Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Huh, so Cython's questions currently seems to be all focused on gods and divinity, and we don't have any non-book knowledge on it that we can trade. Yet another thing lost with Divine AV...
Mystic mumbo-jumbo-ness and utter intransferability (merely reduced from impossible to very difficult for direct one-on-one apprentices) continues to be a pain. It's so intransferable even I can't see it. Really, this stuff is good for personal bonuses, black box enchantments, cool legends, and practically nothing else.
It's bad enough for arcane magic, but that's at least mitigated if they take suitable apprentices, but divine understanding is truly intransferable.
Mystic mumbo-jumbo-ness and utter intransferability (merely reduced from impossible to very difficult for direct one-on-one apprentices) continues to be a pain. It's so intransferable even I can't see it. Really, this stuff is good for personal bonuses, black box enchantments, cool legends, and practically nothing else.
It's bad enough for arcane magic, but that's at least mitigated if they take suitable apprentices, but divine understanding is truly intransferable.
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Fayhem
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...Imagine the flex of convincing Cython to have kids again specifically to staff the library. Is it a library? Is it a dragon nursery? The answer is yes!
Of course, that's vanishingly unlikely to the point of being a less-than-zero probability, because Cython has had kids before and anybody who has had kids before knows that you don't have kids in order to make your life and job simpler to manage. But it's cute to imagine, at least.
Mood. Same, honestly - arachnophobia's a bitch like that. I'm fine with the We conceptually and wish them well, but that doesn't mean I feel the need or desire to put them more on camera. And while this is very much a "me" issue, it does take some of the fun out of envisioning us building a magical library for me when it's one that I could absolutely never go to even if it was real.
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Shame to not be able to enchant that hypothetical spell into Mathildes' Original Verifiable Enchanted Altar Book Library Extender, Typographic Yield Predictability Edition.
[X] The We
Does that mean the knowledge will be on the web?
Does that mean the knowledge will be on the web?
Ericwinter
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…Man, I wish we had a trait for book magic.
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Myne would like to know your location
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We're on our way to Bibliothecography. If I remember right, traits that don't explicitly allow spell creation can still be used for spell creation, but much more narrowly.
Ericwinter
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That's a skill, not a trait. I thought about it too, at first.
Eisenhelm
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I feel bad for people whit aracnophobia but for my part i love the We, both as a concept and as a character; And the fact that they are spiders instead of ants or a more traditional eusocial animal, just adds to it instead of subtract because it's rarely seen and because spiders are awesome.
Codex
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I never really looked up the scientific explanation for it, but I believe that Arachnophobia might be the most common phobia that humans posess. Even some who aren't phobic tend to avoid spiders. Something about them tends to inspire fear and unease, even when they don't deserve it.
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@Boney Would giving Cython rare artifacts to add to their hoard be something they'd be willing to trade book-copying for (notably the Kurgan shrine after we're done studying it, given their current interest in divinity), or does that fall under the "it's nice to give the dragon things they want for goodwill" clause if Cython is made aware of said artifacts?
If Mathilde discovers something suitable for dragon bribing, it'll be mentioned in the text. The shrine may or may not be such a thing, depends what Mathilde figures out about it.
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I love spiders. They are my favorite creature on this earth. I get quite upset at how unfairly maligned spiders are, despite being almost entirely harmless to people. I love seeing positive depictions of spiders that go against the prevailing cultural consensus, as I feel that the overwhelming negative attitude towards spiders is at the very least not helped by near every appearance in fiction being malevolent.
Spiders good.
Spiders good.
It'll be on the Weber network
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It appears that the fear is more that they have too many legs and move unpredictability than the possibility that they might might. At least, that's what the article said, and how it applies to me.
I think I may be less scared of a giant spider that's guaranteed to not attack me than a smaller one. A good deal of my arachnophobia is about not knowing where the buggers are, and always being afraid of them getting somewhere I don't want them to (ie on my person or in places that allow for easy access to my body such as my bedsheets). But that applies to just about any bug. Except silkworms and mature specimens of other lepidopterans, I guess.
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Eisenhelm
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Them and snakes, if i remember correctly humans have a specific pathway of neurons that always look for snake shaped things, always, people have to learn even what a circle is but we will always know that this thing looks like a snake even if they haven't seen a snake.
Preach it.
deathofrats0808
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This just makes me think of:
A snake, a snake
Snaaake! A snaaaake
Oooh, it's a snake
Morbtilda
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I put way too much effort into a stupid one off image joke. Anyways, have a Morbtilda BÖÖK sweep.
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King Arthur
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Subtly is only useful when something requires subtlety, if you act sneaky about everything you just seem suspicious, so everyone watches you more closely and expects you to be doing sneaky/subtle things, which is the exact opposite of being subtle.
If anything, to the general public, this makes us more capable of being subtle, because we've built a reputation for being direct and open and honest, while every other Grey Wizard has a rep for being sneaky and stuff. Sure, you can talk about being recognized .... but if we wanna not be recognized as ourselves specifically or a Grey wizard more generally, we are super capable of that, so we'd only really be recognized in situations where any other Grey Wizard would be recognized anyway.
As for the Orbs of Sorcery specifically .... only really of interest to other wizards. No one who isn't a magic person will really care about this, so this only builds a rep among other wizards and, like, people don't think Melkoth is any less capable of intrigue stuff or any less subtle because he's famous for creating a Battle Spell, do they? Hell, isn't our mentor pretty famous for his teleporting tower despite being fantastic at all this subtle intrigue stuff?
I hard disagree with the notion that basically any level of fame makes us worse at being subtle or sneaky. We are so capable of flying under the radar if we want to, and every big, direct, showy act we do just makes people more likely to only look at the surface of our actions and miss all of the things we do in the shadows.
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Codex
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The first Library to ever receive a billion visitors.
#KAUSweep
Ericwinter
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…Dude. It's a joke. Yes, pretty much everything you said is true in reality, but that's what makes it funny that so many people know Mathilde's name specifically and think of her doing big obvious things.
Also the Orbs of Sorcery isn't just a Wizard thing, it's a "anybody who cares about the Empire being able to field more Battle Altars" thing. Wizards will just appreciate it the most.
A chunk of it is cultural.
Quite a few places find them good eatin