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Sure, you could write in something along the lines of 'Library Ulrikadrin Ulric'. It's not the most efficient of library purchases, but that fits since it wouldn't be the most streamlined process.
 
[X] [PURCHASE] No purchase.

Once again firmly opposing the entire concept of spending a bunch of money on extra books when we already have our ridiculous library stipend.
 
The position of Ulthuan is too far off from Araby for it to be very useful. I'm just going to use the White Dwarf map I linked and remake the nexus map on it. Dunno what I'll do to label it. I'll probably have to try to scale it up.
I have come to the conclusion that this is an incredibly silly thing to do. I will do it the second that we map out the east's waystone equivalents and not a second before.

Anyways, map time.

I have updated my previous map to include the nexuses that Eltharion confirmed. I got too impatient to wait until when we get told about the Karaz Ankor network and Laurelorn's network. Speaking of that, will we have to take the other nexus actions to get the locations of those nexuses? As Mathilde isn't confident enough about Laurelorn's network to say if the Tower of Se-Athil is a nexus despite Cadaeth hinting it.



Keep in mind that this map is fairly distorted even in the bigger portion. Let alone the section that covers the Great Ocean.

The main network is represented by four colors. Cyan represents function nexuses, red represents suborned nexuses, purple represents destroyed nexuses, and green represents repurposed nexuses. The Dwarf network has two colors. Green-cyan represents function Karak-nexuses. Yellow represnts dysfunctional nexuses. Kislev is represented by the white-ish color.

I also used grey dashes to represent Mathilde's speculation about current leyline route.

There are several nexuses I didn't include because I wasn't sure if Mathilde would include them. Those are Karag Dron, Karaz Ghumzul, Ekrund, Silver Pinnacle, and Tylos. I'll include the Dwarf holds once Mathilde investigates the Dwarf network. I also did not include the Tower of Melkhior because I have no clue where it is.

Base Network:
1. The Isel of the Dead / The Great Vortex
2. Lothern
3. Tralinia
4. Summersong
5. Whitefire Tor
6. Rokhame
7. Northwatch
8. Tor Anroc
9. Albion
10. L'Anguille
11. Couronne
12. Almshoven
13. Marienburg
14. Gisoreux
15. Altdorf
16. Nuln
17. Bugman's Brewery
18. Karak Norn
19. Eicheschatten
20. Heideck
21. Talabheim
22. Gross Selon
23. Hergig
24. Kienbaum
25. Castle Lenkster
26. Blood Fane
27. Brass Keep
28. Marcher Fortress
29. Mordheim
30. Fort Solace
31. Tor Lithanel
32. Athel Yenlui
33. Matorca
34. Archeas
35. Myrmidens
36. Monte Castello
37. Los Cabos
38. Port Elistor
39. Arnheim
40. Citadel of Dusk
41. Citadel of Dawn

Karaz Ankor:
1. Karaz-a-Karak
2. Karak Eight Peaks
3. Black Crag (Karak Drazh)
4. Zhufbar
5. Karak Kadrin
6. Karak Ungor
7. Karak Azul
8. Barak Varr
9. Karak Vlag
10. Karak Varn
11. Mount Gunbad
12. Mount Grimfang (Mount Silverspear)
13. Karak Azgal (Karak Izril)

Kislev:
1. Kislev City
2. Praag
3. Erengrad
4. Castle Alexandronov
 
It's going to be interesting to see the shift from R&D to 'retaking the nexus' as the main focus of the project in the near future (hoping that the Waystone prototype works.)

Kind of glad, I like R&D, but I've been itching for some danger.
 
There was talk earlier about using the father side of the coin to discover if any elven deities are a daughter. I am wondering what the effect would be, as high elves, as i understand it, follow all their deities somewhat equally. Wouldnt all asur trust mathilde if just one of the the gods is a daugher? Or would the effect be lesser as the deity in question fills a lesser role in the asurs mind?
 
I wonder if retaking the Silver Road Mountains could be couched as part of retaking nexuses. Don't think the dwarves will call for help besides from the empire, but would be interesting if expeditionary forces showed up from Kislev, Laurelorn and the high elves.
 
