Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
- Location
- The Destination of Fate
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
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- Location
- Finland
Instil as in teach, not instil as in hire.
I think.
The We, Orphans and Locals are probably similar time requirements.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
Honestly, I don't see why Cython would ever take the library and leave when staying right there means he gets to perpetually expand and guard his board with a dwarfhold's payroll.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
You know depending on how many We are needed to run the Library then as the Head Librarian Mathilde, at least on paper, can say that she has command of a small army of giant spiders. Sure it technically won't be accurate but it's still funny.
She'll get them when she gets them.
That would be someONE exotic. I said something, as in the thing being instilled.
The scope of the quest has increased massively since Stirland, and time and effort spent maintaining the Dramatis Personae page is time and effort not spent on actual updates.
- Location
- Brazil
[X] Locals
- Location
- Finland
Only reason i would see Cython leaving is if there was something threatening the Karak itself, that might actually pose a threat to Cython as well.
They are not going to stay and risk their life when they can just pick up and move instead.
But whatever that something is, would probably make the library go poof any way, so might as well have Cython grab the books instead of see them destroyed.
They are not going to stay and risk their life when they can just pick up and move instead.
But whatever that something is, would probably make the library go poof any way, so might as well have Cython grab the books instead of see them destroyed.
oh, so if we instil a 'super-duper mass paper inking system' (a printing press) the staff would need training (e.g AP)?
More if you want all the librarians to know kung fu or whatever. If you just want the librarians to library, that's something that can be set up now without any further AP expenditure.
.... meh, if we want martial Librarians the Cult of Verena does that themselves for free.
- Location
- A Pit Of My Own Making
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Okay some quick things about the arcane battle altars
Jade Order, I'm tempted to say it's actually a tree. Or maybe a green house on wheels. It's spell causes massive life growth, causing full forests to grow from nothing in a matter of moments. Said forests then beat the crap out of enemies.
The Amber Order's is pulled by bears/gryphons/whatever mad beast they can find.
Bright Order. Have you seen Ghost Rider? That, but it's a cart. The bound spell calls down fire from the sun itself, appearing a massive pillar of fire that annihilates everything.
The Grey Order's cart just... looks like cart. It's magic can hide an entire army from view, or summon a fog that is impossible to escape from.
The Amethyst Order's cart is probably similar to a Vampire's Black Coach, including the body of a powerful Amethyst Wizard. The bound spell is "Hand of Morr". It's similar to "Spirit Leach," but instead of slowly draining a single target the wizard can just wave their hands and whole groups turn to dust.
This is all I have, it kinda slipped away from me
- The spells they cast aren't standard Battle Magic, they seem stupidly more powerful than that. The Celestial Hurricanum's spell, Storm of Shemtek, summons a hurricane, drops man sized hail, or massive meteors.
- They each use a Orb of Sorcery, which means;
- Only a Patriarch can sanction their use.
Jade Order, I'm tempted to say it's actually a tree. Or maybe a green house on wheels. It's spell causes massive life growth, causing full forests to grow from nothing in a matter of moments. Said forests then beat the crap out of enemies.
The Amber Order's is pulled by bears/gryphons/whatever mad beast they can find.
Bright Order. Have you seen Ghost Rider? That, but it's a cart. The bound spell calls down fire from the sun itself, appearing a massive pillar of fire that annihilates everything.
The Grey Order's cart just... looks like cart. It's magic can hide an entire army from view, or summon a fog that is impossible to escape from.
The Amethyst Order's cart is probably similar to a Vampire's Black Coach, including the body of a powerful Amethyst Wizard. The bound spell is "Hand of Morr". It's similar to "Spirit Leach," but instead of slowly draining a single target the wizard can just wave their hands and whole groups turn to dust.
This is all I have, it kinda slipped away from me
That'd be good enough for a standard Battle Altar but not sufficiently Mathilde for a flagship vehicle?
Like if we could do the Apparition then it could be a Grey Coach sustaining a bunch of Apparitions; draw on that Sylvanian heritage.
Still 20 pages behind. Commenting as I go.
Hmm. If it's a days long process that seems like it might solve one of the two issues Mathilde mentions with studying the phenomenon. Even if each individual event is over in a fraction of a second they'll be happening continuously for days.
Now we just need to solve the blinding issue. Perhaps some form of enchanted prisms to separate out the "Colours" of the winds might make it less blinding to look at?
- Location
- Australia
[X] The We
[X] Cython
[X] Cython
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[X] Locals
[X] Cython
As cool as The We are, realistically there's always going to be a (pretty high) percentage of people who are not going to feel comfortable using a library staffed by giant predatory spiders. I also vaguely recall that the hunters can react aggressively and bite people when startled so I don't think it's an entirely unreasonable concern. This was from the section on The We hunting at the gauntlet where M talked to one of the senior dwarves I think, though it may have had something to do with them being too far from the main collective consciousness.
On the other hand, you could make an argument that patrons/visitors not wanting to work with The We is not a valid reason to discriminate against our many-limbed friend. IRL institutions have (and still do) fail to hire or train professionals from minority groups, with things like hospitals historically not training black/female/LGBT doctors because "patients are uncomfortable with them and we have to cater to patients first." Having said that...I think the giant spider staff is a pretty different situation and could also be a major sticking point in getting other libraries to share with us.
Locals would be first choice and adding Cython since it's in the running. Cython's got a lot of the same concerns as the spiders but probably to a lesser degree, and I'm legitimately curious about what we could get in return from negotiations where we're offering it a huge hoard of knowledge.
[X] Cython
As cool as The We are, realistically there's always going to be a (pretty high) percentage of people who are not going to feel comfortable using a library staffed by giant predatory spiders. I also vaguely recall that the hunters can react aggressively and bite people when startled so I don't think it's an entirely unreasonable concern. This was from the section on The We hunting at the gauntlet where M talked to one of the senior dwarves I think, though it may have had something to do with them being too far from the main collective consciousness.
On the other hand, you could make an argument that patrons/visitors not wanting to work with The We is not a valid reason to discriminate against our many-limbed friend. IRL institutions have (and still do) fail to hire or train professionals from minority groups, with things like hospitals historically not training black/female/LGBT doctors because "patients are uncomfortable with them and we have to cater to patients first." Having said that...I think the giant spider staff is a pretty different situation and could also be a major sticking point in getting other libraries to share with us.
Locals would be first choice and adding Cython since it's in the running. Cython's got a lot of the same concerns as the spiders but probably to a lesser degree, and I'm legitimately curious about what we could get in return from negotiations where we're offering it a huge hoard of knowledge.
Tasoli
Life is for Living
- Location
- Behind the Keyboard.
Did somebody say apparation;
We can't make battle altar versions of it unless we actually bind one. SO how about it?
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
…Really, really dumb thought that probably wouldn't work, but the idea of making a staff with an Orb made me think of Windherding some sort of Staff of Volans style thing with an Orb of each Wind. Just, you know, to flex.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[X] The We
K von Carstein
Likes to go for a walk
- Location
- Belgium
- Pronouns
- He
They're each the size of a human head, only an ogre could lift it
- Location
- A Pit Of My Own Making
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Mathilde:
Shows up at Colleges
Presents Staff of Volanns Mk.2
Refuses to elaborate
Dabs on the haters
Leaves.