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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Does Mathilde think the various groups she would be speaking for are okay with her doing so? Have they been consulted with on this? Deciding that you have the authority to speak for someone unilaterally is the sort of thing that can be a grievous insult.

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[X] Lead only the Wizards
 
13th Fleet said:
Does Mathilde think the various groups she would be speaking for are okay with her doing so? Have they been consulted with on this? Deciding that you have the authority to speak for someone unilaterally is the sort of thing that can be a grievous insult.

Interim vote:
[X] Lead only the Wizards
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I assume yes, they are all here on her word and 'authority' as well as being her cultural responsibility.

everyone knows that if they do something stupid it's her rep on the line. So it would not be a shock to them if she gets a bit hands on.
 
[X] Lead only the Wizards

No need to take on too many responsibilities. The wizards are going to be enough trouble keeping on the straight and narrow with Egrimm in our midst.
 
Doomed Wombat said:
Cause he's old, supreme patriarch, there isn't someone at the time who should have his spot (Starke is canonically meant to be the youngest LM of the Grey a title we've swiped), a character like him kinda has to exist since a college supreme is needed, where as Mathilde doesn't, he's not heading into the chaos wastes for any reason regardless of how benevolent his stated intentions are and he's not a suspiciously perfect mirror to the character you've managed to not go chaos.*

Like in this hypothetical controlling Van Horstman quest to me the idea that Mathilde is the prodigal collegiate member that ends up going evil would almost be too telegraphed, especially with the QM being able to drop hints like an odd degree of knowledge on the inner workings of Dhar :p. Them going bad would be about as equally bad, in fact Mathilde might even be worse, as a Grey she wouldn't be releasing a single chaos Dragon she could screw over/corrupt the Empire's intelligence apparatus for generations.

*It is kinda everywhere beyond simply just being opposite winds, physically they're also opposites to seemingly their preferred modus Operandi, with Horstman having his choir and Mathilde being super sneaky solo badass stuff.
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There are sooo many fun statements the QM could throw out.

"Her moment of temptation was after the death of Abelheim van Hal, when she saw what power even the incompetent can gain through dhar. She's learned a lot about necromancy since."

"She met her doom a long time ago"

"She's acted as the avatar of a god of destruction in a dark ritual, and was granted a great reward for it by her god"

"It was by her fathers hand that the last empress died, and by her god's will that the new empress was crowned."

"Mathilde first met the empress in Sylvania"

"She has baptized the crown prince in the name of her god"

"She knows the tongue of the Skaven"

"She has a divine artifact with four facets"

"She once assaulted a stronghold alone, and the occupants slaughtered each other rather than face her"

"She has a daemon trapped in eternal torment to collect its ever flowing blood"
 
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God damn it, the thread is really the mind of a Grey.

Each time we are offered command of other wizards we start treating it as a stakeout.
 
So, why is no one talking about how Johann is now a battle wizard? Searing Doom is the signature battle spell of the Golds.

It's a very Killy stream of white hot molten metal. Gold damage spells are only as effective as the armor the target is wearing, and, in an interesting twist, anything that has sufficiently tough hide to work as armour counts as good enough for that. So, devastating against the Chaos Dwarf's entire faction and beasties with really thick skin.

Magic, eh?
 
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BurnNote said:
There are sooo many fun statements the QM could throw out.

"Her moment of temptation was after the death of Abelheim van Hal, when she saw what power even the incompetent can gain through dhar. She's learned a lot about necromancy since".

"She met her doom a long time ago"

"She's acted as the avatar of a god of destruction in a dark ritual, and was granted a great reward for it by her god"

"It was by her fathers hand that the last empress died, and by her god's will that the new empress was crowned."

"Mathilde first met the empress in Sylvania"

"She has baptized the crown prince in the name of her god"

"She knows the tongue of the Skaven"

"She has a divine artifact with four facets"

"She once assaulted a stronghold alone, and the occupants slaughtered each other rather than face her"

"She has a daemon trapped in eternal torment to collect its ever flowing blood"
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"She has nothing but contempt for Sigmar"

"Kurgans accept her as a powerfull sorceress"

"She occasionally communicates with Skaven"

"Her council has driven Karaz Ankor on the brink of civil war"

"With but a few words she planted the seeds of the current conflict with Marienburg."

"She has been known to kidnap imperial nobles once upon a time. She no longer needs to."

"Yes, there are Skaven in the abandoned tunnels of Karaz Ankor, but there are stranger being still there as well. She made common case with them."

"Her trade empire dominates Stirland, and it keeps growing."
 
[X] Lead only the Wizards

Would prefer to focus our responsibilities relatively narrowly. There's a dozen wizards to wrangle, which is a ton of work by itself.

This was a fun chapter! I really enjoyed the first bit where we had the huddle.
 
TotallyNotEvil said:
So, why is no one talking about how Johann is now a battle wizard? Searing Doom is the signature battle spell of the Golds.

It's a very Killy stream of white hot molten metal. Gold damage spells are only as effective as the armor the target is wearing, and, in an interesting twist, anything that has sufficiently tough hide to work as armour counts as good enough for that. So, devastating against the Chaos Dwarf's entire faction and beasties with really thick skin.

Magic, eh?
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Not a battle wizard. He is a full magister who happens to have enough aptitude and trust from his college to have acсess to battle magic.
 
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