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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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NSMS said:
...please, leave this type preserved for all to see.

Pan: "Mathilde, you look... ah, different today. Is something wrong?"

Mathilde: "Nah, I've just decided to grow a bear."

Bear: "GROWWWLRR!!"

Mathilde: "Isn't he adorable~?"

Pan: "...still not the most eccentric thing she's ever done."
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A peak into the alternate universe where tongs worked and fmthe first experiment messed with Ghur.
 
Redshirt Army said:
Those various positions aren't actually redacted in most cases, that was just a cute in-universe way for me to cover up the names of the positions that Boney hadn't assigned to a particular person yet. I imagine Mathilde knows who the Dean is, for example, but Boney hadn't come up with an NPC for the role yet.
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Absolutely.
And just as soon as someone happens to mention the name of the Dean in conversation with Mathilde, she will always have known something so obvious to any Magister, especially to one who pays such close attention to day-to-day College operations. :)
 
I headcanon that most Wizards have weird looking eyes even if they don't have a specific Arcane Mark for it, just because they've been messing with the winds for so much. I'd like to think Mathilde's Windsage abilities gives her great windsight but also gives her creepy eyes.
 
Codex said:
I headcanon that most Wizards have weird looking eyes even if they don't have a specific Arcane Mark for it, just because they've been messing with the winds for so much. I'd like to think Mathilde's Windsage abilities gives her great windsight but also gives her creepy eyes.
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His eyes are ablaze,
See the madman in his gaze
 
So just throwing this out there, how many wizards do you think it is reasonable to have for the college branch/Waystone project? mean we already have three (if we get Horstman which seems likely), but even counting Mathilde we only have three of the colleges represented. I would like to have a wizard of each wind at least but I am not sure how reasonable that is given that we will have to manage these people well.
 
DragonParadox said:
So just throwing this out there, how many wizards do you think it is reasonable to have for the college branch/Waystone project? mean we already have three (if we get Horstman which seems likely), but even counting Mathilde we only have three of the colleges represented. I would like to have a wizard of each wind at least but I am not sure how reasonable that is given that we will have to manage these people well.
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Success breeds success, failure breeds failure.
The right amount is based on how many you need + how many you can attract while still giving everyone a price of the glory pie.
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
Success breeds success, failure breeds failure.
The right amount is based on how many you need + how many you can attract while still giving everyone a price of the glory pie.
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At the end of the day we can offer access to the Library of the Mornings. That on its own should be enough to get us at least one wizard from every college even if there is no glory and no success.
 
DragonParadox said:
So just throwing this out there, how many wizards do you think it is reasonable to have for the college branch/Waystone project? mean we already have three (if we get Horstman which seems likely), but even counting Mathilde we only have three of the colleges represented. I would like to have a wizard of each wind at least but I am not sure how reasonable that is given that we will have to manage these people well.
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Short answer: as many wizards as we need. We don't know how many that is yet.

Realistic answer: as many as we can get our hands on. There are only, what, 50 magisters in each college in the empire? So 400-500 total? And all of them are doing important things. We got Max and Johann because they are between jobs right now, and we got Egrimm because of the coin and because his "job" is Alric's troubleshooter, so he's more flexible. Unless the Jades and Ambers already have full time waystone researchers, I suspect we've capped out on talent for the moment.

We might get some perpetuals with more theory than skill, though, but again, they are pretty busy as well. Some journeymen might also join us, like on the Dum expedition, mainly for the beastman killing stuff, but the political situation is so highly charged that they might stay away and go somewhere else—no sense tanking your career on some egotistical LM's boondoggle, especially if both the big anti-magic cults are involved.
 
BoneyM said:
"Partly." She gives a sudden smile, almost managing to dispel the mood she's crafted. "And because curiosity is a powerful motivator. Though we will contribute no matter where it is that you will pool the efforts of Elf and Dwarf, we will not show you the wonders of Tor Lithanel unless it plays host to the work in question."

"What wonders would those be?" you can't help but ask.

"The towers and jewels of Tor Lithanel have captured the soul of many an artist, but I suspect most relevant to you would be the Library of Mournings, twice the age of your Teclis' White Tower. It contains scrolls that predate the Elven race, and scrolls written in the hands of Caledor, Astarielle, Maruviel, and Yvraine. Access to such a library would be of great benefit to the project, don't you think?"
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This makes it sound like the library will be open to the waystone project as a whole, not just Mathilde.
 
DragonParadox said:
That is a distinction without a difference, we can find any book they are interested in and copy it over to ours.
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While i agree with what Nerdasaurus said (the library will be open for use to those working on project), i significantly doubt the Elves are unable to prevent copying like this.