I wonder if retaking the Silver Road Mountains could be couched as part of retaking nexuses. Don't think the dwarves will call for help besides from the empire, but would be interesting if expeditionary forces showed up from Kislev, Laurelorn and the high elves.
As it's being led by karaz-a-karak no elf will be allowed to step a toe into this war. Thorgrim is framing the reconquest as a strengthening the karaz ankor and in the new age, humans are allowed because their old allies. Elf's aren't, elf's would only open up old wounds.
 
There was talk earlier about using the father side of the coin to discover if any elven deities are a daughter. I am wondering what the effect would be, as high elves, as i understand it, follow all their deities somewhat equally. Wouldnt all asur trust mathilde if just one of the the gods is a daugher? Or would the effect be lesser as the deity in question fills a lesser role in the asurs mind?

While the Asur attempt to balance all gods in their minds some are closer to certain gods, this is both a geographic as well as a role thing, like the Phoenix Guard being closer to Asuryan and an elf from Lothern just generally being more into Manthalan. While the hypotheticals perfectly neutral elf who only calls gods each in their own time might exist (and be incredibly smug about it) most elves are not like that, for an example see how our Dragon riding friend choose to snub Khaine for Vaul in matters that clearly pertained to the domain of the former over the latter. If one of the daughters were Vaul for some reason and you walked into Calendor odds are you would notice.
 
[X] [PURCHASE] No purchase.

Once again firmly opposing the entire concept of spending a bunch of money on extra books when we already have our ridiculous library stipend.
I mean, I don't know what to tell you. The ridiculous library stipend doesn't matter if we only spend it on really small things like the Ulric books - we could choose to just pick up the remaining two book points for free, yes... or we could choose to go with any of the standard options, of which even the least will yield five times that amount of books if it's on stuff we don't have anything on. And the last time we picked up backfill we got 40+ book points.

Trying to be thrifty is fine and all, but we're not exactly hurting for money or use it all that much for stuff besides books. We don't need extra books bought with money from our own pocket, sure, but by that same token we also don't need to buy anything from Lothern.
 
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[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill: Social science
[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
[] [COLLEGE] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] 1x Crystal Mist (5 CF)
[X] [PURCHASE] Ulric (Imperial Esoteric, 100 gc)

I think it's a good idea to always have a spare Ulgu powerstone laying around, just in case we want to use it for a project or expend the one on our robes in an adventure and need to replace it.
 
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[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill: Social science
[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] 1x Crystal Mist (5 CF)
[X] [PURCHASE] Ulric (Imperial Esoteric, 100 gc)
[X] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr: The Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, the Kingdom of Nehekhara, Naval Warfare

*comical indeterminate accent* the Back-fill, it does nothing. :V

Seriously though, more books by weight will most likely impact nothing of what we the players see in the quest, we are unlikely to interact with random social science subjects. It is a numbers go up kind of deal with no narrative impact. In the other side of things in character, large collections of varied books are best acquired by exchanges with partner libraries as we did last turn.
The narrative impact of the numbers going up is that our library gets bigger. And we won't get to "biggest library in the world" size without doing a lot of back-fill actions.
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill: Social science
[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] 1x Crystal Mist (5 CF)
[X] [PURCHASE] Ulric (Imperial Esoteric, 100 gc)

The narrative impact of the numbers going up is that our library gets bigger. And we won't get to "biggest library in the world" size without doing a lot of back-fill actions.

I don't think we will ever get to the biggest library in the world. I say the best way to get close it would be through things like spending the Kislev boon on the library. For comparison what we got from the University of Nuln, one library in one realm dwarfs what backfill would give us several times over. If you really want numbers go up until we are the Biggest (TM) the best way to do it would be to spend non-library AP on the library to get more libraries as partners, but you know... hell wIill freeze over and the Ancient Widow will reign supreme before that happen.

Or maybe I am wrong here, maybe all it takes is backfilling once every two years or so with our two week long half-AP action to get this to be the biggest library on the planet, I don't know how Boney scaled this, but it would seem speak rather poorly of every other librarian who came before us if that was the case.
 
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[X] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr: The Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, the Kingdom of Nehekhara, Naval Warfare
[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
[ ] [COLLEGE] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] 1x Crystal Mist (5 CF)
[X] [PURCHASE] Ulric (Imperial Esoteric, 100 gc)

I don't know how Boney scaled this, but it would seem speak rather poorly of every other librarian who came before us if that was the case.

