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While I know we won't do it I can help but imagine Mathilde just dropping a Chandelier on the Tsar as the assassination method or some other comical method.
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The Asari showing up afterward would also clearly make sure no one suspects Mathilde.
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Asari showing up would certainly be a distraction, no one expects the blue skinned space women.
Step 1: Get hold of Wyvern venom somehow (I reckon it's doable but if not some potent spider venom will do)
Step 2: Get the Tzar to go attack some goblins
Step 3: While he's fighting goblins, sneak up while invisible and stab him with a goblin blade coated in wyvern venom.
He's killed fighting greenskins by a greenskin blade coated in a venom greenskins often use. Everyone goes 'Yeah, seems legit'
As for where to find the venom, if we can't get it from the Grey college without attracting attention (I reckon they probably have poisons that can be made available with oversight ranging from 'We need to know everything' for apprentices/journeymen to 'we don't want to know anything' for lord/lady magisters) then a disguised Mathilde can probably find some at Barak Varr or Marienburg. They're huge trading cities after all. If all else fails we could try extracting it from the source as a last resort
Step 2: Get the Tzar to go attack some goblins
Step 3: While he's fighting goblins, sneak up while invisible and stab him with a goblin blade coated in wyvern venom.
He's killed fighting greenskins by a greenskin blade coated in a venom greenskins often use. Everyone goes 'Yeah, seems legit'
As for where to find the venom, if we can't get it from the Grey college without attracting attention (I reckon they probably have poisons that can be made available with oversight ranging from 'We need to know everything' for apprentices/journeymen to 'we don't want to know anything' for lord/lady magisters) then a disguised Mathilde can probably find some at Barak Varr or Marienburg. They're huge trading cities after all. If all else fails we could try extracting it from the source as a last resort
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Autocorrect on my mobile acts at the weirdest times.
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Crowned by him sure, but definitely not made. We see a Chaos Lord almost get turned into an Everchosen during a phenomenally successful campaign against the Empire, but he turned it down and let himself get killed by the Empire because he wanted to die as his own man. Be'lakor wasn't anywhere near him.
That'd make Sigmar and the Everchosen a coincidence. It so happens that the first Everchosen in history pops up around the same time and place as a Nagash-breaking, dwarf-befriending future god-king?
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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And who is to say that Mortkin accepting the offer from the Chaos Gods wouldn't have then seen Be'lakor appear in front of him to crown him?
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Probably would've happened, but he was already getting suffused with dark magic before that, which was my point.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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He was a Chaos Lord, that's kinda part-and-parcel.
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Maybe there's a significant power jump between "particularly talented/successful Chaos Lord" and "actually the Everchosen". Symbolism and resonances matter when there's this much magic involved, so the crowning might bestow a good chunk of power on its own. Though it does put a hole in the theory that the Chaos gods refuse to give anyone significant amounts of power beyond what was given to Be'lakor if Mortkin was blessed enough.
Speaking of Mortkin, what are the chances he's in the Everchosen bowl here? He very obviously fits, but I haven't seen any mention of things that could be him yet.
Speaking of Mortkin, what are the chances he's in the Everchosen bowl here? He very obviously fits, but I haven't seen any mention of things that could be him yet.
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To my knowledge, secret plots of murder rarely end well for either the country or the one who ursurps the throne.
Even though in this case, if it were an even tally I might vote yes because of short-term necessity. Because it is not even, I am free to vote my conscience without fear of a civil war.
[x] No
Even though in this case, if it were an even tally I might vote yes because of short-term necessity. Because it is not even, I am free to vote my conscience without fear of a civil war.
[x] No
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
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I would like to advocate simplicity when it comes to the assassination, because I'm a bit terrified a more complicated plot could end up an accidental ritual to Chaos or something. Alberic's exaggerated murders of the Unfähigers comes to mind.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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Canon-wise Mortkin has his own fortress apparently real far north in the Wastes- like, within spitting distance of the Polar Gate. He was a 1-percenter among Chaos Lords.
So if he's doing anything it's probably consolidating among the Chaos Warriors and the northernmost tribes.
He only came south in canon because of his birth village being destroyed, there's no reason to think he's had a similar impetus. Unless Aislinn razes the wrong Norscan village or something.
(Aislinn razes villages up-and-down the Sea of Claws and never sees even a hint of retaliation, the Empire leads one (1) reprisal campaign against the Norscans and gets the Glottkin and a Chaos invasion, Elves get all the luck)
Thankfully we have a skill that should specifically prevent that.
Blackout
Fed By Comments
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I'm pretty sure those were separate reprisal campaigns, the one that destroyed Mortkin's home village was done by Ostland and the one that killed the Glottkin's parents was by Nordland.
Valarauko
Demon of Power
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Pretty sure you can't accidentally perform a Chaos ritual with a single political assassination, no matter how convoluted the plot is. Political assassinations happen all the time and it's not Chaos. Hell, the Grey College has assassination in its portfolio and there's no indication that Accidental Chaos Ritual is a outcome they seek to avoid, which I'd call indicative considering how absolutely paranoid the Colleges in general are about all things Chaotic and Dhar-related.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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And actually looking it up, there's actually a year given for the Glotts dying- 2506.
Two (2) then.
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Maybe, though my impression is that some of the magicians were pretty hardcore individuals, both in Howard's work and in what came after him in the same setting. Sure, they generally weren't as honorable, swole, fiery, and otherwise masculine-coded as Conan himself, but then... who is?
To an extent, Howard (and some other classic works) suffer from retroactive stereotyping; we attribute to them what we expect to have seen in them.
Also, the conviction that magic is dishonorable, evil, or "cheating" probably isn't restricted to cultures where magic is formally gendered. It enables all kinds of shenanigans that nobody would enjoy having to deal with, and it's often conceived of as being particularly useful for things like poisonings, subtly weakening things, and calling up evil powers, which would be dishonorable and contemptible in their own right.
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Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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All the ones that remained secret worked perfectly.
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My biggest fear is that the Tzar will be so easy to kill that he wont even increase our assassination skill. 
(This is a joke btw)
(This is a joke btw)
I bet we could ask teclis to simply fix the tsar!
Mind control remote to give to Boris!
Mind control remote to give to Boris!
