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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Boney said:
Yeah, this is something I try to push back on every now and then, but the idea that the canonical name for the world is Mallus even in Warhammer Fantasy is pretty deeply embedded.
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In the absence of any other name that isn't four words chained together and troublesome to type, it kind of doesn't matter that Mallus isn't really named Mallus.

EDIT: NVM, people already went over it :V
 
I'm generally more interested in more words being spent on Mathilde interacting with established characters I enjoy than I am with Mathilde interacting with new characters who have a decent chance of never appearing again after this is over. Sure, all characters were new once and of questionable future relevance, but I don't view potential as the same as realized interesting characters.
 
Codex said:
By the way, I'm blazing through a few Age of Sigmar books in my free time, and I feel the need to say this because I've seen some people refer to the Warhammer World as "Mallus". It is true that in Age of Sigmar, Mallus is the name of the Fantasy world, but it is specifically the name of the Broken World. The actual name for the Fantasy world is "The World-That-Was". Mallus is the name of the Broken World because Sigmar clung to it's core as it careened across the galaxy when he met Dracothian. Sigmar brought the wreckage of the Broken World to Azyr next to his palace so he could mine the star metal that formed its core, that he and his subordinates call "Sigmarite". That is why the Broken World is referred to as Mallus.

And if you're thinking that's egotistical. It very much is. Sigmar lays in the palace of Sigmaron surrounded by the celestial nebula known as Sigmarabulum with the High Star Sigendil above him. Sigmar is unbelievably egotistical it's genuinely unbelievable.

Why am I saying this? Being the pedant that I am, I just want to make it clear that the Warhammer Fantasy world at this point in time is not Mallus and it would be incorrect to call it that.
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So the world was called Mallus because, for a time, it literally was the hammer he was wielding and Thor-flying around?
 
Rafin said:
So the world was called Mallus because, for a time, it literally was the hammer he was wielding and Thor-flying around?
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Pretty much.

In Age of Sigmar, Sigmar literally sits on his throne in his palace Sigmaron and chucks lightning bolts into the mortal realms with his hands like Zeus to transport the Stormcast Eternals in squads. It's how Stormcast Eternals get deployed. Combine that with all the Latin that Sigmar chucks around for the names of literally everything in the Stormcast roster and it's obvious that they took the Roman theme of the Empire and ratcheted it up to High Fantasy with Age of Sigmar.

If I could describe Age of Sigmar in a word, then it'd be "Wacky". Or "Absurd". But not in a bad way, more in an amused way. Everything is balls to the walls crazy.
 
I'm wondering if Alric is going to pop up in Ostermark. He's still hunting for a legend, Ostermark and Talabecland share a border, and what ever is happening here has got everyone on edge. It seems like a perfect opportunity for the Patriarch of the Light Order to take a personal interest in.

The only other places he could go (as far as I'm aware) is Averland to fight orcs (and we still have favours pending from our waaagh lectures) or Middenland/Nordland (which we're all over like sticky toffee on a child). Everywhere else seems to be temporarily stable or has kicked him out.

I suppose he could just walk into a random forest and knock over a beastman warherd, but that doesn't really have the right threat level he needs.
 
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Codex said:
I'm very certain Kadoh would dunk on Mathilde on most if not all fitness areas. Johann is barely human anymore, he doesn't need to breath for example, so he's also likely to dunk on Mathilde. It's very much not fair.
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Dont forget that Mathilde has her Indefatigable mastery of Aethyric Armour, she can cast it a few times during a workout on top of the one free use she gets from her robes. Its probably not enough to keep up with the two muscleheads but Mathilde can probably be active longer then most expect.

Its one of the masteries I would love to study in detail some day, the potential of spells that prevent fatigue is enormous.
 
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Let's just call the planet Not-Mallus. Short enough, and should be sufficiently memorable.

[x] The Ostermark Hedgewise
[x] Ice Witches
[x] Vicereine Cadaeth
 
Codex said:
Sigmar lays in the palace of Sigmaron surrounded by the celestial nebula known as Sigmarabulum with the High Star Sigendil above him. Sigmar is unbelievably egotistical it's genuinely unbelievable.
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Codex said:
it's literally Age of Sigmar, but at least they give a reason for the egotistical name. Considering how many giant statues Sigmar has in cities he looks over, I have a feeling that he thrives off that stuff.
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It's surprising Sigmar and Mathilde don't get on better.
 
Codex said:
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.

That was a complete tangent by the way. The thing that led me to that conclusion was in 6th Edition Dwarfs revised, where King Gotrek Starbreaker fought Phoenix King Caledor II in a single combat and his tactic was to fight defensively and probe Caledor until the Elf became exhausted, because the Elves lacked stamina. They fought for a full day and Caledor was flagging pretty hard, which Gotrek took advantage of to smash Caledor's blade. Caledor then started begging for his life, and Gotrek gave him no mercy.

But, you know, that was a full day. Gotrek thought the Elves lacked stamina, but lacking stamina compared to Dwarves is expected.
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Caledor and Gotrek's fight is presented in different ways depending on the edition and book but the fact that they dueled for almost a day before Caledor came to the conclusion that the whole War was pointless and Gotrek used his slackening to his advantage and won the fight. So yeah dwarfs might have more stamina then Elves on average but with individuals I would say it's up in the air as to who has more.

Also what the hell kind of magic was that Goblin on that they could match both speed and weapon skill with a Elf hero because I know who had the better stats in tabletop.
 
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[X] Vicereine Cadaeth

mathymancer said:
I'll be pretty sad if Cadaeth wins. Wanting to interact with characters you like is fine and all, but Cadaeth is a member of the Waystone project; we're going to interact with her plenty of times in the future. Any other choice - literally any other choice - will let us spend some time with someone we're likely not going to see much in the future, or at all. And watching the Ostermark Hedgewise lose at the last moment will also be pretty heartbreaking, for obvious personal reasons.
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We will always, always be unable to interact with several people we're likely never going to see much in the future if ever. That is the inevitable price of building any amount of depth into an existing relationship. Time spent with the Hedgewise is time not spent strengthening a relationship we already have. Going broader with the social interaction in the Dum expedition would've meant befriending Egrimm less, and I think that would've been a waste. Conversely, going narrower may've meant befriending the expedition leader more, which meant we'd have known more about the big mystery at the end.
 
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