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If we are feeling charitative we can do that with our own money and time
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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If we are feeling charitative we can do that with our own money and time
Oh but the upside they would all call her Mum as she's adopting them just like what her father Regimand did!
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But we didn't "pay" for the long term commitment of a (Lady) Magister with the Colleges. We mostly paid the equivalent of cost, without extra profit added on top. Or do you think that if we were a Damsel and had asked for these College Wizards we'd have gotten them for anywhere near as cheap? Or if Mathilde's project had been one of strictly personal interest.
Not if Nordland pays the standard fee of two heads. That of the EC and that of the assassin.
I'm actually curious. How would the Cult of Thungni go about having someone killed who is in a foreign polity if they can't convince any of the Kings to do it for them?
Nice!
I don't know why this line makes me as happy as it does.
Is Adela allowed to eventually teach the stuff she learns to her own Apprentice, provided said Apprentice swears the right oaths?
This is massive!
Also, does it make sense to posit that the Power Stones in Teclis' sword should be growing whenever he kills a Daemon with it? Does he change them for new ones whenever that happens?
That truly is tragic, because personally I envisioned a staff that's as multicultural as possible. Not because I want some best of all worlds min-max compromise option, but because multiculturalism is a virtue in its own right and one I envisioned the Library aspiring towards.
Which option, if any, would get closest to that ideal?
My first instinct would be "Locals", but for some reason the Halflings are explicitly a separate option from that, which I don't quite get, seeing how they too are locals.
The We would work much better in tandem with any one additional option. Their main drawback is that they can't individually speak and that they come completely untrained, both of those would be massively mitigated with a second partner.
Cython might end up as the multicultural option, because we have no idea who he would hire as assistants. But he might also just go the lazy way and choose a single source.
Codex
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They're used to power the Battle Altars like the Celestial Hurricanum and Luminark of Hysh, and they're also used in the College's defence and vaults. They're pretty damn valuable.
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I kinda view the We's unusualness as a good thing, honestly.
As someone who struggles to fit into society's norms myself, I hate it when not doing so makes you an outcast, something who is not permitted to participate.
I would love to push back against that fundamental mindset of "this is strange and not in my scope of comprehension, therefore it must be feared and kept away".
Seeing as that's also the mindset that led to Mathilde nearly being burnt as a witch when she was young, I don't think this reasoning would be out of character for her.
As someone who struggles to fit into society's norms myself, I hate it when not doing so makes you an outcast, something who is not permitted to participate.
I would love to push back against that fundamental mindset of "this is strange and not in my scope of comprehension, therefore it must be feared and kept away".
Seeing as that's also the mindset that led to Mathilde nearly being burnt as a witch when she was young, I don't think this reasoning would be out of character for her.
I'm not seeing a lot of discussion of this option. What do you think the drawbacks and benefits of this are? From the description it seems that a staff of Runescribes will be the best option for the purpose of maintaining our books, but on the other hand...actually I'm not sure what the drawbacks are? Someone roast this option for me please
Yes.
The time it takes for a Daemon's corpse to start disintegrating varies based on ambient magical energy. It might be a problem if he made a habit of not wiping his sword down after battles and let Daemon blood disintegrate on the stones.
Locals. It includes Halflings, it's just not exclusively Halflings.
But the We aren't humans. They aren't outcasts from society - they live in a seperate society that fits their needs. Would they even want to be librarians? Would it be good for them?
I'm leaning heavily towards the We, spider librarians sounds pretty awesome, not even mentioning myriad advantages of having telepathic spiders that can increase their numbers as they please.
Does it also include Runescribes, just not exclusively Runescribes? Or dwarves that aren't Runescribes?
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And if we're feeling scientific
Still gotta figure out if we're making Wizards by being around kids.
It would include Halflings, humans, and Dwarves.
Mopman43
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Well, they're Dwarfs, so there's the usual caveats- fastidious to point of absurdity, and they'd presumably be available in smaller numbers than other options.
NavySeel
"I don't know what I'm doing."
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Considering how much they seem to like learning, yes I'm pretty sure they would like being librarians.
Also Mathilde is entirely in favour of normalising Magic and the strange, I don't see why she wouldn't like the idea of getting more people used to the We and having word about them spread.
It could lead to other colonies being recognised as what they are and not attacked on sight by scared people who assume them to be monsters.
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[ ] Collegiate
Will be a boon to any magical research, and will allow the Library become a seamless part of the larger Collegiate ecosystem.
[ ] Orphans
Will ensure staff that is fanatically loyal to you.
[ ] The We
Spider Librarians.
I am somewhat leaning towards spiders.
In part because i find the idea funny.
But also in part because once The We learns how to be a librarian, they will be a librarian basicly forever, so there will be basicly no loss of institutional knowledge and only minimal drift in policy based on changing circumstances instead of people wanting to leave their mark or somesuch.
Will be a boon to any magical research, and will allow the Library become a seamless part of the larger Collegiate ecosystem.
[ ] Orphans
Will ensure staff that is fanatically loyal to you.
[ ] The We
Spider Librarians.
I am somewhat leaning towards spiders.
In part because i find the idea funny.
But also in part because once The We learns how to be a librarian, they will be a librarian basicly forever, so there will be basicly no loss of institutional knowledge and only minimal drift in policy based on changing circumstances instead of people wanting to leave their mark or somesuch.
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Mathilde now : "Boss, turns out you can move multiple winds safely if you use Dhar. Please let me research this dark magic."
Mathilde soon : "Boss, I just made Orbs of Sorcery for Winds I can't touch. I refuse to say how I managed it."
Lady Magisters are trusted, right?
Mathilde soon : "Boss, I just made Orbs of Sorcery for Winds I can't touch. I refuse to say how I managed it."
Lady Magisters are trusted, right?
I wasn't suggesting that Mathilde wouldn't want to normalize the We - I was suggesting the We might not want to integarte into a society that's radically different from their own. Yes, they've expressed interest in other civilizations, that doesn't that they want to completely abandon their way of life in favour of doing something that our society thinks of as 'better'.
Since the We is a voting option I don't actually think Boney is going to turn around and say "no actually the We don't want to go back to the vote", but I'm not getting the warm fuzzies that others seem to get from this option.
Mathilde got plenty of friends nearby that they can train them for her, far easier to train than the We plus they would get along with the locals the more they interact.
Don't forget we have plenty of money to hire people to train them if needed.
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NavySeel
"I don't know what I'm doing."
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So you think Boney is going to lock the We into some life of eternal slavery in our library even if they don't want it?
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[X] Locals
[X] Cython
[X] Cython
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[X] The We
Hail the Librachnids
Hail the Librachnids