Maybe not in the past, but wouldn't Johann definitely know by now? He can sense the metals in inks from a short distance and he regularly touches blood with his hands (mostly with his knuckles as it is set free from other people's faces). And since he is Gold Order and I doubt that there's anyone comparable, that's technically a Gold Order advantage.
It's incredibly weird how that very small percentage makes blood taste like iron.
Blood is traditionally noted to taste coppery, not ferrous.
I compare the taste of my blood to the closest thing my tastebuds can compare it to, which is either iron or steel. I don't think I've tasted copper. I can't remember where I tasted metal, but I can assure you that I can't tell you the exact components of the alloy that I tasted. I was a weird kid.
Drycha has been active for a long time. Some of her worst actions have yet to be done (releasing Coedill, kidnapping the Fey Enchantress), but we'd have to go back centuries if not millenia to be too early for Drycha.
Hell if it isn't 99.5% of the taste though, it's like God forgot the salt!
Cents and coins don't taste any different though tbh.
I was always curious over this, but I've been wondering on why you decided you would like to bring Elementalists from 1st Edition into Divided Loyalties? It seems like it makes things a little more complicated worldbuilding wise and I was wondering if you just liked the idea or if there was another reason you decided to bring them over. Far as I know, they were wiped off the face of the earth by 2nd Edition WFRP.
You caught me. I have no idea how much metal inks used to contain.
All the main US coinage aside from the penny is a cupronickel alloy that is mostly copper, and the penny is either copper coated zinc or solid copper if made before 1982.
As long as it ends with her laying on the Sofia in extreme muscle pain for three days, I think it will be amusing enough.
To be fair to Dieter, having another rival magic institute could in principle be a useful thing for the emperor, as a political tool to hold in reserve against the colleges, and because the smaller institute would be more dependant on the emperor and therefore inclined to be helpful. In this case, helpful probably translated to 'handed over a ton of cash for personal vices', but later Emperors would still benefit to a lesser degree.
I was very sure that Elves had lower than average stamina, so I went looking for the part that might have led me to that conclusion. Diving into 6th Edition Core book for Warhammer Fantasy, there is a very neat passage where a Goblin Chief and Elven Hero fight each other in a duel, both wielding magical items. What I found fascinating about the passage was that the Goblin was actively keeping up with a noble duelist and moving so fast that he matched the Elf, their fight even turned into an anime combat scene, where they started moving so fast that the outsiders looking at the two of them only saw blurs of movements and sparks of magical energy. It was so ridiculous but by far one of the coolest fight scenes involving a Goblin in Warhammer. The Goblin wins of course, because he uses a fireball from his ring at the right moment to scorch the elf to cinders.
Despite the memes and the big meeting of ancestors that not like being shown up.
