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- Germany
I think the Nehekarans use a lot of decently-researched terms for the various parts of the soul, might steal them from the Hierophants?
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
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- USA
It may be bad for a Grey Wizard, but well... If Eike, as future head of the EIC, can be half as successful as Anton, the Stirland diplomat, was with his charm, friendliness, and openness, that's not necessarily a terrible thing.
Asheram
Not quite altogether
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- Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground
We did kind of instill that in her by letting her meet with Belegar, Kazrik, and the local VAU/K8P Halflings.
Being open, friendly, and willing to listen opens all kinds of doors.
Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
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Well, I wasn't going to vote for her because I feel we have hit the limit of direct personal connections I can care about per quest, but if she is gonna go ahead and just become the second coming of Mathilde then we may as well make it official.
Which means I'm also in favor of buying the parred down sword. Can't lend her our super sword everytime she needs to train.
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Initiate Action: Buzz
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- Somewhere Strange
[X] You
The Hoethian school seeks to understand magic, the Hekartian school seeks to enjoy magic. The Hoethian school is very prone to that sort of 'there's only one right answer and it's my one' attitude, wheras Hekartians are more 'YKINMKBYKIOK' about different approaches.
A related thought I had but wasn't able to work into the conversation is that of something like Buridan's Ass - I could very easily see someone paralysed by indecision if forced to choose one and only one Wind with which to permanently bind themselves and in doing cut themselves off from the other seven, and I think this is how the average Elven magic-user would react to a thought experiment where they, like humans, were forced to choose. (I suspect that this is what was up with Volans before Teclis came along and made the decision for him.) But to humans, the choice is simple: pick one or you get none. So they pick, often arbitrarily, and do their best with whatever they end up with, because even the worst choice is better than no choice.
It's easy to make parallels between this and coming to terms with a disability. Lingering on what life might have been like if one had been 'healthy' gets in the way of actually doing what you can with the options you have. It was a long road for me to get to the point where I focus on living the life that's available to me instead of being so preoccupied with what might have been that I ignored what could still be.
It's a symptom of the sort of postmodernist political climate where it is the norm for the beliefs that one claims to have to be adopted and discarded based on political expediency. Instead of knowing and being able to work around the beliefs of those around them, they need to be aware of all the beliefs that any of them could claim to have if it serves their purpose. The Dwarves reject it and humans have yet to reach it, but the Elves are a bit more politically 'advanced', and in this case there are those that could make the argument that it's to their detriment.
Does she?
'Silver City'. As far as I know Praag doesn't have a canonical pre-Kislevite name, or perhaps Praag is the original name, so I translated its nickname.
Google told me it's the equivalent of 'dad' in a few Slavic languages.
Many Ice Witches find it easy to shrug off the cold, and some of the younger ones use this to dress for summer in the middle of winter so they can show a bit of leg when all the other girls are wrapped up from head to toe.
It's a problem a lot of people with more book smarts than people smarts grapple with. "I have spotted a clever solution to a problem you are having!" is not always welcome when a situation calls for commiseration and maybe a hug instead, but the urge to share it can be powerful.
I think it is, but it's possible I named her that on purpose because I thought it was funny and then forgot I did it. My semantic memory is very good but my episodic memory is a shitshow.
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- Utrecht
Mathilde's weaknesses are Stewardship and Diplomacy, but she could have worked harder on them: If she had put the effort she put into "Swording very good" into either of those, she could have gotten them up to hero levels.
Secondly, Wilhemina will still be giving Eike stewardship lessons, so it's not all on us.
Thirdly: Send her to Anton for charm lessons. He's earnest and forthright, and look what he accomplished. Combined with her intrigue, and Mathilde's touch, Eike could easily elicit the typical reaction people have to Mathilde: "You've got to be shitting me." "NoPe
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Secondly, Wilhemina will still be giving Eike stewardship lessons, so it's not all on us.