Mathy could write down what she learned, perhaps, but that in and of itself would be dissolution of the knowledge because it would be said through her lenses and therefore less reliable, as all translations are wont to be.

Edit: Do try to remember that Mathilde has access to books via the Colleges that she cannot herself copy or disseminate because doing so is forbidden. The idea that such could not be feasibly enforced by Elves to Library of Mournings is preposterous.

IronFist said:
Man, rereading @pucflek's "A Difference Made" omake makes me want to find out that old soldier's name, and name something after him.
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I am like 90% sure Mathilde knows it, she spent two weeks with the man, and he had to have some presence in the hamlet, so at least part of his name would be known to her. While i 100% would vote to name a new spell/artifact after him, i am not sure if it would be forcing an emotional connection where there isn't one. While Mathilde was devastated enough to learn of his departure that she almost broke her (then amateur) pokerface, she also doesn't think of her birthplace often or fondly, so i am not sure if her naming something after him would be IC.

@BoneyM would you be willing to weight in on that?
 
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pucflek said:
I am like 90% sure Mathilde knows it, she spent two weeks with the man, and he had to have some presence in the hamlet, so at least part of his name would be known to her. While i 100% would vote to name a new spell/artifact after him, i am not sure if it would be forcing an emotional connection where there isn't one. While Mathilde was devastated enough to learn of his departure that she almost broke her (then amateur) pokerface, she also doesn't think of her birthplace often or fondly, so i am not sure if her naming something after him would be IC.

@BoneyM would you be willing to weight in on that?
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I agree that she would know it, but we the players don't know it.

Mathilde decided to not look back. But it's a damn good Omake :). I recycled that part about toil for my own scribbles
 
DragonParadox said:
So just throwing this out there, how many wizards do you think it is reasonable to have for the college branch/Waystone project? mean we already have three (if we get Horstman which seems likely), but even counting Mathilde we only have three of the colleges represented. I would like to have a wizard of each wind at least but I am not sure how reasonable that is given that we will have to manage these people well.
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Honestly, if we only get a Jade and an Amber, I'd be satisfied with the College's portion of the Waystone Project.

I think we should focus on the groups/individuals most likely to have knowledge relevant to the project.
 
Mopman43 said:
Honestly, if we only get a Jade and an Amber, I'd be satisfied with the College's portion of the Waystone Project.

I think we should focus on the groups/individuals most likely to have knowledge relevant to the project.
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When it comes to jades/ambers I think it's less about the numbers we get and how much of their secrets they have permission to share. One magister will be more than enough if the college gives them the go ahead to share relevant secrets when they come up.
 
Jreengus said:
When it comes to jades/ambers I think it's less about the numbers we get and how much of their secrets they have permission to share. One magister will be more than enough if the college gives them the go ahead to share relevant secrets when they come up.
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Thankfully, Dragomas seems like a practical/pragmatic sort of guy. He is the Amber and Supreme Patriarch, so if he gives permission I think the Amber Order aren't going to object too strongly.
 
pucflek said:
I am like 90% sure Mathilde knows it, she spent two weeks with the man, and he had to have some presence in the hamlet, so at least part of his name would be known to her. While i 100% would vote to name a new spell/artifact after him, i am not sure if it would be forcing an emotional connection where there isn't one. While Mathilde was devastated enough to learn of his departure that she almost broke her (then amateur) pokerface, she also doesn't think of her birthplace often or fondly, so i am not sure if her naming something after him would be IC.

@BoneyM would you be willing to weight in on that?
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That's not a series of events that Mathilde is super keen on being constantly reminded of.
 
I'm hesitant to use the Library of Mournings as an inducement to join WEBMAT- our branch college is located in K8P, the wizards who get access to the library are explicitly going to have to be located with us in Tor Lithanel under elven authority. They are functionally going to be two separate things, even if we do wear both hats and commute, unless we want the elves accusing us of backing out of our end of the deal that gives us access in the first place.

There are costs to keeping the institutional structures muddled on this.
 
[X] The Eonir of Laurelorn: Esoteric Dwarven (150 gc), Beastmen: Extensive Imperial, Extensive and Antiquarian Dwarven (300 gc), Waystones and Henges: Esoteric Imperial (150 gc and 4 CF)

[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] No purchase.
[X] [PURCHASE] No purchase.
 
Not an important question, but I was rereading, and I noticed that Dragomas is first mentioned to transform into a Celestial Dragon. Is this just a term for a Cathayan dragon, or does he actually color swap from Ghur to Azyr? If he does, did Mathilde see how he did it without generating Dhar?
 
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