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[X] [BLOOD] Empire (Canal linking the Urskoy and Lynsk)
[X] [BLOOD] Kislevite military aid in reclaiming the fallen Nexuses of the Forest of Shadows
[X] [BLOOD] Personal (Partnership between Kislev's libraries and KAU)
[X] [BLOOD] Empire (Docking rights in Erengrad for Imperial military and commercial ships)

I'd be happy with any of these winning.

[X] [ULTHUAN] Cooperation

s2g if it turns out all we needed to say in Anoqeyan was "I am the Waystone administrator, my voice is my passport, verify me" I am throwing a tomato at the QM
 
I daresay the loss of intra-Kislev trade, which could already much more easily be sent to the Empire, will be more than made up for by the increase in Empire trade.

Also, this is the first I've heard of Boris' buddy knowing about his assassination plans. Do you have a source?
Yeah, but the problem is that while there are large numbers of families who benefit, there are also ones who have focused their wealth on the foreign trade that is just about to get a kick. Can't say that Boyar Yevschenko has the majority of his wealth invested in, or who has the most influence. I should have been more specific.

The streltsi were there to signify to Mathilde that Boris has built alliances in Kislev. He told Mathilde that he wanted her to kill his father, standing on a site that was being protected by streltsi. The entire reason Boris met with Mathilde right there was to give credence to the fact that he was planning a civil war if his father could not be assassinated. If Yevschenko did not know beforehand, it would risk him wondering if Boris had his father removed. Yevshenko would know about why they were meeting (tributaries), that the Tzar would not spread them, that Boris would want to spread them, and that Grey Wizards are rather suited for magical assassination.

Their founding 150 years ago bankrupted Erengrad's previous Boyar dynasty, but they've earned renown for themselves since as a force highly adept with sword, bardiche, and handgun. At this point, this is unmistakably a deliberate show of influence.
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"If not you, then it must be another way. A worse way. A way that will hurt Kislev at a time when it cannot afford to be hurt.


A couple typos and a question:
Most of the Tilean city-states have sent someone, as once it become known that Tobaro and Miragliano would be sending someone nobody wanted to be left out.
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and each heartbeat I spend at the forge will prevent a drop less of Dwarven blood spilled upon Karag Agilwutraz."
less should be removed.

Actually implementing them would be long-term projects - my best estimate is that a team of four magic-users could meet the needs of a province within a decade - but if they are put into place, then the benefits of reducing the amount of stagnant magic would be widespread.
"It would take a full survey of the existing Waystone and tributary network to say for sure, but my best estimate right now would be about five Wizard-years of effort to really nail down the eastern edges of Central and Southern Stirland, and about the same to bolster the network throughout the rest of Stirland."

"Ten years, just to bolster the least part of a largely intact network in a single province?"

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A gusto that will undoubtedly fade as it sinks in that they'll be spending the next four years of their lives on this. But Roswita had had the local authorities thoroughly explain that the Wizards were taking away the bad magic and making sure it would stay away and that's all that they were doing, and then you'd had a word in a few ears to make it known that the lads could guarantee a good harvest or a bountiful lambing season in their off hours if they were made to feel welcome. A boring but important job somewhere that appreciates you with plenty of opportunities to make friends or shillings on the side is far from the worst of assignments a Wizard could be assigned.

[Stirland Tributaries underway. Estimated completion date: late 2493.]
I guess Mathilde was talking about the week-long rituals when she was talking to Luitpold, but the Stirland part is weird. She tells Roswita it will take a decade. Thinks to herself that it will take four years. The estimated completion date says it will take 3.75 years. She shouldn't have been thinking of the week-long ritual with Roswita. Aethyric Impluvium only takes 2 days, but it is more difficult so it probably does fail more often than the other two would.

I think the estimated completion date is correct. That matches 2/7 of 10 years, plus an extra half-year for delays.
 
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I do hope we pick something Diplomacy/Stewardship-based for the trait pick that'll probably come at the end of the Waystones arc, rather than whatever weird magical shiny is offered (I seriously never understood why the thread picked Dhar-wielding after Dum with absolutely zero plans on ever wielding Dhar).
Because we all know that the Everchosen and hordes of chaos are going to come and it will be immensely funny just looking at their chaos sorcery and just saying "no".

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Its also very useful against Undead and quite possibly will find lot of utility against Dark Elves, considering the penned insight we learned lot out of come from Frederick, who learned from Vlad, who learned from Nagash, who invented Necromancy on top of Dhar manipulation foundations he tortured out of Dark Elves.

Pretty much every enemy of mankind that doesn´t have green skin and yells waaagh utilizes Dhar in some fashion.
 
