- Location
- Earth
She was 10. And while that's technically true, there's a difference between 'ready to start learning for your job' and 'ready to start ruling an Empire.'
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Fantasy Users' Choice!
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- Before the Ninth Gate
Oh, sure, but when the other poster said he'd only have political influence at 20, when apparently it's ten when he gets his training wheels, I had a problem.
That is not the angle to attack I was using though. My point was that even if the emperor goes beyond simply gaining advantage over the ECs and genuinely putting his own dynasty's interests before the Empire's we would not simply have the recourse of shouting 'article one' and leaving. The Colleges could not do that with Dieter, we sure as hell would not get to do it because some aid to Talbacland is mysteriously held up a crucial two weeks to give and example.
A bit of a long shot but nice taste
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Hey, cut Mathilde some slack. She's Stirlandian returning from the Chaos Wastes, things that actually stay dead when you kill them is probably still a novel feeling for her.
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- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
The Colleges used Article One to assassinate the sitting empress a while back.
Well yes but consider what Arthur actually achieved in the long run... Starts looking less impressive.
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- Finland
1) Watching Mathilde interact with the kid, help raise him and teach him about the world? Seeing the imperial politics from close up? Lot of adventures in different parts of the empire dealing with their problems? More interactions with colleges due to proximity? Being able to be smug at courtiers who have to work to get the empresses ear while we basicly come and go as we please? (yeah, that last one is kinda petty)
2) I do not understand the question.
3) Ranaldian Lady Magister who is The Expert on dwarf relations (kinda important for the future emperor), also an expert on fighting Skaven, Orcs, and Necromancers (all problems he will likely have to deal with). What's not to love?
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Well, Regimand justified himself with that.
I don't think anyone outside the colleges know, and very few within.
Also known as the woman who was sleeping with the emperor. Meanwhile Dieter died comfortably in bed. Assassinating the actual emperor would be a much harder sell and not something that should be brought up lightly
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- Earth
Sure. I think the bigger issue is that Mandred was born in turn 23, or 2481. IT's currently 2486, so he's 5 years old. It'll be 10 turns before he hits 10.
- Location
- Before the Ninth Gate
And in those turns we'd be going out and solving the Empire's problems, which is also damn cool. I don't see the downside.
Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
- Location
- Plato´s cave.
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- She/Her/It/Its
"What do you mean people die when they are killed? You got any proof for that?"
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- USA
Not with that attitude it won't, approval voting costs nothing.
Fayhem
Definitely not an escaped SCP
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- At large
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- He/Him
I will direct attention again to the fact that the Karaz Ankor is gearing up to take a run at Mount Silverspear with or without Mathilde, and literally every non-Mathilde attempt at reclaiming a Hold has been a disastrous failure. And while Mathilde is notably qualified for helping with the Empire problems you mentioned, they absolutely do have a number of other people with similar skillsets even if they're less advanced. Whereas the Karaz Ankor's set of candidates who have skill at coming up with unorthodox, untraditional solutions and a track record of reclaiming Holds is... Mathilde. And technically maybe Gotri? But otherwise it's basically literally just Mathilde.
I will note that this makes some assumptions about local variables that can't be substantiated. Notably, it assumes that she was being observed closely enough for her personal habits and activities to be tracked. It would be difficult to ethically fake her status under observation, but a vampire being protective of their personal territory even against """allies""" and a Lahmian being exceptionally skilled at wiping out spies and infiltrators wouldn't be at all out of character. I mean, if she was really being observed all THAT closely... well, IIRC vampires have senses so keen that they can hear heartbeats, and the fact that she has one might have been just a bit of a tell.
[x] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[x] Spymaster of Wissenland
[x] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
[x] Spymaster of Wissenland
[x] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
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- Actually pretty lost
Could you give an example of what you mean? I'm struggling to think of
(I'm not going to argue about you coming up with more ways to gnaw at this bone, since I've brought it up once and I'm not actually Boney.)
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There is no one in the empire as good as Mathilde in dealing with Skaven.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Mount Silverspear will be a disastrous failure with or without Mathilde. There's no easy trick to bring them back like with Vlag, there's no other convenient nearby enemies to play them off of, and the seat of the Lahmians power is just about the single worst place for Mathilde to try her usual sneaky shenanigans.