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Also I think there are good odds that Empress 'Heidi' is the Emperor's non-grey wizard spy master as well considering she was the person with all the information on what is going on all over the place.
It really highlights just how much of an embarrassment modern necromancers and all unfinished Liber Mortis copies are, considering on what kind of note the actual book ends, and with Vampiric co-author finishing it half a step away from outright saying a firm "No. Don't." to the reader.
Well Mathilde did note that most people who read the book skip straight to the spell list because they are greedy morons who don't understand the importance of the framing within the previous parts.
 
Counterpoint. She's pregnant.

There are apparently mortal Von Carstein descendants running around Sylvania, not to mention how Neferata potentially had biological children after becoming a vampire.

Many vampires appear to having living bodies, and so there's no particular reason they can't have children if they keep their souls topped up with stolen life force rather than dhar.

Vampires aren't actually physically dead, just spiritually, if I recall correctly. It might still be possible, especially if somebody else were to use the Jade wind to help out.

According to some sources they're not spiritually dead either. The whole point of being a vampire is to not be dead, after all. Death appears to be having your soul return to the Aethyr.
 
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[X] Loremaster: Expert on beekeeping
I consider this the most important qualification. Their behaviour and psychology is too far from normal spiders for that to fit. Bees are the closest equivalent, though of course only a very rough approximation. An expert on weaving might be helpful later on, but I don't consider that part to be important for the general education of the We.

The We should get an education by someone who may be able to understand the We as much as possible. The beekeeper is the closest. Any other consideration is secondary.

Raise your name for promotion to Wizard Lord, and if you fail by only a single criteria (loyalty, ability, reliability, experience) it will be handwaved away.
I will be very surprised if this is not what is chosen.

I wonder where Mathilde currently stands. I'd like to think that as soon as she completes the basic spellbook (and attains magic 8) she will only lack experience. I'm unsure if she is considered loyal enough since she serves a foreign King, even if he is a dwarf.

She is loyal, obviously, but I assume that the criteria refer to excellence in that field, something clearly beyond what a Magister has.

Write a specific law or treaty for the Emperor's consideration, and if he sees no significant problems with it he is likely to enshrine it in law.
That seems too powerful. Or at least it seems more significant than the other ones to me, though not as personally interesting to Mathilde at the moment.


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you remember how you felt when you finally turns the tables on the Thorned One
turned
Is Algard also named Alric? (Alric Algard?)
who live lives of medication and training
meditation or medication?
The results are conclusive. Nagash's Art cannot be safely wielded by even the best of mortals. May his Morr be more merciful than Usirian.
I really want to spread this sentiment. Rewriting the diary parts into something that could be published something we should do if we are ever okay with the public knowing that Mathilde has the book.
There is no way to retrieve any other bones from Teufelheim. Don't ask. Seriously, don't.
While I don't see a way to reliably acquire them, it would be nice if some bones beome part of the flavour text or loot-tables in the future. Not even referring to Mathilde gaining access to them, but something like EIC hearing rumors that someone sold genuine dragon bones to a dwarf-hold, or the Battle-Wizards encounting a Vampire with a dragon bone staff would be interesting. (Said staff would of course be destroyed for being a necromantic artifact.)

[X] Roswita, to present her with a copy of the book her late father contributed to.
[X] Princess Edda, to pry for details about her illicit romance with Prince Kazrik.
[X] Wilhelmina, to see how she's going when she's not a terrifying financial juggernaut.
We have seen much too little of her as a person. I want to gauge whether she needs an intervention.
[X] Wolf, because he's a good boy.
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart, to check up on the Ulrikadrin and get to know him better.
[X] Francesco Caravello, proud leader of the Undumgi
[X] Try to find Kasmir in Sylvania.
 
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[X] Loremaster: Expert on weaving

[X] Prince Gotri, who will seize any excuse to talk about his gyrocopters.
[X] Prince Kazrik, as he tries to pry a shipwright loose from Barak Varr.
[X] Karak Kadrin, presenting them with the skull of an old enemy (but not to keep).


[X] On display in the Duckling Club.
I kinda want to cover the walls of the club with the heads of fantastic beasts with placards on how they were acquired.
 
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Hmm looking at Alharad's setup the difference between Dhar and normal wind spells seem to be that Dhar gives you battle magic from the start and training only reduces the chance and effects of a miscast. This probably doesn't include the First Secret, but it still seems like Dhar isn't something we want to rely on.

