Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
[X] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
 
[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
[X] Scout the rest of the Eight Peaks, to find out what other horrors are waiting out there.
[X] You could help the Undumgi and the Ulricans establish themselves.

I'd like to go with Belegar- it's just that, in my experience voters in general are bad at foreign relations and not the best at personal relations. Considering how heavily being a foreign facing spymaster (combined with the fact it seems like it would be interacting with other Dwarf Holds), I'm a bit skeptical.
 
No doubt this has been discussed before, but is there any way of enchanting a belt or some such that it can be used to cast shadowsteed? I dunno if it would be worth the time, but it is a very useful item for others, if so.

It's more challenging to create some sort of totally-not-a-pokeball of horse summon than it would be to create a bridle of permanent horse, but it is possible. Be aware, however, that Mathilde's mastery won't carry over to the enchantment, because it's not just part of the spell, it's also part of how her own magic and body reacts to the spell.
 
[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
[X] Scout the rest of the Eight Peaks, to find out what other horrors are waiting out there.
[X] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
 
[X] 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.

[X] Scout the rest of the Eight Peaks, to find out what other horrors are waiting out there.
This suggests a future assisting Karak Eight Peaks with its reconquest, as a Spymaster focused inwards.

[X] Join Karak Azul as they raid and scout in force the other portions of the Karak.
This suggests a future assisting Karak Eight Peaks with its reconquest, as a battlefield wizard.

[X] You could help the Undumgi and the Ulricans establish themselves.
This suggests a future assisting Karak Eight Peaks, as leader of the Undumgi and point of contact for the Ulricans.

[X] Write a series of papers on the magical phenomena you witnessed. Or better yet, get your Journeymanlings to do the actual writing.
This suggests a future of investigation and study at Karak Eight Peaks, and perhaps helping Johann poke at Skaven technology.

[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
This suggests a future catching up on your pre-existing study topics.

[X] You're going to have a rough time explaining your windfall to the Bursars. Better to get that over with.
This suggests a future performing an assignment the Grey Order thinks is suited to you.

[X] You've been out of touch for a while. Head to Barak Varr and then Altdorf, and catch up with what's been happening in the Empire.
This suggests a future seeking employment on the Council of an Elector Count.

[X] Not every sellsword will accept King Belegar's offer of employment. Travel with them.
This suggests a future as a travelling mercenary.



Anything that isn't returning to stirland.
 
Right, might as well approval vote for everything I want

[X] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
Because King Belegar is worth it.

[X] Write a series of papers on the magical phenomena you witnessed. Or better yet, get your Journeymanlings to do the actual writing.
My secondmain goal, magical phenomena and writings away!

[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
Ideally I would actually like an inverted wizard's tower that stretches deep into the earth, but I am not sure if that's something that's actually achieveable.

[X] All this time away has made you miss your friends. Visit Anton and Wilhelmina.
Yes! Go back to Stirland and talk with all of our old friends again. Anton, Wilhemina, Abelheim, that Ranald priest whose name I always forget. Maybe we'll even figure out what on Earth Sigmar did to Kasmir to get him back in the fold.

Funny thing is, I don't think Roswita will actually have a problem with our presence. She didn't want us in our court, but she isn't going to chase off every single wizard in Stirland.

So speaking of AU Quests, can you imagine how the Greenskin Karak 8 Peaks quests went. Since from their perspective all of this has happened within a single turn and is probably because they dumped their intrigue stat or skipped anti-spy actions for countering the expedition since they never expected the Dwarves to have a Grey Wizard like Mathilde.
Nah, they just rolled like four Nat 1's in a few updates.

This was their loss of Abel, in terms of sheer concentrated and strategically place bad luck.
 
[X] Write a series of papers on the magical phenomena you witnessed. Or better yet, get your Journeymanlings to do the actual writing.
[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
[X] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
 
[X] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
Because who doesn't like striking out grudges?
[x] You could help the Undumgi and the Ulricans establish themselves.
Becoming mayor is cool. Wizard mayor.
[X] Write a series of papers on the magical phenomena you witnessed. Or better yet, get your Journeymanlings to do the actual writing.
SCIENCE!
[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
Need a proper tower for science.
 
@BoneyM, Remember when we suggested to make Warhammer Fantasy's version of XCOM in the early days with OG Count Van Hal? That could be an Endgame goal when she becomes Head of the Grey Order in a decade or two. Other than that we could try to make something similar to that Total War: Warhammer Matilde DLC omake as an template.

