Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

Wiggy said:

So, does the, "It isn't supposed to be this essy" bit mean we actually managed to knock it down to FC? Or are we still waiting on that roll?

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Boney said:

"Here, let me try something," you call out to them, and with concentration and a few syllables and gestures you conjure an Illusion around yourself, covering yourself with an image of an Orcish Shaman. "Oi'm gonna wallop you one with these here Waaagh magics," you say with a frown, trying to fit your mouth around the strange accent of the Orcish-Reikspiel pidgin. "Ya gits," you add for good measure.

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Boney said:

The Knights look to Hubert for an explanation, who thinks for a moment. "She's doing the Wizard equivalent of blacksmithing," he hazards. "It uses ideas and concepts instead of fire and metal." He looks to you for confirmation, and it's broadly correct enough that you resist the urge to elucidate further. Hubert much prefers the practical aspects of magic to the theory, and that seems to be working for him.

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Boney said:

So, you muse, it resonates. It is, of course, basic magical theory that there are conceptual resonances between magical energies and objects or events occurring in the physical world - at its most basic, you have things like fog resonating with Ulgu and fire resonating with Aqshy, but there are entire realms of other resonances, some of which exist outside the borders of mainstream magical theory and end up in the realms of theology or philosophy. But for your specific purpose here and now, what, precisely, is resonating with the Rider? Is there an emotional component in either side of the equation? Well, probably not, because you weren't all that convinced and you're pretty sure you're not so great an actor that the Knight genuinely felt as though he was riding down an Orcish Shaman. So there must be some fundamental component that the Rider was born of and is responding to, that of... of a magic-user being engaged in combat. Of that which the Angry of the Four hates, being unwilling drawn into Their domain. You grimace, and turn your attention once more to the Rider lying quiescent alongside your soul. You had, of course, examined every inch of it for the slightest hint of Chaotic energies and found not a trace of it, but you suppose it makes sense that there'd be portions of the Aethyr that resonate with the concepts of Chaos without directly being touched and tainted by the energies of Chaos. Those beings have too much size and power and presence for Them to not cause ripples that extend far beyond the borders of Their domains. That explains, you suppose, why so many Apparitions have characteristics reminiscent of the Chaos Gods. No wonder the Golds were so cagey about all of this - there must be similar resonances and similarities between the Dark Hounds they use for Gehenna's Golden Hounds and the explicitly Chaos-aligned Flesh Hounds.

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