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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Eike will become the Apprentice of Lady Magister Mathilde Weber.

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Eike will become the Apprentice of Lord Magister Reiner Starke, Porter of the Grey Order.
 
Was Regimand a good teacher? I remember he was a good ally, but the only relevant datum on his teaching ability I can remember is that Mathilde had forgotten half the spells she learned by the time the quest started.
 
MooseHowl said:
Before I go to bed, I also want to say: It's hilarious that Mathilde did such a good job instilling ideals of patriotism and national unity in the EIC, that now its various members are a royal pain for the rest of her Order to get any kind of leverage on.

She basically admitted to trying to install Ranald in the Stirland Watch because she was upset with Sigmar, and leaves a trail of His four Faces everywhere she goes, yet somehow she was instrumental in creating an organization that appears wildly out of character to anything remotely Ranaldian. It looks almost Agnostic from the outside, being about profit and not faith, but it would otherwise easily be mistaken for a Sigmarite Mercantile Cult due to their chest-thumping patriotism and die-hard unwillingness to even glance at a Dwarf with anything less than complete forthrightness.

Reiner Starke must be so confused.
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There's something to be said here about Mathilde's willingness to push the boundaries of the things she follows or studies or worships without crossing any lines. In this update alone she affirms that mono-Wind mastery is entirely valid as opposed to Qhaysh, but is at the same time inquiring as to what other people think about the nature of gods and having multiple aspects.

It's something that's been on my mind for some time, too. If Ranald is a guise of Loec (and that seems like a strong possibility), I wonder if Mathilde (we) would go to the step of worshiping the latter too - Loec is pretty intense, but so can Mathilde be, from time to time.

Elves worship all the gods and balance them out in their minds, and humans tend to worship one god over others, so worshiping all of a single gods' faces might seem like a strange balance between the two, one which fits Mathilde. Hell, if we ever find out any other stories/records of Ranald as a human who lived a long time ago, I could see her worshiping that person that he was, in a similar way to the Dwarven Ancestor-Gods.

That'd probably look really weird from the outside.
 
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Andres said:
Was Regimand a good teacher? I remember he was a good ally, but the only relevant datum on his teaching ability I can remember is that Mathilde had forgotten half the spells she learned by the time the quest started.
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Well he did produce a Mathilde, or at the very least didn't prevent a Mathilde from making herself.
 
WorldSlayer said:
This really brings up the desire to take the arcane mark actions. Onward to transcendence and glory as a being of shadow and magic.
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The issue with that is that Ulgu has one really, really bad mark that we are very lucky to have avoided thus far. While somewhat bearable for a WHRPG adventurer, Mathilde is way too much of a public figure with way too many responsibility on her shoulders to get the mark that causes everyone forget who she is.
 
Honestly, I am more and more interested in why Ranald kids' identities are such a big secret. My first thought was that they are very vulnerable baby gods, but Haletha is probably more than two thousand years old, which, okay, might still be not that much by gods' standards.

My take is that Ranald is such an embarrassing dad to have his kids both decided to use forbidden divine magics to conceal this eldritch lore from his and their followers alike. More seriously, Ranald is somewhat disreputable, so I guess avoiding any additional scrutiny of your cults by Ranald's detractors is, pragmatically, rather important for small-time gods.

Or Haletha is a large red herring.

I can see, sort of, why Ranald's parentage is such a big deal, but what about Shallya? I can't think of any god with a nicer reputation to have as your mom.
 
Aule said:
The issue with that is that Ulgu has one really, really bad mark that we are very lucky to have avoided thus far. While somewhat bearable for a WHRPG adventurer, Mathilde is way too much of a public figure with way too many responsibility on her shoulders to get the mark that causes everyone forget who she is.
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It makes people forget what her face looks like. It's socially inconvenient but she's not getting deleted from history if she gets that Mark.
 
Aule said:
The issue with that is that Ulgu has one really, really bad mark that we are very lucky to have avoided thus far. While somewhat bearable for a WHRPG adventurer, Mathilde is way too much of a public figure with way too many responsibility on her shoulders to get the mark that causes everyone forget who she is.
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I think taking the "attempt to control your arcane marks" action might help reduce the thread's fear of that mark. I mean, it would still suck, but if we knew we could bring the marks somewhat under control and mitigate them, I suppose it might not be all bad.
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Meanwhile, more baba/kragg
Baba: i outlived an empire, you outlived an empire, what else is there to say?
Kragg: grumble grumble
Baba: we are both past grandmasters of our respective art
Kragg: grumble grumble (more approvingly)
Baba: the effect that zhuf exposure has on me is becoming OLDER *flexes wrinkles*
Kragg: ❤️😍❤️

:V
 
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