[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
[X] You're going to have a rough time explaining your windfall to the Bursars. Better to get that over with.
[X] Scout the rest of the Eight Peaks, to find out what other horrors are waiting out there.
[X] All this time away has made you miss your friends. Visit Anton and Wilhelmina.
 
So speaking of AU Quests, can you imagine how the Greenskin Karak 8 Peaks quests went. Since from their perspective all of this has happened within a single turn and is probably because they dumped their intrigue stat or skipped anti-spy actions for countering the expedition since they never expected the Dwarves to have a Grey Wizard like Mathilde.

"It's just Belegar, he'll camp out in the Citadel and get whomped by Skaven for fifty years."

This is why you don't metagame.
 
[X] 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.

[X] Scout the rest of the Eight Peaks, to find out what other horrors are waiting out there.
This suggests a future assisting Karak Eight Peaks with its reconquest, as a Spymaster focused inwards.

[X] You could help the Undumgi and the Ulricans establish themselves.
This suggests a future assisting Karak Eight Peaks, as leader of the Undumgi and point of contact for the Ulricans.
 
[X] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
[X] Scout the rest of the Eight Peaks, to find out what other horrors are waiting out there.
[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
 
[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
[X] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
[X] You could help the Undumgi and the Ulricans establish themselves.

Remember the idea about making a tavern (totally not a temple of Ranald) where all the mercenaries can rest, find the group and a quest?
That's what I want to do. Mathilde being a spymaster/point of contact for humans/a coordination point for adventurers/local chosen of Ranald.

With plenty of research into gribblies, skaven nonsense and other artifacts, plenty of good fights, of course...but I really really want this tavern, honestly.
...Hold the fuck mothering phone. We are a Master Wizard. We have a greatsword we can hang places. We'd have a tavern. Would...would we become the retired 20th level adventurer tavernkeeper who still keeps around her greatsword to beat up rowdy murderhobo PCs? :o
 
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[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
[X] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
[X] You could help the Undumgi and the Ulricans establish themselves.

These for me. I want to catch up with research, start setting up things for our Ranaldan aspirations/merchant ambitions plus Karaz-a-karak. The last one just sounds like a really cool scene.
 
[ ] 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."
 
[X] Write a series of papers on the magical phenomena you witnessed. Or better yet, get your Journeymanlings to do the actual writing.
[X] All this time away has made you miss your friends. Visit Anton and Wilhelmina.
[X] There's a lot of prime real estate currently unclaimed. Stake out a prime position for a wizard's tower.
[X] You're going to have a rough time explaining your windfall to the Bursars. Better to get that over with.
[X] You could help the Undumgi and the Ulricans establish themselves.
 
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[X] Travel to Karaz-a-Karak with King Belegar for the striking out of several well-aged grudges.
[X] Scout the rest of the Eight Peaks, to find out what other horrors are waiting out there.

If memory serves, there's 3 land-routes to Cathay; Death Pass, where we are, Peak Pass, up by Karak Kadrin, and another pass, way up in Kislev.
Did not know that. And of course, K8P is also the linchpin of the trade route to Karak Azul and their weaponsmiths.
 
[X] You could help the Undumgi and the Ulricans establish themselves.

Seems interesting, though we'd sadly waste time trying to stomp out the worship of Sigmar.

Still, every other option, barring returning to Stirland, also seems interesting.
 
Poor Orc quest. "So your piety Councillor died, and his successor, and his successor, and his successor and his successor. Also your entire army imploded. Game over I guess!" *flips table*
Nah we didn't hit Quest Over levels yet, since there are still Greenskins in the mountains. So rather it would be the equivalent of half the playerbase's plans going up in smoke including the big Piety project they've been working on for so long.
 
So speaking of AU Quests, can you imagine how the Greenskin Karak 8 Peaks quests went. Since from their perspective all of this has happened within a single turn and is probably because they dumped their intrigue stat or skipped anti-spy actions for countering the expedition since they never expected the Dwarves to have a Grey Wizard like Mathilde.

"It's just Belegar, he'll camp out in the Citadel and get whomped by Skaven for fifty years."

This is why you don't metagame.

I'm way more interested in Belegar's "Retake the Karak 8 Peaks" quest, where they're nat 100 random event roll netted them a Master Grey Wizard who then proceeded to round them up another load of reinforcements and then assassinate the enemy leaders multiple times, stop a major greenskin plot, and of course totally pulled the rug out from under the Greenskins multiple times.

We're their hero unit they want to recruit because "Oh boy a great trustworthy Intrigue character! We're gonna need her for fighting the Rats." well that and our luck lol. "She did what. What do you mean she mugged Mork + Gork!? That's awesome."
 
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