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I'm down with generally going that route in the future, but it's a bit late for that now and not buying these people is a huge feel bad moment that I'd prefer to avoid, as well as turning down a bunch of real potential advantages.
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I'm down with generally going that route in the future, but it's a bit late for that now and not buying these people is a huge feel bad moment that I'd prefer to avoid, as well as turning down a bunch of real potential advantages.
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This guy already sold 25 slaves apparently. He's made most of the money he's going to make tonight, and probably has made plenty of profit, more than enough to continue his participation in the despicable institution. Even if none of these five sell tonight, he'll just hold onto them and sell them another day, or just keep them for himself indefinitely (aside from maybe the nobles if somebody ransoms them).
It's unfortunate that we're not a proficient thief, kidnapper, nid-sower, etc., but ultimately I prefer that Halla frees these people with the means available over making this guy take an entirely recoverable loss on a sixth of one lot of slaves.
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Like, if you all are up for getting Halla to organize a coherent boycott of the slave trade, I'd be down for that, but one wealthy land-owner abstaining from buying slaves is probably not going meaningfully reduce the amount of slaving happening in the area?
It's unfortunate that we're not a proficient thief, kidnapper, nid-sower, etc., but ultimately I prefer that Halla frees these people with the means available over making this guy take an entirely recoverable loss on a sixth of one lot of slaves.
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Like, if you all are up for getting Halla to organize a coherent boycott of the slave trade, I'd be down for that, but one wealthy land-owner abstaining from buying slaves is probably not going meaningfully reduce the amount of slaving happening in the area?
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That's for me, anyway.
Personally I rather in the future we don't thrall - or even confirm the thralling of - people, even people we detest or even have good cause to thrall.
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I'm pretty sure it's even worse than that inasmuch as if we don't buy them someone else will. Like, they aren't going unsold today, I don't think.
That's fair. We didn't actually enthrall anyone, only confirm the people who tortured Eric, but not wanting to even go that far is understandable.
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I'll say you can spend 2 reward dice per thing you want clarification on
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I've got four, right? My dice renew on Friday I believe.
So I guess "The part I'm confused about" as written there, with maybe another one to see if I've essentially captured the intent of his hint.
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I'll say that the latter is more correct. There's a bit more to it than that, though it's not really something that is up to you to do
true, but managing to marry into Halla's family is easily one of the best alliances you can make in the Hading valley- Halla is wealthy, powerful, politically influential enough that Corpsemaker considered her for Headwoman, and is known for giving great gifts. when our kids are older I can definitely see some norsemen letting their daughters train with us in the hopes they will charm one of our kids
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Just having an in with Halla and her family and being friendly with them is quite a perk even if the marriage into the family doesn't pan out. Like, making friends is good even if you don't get to be part of the family.
I was thinking of how Baldvin knows Eyetalk, i would assume he learned it from either his parents or the local Seeress.
I would not be surprised if the Seeress IS his mother, marring a Seeress would be a powerful political move for Corpsemaker.
Honestly, i am not convinced abaout the "every Norse woman knows Seidr" part of the Worldbuilding. Makes Seidr and Seeress feel less special or important.
I would not be surprised if the Seeress IS his mother, marring a Seeress would be a powerful political move for Corpsemaker.
Honestly, i am not convinced abaout the "every Norse woman knows Seidr" part of the Worldbuilding. Makes Seidr and Seeress feel less special or important.
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I don't think we've come close to meeting every norse woman, and the women Halla does know are pretty exceptional, on average, I think.
🤔 I wonder if you'd get some sort of Boon for actually going out and properly meeting Every Single Living Norse Woman in the world. It'd be hard but given the settlement sizes and number of settlements it might not be impossible? Figuring out how to get to Iceland might be tricky, though.
🤔 I wonder if you'd get some sort of Boon for actually going out and properly meeting Every Single Living Norse Woman in the world. It'd be hard but given the settlement sizes and number of settlements it might not be impossible? Figuring out how to get to Iceland might be tricky, though.
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Every Norse woman who have been given a name and then appeared onscreen, which is quite different from 'irrelevant Norsewomen who only exist in the background'.
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Remember also that Steelfathers cannot actually sire children, so he's very likely adopted.
I mean, my impression is that most women know, like, the Domestic Spells from Weave Seidr and then maybe some Wards or medical stuff, but not a lot else.
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There very explicitly is, yeah. The real question is how many spells most Norsewomen know...the vibe I get at the moment is, like, 3-8 (counting the domestic stuff as one). Halla knows 35 and a proper Seeress likely significantly more.
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I mean, the population of the Scandinavia peninsula in this time should be araound 200.000 people. That is a lot of people to meet.
And it also depends on what you mean by "meeting". Like, just seeing their face in a crowd is enough? Or you need to talk with them? Or you need to know their name? Or should they remember your name?
in any case it would be a titanic effort, but i suppose a Boon gained from such a feat would be something like "you litteraly know everyone everywere, you can get rumors and news from any place, you can find informations on anybody easly and you can ask for a lot of favors".
I know, i trought he could have sired him before becoming a Steelfather.
Yeah, you are right, it makes sense. I wasn't really thinking it trough.
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This is explicitly his youngest son, which makes adoption more likely, but he is very young as Steelfathers go so it's possible.
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realistically: IF collapses from trying to write details from us basically being mini Odin with our mini Hugr and Muninn bringing us news from everywhere in Midgard
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Well, any form of 'from all around the world' will cause IF to collapse from exhaustion unless it's, like, really brief. IF's word output is not that crazy. Even just, say, gossip in the Hading for notable news about other families in Asvir alone would probably take a nontrivial amount of words.
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This is sort of where I am. It would feel really Not Great to walk away and leave this people now we've seen them and put faces to them. Definitely in favour of Not Interacting with anything thrall-related in future, as best as we're able, unless it's opportunities to free them.
I for one look forward to us accidentally getting Halla cancelled on Norse Wife Twitter.
Do you remember that this entire mission is abaout tracking down a Christian Thrall and have him/her teach us Latin right?
Yeah, but as we discussed at the time, the plan is to free them as well. Either as a quid-pro-quo (which I have mixed feelings about due to the transactional nature) or immediately and then ask for lessons in exchange for wages/a trip home when we go to Wessex (which I'm more in favour of).