Remember its a tale told from Asarnil's perspective, and as such will focus HEAVILY on how the lesser mortals fucked up the battle and on how the great and glorious dragon prince turned the tables and fixed everything.
The worst could definitely be worse than nothing. It probably won't be worse than losing money, but it could be. AFAIK there are diplomatic relations between Ulthuan and the Empire.
Jack is... somewhere between awed, unnerved and terrified of us, the Mysterious Wizard Dame Mathilde, who can appear anywhere, magically emerging from the night fog, can cloud your memories, Scourge of Van Hal's enemies, Dusk Rider etc etc. But also a fellow Randalite, committed to the "War Below" (he thinks).
Probably not unless something really crazy, since we aren't that flashy in combat.
We are a wizard riding around on a Shadow Horse wielding a Greatsword that will be shrouded in mist, we will probably have at least one moment where we ride past some undead cutting them to pieces (maybe even Ghosts, which will make it even more impressive looking). Depending on the time of day and mental state of the troops I can see us striking a rather imposing image.
Clearly not if stuff like this is being said. I wonder what Van Hal would think, saying that the Watch wasn't meant to be a policing force to keep law and order. After all, it's not like that's what city watches were established for and have been doing for centuries. Jacques for me is the better option for this reason, due to all the members coming from the military and because we've already got options similar to what Jacques offers on the table with our intelligence networks, the Theives Guild, and the Dwarven trainers for the Watch when they come as I presume we still want that to happen.
We...don't actually. No trade, no official relations. The Asur policy on the Empire is that it's better up than down, but largely not important beyond Teclis's pet project. Which many are dubious about and talking to each other sagely about how it's probably going to explode into a nest of demon summoners some day just you wait.
Remember Burning Shadows. You want to inflict TERROR? You watch her shadow make flesh melt.
Uh, the problem is:
Jacques is focused on the Roadwardens, which is actually not in our department at all! It's Gustav's pet project and he's probably not going to happy at all about us macking on his territory.
I don't really get what you hope this will achieve? We certainly don't bring more firepower than a dragon lord, I don't see how our efforts at the front will make much difference? It's not like Mathilde hasn't faced undead before, or fought for her life. I think we'd be much more useful in the command tent. We have the attache network, which can deliver actionable intelligence... if there is an analyst to piece it together.
Well, given Tzeentchs' curse, they're not wrong as such...
As I said before... being a patriot seems weird, given he's an itinerant thief from Marienburg, who will move on if he doesn't get this job. I suppose there might be something else going on.
Sigh. You're probably right. But... I just don't see the point. We have men we can point at things and tell to kill or be killed. We're the Spymaster. Let's get better at intelligence.
We're the spymaster who just learned how to melt undead by the bucketful. We just became a legitimate, if green, battle wizard.
The spell hits as hard as a normal man with a regular melee attack. I.e. it might drop any given skeleton, it might not. The we have to cast it again.
Not really. Boney seems to be using a 1-10 scale. We're pretty green still, and know one decent damaging spell, that we can't cast reliably. And it sounds like you want to make it a mainstay of our frontline operations. OK. That could go very wrong, for us and the troops were with. Summoning an unfriendly demon pack from hell? That's a thing that can happen on a miscast.
Starting small is looking at reports in HQ about where the undead are spawning from, and taking Kasmir, a Morrite, and some Greatswords to clear out the barrow, cursed battlefield or whatever.
So... why is this happening? Is there a pattern? A necromancer or specific gribbly reanimating things behind our lines? Can it be countered, or is it 'just Sylvania' and we need to adjust our ambitions? Intelligence.
If we wanted it to be that kind of organization, we'd have done a much better job of it by inducting the Road Wardens rather than Rat Catchers and company into the Watch. Jacques would be an excellent commander if we hadn't already set the watch towards a different goal. Trying to reverse the trend now is possible, but it would mean that half the organization is overlooked and underutilized.
I don't understand the idea that this is a wasted action. We have a dragon on our side, the Purge is going to be completed one way or another regardless. Getting experience that we can use to auto-succeed our martial later isn't useless. That was why I voted to join the Purge in the first place, what was your expectation?
That we'd learn more about strategy and command. We are a Chess player, not a piece. Everyone wanting to get better at swording and killing seems to be missing that. We know Mathilde has been working on being less Spy and more Spy Master. That includes being Commander, not Soldier. We are after all setting up a paramilitary intelligence organisation to fight a sewer war.
A couple of things:
If he isn't a patriot then there's still SOMETHING in there that led him to just surrender without a fight when he realized the Elector's personal boogeyman just showed up. We can use that to manage him.
Uh, as per our QM statements, they are vastly more powerful, but they're much less sane and stable than most wizards. Basically wizards specialized for a lot of output, with low expected service lifetime.
