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Roswita's intelligence apparatus is the Witch Hunters, the same ones who helped Abelhelm get us out of the Lahmian Conspiracy. Regardless, the Greys are the ones specced for stealth, not the Lights.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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I mean, That's more evidence that Dragomas is just fucking strong, even as far as Supreme Patriarchs go. not really a depiction of how strong Alric is.
Everyone in that scene thought Paranoth can win, not that he would win, and by that token Alric's chances were not so bad either.
the only real glimpse into how strong he is was the fight: (Alric lower, Dragomas higher, midpoint 35)
he had a 35% chance to win, with the next highest chance being that scrappy, battle-hardened Jade battle wizard at 25%.
Dragomans is a monster, losing to him is not a sign of your level, that Alric didn't have a terrrble chance to still win is.
I'm pretty sure it's Julia, like explicitly, she gets paid money and everything. The Templars of Sigmar are not Roswita's co command chasing down College politics. In any case the mismatch is kind of my point though, we are a Grey, we have a super stealth artifact, thus linking up with the more public investigator who has been investigating for a while would throw away those advantages for dubious gain
that's why its a question and not a testable Hypothesis.
He won three rounds of duels for Supreme Patriarch two of them after the Night of Thousand Duels so against a number of highly motivated LMs and College heads. That and he actually got made a LM in the first place which isn't a title that's handed out to whoever happens to be passing by.
Sure he's got a boatload of faults but if Alric didn't have some stuff he was seriously good at he wouldn't even remotely be in the running as Patriarch.
Which all happened how many decades ago though? I am betting Mathilde was either in leading strings or not alive at the time. All things told I would rather trust the more recent intel on him.
The odds do not matter, the same way the odds of Thrgrim coming to our aid did not matter. Once that roll fell Thorgrim was the kind of dwarf who would write 'die well' for all sorts of understandable reasons, that is not my point. just that we should not base our assessments of people on OOC counter-factuals for things they did not roll. He was in fact beaten and not by the dragon transformation, not even by an amber spear, by the Cowering Beast a moderately complicated spell, journeyman magic.
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There's no indication that Alric mysteriously lost all his skills and experience though. He was a tad shaky on the duelling stage against the very strong Dragomas but despite being in the second decade of his second century Alric is still capable enough to duel and run around pissing off people.
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Her spymaster is a witch hunter, Julia works under him, and Abelhelm used them as a parallel intelligence that Mathilde had no idea about until the very end. I'm not committed to any actions for the next round, but I will argue against any points I think are factually unsupported.
Fair enough.
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A comment on the idea people have had of working with Alric on this (apologies if somebody already brought this up): Alric has come here looking for some kind of big political-relevant deed to catapult him back into the seat of power. But the real keyword there, from the perspective of his goals, is "political" rather than "deed." Having leverage on an Empress by holding her secrets would likely qualify as meeting his needs too. We emphatically do not want Alric to get to the heart of this investigation if we intend to keep Heidi/Mandred/Ranald's secret actually safe here.
We do not want anyone ever getting to that secret. I do not think there is anything he could do with it even if he were the purest of heard wizard in the world that would not be against Ranald's interests. If anything an Alric trying for blackmail would be better than one who just throw the information out there. At least in that case we could try to assassinate him.
Fayhem
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I mean, yes? The fewer people who know a secret, the more likely it is to remain one. But we're not discussing working with anyone, we're discussing working with a very select sub-group of people. Of whom Alric was one that was brought up. Hence, my responding to that idea specifically.
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Is all that incompetence, or a streak of bad luck?
Is all that incompetence, or a streak of bad luck?
If all that is bad luck than Ranald must hate him, so we have a religious obligation to foil him at all turns.
NeonLights
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If it's not that bad then we don't need him.
If it's not that bad then we don't need him.
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And make off with a solid portion of his worldly possessionsIf all that is bad luck than Ranald must hate him, so we have a religious obligation to foil him at all turns.
If all that is bad luck than Ranald must hate him, so we have a religious obligation to foil him at all turns.
I know you are kidding but, Ranald is the God of Luck. Some would argue that whether it's bad luck or good luck, it doesn't really matter so long as it's entertaining. And seeing how he reached such an old age as a Wizard means his luck isn't always bad.
The only likely way to use that as an in is to figure out the mechanisms involved in the Waystones and draw a direct line between experiments today and Waystones tomorrow, then try to use successes there to argue for some more cautious branching out. You're going against millennia of Runesmith orthodoxy that say that Winds and Runes are fundamentally opposed, and trying to Trojan Horse in the entire field of Enchanting-Runesmithing collaborations with nothing more than a handwave towards a distant past is likely to get the door slammed in your face and nailed shut.
There's no way to do that without severely endangering the tentative working relationship you've established with Thorek.
To the thread in general: seriously, if you've got Thorek "Gunpowder Is Dangerously Newfangled" Ironbrow even slightly on board you really shouldn't be rocking that boat out of impatience. Getting him to baby step his way to a kickflip is the dream scenario, and you'll absolutely obliterate any chance of that happening if you bring in Extremely Junior Journeyman Runesmith Okri Q Dickhead from Karak Nowhere, Age 35, with a skateboard in one hand and a bong in the other.
The latter. If I make the former, I'll make it completely clear that's what's happening.
Daemons always lie, except when the truth will hurt you more.
A much younger version of him, yes.
Yes.
Regimand is extremely competent and comfortable at his current level of responsibility and doesn't seek anything higher than that, and the Grey Order isn't stupid enough to turn an extremely good Magister into a sulky and uncooperative Lord Magister.
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Now I kind of want to see Extremely Junior Journeyman Runesmith Okri Q Dickhead from Karak Nowhere, Age 35, with a skateboard in one hand and a bong in the other, in the story. He sounds like a radical d00d.
He's not the runesmith we need, but he's the runesmith we deserve
Mopman43
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He's not a radical d00d.
He's a radical d@w1.
Get it right, Umgi.
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Did you mean Vlag? If so, no:
Karag Vlag has lost their knowledge as part of their "give everyone the basics" initiative. We are not getting radical runesmiths from them. We aren't getting runesmiths from them, period. Whether the Runesmiths Guild ever re-initiates them into those secrets and builds up a new tradition of real runesmiths among them, not just rune-pokers, is still an open question: the cult of Thungni might decide that Vlag doesn't get access to those secrets anymore.
If you meant Dum... well, uh, "go back to Dum in order to recruit Runesmiths for the Waystone Project" is certainly a thing we could try to do. I'm not convinced it's a better use of our time than the irons we've already got in the fire, or for that matter than poking ourselves in the eye with a stick.