[X] [ROMANCE] Magister Johann
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] Belegar, to discuss the northern Karaks and the Expedition.
[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.
[X] The Gold College, to see what's become of their research into Skaven technology.
My preliminary votes. May edit out one of the romance votes, not sure.
I feel safe saying that she's guaranteed to end up learning Battle Magic.
What? Why in the world would she have
any reason to do so?
She's very focused on, guess what, farming. She isn't even interested enough in the
Magister's exam to take a few months off in order to go pass the exams in Altdorf. This, despite the fact that half of the year she spends doing nothing, because it is the quiet season for her job and magic.
Battle Magic has absolutely no applicability to her desire, or goal, of farming for the Karak.
You could try to make the argument for Throne of Vines, I suppose. But even that's a "no." It's simply not necessary. It's a great big miscasty risk of horrible gribblies, just for more power. Power which you wouldn't even need over the course of your job. She's more likely to just get a staff, try for a Familiar with Power, or something. Why would she learn Battle Magic? Much less "guaranteed to end up" doing so?
Frankly, Johann is the more likely to learn Battle Magic. He was brought up by a graduated Battle Wizard of a Lady Magister. He didn't lose courage despite
losing his eyes the first time around. And he's really good at the Elemenetal, metal, part of Chamon. So it's possible he might be pretty good at casting some of the Battle spells.
Also, he goes into combat. He's a fighting wizard. And, furthermore, he is going to be joining the Karag Dum expedition, a deadly endeavor, so he'd have
use for Battle Magic.
... Hm. Put like that, I've actually convinced myself that Johann is probable for learning Battle Magic. After all, he even has somebody he can go to, for learning Battle Magic; his own master, who is a Lady Magister who is a graduated Battle Wizard.
All that aside though...
... I'm just... not interested in farming?
She has one big job or thing she does in her life. A passion or interest that she works toward and takes responsibility for. And that's "farm for a Karak." That's just not interesting to me.
You, apparently view or judge it by its metaphorical or symbolic value; "this is a big thing" "she wants to do a big thing" "this is impressive, ergo..." Whereas to me I look at farming and soil and go "Am I interested in this? No, not really. Do I want
Mathilde to take an interest in this? No, not really." And getting close to her just for the sake of a chance at finding out more about Waystones, would stick in my craw. That shouldn't be the only reason you go for somebody. Not just for what they can get you like that. =/
) for a city of hundreds of thousands. She's basically accomplished this. Her next goal is going to be mucking around with K8P's Waystones. She may laugh at our hell tower, but she's also the only wizard in K8P that's thinking on anything like Mathilde's scale. Max wants to shoot orcs and blacksmith well. Johann, as far as I can tell, wants to prove that he's not a failure; he's driven away from something rather than toward a goal. Gretel wants mad dosh. Adela wants cool toys. Hubert... honestly I'm not sure what Hubert wants. Panoramia, meanwhile, has already pulled off a Halfling Great Deed and is already looking at a follow-up project of comparable magnitude. Johann doesn't have anything even a little bit like that on his five-year plan and maybe not even on his fifteen-year plan.
