- Location
- France
[X] Oswald Oswaldson, newly-minted Chief Bombardier of the Undumgi
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- some computer lab
because we are a Dame, and Dames are required to have a fief. We will not abandon our noble duty to look after this potted cactus fief.
- Location
- Aotearoa
Ogre Home (Ish?)
probably asking after books on the Ogre Lands.
- Location
- Earth
I think it's just taking advantage of the Dwarf post/mail/news service+Shadowrider. We can cross something like 300, 350 miles in a day with the magic horse on flat solid ground. And the dwarves apparently keep news circulating around the Karaz Ankor with Gyroes and Mat is just one person. She can fit with the regular mail/news delivery. With K8P's having it's own air wing, this is possible.
Had the Belegar/High King stuff not gone this way, it wouldn't be. But with a major air port as our home base, and a horse that lets us ride 300+miles in a day, and with a turn lasting 6 months. Well. Mat can get around. This is espetially true if there are regular flights from K8P to the capitol of the Empire as part of a massive magic/engeneering project with multiple wizards having input on it.
It's cannon to the early quest that after mastering her Shadowhorse it only takes Mat two days to make it form the Capitol of Stirland to the Capitol of the Empire. And she could make it in one if she really, really, pushed herself.
With timescales in months and a spell mastery like that, it is not without reason that when asked for the Magister Exams, one of the things picked was that Mat would be called on for Major events, because no matter where they were, she could get there. Also reread the subject where Belegar sent her out for reinforcements. She visited multiple dwarf holds all over the place, some next to Bretonnia, and did it in under a week, even with the dwarves making her wait hours in each one.
TLDR: Even without the copters, Mat is hella fast in a strategic sense, and her biggest contribution to the expedition may not have been her stealth, assasin and scouting work, but the reinforcment ride hell for leather that brough so many to help in the first week before setting out, and eventually drew Kragg.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
"Zhuf" is torrent, the Khazalid way to refer to magic. "Okri" means "craftsman." So a wizard is a torrent-crafter, zhufokri. But if you just use the suffix -i, that means "a person who is an instantiation of this concept" (okri presumably derives from okr-i), so calling a wizard zhufi states that they are defined by their magic and implies that they are controlled by it: a torrent-person. If an actual Karaz Ankor dwarf called Mathilde a zhufi, it would be rude; Mathilde isn't sure whether the skaven's Khazalid isn't that good, whether the Chaos Dwarfs from which he presumably learned Khazalid use "zhufi" as a term of pride and so he thinks he's being polite but it's not idiomatic to Karaz Ankor Khazalid, or whether he is being deliberately insulting.
Ogre-mountain.
- Pronouns
- It/They
but its a potted cactus, it doesn't need anyone to look after it!
THE END TIMES COULD HAPPEN, AND THIS FIEF COULD END UP AS ISOLATED CHUNK OF LAND FLOATING IN THE TECHNICOLOR HELLVOID AND EVERYONE THERE WOULD CONTINUE ON AS NORMAL, BECAUSE IT'S THAT MUCH OF A BACKWATER!
Seriously, it existing but doing sweet FA just kinda grinds my gears.
It just... it's like its the one part of the world that isn't affected by, nor affects, anything else.
Just kinda feels like a cheap excuse to use loopholes rather than having any sort of actual weight to it.
Guile
Having a really great time right now
Maybe this isn't about us.
Maybe the universe is punishing Max.
And the 'why' is 'because he suffers funny.'
All part of our scheme to be the Cool Aunt, when Max is our competition for the role.
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
[X] King Belegar, to try to get some idea of where he's at with his crisis of faith.
[X] Algard, reporting the Skaven Civil War in person instead of in writing.
[X] Roswita, as she rides out the chaos of the influx of Battle Wizards.
[X] Princess Edda, on a hunt for weavers across the Empire.
[X] Algard, reporting the Skaven Civil War in person instead of in writing.
[X] Roswita, as she rides out the chaos of the influx of Battle Wizards.
[X] Princess Edda, on a hunt for weavers across the Empire.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Please do not make hostile posts. The setting fitting together in a logical way is the enjoyment of some players, and even if you disagree with their proposed solution to squaring some circle or another, as I do, their thoughts shouldn't be discounted so quickly.
I agree that Mathilde is super duper fast. But we're talking a thousand miles here over far more limited timelines. Normally it's handwaved away as beneath our level of abstraction, but a thousand miles each way every three days is another matter.
The mechanics of our travelling are fine, it's just that bit of fluff that's a bit weird.
