[X] [ROMANCE] Journeywoman Panoramia
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
Dragon, obviously, plus Panoramia.
[X] Elder Hluodwica, High Priestess of Esmerelda and civilian leader of the Eight Peaks Halflings.
We should probably talk to her, yes.
[X] The Amber College, to check in on the salamanders.
[X] Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it.
We need to cash in some favor, plus these are cool.
Save checking in on the Golds for a bit later, when they'll have gotten further in.
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.
Straight up false, and I'm getting annoyed that people keep propagating this incorrect claim:
Oh! And speaking of, that's another thing to take on once I'm done with the soil. Never even heard of a circular Waystone cluster anything like this big before, there's a paper or two in that."
Panoramia is working on farming because it's the single biggest magical thing-that-needs-doing in the entire Karak other than murdering Skaven and Orcs. Not because she only cares about farming. "A paper or two in that" my ass.
What? Why in the world would she have any reason to do so?
When there was fighting to be done, Panoramia was the only journeymanling that was fighting so hard that we had to tell her to back off. She's not fighting right now because there's no fighting to be done. You know how she gets all that work done in the growing season and then can't do anything when things aren't growing? Her focus works the same way: When she's focusing on something it's the only thing in the world for her. As soon as she moves on to something else she's going to focus on that just as hard as she focuses right now on her farming. She's guaranteed to end up fighting again, if only to defend her friends the Halflings against the next Waaagh, and as someone who understands preparation and maintenance and timelines, she's going to be ready for it.
Also, remember how we talked with her about miscasts? She might have suffered one or two by now - we'd probably have to ask her - but she probably still hasn't gotten one bad enough to make her worry about magic. She's no more afraid of Battle Magic than she was of spamming Father of Thorns in the middle of the night. She's sufficiently skilled, powerful, and responsible enough that I think she's guaranteed to be offered the opportunity to learn Battle Magic, and I think that she's guaranteed to take it. And you know what? Even if she miscasts horrendously on her first attempt, I don't think that she'd swear Battle Magic off entirely the way Regimand did. Look at how she reacted to our lecture about miscasts: She could have gone home and never gotten in another fight. Look at how she reacted to K8P's Waystones: She just casually grabs power out of them. Look at how she reacted to the chance to rebuild the Karak's ecology: She could have gone home and qualified as a Magister, but she stuck around and took over the whole project. She's going to look at Battle Magic the same way.
There's also the fact that Johann works for us, so we are constantly working with him, while Panoramia is working on her own thing, and thread keeps ignoring anything involving her.
Johann gets signal boosted for being immediately useful for furthering Mathilde's agendas, while Panoramia is not.
Johann also has puppies.
Then we got the sad backstory, the self inflicted injury, and now a super awesome master.
While Panoramia is out there, feeding an entire Karak, out of sight, out of mind.
Yes, this too. Johann is the physical incarnation of hurt-comfort, while Panoramia is being a protagonist whose specialty is arcane enough that it doesn't show up on Mathilde's radar.