If Mathilde dies the thread will be able to retroactively write her will, and can make arrangements for that.
All my debts I bequeath on Malekith durr hurr.
Im joking of course, but my assumption was that while we can give any of our possessions to whoever we want, rules on Dwarven debt inheritance would be much more stringent and specific.
Possibilities I see:
A) It goes to a specific person whose inheritance we make conditional on accepting our debt in the will proper and said person does in fact accept as witnessed by a notary the Dwarves trust. This is conditional on us actually writing that into the will though so in case we don't, one of the below applies.
B) It goes to whoever inherited liquid cash from us proportional to the amount of cash they inherited.
C) It goes in full to whoever inherited whatever the Dwarves consider to be of the biggest monetary value.
D) It follows family lines and some peasants get royally fucked.
E) Mathilde was considered as adopted fully into her Guild as a Clanless and the Grey College inherits the debt before random blood ties.
Anyway, my personal plan was to bequeath all our liquid cash to the Grey College as one last tithe and "fulfilment" of the Vow of Poverty. So if that's more than 2000gc then they should also keep the debt in their books in my opinion. But that's just me.
They have books about their experiences with the Empire, but those books tell the reader a lot more about the Eonir than they do about the Empire. Until the battle in the Schadensumpf, it's possible that there might not have been a single Elf in Laurelorn that could name more than five provinces off the top of their head.
What category would those be in?
This is the first official purchase order Kron-Azril-Ungol will be making. It's not wrong to use that purchase order to round out categories that the people of K8P will be using the library for.
We should start as we intend to go on; collecting knowledge for the benefit of the people. We should not be using the library solely as a personal resource. Hell, if that's what people wanted, we should have voted to spend the boon on having Belegar fund our private library indefinitely, not build a brand new public library from scratch.
Kron-Azril-Ungol is not Mathilde's library. It is the library that Mathilde administrates, and we have a responsibility to ensure it sticks to the charter we chose—"for the people".
This is the hill I'm going to die on.
Besides, do people really think there will be a practical benefit to obtaining 4000 years worth of texts on elven textiles and textile manufacture? "Welcome to the greatest library in the Karaz Ankor. Here is the closet where we keep our religious texts, and over there is the floor hosting all our books on how elves make clothes."
There's three rebuttals that come to mind.
As long as the Library isn't open to literally anyone, all books bought for it count as "first purchase". I'm with you with buying those basic knowledge books until then, but there is nothing actually special about the literal first purchase other than sentimentality.
Eventually the library should be filled with literally every topic of note. Including Elven weaving or whatever else. So buying it when it is already useful to us just makes sense. In fact, once the Library stands there should be a team hired that independently of our personal needs just goes out into the world to acquire books based on a cost/usefulness calculation.
Elven textiles specifically (which is not something I am even voting for by the way) would directly help the people of K8P. And I don't mean just by enriching their local economy. I mean helping all those Empire weavers Francesco was supposed to import on a personal level.
That said,
@Boney , if we wanted to just buy basic books on spider silk weaving instead of the whole Mourning sortiment on textiles, could we do that with the [][PURCHASE] option? What would we have to write in? Textiles +1? Something more specific?
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