It's a staple of the rpg genre going back to oldschool D&D. A player gets a home/castle/palace/whatever to sink their excess money on and slowly upgrade (for other in game examples see the underground palace in Stirland, the EIC, or the towers/library in K8P). Occasionally, the fief would either serve as a plothook or serve as a resource in various scenarios.
If the players are tired of thinking about the fief, they can "rent" it out for a hundred years and stop thinking about it. On the other hand, if we want to spend an arc in Stirland the fief could rise in importance again.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
It also indicates that Pestilens are the Skaven's real focus. Mors is a sideshow.
Yup. Got him a book on the Mountains of Mourne so that's what it seems to indicate. Karaz is realm I think though.
Karag or karak is mountain. Karaz is realm IIRC.
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- Location
- some computer lab
I mean it is in Stirland, and Roswita is doing a good job of being really distracting to all the gribblies there, and whatever benefit could be gained by smashing this unreasonably well fortified potted cactus is definitely not worth calling down the Dammerlichtreiter on your head.
- Location
- France
[X] Check in on your fief in Stirland
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Three years ago, we dropped a truckload of money on improving it. What did that do? Did that improve things? Is it now busier, more vibrant? Does it have a real government now? Is everyone still a peasant or is there some learning and culture slowly developing? What do they think of their distant liege-lady? How did we matter?
We've got lots of big dramatic stuff for Mathilde to do. I voted for the fief because I want to see a segment of "Mathilde changing the world, in small ways."
No, it's listed as "mountain" on the wiki. Karak means "enduring," karag means specifically "barren mountain."
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why are you worried about this narrative irrelevance about 90 turns since it was last relevant as a figleaf to the thread dynastic ambitions that thankfully petered out?
I think the monarchic faction has moved on to moseying up to the imperial family now.
If as i re-read your post, and i may have misinterperted it, you meant you're not interested, why make a big deal of it? I wouldn't even remember it without this vote, so presumably BoneyM has 'some' idea to do something there. Possibly a exception to 'narrative turns have no benefits' by possibly picking up a apprentice or something as a callback to the village girl origins.
As a further future action sink ahahahaha, so it's a 'benefit'.
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I have finally caught up! Most threads never make it to fifty pages, and this one does it in a day. It's bloody insane.
On votes: I like most of the top options, so that's nice. Roswita would be cool, but I wanna see what our fief got up to. We basically showed up, dumped money on it, and then vanished.
Soizic is mostly because I liked the recent omake, and this is an expression of interest. Same for Wilhelmina, I want her to get some screen time.
[X] Check in on your fief in Stirland.
[X] Soizic, sparring partner and possible 'sparring partner' of your duckling Hubert.
[X] Wilhelmina, to see how she's going when she's not a terrifying financial juggernaut.
On votes: I like most of the top options, so that's nice. Roswita would be cool, but I wanna see what our fief got up to. We basically showed up, dumped money on it, and then vanished.
Soizic is mostly because I liked the recent omake, and this is an expression of interest. Same for Wilhelmina, I want her to get some screen time.
[X] Check in on your fief in Stirland.
[X] Soizic, sparring partner and possible 'sparring partner' of your duckling Hubert.
[X] Wilhelmina, to see how she's going when she's not a terrifying financial juggernaut.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
You know the way to give it narrative weight? Visit it. Get to know our tennets as their leige lord and become invested.
Edit: This is not an arguement for spending AP on it. Just visiting every 4-6 turns using a social action.
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SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Yes, because what we need is another source of AP requirements. Our fief is to small scale to matter. We're a grey magister our actions can determine the fate of nations. Our fief is of to little importance to matter. It's well past the point where the correct action is delegate it out as some one elses responsibility and then leave it alone for all time. Which is basically what we've done to be fair.
- Location
- Australia
It's totally feasible actually. Take the dragon ogres on Thunder Mountain, who are weakened, and weak to the point that they're easily suppressed by Ulrikadrin. We have a large source of paralytic venom from the We as well as Panoramia, an expert in the making of potions and poisons. We have an impressive stealth suite to let us approach a dragon ogre and Mockery of Death to keep it down once the poison or venom has been delivered. Finally, gyrocarriages allow us to carry the body either back to our lair or to the Empire as a gift.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
Then the wiki's wrong. The Karaz Ankor translates as the Eternal Realm, not the mountain realm.
- Pronouns
- It/They
Yes.
It's all part of my master plan to make Mathilde go mad from the stress and resort to zombie labour to get all the work done.
- Location
- Australia
There are humans who can already turn into dragons.
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
I wonder if we'll get a Khazalid title more descriptive than Dawongr soon, and what it would end up being. I would bet on something like Karagmhornargi, roughly translated to 'the mountain's shadow.' Except for the existence of Karag Mhonar nearby potentially causing confusion.