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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] Yes
[X] Religious
[X] Secrets
[X] Other: Prank
Take her out to do a series of minor but entertaining pranks throughout Altdorf to test her skills and remind her that there is room in even a wizard's life for fun.
 
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[X] Yes

[X] Secrets

The funniest result of this vote wining would be Boney skipping right afterwards cause the secret based initiation right is, of course, a secret. :V
 
So, old gods we know about are:
- Cor-Dum
- Hashut
- Horned Rat

What do they have in common:
- their origins are unknown
- they are possessive, not aspected: claim dominion over a species and/or a place, rather than over some aspect of life, and shape followers to their image. Probably because they started out as city gods?

There are not a lot of gods like that outside of this three.
- Dragon-Emperor of Cathay fits best
- Ancient Widow is a close second
- Lady of the Lake is also like that, to a lesser extent
- Mathlann/Manaan, Asurian, Khaine go into maybe pile
- Great Maw would fit if not for its origin story
 
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Hmm, what minor but exciting secrets does Mathilde even have? Best I can think of is AV or Qrech. And I'm not sure if the latter really counts as minor.
 
[X] Other: Prank
Take her out to do a series of minor but entertaining pranks throughout Altdorf to test her skills and remind her that there is room in even a wizard's life for fun.
 
picklepikkl said:
Borek's implication is that both Hashut and the Horned Rat were once gods of the dwarves who took on new roles over time.

If that's true, yeah, no kidding that fucking Morghur could conceivably be the least bad option.
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Boney said:
(one, brooding and angry and indecisive, has a fraction of His attention here, but in the same way that a fraction of your attention might linger on the throb of an old scar)
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Wasn't one of the theories for this one the horned rat?
 
vsh said:
So, old gods we know about are:
- Cor-Dum
- Hashut
- Horned Rat

What do they have in common:
- their origins are unknown
- they are possessive, not aspected: claim dominion over a species and/or a place, rather than over some aspect of life, and shape followers to their image. Probably because they started out as city gods?
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Bylorak, maybe? Being a God of a specific marsh seems to fit these criteria.
 
Ericwinter said:
Hmm, what minor but exciting secrets does Mathilde even have? Best I can think of is AV or Qrech. And I'm not sure if the latter really counts as minor.
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I'm sure half an hour of rifling through some nobles' mail will fix that.

And we do have the EIC acting as our personal intelligence apparatus.

And we're a fucking Wizard Lord, all else fails we can lie and whip up a couple minor "secrets" that'll rock Eike's world.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Bylorak, maybe? Being a God of a specific marsh seems to fit these criteria.
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Every location god can't be that, there's too much of them; I get a vibe of imposing their will on people and having some form of an actual meatspace agency (even if as simple as "screw Ariel") from this trio, rather than being just local gods. Like, they don't act in mysterious ways. Still, I think this can go in the maybe pile; not that different from Mathlann or Khsar in that regard.
 
Prime 2.0 said:
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Oh holy shit, so my plan from waaaaaaaay back then when I first caught up to the quest in the middle of the dum vote would have worked? Using the protector side of the coin to fight Kurgan raiders in defense of Dum would have 200% put us on Cor-Dum's nice list, exactly as enforced by Karag Dum's fuckery that they used to bind him to the place.

Shit, I did not expect to ever get confirmation on that.
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We just need to get Eike up to snuff, then start another Expedition to the Chaos wastes. Where as Mathilde stands at the edge of the crater; she turns to her apprentice, telling her to hold onto the Liber Mortis for her - before flipping a five-side coin to then charge at the backs of Kurgans fighting the Shadowgave. :p

Edit: Am not even joking let's do this, yeahhh!!
 
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[X] Yes
[X] Wizard
[x] Religious

Is anyone else impressed that Borek literally walked/murdered his way back from Karag Dum, even with the plot axe?
 
vsh said:
So, old gods we know about are:
- Cor-Dum
- Hashut
- Horned Rat

What do they have in common:
- their origins are unknown
- they are possessive, not aspected: claim dominion over a species and/or a place, rather than over some aspect of life, and shape followers to their image. Probably because they started out as city gods?

There are not a lot of gods like that outside of this three.
- Dragon-Emperor of Cathay fits best
- Ancient Widow is a close second
- Lady of the Lake is also like that, to a lesser extent
- Mathlann/Manaan, Asurian, Khaine go into maybe pile
- Great Maw would fit if not for its origin story
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I would add Sotek to that lineup. I'm pretty sure he's not really an Old One, because the Slann didn't recognize him until the Skinks practically forced them to (and him being a direct creation of the Old Ones makes it more likely they would accept him as a God, he would be part of the Plan after all), he's the God of Snakes primarily and all other things have been tacked on, he has adopted the Lizardmen as his wards, and he has one hell of a grudge against the Horned Rat.

It would also explain why some Dwarves crossed the Great Ocean and went to Lustria - like Karag Dum suspected, they were followers of the Old Gods, having tracked down one of their teachers and deciding to follow him.
 
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