I think it might be worth practicing the Second Secret so that we can use the tongs version reliably to defeat other dhar users but otherwise I don't see any reason to come back to it any time soon.
 
[X] Loremaster: Expert on beekeeping
[X] Princess Edda, to pry for details about her illicit romance with Prince Kazrik.
[X] Kragg the Grim, who you could likely convince to start gloating.
[X] Roswita, as she tries to wrap her head around the influx of Battle Wizards.
[X] Empress 'Heidi', to see if you can snatch a private moment to speak honestly with her.
[X] Anton, to see how his firearm factory is going.

[X] A bathtub, an even better place for reading
 
[X] Loremaster: Expert on Forest Spiders
[X] Loremaster: Expert on beekeeping

[X] Princess Edda, to pry for details about her illicit romance with Prince Kazrik.
[X] Kragg the Grim, who you could likely convince to start gloating.
[X] Roswita, to present her with a copy of the book her late father contributed to.
[X] Empress 'Heidi', to see if you can snatch a private moment to speak honestly with her.
[X] Anton, to see how his firearm factory is going.
[X] Karak Kadrin, presenting them with the skull of an old enemy (but not to keep).
[X] Try to find Kasmir in Sylvania.

[X] On display in the Duckling Club.
[X] The best reading chair ever.
 
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That update was fucking rad. I haven't dug into the social options yet, but I would like to advise the following:
[ ] Loremaster: Expert on weaving

DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS GUY.

Remember, the title of this quest is Divided Loyalties. He's a Loremaster from Karak Hirn, his clan has close ties to the Weaver's Guild of Karak Hirn, and we are hoping to jump-start a textiles industry that will blow them out of the sky.

This is a very bad idea. Unless we roll super well for his loyalty to the job, his loyalty to his clan and Karak is going to seriously undercut the thing we want him to do; I'm not saying he'd deliberately sabotage us, but he might drag his feet or drop tips to his clan about what's coming. Don't hire your competitors.

This is what I am inclined to describe as a good point.

[X] Loremaster: Expert on beekeeping
[X] Canopy bed, except skull instead of canopy.
 
There are apparently mortal Von Carstein descendants running around Sylvania, not to mention how Neferata potentially had biological children after becoming a vampire.

Many vampires appear to having living bodies, and so there's no particular reason they can't have children if they keep their souls topped up with stolen life force rather than dhar.



According to some sources they're not spiritually dead either. The whole point of being a vampire is to not be dead, after all. Death appears to be having your soul return to the Aethyr.
Look mate. She's married to The Emperor. That means she got married by the Grand Theogonist himself in the Grand Temple Of Sigmar. The same one that they use to keep Vlad's casket sealed up. If she was a vampire she would have gotten lit up like a stock of gunpowder in the middle of the Bright College. She MIGHT be a mortal Von Carstein yes, we have no way of knowing, but she is NOT a Vampire. Ranald wouldn't have stuck with her in that case.
 
[X] Roswita, as she tries to wrap her head around the influx of Battle Wizards.
[X] Roswita, to present her with a copy of the book her late father contributed to.
[X] Try to find Kasmir in Sylvania.

I really want to find Kasmir.
 
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So, let's think about it this way: the value of a kickin' rad dragon skull as furniture is the double-takes it causes guests to make.

What's the funnest double-take possible?

Visitors to Karag Nar seeing The Skull on top of our tower like we're fucking Skeletor?
People passing through our quarters to visit the comfy lab having to walk through the open jaws of The Skull?
The Ducklings standing under the shadow of The Skull for Wizard Club?
Guests of the library seeing The Skull spin around to find Mathilde nestled in its jaws curled up with a glass of brandy and a good book?
Or
The potential paramour, making it into Mathilde's quarters to find out she sleeps inside a giant dragon skull?
 
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Thanks, I found it.
Found a branch of a College of Magic (permission only, buildings not included).
So... we could try and found a branch in K8Ps with the express purpose of aiding The Empire's oldest allies and upholding Sigmar's Oath. How would that be viewed by the Grand Theologian and the Emperor? I know the Witch Hunters would shit brick houses at the mere thought of wizards out of their direct line of sight.
 
Hmm looking at Alharad's setup the difference between Dhar and normal wind spells seem to be that Dhar gives you battle magic from the start and training only reduces the chance and effects of a miscast. This probably doesn't include the First Secret, but it still seems like Dhar isn't something we want to rely on.

I think it might be worth practicing the Second Secret so that we can use the tongs version reliably to defeat other dhar users but otherwise I don't see any reason to come back to it any time soon.

