[ ] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
This suggests a future assisting Karak Eight Peaks with foreign relations, as a Spymaster focused outwards.
Hmmm, on thinking about it thought...
Mathilde's first notable actions for the Expedition.
It was
in carrying lots of messages from King Belegar.
As in: people's experience with Mathilde, from outside of the expedition, was that of her riding around and carrying messages. And so... This option would sort of build up on that.
Though, I'm not sure
what it would build up to or about. And I'm also... not sure if I want the pressure and responsibility of managing diplomacy and intrigue for foreign relations. I mean, sneaking about in battle or in mountains, or doing research... that's all stuff that you'd be doing by yourself, more or less. It's just you versus the enemy, or versus your studying. This? This would involve reaching out to other people and to the rest of the world. It depends so much on how other people react. Blargh.
On the other hand, I
do want to round out and improve Mathilde's diplomatic chops. (On the other hand, picking a diplo/intrigue focused choice, which would depend on your intrigue and (average) diplomacy
just so that you can improve your diplomacy, feels a bit... eh. "Picking something you're not awesome at it, and upon which a lot of things might be riding on, for the sole purpose of improving yourself... while handling potentially important matters." Eh.) (On the other other hand, this does say Spymaster.) (But also says foreign relations.) (And it'd be a Wizard doing it. Dwarfs, and humans too even, don't terribly much like Wizards.)
Gah.
I wanna reconnect with the outside world; to get a finger on the pulse of what is going on.
I wanna reconnect with the Colleges, to get an update on various magic stuff, and intrigue and spy stuff.
But that's a matter of "wanting to learn about this, so that if there are opportunities (or dangers) you can take them or avoid them." Wanting to not miss out, or wanting to avoid shit hitting fan. You know?
But what I
want to do, is... Either go further into our magics (whether as a battlefield wizard, or a spy wizard) or into
researching and learning all the stuff we have to work with. To better and improve
ourselves. (That's part of one reason one would want to improve the Diplomacy, btw; because it means improving yourself. There's a tangible feel and sense of "I've gotten better. I've made progress, improved." from doing so.) Or just... Something that would increase Mathilde's standing in the Colleges of Magic, and among her peers. Basically... "Stuff that makes you be seen as a prestigious wizard."