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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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[X] Well... If the King is holding court, why not go ask him directly?

We're a bit south of the Danelaw, but even a Saxon king will recognize a Norse trader.
 
Alectai said:
It would be, but I imagine Wotan kind of frowns on people who try to ruin his shtick. These are the things you're supposed to Know Him By, and someone else stepping on that while giving bad advice is something he's going to have a little chat with you about kind of on principle, since it limits his ability to meddle.
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Good point. If the guy was just not very good at giving advice do you think would recieve a new eye to help clear up any confusion?
 
Wait let me double-check something really quick...

Alright, so it is 8978AD by Christian reckoning which is roughly equal to our 897AD so who was the King of Wessex then? Trick question, there wasn't one then the King of Wessex became the King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886 or to put it in other terms the KING OF ENGLAND. Ælfred the Great should be the current king, luckily he should be a rather decent guy (relatively speaking) that is at least willing to make deals with the Norse.

[X] Well... If the King is holding court, why not go ask him directly?
 
[X] Well... If the King is holding court, why not go ask him directly?

Halla: Now, these are Christians we are talking about, so it's a coin flip on whether the King has no Zeal, or ALL of the Zeal.
 
Here's hoping Mr. Wednesday has methods of preventing the Enemy from taking advantage of people faking the signs, because we're not gonna stop diving on these unless one of them gets us killed, and even then I think he has a shot to convince the heir that it was worth it.
I think it's best to decide some rules for letting ourself suspect someone being him and stick by them. I'm fairly confident here because we have three signs(Ash, Spear, Eye), but we may want to ask the Seerress if there are any best practices we can follow to know if it's really Odin besides having paid attention to our Mother's stories by the hearth.

[X] Well... If the King is holding court, why not go ask him directly?
 
OneArmedYeti said:
Here's hoping Mr. Wednesday has methods of preventing the Enemy from taking advantage of people faking the signs, because we're not gonna stop diving on these unless one of them gets us killed, and even then I think he has a shot to convince the heir that it was worth it.
I think it's best to decide some rules for letting ourself suspect someone being him and stick by them. I'm fairly confident here because we have three signs(Ash, Spear, Eye), but we may want to ask the Seerress if there are any best practices we can follow to know if it's really Odin besides having paid attention to our Mother's stories by the hearth.
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For my own votes, I basically only use Odin as a tiebreaker. If the choice is not clear cut, I'll follow his advice...if he advised something obviously bad, I'd suggest we just not do it. I think trying to second guess it more than that is unwise. We should also always go in with eyes open...Odin is advising us on the the interesting path, the path to power, not the safe path. We don't always want that.

In this case, I don't see any major dangers unless we take an actual quest from the King, which we can analyze on its own merits, so I think we should follow his advice, but that will not always be true.
 
[X] Well... If the King is holding court, why not go ask him directly?

Well, THAT talk went as well as it could have....
I am happy "Different, after all" has won, hopefully, it will give some buffer for the emotional overbleeds too. The bit about stepping out of Hallr's shadow is interesting though. Guess Halla really was considered Hallr Blackhand, 1.1 by the norms, so far?

That immunity to most magic is really interesting though.... we gotta pick up anti magic stuff, one of our lives....

Hm... Do we go to Wessex after Steinarr die, to tell about it to Gabriel?
 
Happy Birthday to Imperial Fister! In his magnanimity he's a revealed some interesting information on Discord over the last day or so that I thought everyone should see:

The Thanes in the previous few updates are followers of the Anglo-Saxon Cultivation method rather than the Feudal/Christian one (though they are Christians, religiously speaking). They have neither Fervor nor Orthstirr but some other power source, and the ones we saw were mostly in the Middle to Top power level brackets. It appears to be another nobility-based cultivation method given the numbers involved (and the fact that they're called Thanes, which is a noble title).

People like that who are religiously Christian but have a different Cultivation method are what the term 'Errant' (previously mentioned) describes. So Errant isn't a cultivation path per se, but a catch-all term for ones other than the the three official Feudal/Christian ones (Chivalric, Clerical, and Nobiliary) when used by Christians in lands where the Feudal/Christian model is common.
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
People like that who are religiously Christian but have a different Cultivation method are what the term 'Errant' (previously mentioned) describes. So Errant isn't a cultivation path per se, but a catch-all term for ones other than the the three official Feudal/Christian ones (Chivalric, Clerical, and Nobiliary) when used by Christians in lands where the Feudal/Christian model is common.
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So something like celtic/druidic cultivation might still exist in a limited fashion under the "errant" label? did i get that correctly?
 
fearsome hill said:
So something like celtic/druidic cultivation might still exist in a limited fashion under the "errant" label? did i get that correctly?
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Celtic yes, Druid probably not as that's a religion and there'd be conflict there. And that one specifically may be unlikely given the timeline, but you have the core idea correct, yes. A Norseman who converted religiously but kept their Orthstirr-based cultivation (maybe supplemented with Fervor and Zeal like Sten supplements his with Finnish stuff) would likewise fall under the Errant label.
 
fearsome hill said:
So something like celtic/druidic cultivation might still exist in a limited fashion under the "errant" label? did i get that correctly?
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If you had christians practicing druidism, yes.

I'd imagine that the welsh might still preserve some remnants of the old Roman system as well. At least, I seem to recall that the welsh took great pride in preserving the culture of the Roman Empire for long after the empire had receded from their lands. I don't know the actual timing involved.
 
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