have a unique tag that causes items placed there to not be scattered around or rot.