Second Secret isn't tongs, it's a 'spell' where you use a bit of dhar to cause a chain reaction. Using it means breaching the articles and using dhar.
 
[X] Loremaster: Expert on Forest Spiders
[X] Loremaster: Expert on beekeeping

[X] Princess Edda, to pry for details about her illicit romance with Prince Kazrik.
[X] Kragg the Grim, who you could likely convince to start gloating.
[X] Roswita, to present her with a copy of the book her late father contributed to.
[X] Empress 'Heidi', to see if you can snatch a private moment to speak honestly with her.
[X] Anton, to see how his firearm factory is going.

[X] On display in the Duckling Club.
[X] The best reading chair ever.

Regarding this chapter, umm... take it away, David.
 
[X] Kragg the Grim, who you could likely convince to start gloating.
[X] Karak Kadrin, presenting them with the skull of an old enemy (but not to keep)
[X] Roswita, as she tries to wrap her head around the influx of Battle Wizards.
[X] Roswita, to present her with a copy of the book her late father contributed to.
[X] Empress 'Heidi', to see if you can snatch a private moment to speak honestly with her.
[X] The Amber College, to see how your donation of Lustrian eggs is going.
 
[x] Loremaster: Expert on beekeeping

[x] Kragg the Grim, who you could likely convince to start gloating.
[x] Roswita, to present her with a copy of the book her late father contributed to.
[x] Empress 'Heidi', to see if you can snatch a private moment to speak honestly with her.
[x] Check in on your fief in Stirland.
[x] Try to find Kasmir in Sylvania.
[x] The Amber College, to see how your donation of Lustrian eggs is going.
[x] Princess Edda, to pry for details about her illicit romance with Prince Kazrik.
[x] Titus Muggins, who's returned to farming with every avenue of attack defended.
[x] Francesco Caravello, proud leader of the Undumgi
[x] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart, as the new home of the Winter Wolves takes shape.
[x] The best reading chair ever.
[x] A bathtub, an even better place for reading.
[X] Karak Kadrin, presenting them with the skull of an old enemy (but not to keep).
 
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...Vladimir. That was a test. That was a test all along. He guided Frederick all along against Nagash's traps and ploys... only to find out that no, no mortal being can weather Dhar at all.

I am unsure whether to rage at him for dooming Frederick to this end and the creation of Liber Mortis or pitying him for having lost someone who he respected and come to value as he slowly but surely become fully mad and crazed.
Yes, but it wasn't just a (high tier, multi-year) test.

It was preparation. He set Sylvania up into the prototype of what it would become under the Von Carsteins as a side effect on top of securing significant amounts of Warpstone.

This wasn't just an experiment. This was an Elector County-sized Intrigue operation, Vampire style.
 
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I think it might be worth practicing the Second Secret so that we can use the tongs version reliably to defeat other dhar users but otherwise I don't see any reason to come back to it any time soon.
With the expansion of Mathilde's No Fun Allowed Field, this is unlikely to ever be required, unless Mannfred shows his nerdy face again. We're rolling >+40 against necromancers and orcs, which is more than what the Patriarch of the Amethyst college was managing. Mathilde is ridiculous at kicking people in the magical shins.
Look mate. She's married to The Emperor. That means she got married by the Grand Theogonist himself in the Grand Temple Of Sigmar. The same one that they use to keep Vlad's casket sealed up. If she was a vampire she would have gotten lit up like a stock of gunpowder in the middle of the Bright College. She MIGHT be a mortal Von Carstein yes, we have no way of knowing, but she is NOT a Vampire. Ranald wouldn't have stuck with her in that case.
Vampires aren't intrinsically anti-divine, you know; only certain weaknesses cause those sorts of reactions. With a sufficiently advanced aethyric cipher, and a far greater expenditure of divine power by the actual god of trickery and deception, putting one over on the Deiter IV of Grand Theogonists wouldn't have been impossible.
At some point it stops being about specific vampiric vulnerability and starts being about Sigmar just straight up incinerating a stupid motherfucker for daring to try something that stupid in his heart of power.
On the other hand, Sigmar doesn't intrinsically have anything against them, they're just generally terrible and he hates them for that.
Frederick's predictions and Vlad's notes indicate that it's the Dhar exposure that did it, and that there's no practical way to use Necromancy on a large scale without suffering from Dhar exposure.
How interesting, then, that the result of Mathilde being exposed to Dhar isn't anything so banal as just absorbing it into her soul. :V

*OmegaHugger corruption intensifies*
 
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