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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] Skaven

From my read, Starke doesn't care if what we give him is a lie, he just wants a excuse to give to people raising a stink. This is a great excuse.

Especially if the ones asking aren't read in on the conspiracy of silence, cause he can just go 'its classified', which is probably his favorite phrase.
 
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[X] Grief

[x] Other (write-in): Grief, but note that it certainly looks like Skaven would fit and such an explaination would paint the order in a better light.
 
[X] The Right Tool for the Right Job
-[X] While sigmarites might be full of good intentions when fighting the enemies of mankind. The average sigmarite is ill equiped to defend the dark underbelly of cities. For in the dark cramped space of sewers, the unseen dagger will often prevail over the most courageous and devout servant of Sigmar.

Here is my suggestion, it could be interpreted as us trying to defend against skaven OR simply other enemies of mankind. Each god has his own purposes and we thought that Ranald was more suited for the context. And contrary to "skaven", it's not a straight up lie.

Plus, I love the implication that there are plenty of places where believers of other religions might be better suited to the job than the sigmarites currently doing those jobs.
 
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[x] Skaven

Because fuck em.

[X] The Right Tool for the Right Job
-[X] While sigmarites might be full of good intentions when fighting the enemies of mankind. The average sigmarite is ill equiped to defend the dark underbelly of cities. For in the dark cramped space of sewers, the unseen dagger will often prevail over the most courageous and devout servant of Sigmar.
 
[X] Grief
You acted rashly after the death of Abelhelm, a death that Sigmar could have prevented, and acted out against a largely Sigmarite institution under your control. While true and understandable, it does hint towards the extent of your rather complicated feelings towards your former liege, and you might not want those hints available for cross-referencing if the Underwear Incident ever comes to light.
[X] Trauma
You stood over your dying liege and fought against an endless tide of undead, waiting for reinforcements that almost never came. You took command when nobody else would and gave orders that led to the deaths of thousands. You sentenced a Necromancer to death and smiled as you watched him burn alive. In the aftermath of all that, you were not at your best. That's why you mishandled the situation.
 
Boney said:
It's not quite a conscious decision to adopt a new style, more the inevitable result of an extremely different story being told. K8P and Karag Dum were largely military Dwarven projects, which is an entirely different kettle of fish to deeply political R&D projects involving a lot of parties with different priorities.
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This does bring me to a question actually. You've gone into detail a few times on your writing style being "Bazaar" style and you've gone over your character creation being effectively like a logic tree, but now I'm curious about how you decide to write. Do you make a plan for what you want to do and try to hit those beats or do you just start writing and see where the narrative takes you? Is it a combination or do you do something different? Or maybe the writing process isn't fully consistent for you?

Personally I only really start writing when I get hit with a sudden bolt of inspiration, then I start working out the exact beats I want to touch on while writing. I often don't really deviate from those beats aside from fleshing them out. I've seen writers saying things like "the character surprised them", which I've never really felt before. Is that something you experience? Where you're surprised by the stuff you write once you actually start writing? As in you didn't expect it to happen as you start writing? I mean, aside from rolls surprising you.
Boney said:
Something I think is important for writers to keep in mind with writing in historical and fantasy settings is that people with all of these 'modern' diagnoses still existed, they just didn't have any sort of help in dealing with them and had to figure out their own ways to interface with a society that wasn't built for them.
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I feel the need to say that I very much appreciate all the work you put in to make a diverse and inclusive world Boney.
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By the extremely scientific method of 'which singer would I associate him with' (Hansi Kursch in Nightfall in Middle-Earth) and looking up what they are: high baritone. The Light Order uses existing musical tradition as a framework so they stick to what we would understand, but some are capable of things like solo harmonizing.
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I didn't know who that was, but I looked it up.

Do you mean this song?
 
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