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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] [MONEY] Zhufbar
[X] [SHEETS] Yes
[X] [SCROLLS] You
[X] [FLESH] University of Altdorf
[X] [FLESH] You
[X] [RING] Take

The Verenans are the Marienburgers that locked the Great Library's doors to the Colleges and the rest of the Empire, right? Fuck 'em.
 
Guile said:
The Verenans are the Marienburgers that locked the Great Library's doors to the Colleges and the rest of the Empire, right? Fuck 'em.
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I would imagine that whatever Temple of Verena that Mathilde would give the book to would be one located in the Empire, not the temple in Marienburg.

And the temples of Verena have basically no overarching organization.
 
Abhorsen said:
Please don't take the scrolls. Stuff written by an ancient vampire isn't safe reading material. The Liber Mortis is called out as an exception because it was written by a not evil (yet) necromancer.

[x] [SCROLLS] Priory of the Spear

They probably are corrupting. The Books of Nagash we were told had a multitude of traps in them, and are likely corruptive. This is written by his immediate successor. I don't trust it at all.
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W'soran dictated the original and it is literally stream of consciousness from him. Why would he bother to put traps, something that takes effort for necromancers as opposed to chaos?
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
I suppose it depends on whether the prophet was a priest or a mage.
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Well, books on prophecy in general might include contributions of both priests and mages. Do we split them between the two sections? Seems like a bad idea.
Guile said:
It's not our fault it's easier to justify raiding a vampire's library than Altdorf's
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Well, if the Marienburg situation escalates we will end up leading a raid into the Great Library of Verena before long.
 
[x] [MONEY] Council of Manhorak
[X] [SHEETS] Yes
[x] [ARMARIUM] You
[x] [SCROLLS] You
[x] [FLESH] You
[x] [RING] Take
 
mathymancer said:
Well, books on prophecy in general might include contributions of both priests and mages. Do we split them between the two sections? Seems like a bad idea.
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Actually, looking at how we've organised our library, it'll probably fall under the "Advanced Magic" subcategory, under Magic, alongside topics like divine magic, enchantment, and rituals.

The Divinity category seems to be more for books about Gods and their cults.
 
So, an argument against taking the Tome of Flesh is that our library is already going to be famous: it's run by a wizard and staffed by spiders in a reclaimed dwarfhold that's open to the public.

What we don't have is breadth of subject matter.

Trading away a famous work to an established library is how we fix that. Not every library is as easy a sell as Quinsberry.
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
Actually, looking at how we've organised our library, it'll probably fall under the "Advanced Magic" subcategory, under Magic, alongside topics like divine magic, enchantment, and rituals.

The Divinity category seems to be more for books about Gods and their cults.
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Counterpoint: our divinity section includes Nehekharan Incantations and Nehekharan War-Statuary. Which is kind of weird to be honest, those things seem like examples of divine magic and should belong in the same place as our books on divine magic.
 
Guile said:
So, an argument against taking the Tome of Flesh is that our library is already going to be famous: it's run by a wizard and staffed by spiders in a reclaimed dwarfhold that's open to the public.

What we don't have is breadth of subject matter.

Trading away a famous work to an established library is how we fix that. Not every library is as easy a sell as Quinsberry.
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I'm fairly sure the plan is, once we've recruited some scribes, to use our Great Deed to copy all the texts in a larger, more established library to fill out our shelves. That'll satisfy the breadth and depth requirements of our library, so I feel we should be focusing on obtaining unique texts for prestige points.

mathymancer said:
Counterpoint: our divinity section includes Nehekharan Incantations and Nehekharan War-Statuary. Which is kind of weird to be honest, those things seem like examples of divine magic and should belong in the same place as our books on divine magic.
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Those are all grouped together under the Nehekharan Cosmology subheader, though—maybe it's one of those niche exceptions where it's more important to keep the Nehekharan books grouped together rather than divide them into Magic and Non-Magic? Where as for prophecies, the only unifying catagory is that they are in someway magical (even if some of them are divine magic), so they fall under as a specialised branch of magic?

This is all speculation, of course—we'll find out for sure when/if they get added to the collection.
 
Guile said:
So, an argument against taking the Tome of Flesh is that our library is already going to be famous: it's run by a wizard and staffed by spiders in a reclaimed dwarfhold that's open to the public.

What we don't have is breadth of subject matter.

Trading away a famous work to an established library is how we fix that. Not every library is as easy a sell as Quinsberry.
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Mathilde's ownership and the spiders make it a cool curiosity/really extreme tourist destination. Id like for people to go "oh here's a cool thing in the books themselves," vs just "oh the selling point is the unique staff, the books are a sideshow."
 
Guile said:
So, an argument against taking the Tome of Flesh is that our library is already going to be famous: it's run by a wizard and staffed by spiders in a reclaimed dwarfhold that's open to the public.

What we don't have is breadth of subject matter.

Trading away a famous work to an established library is how we fix that. Not every library is as easy a sell as Quinsberry.
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That's really more a case of infamy than prestige, as far as most libraries will be concerned. We have dwarves buying large quantities of regular books every turn, so the breadth will literally sort itself out with time, whilst the prestige of having rare books will not. (Unless we choose the Ranaldite book acquisition option and get lucky, maybe.)
 
[x] [MONEY] Council of Manhorak
[x] [SHEETS] Yes
[x] [ARMARIUM] You
[x] [SCROLLS] You
[x] [FLESH] You
[x] [RING] Take
 
Codex said:
Wise of Mathilde to refrain from Substance. I do find it funny that she considered Warpstone and then asked for explosives to blow up the hinges. I suppose if she and the miners are far enough away then it's not an issue, aside from destroying the room. Maybe the blasts are very controlled. I don't really know how precise the Dwarve's ballistic callibration is.
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TFW she literally has a sword named door opener and did not open the doors with it.
 
Adhoc vote count started by Burned_Cookie on Aug 16, 2022 at 3:03 PM, finished with 360 posts and 106 votes.
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For some strange reason this isn't counting the [SCROLLS] You votes? Nor the flesh ones.
 
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