I have once went on an extended theory rant on how Wood Spirits and Forest souls work based on the framework that Boney provided that i feel is actually somewhat pertaining to this question, particularily this
This might be a big goddamn stretch, but if Magical forests can form liminal space that is their soul, then there is no reason for geographical places (like, say, the entirety of Old World) not to. Entities existing within them would then logically have trouble travelling to other such liminal spaces (like, say, Ulthuan). The same way Drycha was not exactly welcome in Arhain i guess. Or maybe its rather that the belief of mortals has tangible effect on Warp, creating what is essentially borders by making the warp in the area more permeable to the Big Souls that have the most belief in that place. This would create similar difficulty to cross over certain deliminations without doing the liminal matrioshka dolls that we know from Boney´s word on trying to create more liminal bariers is kind of bad.
I wonder which Magister researched the Dark Tongue to figure that out.
IIRC the Dark Tongue is available as a language to learn from the Colleges.
This isn't Warhammer 40K. Chaos isn't inherently corruptive.
Forests are special in that they consist of a whole bunch of living things connected to each other. A mountain is mostly just lots of rock. That doesn't mean it can't have a soul (dwarfs would probably have Thoughts on this topic), but it wouldn't be by the mechanism that does it for forests. I could imagine a large grassland gaining a soul the way a forest does, though individual blades of grass are much smaller and short lived than trees.
We can't write papers about it because Mathilde doesn't personally know any of the rituals involved. It's not actually a secret. The point about tributary prioritization is a good one but as long as we don't take too long spreading it around I assume people will continue to follow Mathilde's lead.
I wonder if you could end up with city souls somehow? Lots of living things there.
Probably not, the living things in a city aren't connected via roots and are also very different. A Forrest soul is just that, a soul of a bunch of trees.
Stirland is first because it's an easy first target for demonstrating the value of the project and the network. It suffers from relatively high ambient Dhar and so stands to benefit, the local ruler is a personal friend and so would probably have no problem signing off on it, and there's a local group who might have insight into water spirits that we have an in with (the Council of Manhorak).
First, that is a super cool idea, and I would be suprised if Altdorf didn't have something weird going on. That said, forests are special in that they are literally, physically connected to each other, and also don't have much differences mentally.
Though that's not quite right, because when Myrmidia is worshipped in the Empire, she's worshipped exclusively as a Goddess of War.
I don't see it brought up in the 'learn language paragraph', so it might be exclusively through the Ice Court or Hag Witches if we can't find another tutor that knows it.
We were told that keeping her to 3-4 actions a turn would get her better results from those actions, so people have been trying to restrain themselves rather than drag her along to literally everything. In retrospect, that does seem like a cool negotiation to bring her along with.
I asked before and I'm 99% sure Boney said it's only kept alive as the arcane language of the two Kislev traditions, but I don't have time to find the quote right now.
Yeah, Hedgewise don't seem like they would have a ton of insight into metal working in their current state, and they probably weren't big experts on it back in the time of Sigmar either since that was basically the bronze age. Capstones also have a ton of people on them already (7 discounting Mathilde, which I think is the most we ever had) so if we must add Aksel somewhere I would rather we put him on the tributaries. Also Elrisse is on that action and I'm not sure I want to find out how dedicated she is to witch hunting. All that said I'm pretty sure I approval voted that one too, it's probably not terrible but I think it's probably somewhat sub-optimal.
I don't think it's bad in a vacuum, it's just that Eike is already doing a lot of stuff and I want her to have time to put into all those actions (especially the Petty Magics, which I hope she'll either finish or get very close to finishing).
