Does Mathilde know anything about Loec beyond "elven god, something about dancing"?
Hmmm, wonder how badly we'd get trolled if we asked Ranald?
Hmmm, wonder how badly we'd get trolled if we asked Ranald?
Well, something to look forward if/when we get around to elfcation.
She is supposed to be scary. Apparently doesn't fit in either of the Elven pantheons and is just something they pray to so she doesn't do something nasty to them. This does not sound like deity in whose underworld you want to be.
Death usually is.
Playing empire builder, battle wizard shenanigans, a shadow war with the Lahmians that didn't decide on the Draco Malfoy Slytherin finishing school of anti subtlety for their graduate education, messing about with Dhar in ways that can be trivially spun as containment and isolation, Roswita interactions, blatant abuse of power to enrich ourselves and/or the Empire with the EIC, figuring out a Seviroscope the can be used as a Dhar Geiger counter to help decontamination of the region, the ability to mess around with waystones on the side, relative proximity to K8P over most other options, and anything I couldn't come up with in five minutes.
Did Swamp town just get overtaken once Empire heard there is something worth taking, or did Swamp town petition them to take over so they would have protection against Port Reaver? Or is its history entirely different here?
That, and a lot of people have expressed that since there isn't much left to investigate at K8P, it is rather unfair to Belegar if we keep occupying the position of Loremaster, when he could appoint one better suited to the traditional duties of one (internal negotiations, dwarf law, maintaining and updating the Hold's archives etc.) if we were to resign from the post. So far, Belegar's been doing those things on his own while Mathilde acted as the local weird shit expert and magical troubleshooter.
Yeah, but acting as Karaz Ankor's weird shit expert and magical troubleshooter is cool! And we can't do that if we step down as Loremaster, as per Boney.
Hence why both Sinecure and Loremaster-at-Large are options that can be voted for. And as cool as it is, it would seem most people would rather be helpful to Belegar and be able to move on to something else.
Just FYI, this vote's just about determining Mathilde's interest, so we see which of the jobs she'll investigate further before making her choice. Elfcation, along with Sinecure and Research Sabbatical, were marked as options that Mathilde already knows as much about as she can without committing. So votes for them don't make a difference at this vote.
