I'd also point out that we discovered that his dad was secretly motivated by moving a convoy of Nordlander refugees that he was supposed to have massacred in order to appease the Eonir of Laurelorn. Not exactly a straightforward 'Ulrican wants to kill monsters for glory.'
Technically she brought them back from the dead. (And they did die according to the Great book of grudges). So she's technically a necromancer!
This is especially entertaining when combined with her capability to turn around and act entirely self-deprecating when she feels it is needed for the task at hand. Very Grey College of her.
I didn't vote for Deathfang, but did vote for Asarnil, because I wanted to get more of a handle on his personality with the new relationship of "Lady Magister Mathilde". I want to get to know Gotrek and Snorri as pre-disaster versions, but I haven't read any of those novels, so I really don't know the post-disaster versions either.
Probably different kinds of achievements, but I wouldn't be surprised if—without so much of our time spent on improving or researching our magic shenanigans—we managed things like setting up much better and more expansive spy networks, breaking open massive chaos cults, or other such things. Hell, we might have even ended up as a better fighter or just not gone to Eight Peaks at all since Roswita wouldn't have fired us and killed vampires. We were a Wizard so we did wizardly stuff, but I could see a normal human spymaster doing more spymaster stuff.
I expect that innkeeper might have a bigger spy. With feelers all over the empire. Also alot richer given we could go after money without having to justify it every time.
Also would have left more room shines for traits like perfect memory and such.
Quadratic wizards, linear fighters springs to mind.
On the one hand you are correct in the sense that mundane prowess can get you only so far. On the other, in warhammer there are plenty of mighty heroes who change the world without ant spellcasting of their own--Gotrek, Sigmar, Giles, etc.
Sure, but exponential organizers. If we really wanted to change the world as a mundane, we'd do it by bureaucracy and administration. Combat, Tactics, Logistics, as it were. A high level wizard might be worth a dozen high level fighters, but that doesn't make them neccesarily better than an expert quartermaster who lets your kingdom support another ten thousand troops in the field, or a merchant prince who's wealth lets your kingdom purchase another dozen artillery batteries, or a diplomat who's silver tongue convinces the enemy not to fight in the first place. As Mathilda, we value these sort of skills enough to invest in them despite having magic, and a Mathilda who could focus on training these skills rather than spending the effort to train magic, could be qualitatively and quantitatively better at them. Magic is a powerful tool that offers us a lot of versatility, but it's not the end all.
Mathilde's best friend is just as likely to prank her as he is to help her, and she'll usually take both in stride. It's rather fair to say Mathilde acts smug because it's expected of her and people's reactions are funny, not because she actually thinks she's deserving of it.
Sure, Which is why i specified personal achievement in my post.
...You know, if it weren't for the Dwarven network being seperate from the elven one, the metaphor of saving Vlag by clogging a giant magical toilet might have even worked.
