I'm pretty sure there are still some things that are illegal or at least will make your life quite miserable if you get caught doing it, even for nobles. I don't think Mathilde has actually done much of that, besides keeping the Liber Mortis (and the ring notes, and other forbidden texts).
There was also her early embezzlement while she was in Stirland and killing the Tzar.
We really ought to teach Eike Khazalid. She lives in a dwarf karak and is our apprentice.
Instead of teaching her directly it might be more efficient to have her immerse herself in Dwarven culture like she did with the Eonir and potentially pick up points in the Karaz Ankor Diplomacy skill in addition to the Khazalid language skill.
Won't work. She could immerse herself in Eonir culture because she could speak Eltharin. She can't speak Khazalid, so she can't immerse herself in Dawi culture.
A large chunk of K8P's Dwarf population also speaks Reikspiel as a second language, especially among the clanless immigrants and the formerly clanless Clan Huzkul which probably have a large Imperial Dwarf demographic within them. That might be her in to Dwarven culture without needing to speak Khazalid.
If we're doing one or the other, she'd learn Khazalid faster by getting properly taught it, rather than incidentally picking it up from people who'd largely speak to her in Reikspiel. A combination would probably yield the best results, letting her pick up Khazalid faster and in doing so allowing her to familiarise herself with Dwarf culture faster.
Then there's no point in really trading with the Druchii at all, because the whole reason the Empire is ok with it is that since they lost Marienburg, the Druchii don't really attack the Empire. Like Boney made a whole post on why the Empire would be interested in working with Naggaroth, which really does depict it as barely a naval power at all:
I say, this is most one-sided and narrow-minded way of looking at Mathilde.
I'm not sure the Speculum exists yet. We do, after all, have the vote option to try to Windherd its creation with Egrimm.
1) "Live" spells can be counterspelled too - there's no guarantee either way, but it has to have a chance of working on someone whose skills are worth stealing, so I'd guess it'd be non-trivial;
i like eik
They raid coastal villages and Empire would probably like them to stop and second fleet is strong enough to handle such lone raiders and might even profit from capturing them. Both loot and prestige is useful in their own ways.
So this implies that either daemons don't have a soul, or whatever they have as a soul works in very different ways, because they can't pass, and they can't keep a tear open by passing.
Hell, even the Liber Mortis is not a crime, it's technically-not-a-crime-but-we'll-burn-you-on-principle.I say, this is most one-sided and narrow-minded way of looking at Mathilde.
After all there are plenty of other crimes, "crimes" technically not crimes and I-can't-believe-these-are-not-crimes she has commited.
I think Daemons might be souls or at least soullike entities, possibly in a similar way that Gods seem to be giant souls. Whenever there is an intelligent being without a soul there is a void which a Daemon can fill, which is why creating intelligences without souls is such difficult and potentially dangerous task.
In addition Daemonic possession works by replacing the target's soul but leaving their mind and body intact.
So Daemons seem to be souls or soullike entities. The fact they can manifest physically in the material world is odd but given that beings like Cython and heavily marked Wizards seem to blend the borders between spirit and body not completely unprecedented. They're fragments of their Gods and if the the spiritual anatomy of Chaos Gods is anything like Ranald's which prior to his Cease and Desist letter we confirmed appeared to be a giant soul without any apparent differences from a normal soul other than its size then Daemons may just be fragments of the giant souls that are the Chaos Gods themselves.
