By the magic of whichever writer made that canon not having done their research. In practice it's probably more like a land tax in that income tied to farmland and herds would be the only one it'd be hard to conceal so it's what would be focused on, and licenses and guild dues would make up the lost taxes from urban professions that can trivially hide the majority of their income.
Ah. Didn't know that 10% number was from canon instead of being DL WoG.
Rationally, I know that Qrech is a murderer, a slaver and probably entirely unrepentant. And yet I can't help but be very attached to him.
Him thinking that the taste of Chaos Dwarf flesh is of academic value was right there in the chapter.
That said, I'm attached to him too.
I'm going to vote for order, because preserving works doesn't matter that much if they then get lost in a book heap, and I don't think we should have any works that need more than standard dwarven security in there anyway.
Order sounds like something that doesn't need to be included in the physical foundation though. No matter how relatively weird the layout (and it won't be too obtuse what with being built by Dwarves) it's more a question of how the books get shoves into the shelves over the next centuries, how the shelves are labeled and how all that info is stored in library cards than about how the mountain was excavated and the masonry placed. But things like near infinite expansion capacity (Capacity), ventilation (Comfort/Preservation), foundation for non-standard rooms (Comfort/Holy), or hidden rooms within hidden rooms (Security) are right now type questions to solve.
These are Dwaves being given a blank check from the ruler of Karak Eight Peaks to build something. It's gonna be damn good in every way, but Dwarves do do best with preservation, and I think in every other regard it'll be more than functional anyway if we pick that.
I was thinking exactly the opposite. Dwarves are good at and value preservation, so even the normal amount would seem near excessive to any IRL human in the business. But things like Holy might be almost completely neglected in the layout as far as non-Dwarven deities are concerned and Comfort isn't really a priority either, so the baseline might be just breathable air and an occasional stone slab to put a book on.
It's big for academia on the topic, but it has a severe disatvantage in importance because Empire and CDs don't really fight at all, being seperated by one of the largest mountain ranges in the world.
It is extremly unlikely that the book ever attains military, diplomatic or other, non-academic importance.
It might become more important if Mathilde becomes a trend setter instead of a fluke. I.e. if Wizard leaders and advisors to Dwarves, using Human style tactics during Dwarven military campaigns becomes a thing that occasionally happens.
Motivation: Obligation
Corruption: 2
I'd like to know your thoughts behind these two and also an explanation of what "Corruption: 2" implies on the scale as measured by the RPG.
Ranald's Coin
Once every 24 hours, the bearer can flip Ranald's Coin. For the next 24 hours, the bearer falls under one of four effects. To determine which effect they fall under, roll a d100 and consult the table below.
I really like the design of it being random. I almost prefer it to the current one. It would definitely be interesting if at the start of a turn Boney told us which bonus he rolled us to have (and only asks us to apply it to a specific action if it makes sense in context). Of course it would make no sense changing it now after we've already used it so much.
You may pass unnoticed and remarked, providing you do nothing to draw attention to yourself, such as touching, attacking, calling out to someone, casting a spell, or making a loud noise.
This one seems different though. It doesn't have the "outside of private property" clause.
Afterwards, the Seed of Regrowth can only be activated after being allowed to sprout in soil for 1d10 hours.
What made you decide to exclude the "eat incapacitated people or fresh corpses" ability? Too much text?
You're asking for details that don't exist yet. Picks have barely touched rock.
My question I guess is how much do we give up by not choosing any one given option? Like, am I right to think that not choosing Capacity, Security Preservation still means that those traits would be considerably higher than some of the most excellent IRL physical libraries while the same is not true when it comes to not choosing Comfort or Holy?
I mean Preservation is volcano an waaagh proof. That's insane. If not preservation is 25% as good it's still good enough for me. But on the flip side I imagine that the amount of priority Dwarves put into Comfort if not prompted is downright sad. And I have no clue where on the scale between OCD meticulous organization and relying on pure superhuman memory to find anything at all the Dwarves would fall on Order. All of this matters to my vote though.1
[X] Preservation
Because 'knowledge that will never be lost' was the primary goal from the beginning.
B O O K will be eternal.
Yeah, but we don't need
more than that.
[X] Order
I dislike 'Preservation' because a book that cannot be found may as well have been destroyed. While a book damaged by the environment can be restored/replaced.
Security feels redundant. The thing is already a Dwarf vault in one of the most secure Holds on the planet.
Comfort and Holy are somewhat tempting. But I have lost enough hours and days trying to grind through obscure sorting systems to prioritise Order above all else.
The only reason that I'm not outright voting for Order yet is that I don't know what baseline Order entails the way I feel like I have a handle on baseline Preservation (already insane) or Security (not subtle but otherwise near impenetrable).
that said, we don't have magic runes. The dwarves do. They can make a library that lasts forever, or close enough.
My understanding is that those magic runes are baseline. I mean even Mathilde's private bathroom has magic runes.
[ ] Preservation
You could focus from the outset on the preservation of the gathered materials from both natural disaster and the march of time. The masons will use techniques meant for facilities built atop live volcanoes to create a library that could withstand being the epicentre of the beginning of a second Time of Woes, and a great deal of care paid to air shafts and ambient humidity will create separate sections of the library tailored for the different needs of paper, parchment, and papyrus, and a means of completely securing the entire facility such that it could last another few millennia of enemy inhabitation unbreached.
That still doesn't protect from outright infiltration and sabotage though. Or something insane like another Dawi-Zarr style fall to Chaos among the local native inhabitants.
And while such an event is unlikely, so is a volcanic eruption, let alone K8P being the epicenter of a second Time of Woes.