I mean, if other libraries don't have the patronage to maintain more than a certain number of books, they're not really going to go over that number, not really a failing on their part.
 
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[X] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr: The Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, the Kingdom of Nehekhara, Naval Warfare
[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
[ ] [COLLEGE] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] 1x Crystal Mist (5 CF)
[X] [PURCHASE] Ulric (Imperial Esoteric, 100 gc)



I mean, if other libraries don't have the patronage to maintain more than a certain number of books, they're not really going to go over that number, not really a failing on their part.

Ulthuan is both at the centre of a vast trading empire and all of its Kingdoms are richer than Belegar while also being older than all the nations of the Old World.
 
Or maybe I am wrong here, maybe all it takes is backfilling once every two years or so with our two week long half-AP action to get this to be the biggest library on the planet, I don't know how Boney scaled this, but it would seem speak rather poorly of every other librarian who came before us if that was the case.
If we grow vast it will be because we are eating giants.
 
I mean, I don't know what to tell you. The ridiculous library stipend doesn't matter if we only spend it on really small things like the Ulric books - we could choose to just pick up the remaining two book points for free, yes... or we could choose to go with any of the standard options, of which even the least will yield five times that amount of books if it's on stuff we don't have anything on. And the last time we picked up backfill we got 40+ book points.

Trying to be thrifty is fine and all, but we're not exactly hurting for money or use it all that much for stuff besides books. We don't need extra books bought with money from our own pocket, sure, but by that same token we also don't need to buy anything from Lothern.

I really don't think the two book points matters at all, it isn't important in the first place, so I'm not defining my plans based on what gets them. And yeah, my entire issue is that we spent insane amounts of cash on books for increasingly miniscule bonuses on a single digit number of tangential rolls. There are other things to spend money on, I entirely approved of buying top quality lab equipment and lush accomodations when we were setting up the Project, that had direct relevance to our Core goals. There are plenty of situations where spending cash made obstacles go away, and buying even more books are a crazy inefficient method of doing that. We have like 800 left.
 
I really don't think the two book points matters at all, it isn't important in the first place, so I'm not defining my plans based on what gets them. And yeah, my entire issue is that we spent insane amounts of cash on books for increasingly miniscule bonuses on a single digit number of tangential rolls. There are other things to spend money on, I entirely approved of buying top quality lab equipment and lush accomodations when we were setting up the Project, that had direct relevance to our Core goals. There are plenty of situations where spending cash made obstacles go away, and buying even more books are a crazy inefficient method of doing that. We have like 800 left.
We aren't getting those books for a +2 bonus. It's more because having rarer books lets us ask Boney questions with less chance of getting "unknown" or "you don't know" in response.
 
While updating the map, I was looking at the options that Thorgrim would have to retake, if they reclaim Mount Silverspear. I can see several options for the Karaz Ankor: Karak Drazh, Karak Ungor, and Mount Gunbad. The Bokha Palace Accords gives Thorgrim a way to call in Kislev and the Empire to help him retake Karaks.

The Empire and Kislev would best be able to help any reclamation effort in Karak Ungor. It would help secure a large swathe of their borders, Peak Pass, and put a fortress near Karak Vlag. Ungor was also the first Karak to fall in the Time of Woes, and would provide a huge morale boost. Karak Drazh was the third largest Karak before the Time of Woes and it would be a simple matter for Karaz-a-Karak, Karak Eight Peaks, Karak Azul, and Barak Varr to deploy soldiers to help retake it. Retaking it would secure Death Pass. Mount Gunbad was a fabulously wealthy mine and would further secure the Silver Road. But it would probably be the hardest to deploy soldiers too.

Though at soonest this all is like, sixty years out into the future. It'll take a long time to retake Mount Silverspear and more time besides to build up the strength to retake another one. Even if you count in assistance called upon by the Bokha Palace Accords.

It's funny. Mathilde gave Thorgrim a third victory without really knowing that it helped Thorgrim's goals and while Thorgrim had absolutely zero idea that Mathilde was about to do anything like that. You have Karak Eight Peaks, Karak Vlag, and now the Bohka Palace Accords provide a template for his League of Nations.

He laid out the casus belli for it during the announcement of the reconquest:

Collect all five and he can force everyone in the Old World to join the League of Nations if they want to keep those sweet, sweet spice and silk tariffs.
 
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