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I guess Mathilde was talking about the week-long rituals when she was talking to Luitpold, but the Stirland part is weird. She tells Roswita it will take a decade. Thinks to herself that it will take four years. The estimated completion date says it will take 3.75 years. She shouldn't have been thinking of the week-long ritual with Roswita. Aethyric Impluvium only takes 2 days, but it is more difficult so it probably does fail more often than the other two would.

I think the estimated completion date is correct. That matches 2/7 of 10 years, plus an extra half-year for delays.

It's ten Wizard-years. Three and a third years for three Wizards, rounded up for breaks and mistakes.
 
(I seriously never understood why the thread picked Dhar-wielding after Dum with absolutely zero plans on ever wielding Dhar).
You know the phrase "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer"? Mechanically, Mathilde now has +10 to counter any magic that uses Dhar, (which is a lot of magic,) and a whopping +30 to counter Necromancy. Narratively, just like how studying the Liber Mortis gave Mathilde knowledge of her enemy's methods and a greater understanding of magic as a whole, her many field studies of Dhar does the same.

Or to put it another way:
Ok. Dhar Insight makes Mathilde the best at something. "You're reaching as thorough an understanding of the fel energies of Dark Magic as can be attained without actually wielding them." It maxes out Mathilde's 'Defense Against the Dark Arts' skill. She'll reach the limits of what understanding is possible while staying on the side of sanity. And it's not just about fighting Dhar users directly but also dealing with environmental poisoning, countering the machinations of demons, and unraveling those powerful enchantments and constructs made using Dhar.

It's the ultimate expression of Mathilde's contempt that started all the way back at Drakenhof castle when the big bad vampire blew herself up with her own Dhar spell. All that 8-fold boosted power, wielded by idiots.
 
Who would win in a fight between the Spellburner Rune and a spell cast with Irresistible Force?
 
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[X] [ULTHUAN] Cooperation
I'm glad people are picking this pretty unanimously

As for Blood, I like all of these. Books might be my personal favourite, but I like all of them
[X] [BLOOD] Empire (Canal linking the Urskoy and Lynsk)
[X] [BLOOD] Kislevite military aid in reclaiming the fallen Nexuses of the Forest of Shadows
[X] [BLOOD] Personal (book agreements with all possible kislev libraries)
 
So I've been searching through the thread for the arguments for the Canal (I didn't check the thread yesterday and saw none of this). Could someone link me to them or bullet-point them? I'm all for Fucking with Marienburg but what else will this accomplish?
 
So I've been searching through the thread for the arguments for the Canal (I didn't check the thread yesterday and saw none of this). Could someone link me to them or bullet-point them? I'm all for Fucking with Marienburg but what else will this accomplish?
Directly from the Mouth of Boney:
The impact would be fairly significant. Being able to bypass Marienburg to reach the Sea of Claws would be a big deal for the Empire, both economically and militarily. It would be a boon for the economy of Kislev, since it would put the capital city on the same river system as the other two major cities - boats are hugely more efficient than cattle-drawn carts and transloading is a pain. And it would make northern Kislev a lot more accessible from the Empire, which would build new economic and cultural connections between the two.
 
The vote seems pretty clear cut to me. Can't wait to see what silly acronym/pun people came up with for the canal.
Horrifyingly, we might not even get the opportunity.

Given the widely public and necessarily indirect method we're leaning towards for the repayment of our bloody deed, it might end up being cautioned that we should (gasp) not link in our signature project-naming sense of humor, let alone shoehorn in a reference to Mathilde's name.

Truly, this could be the hidden complication that upends the entire bandwagon.
 
Not really. It's just a transliteration difference. Tsarevich is spelled with an S, so Tsar is consistent with that.

"ц" is usually sounded as "ts"

And if you follow the roots back to "Cesarz"(Polish) and "Kaiser"(German), both of them use "s" and not "z".
And so does "Caesar," the Original.
 
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Not really. It's just a transliteration difference. Tsarevich is spelled with an S, so Tsar is consistent with that.
The weird thing is that the Roleplay books have both Tzar and Tsarevech.

(Though in terms of published material Tsarevech has been solely used when referring to Tsarevech Pavel, who killed Kattarin the Bloody)
 
Not really. It's just a transliteration difference. Tsarevich is spelled with an S, so Tsar is consistent with that.

"ц" is usually sounded as "ts"

And if you follow the roots back to "Cesarz"(Polish) and "Kaiser"(German), both of them use "s" and not "z".
And so does "Caesar," the Original.
It's for consistency's sake, given the rest of the update uses Tzar.
 
[X] [BLOOD] Empire (Canal linking the Urskoy and Lynsk)
[X] [ULTHUAN] Cooperation

So, if we have the other canal opening after this, are we going to be talking about the result of this vote at the ceremony there?

Because it seems to me that it would be a place where a great congregation of canal enthusiasts could be located.
 
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