I like them.  It would also be cool if failure on an Epic quest by any player AI or Human leads to these.

Not going to read these, just in case something similar is added.  But I assume these fit under the "random events" category.  Which, quite frankly, I know will be in the game but not sure the current status of.

I did, it's a great one if done right.  They'd have to pick a faction with enough power that you wouldn't want to piss them off otherwise, or one that you regularly traded with.

Knight of honor

A champion knight joins you to regain the honor lost in a battle agains mites

Ice Age: Several locations become snow terrain and arctic monster lairs spawn.

Lost Isle: A ancient island long lost to history rises from the ocean.

Earthquake: Several areas of flat  terrain becomes mountains and other mountains become flat terrain. Monsters rise from the depth of the earth and random improvements are destroyed in all cities.

Woken Dragon: A Cumbercoil dragon spawns and wanders the world.

Treasures of Heaven: A comet crashes to the earth. Be the first to the crater in order to secure it for yourself. 

Age of Fangs: A powerful Beast Lord spawns. Tougher and tougher beasts spawn everywhere until he is destroyed.

Father of Storms: A powerful hurricane ravages the world. All units take 50% damage and are randomly teleported within 15 squares. Air elementals spawn around the world.

Drought: Food production is reduced by 25% for 50 turns. Random areas turn to desert.

Flood: Production is reduced by 25% for 50 turns. Random areas turn to swamp.

That could be its own event.

Crystal Shift: All shard resources are destroyed. An equal number of new shards spawn around the map randomly.

It would spawn close to land....

seanw, have you tried modding in events?  Are they even moddable?  I'd be interested in helping if you wanted to try.

I have made a few events. The biggest detractor though is that you cannot spawn a goodie hut from a random event. That means every event has to add a basic game modifier to the game. The trigger for random events is always a population trigger. Right now each time your nation reaches 100 population, the event has a chance to trigger. I don't think we can actually spawn any resources or anything like that until the event system gets some polish. But alot can still be done with what we have.

The Black Plague:

A massive plague spreads across the lands, reducing all population by 60% and killing all units. 

Cool, thank both of you   that's good to know.  I might try to mess around with one.

They can't add goodie huts though?  There's that new store-buyable scroll that spawns quest locations (which I love), maybe it's there now?  Or are quest sites significantly distinctive from goodie huts? 

There is code to tell the game to spawn a goodie hut. It is used in many quests. Events use a different trigger though and this trigger is bugged. That is why we can't spawn goodie huts from events. Most every quest you see will use the spawn goodie hut function, that is when you have a tile to go to during a quest. 

What that nice little item-quest thing does is allow one quest to connect to a new one. I am rather secretly working on a quest series that uses this little gem. In the style of the American author Hawthorne, I will tell no one until it is complete and then burn most of the copies once it is released. 

I will release some sample quests as soon as they are finished. Much like Klingons, I don't bluff.