Thirdly: Send her to Anton for charm lessons. He's earnest and forthright, and look what he accomplished. Combined with her intrigue, and Mathilde's touch, Eike could easily elicit the typical reaction people have to Mathilde: "You've got to be shitting me." "NoPe
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Here's Mathilde's thoughts on Regimand as her master:
I think the big issue with Regimand is that he is a secret agent, and was often throwing himself into situations he couldn't bring an apprentice into (such as infiltrating the Lahamian conspiracy), so he wasn't able to always be there to mentor Mathilde every step of the way, which is how her spellcraft and diplomacy slipped over time—which wouldn't have been a problem if she hadn't been pulled out of her apprenticeship a couple of years early.
Mathilde is also extremely busy, but it's not a busyness that excludes Eike from joining us, so we'll probably spend more time together than Mathilde and Regimand did.
Wait a second, Niedzwenka is the Sea Hag... that makes perfect sense. I mean we have seen her speak of the sea of claws as familiar territory and she thought of the river she was on as 'tame'. I think she may have an affinity with water just generally.
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Honestly it sounds a bit like he took on Mathilde because he felt obligated. Which say good things for us taking on Eike!
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Asheram
Not quite altogether
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- Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground
... I mean, technically you should be able to set up rituals using only ambient Magic. The dwarves do it, so it shouldn't be impossible for a regular human.
Well I can think of two ways:
- By manipulating the magic of their environment, you do not need to touch the winds to lay down a circle with salt and silver and once you have one you can use it to help bind the other
- By using the magic of their soul without touching the winds
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The same way you shape magic, with your soul.
Codex
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I'm hanging out with my younger sibling, and I'll have you know the process of reading through this post was truly ridiculous for them as I had to explain these things to them. They say hi by the way.
Page 44 of Realm of the Ice Queen there's a section on the Sea Hag:
"History has forgotten the name of the witch now called the Sea Hag. Once she advised Khan Wieran's defence against the Gospodars when Erengrad was still the Ungol capital of Norvard. However, her curses were nothing to the freezing magics of the invading ice witches, and after a bitter war, her people were driven into the Sea of Claws and slaughtered. Legends claim she lives there still, under the waves, sending the spirits of her people to curse the Gospodars with undiminished rage. "
I assume that she is equally long lived since she advised the protection of Norvard agianst the Gospodar before the official formation of Kislev under Khan Queen Shoika.
I would also like to mention that this part resonated with me quite a bit.
EDIT: Or maybe Niedzwenka is the Sea Hag. Took @DragonParadox to get me to catch on.
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I once read a self help book on relationships (it was 10% good ideas, 90% the author clapping himself on the back for being a genius marriage counsellor) and one of the good ideas that I try to act on is that when people are struggling with something, they don't want solutions, they want empathy, because throwing an unasked for solution in their face can feel like you're trivialising their experience. I now try to hold myself back from "solving" things for people, although it's a hard instinct to suppress and I'm not always successful.
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- Edinburgh
[X] You
I'm having trouble deciding which rabbit hole would be harder to explain. Hi, Codex's sibling!
Mm. I suppose there's a parallel or two there.
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- Oklahoma
Do be reminding me of the Character Growth Hermione went through... No reason to mention it, just came to mind tbh.
Gonna throw these in the order I think fits best.
Wihelmine because shes involved alot with the economy, so it fits for Eike to train with her the most tbh
Regimand because I do think despite his... Troubled apprentice with Mathilde, hes a good all rounder sort of Master. WIth Mathilde, well, lemme go to;
Mathilde I feel is not hte sort of person best for Eike amongst the choices tbh. I do think She'd teach Eike as best she can and wouldn't have many problems doing it, Mathilde is kinda a problem solver. Shes really good at solving problems, and thinking up ways to stop problems from happening down the road, but she doesn't have a real specialty. Not a bad thing, but I think Regimand would be better for an all rounder sort of master than Mathilde in this case.
Course, that's just my opinion/view on the choices. Ain't plannin to argue em, just my thoughts.
[x] Wilhelmine
[x] Regimand
[x] You
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- Australia
Can you please link to this Karagril conversation? Sounds like an interesting thing to read in the context of your enjoyable and insightful post.
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I would argue that Mathilde very much has a specialty, Dwarfs of which she knows more than any other Grey Wizard, Skaven likewise and more broadly xeno-affinity. She is the external diplomat, which is not a bad thing for the heir of a trader house to be.