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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Parabola said:
Boney, I have a burning question: Is it possible that Dwarves may end up creating Music With Rocks In It, due to their affinity with stone, or is that possibility outweighed by their fondness and love for tradition?

...Actually, given that I just framed it that way, I guess the question I actually want to ask is, have Chaos Dwarves developed Rock, or did they just skip straight to Death Metal?
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Chaos Dwarves are actually Jazz enthusiasts, which is the real reason the Dwarves hate them. The Dwarves prefer the Blues.
 
Parabola said:
Boney, I have a burning question: Is it possible that Dwarves may end up creating Music With Rocks In It, due to their affinity with stone, or is that outweighed by their fondness and love for tradition?

...Actually, given that I just framed it that way, I guess the question I actually want to ask is, have Chaos Dwarves developed Rock, or did they just skip straight to Death Metal?
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Chaos Dwarves aren't a good fit for that sort of thing. You'd need to find a population of Dwarves with a willingness to part from tradition while still being loyal to the Karaz Ankor. Possibly ones geographically close to the Norse Dwarves and their traditions of skaldic poetry, maybe even ones who might then have had prolonged exposure to a realm of pure excess.
 
Boney said:
Chaos Dwarves aren't a good fit for that sort of thing. You'd need to find a population of Dwarves with a willingness to part from tradition while still being loyal to the Karaz Ankor. Possibly ones geographically close to the Norse Dwarves and their traditions of skaldic poetry, maybe even ones who might then have had prolonged exposure to a realm of pure excess.
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That makes sense. The Karak Vlag Dwarves possibly developed death metal to defend against the Slaaneshi Disco.
 
Boney said:
The thing about air cavalry is their overwhelming desire to be low-key. They absolutely hate making dramatic entrances and definitely want to move as quietly and unseen as possible. There definitely isn't an inexplicable yearning inside Okri's heart for a method of affixing musical instruments to the exterior of a Gyrocarriage.
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I am forced to assume that the greatest and most revered ancestral treasure of Caledor is an enchanted dragon saddle that magically blasts out orchestral music on command.
 
Boney said:
Chaos Dwarves aren't a good fit for that sort of thing. You'd need to find a population of Dwarves with a willingness to part from tradition while still being loyal to the Karaz Ankor. Possibly ones geographically close to the Norse Dwarves and their traditions of skaldic poetry, maybe even ones who might then have had prolonged exposure to a realm of pure excess.
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:thonk: Devious. Tzeentch is the one known most for convoluted plans, but it's truly masterful of Slaanesh to act as The Man to make the KV dwarves develop rock and then proceed to infect the rest of the Karaz Ankor with it. Turning the Dwarven infection back against itself.

Truly, you have to admire the dedication to The Bit, having such commitment to the cause that She'd allow an uppity dwarven wizard to slam the metaphorical door straight in Her face. That's totally what happened.

Otrovik said:
That makes sense. The Karak Vlag Dwarves possibly developed death metal to defend against the Slaaneshi Disco.
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I feel like if Slaanesh actually developed Disco, Khorne would immediately win over her out of sheer single-minded rage.

On the other hand, Nurgle might develop enough of an immediate power boost as a consequence that maybe Khorne couldn't truly gain the upper hand.
 
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Boney said:
The thing about air cavalry is their overwhelming desire to be low-key. They absolutely hate making dramatic entrances and definitely want to move as quietly and unseen as possible. There definitely isn't an inexplicable yearning inside Okri's heart for a method of affixing musical instruments to the exterior of a Gyrocarriage.
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So what I'm getting here is you use illusion and hook it up to a switch in the pilot's cabin. One setting for silent and invisible, one for MAXIMUM NOISE.
 
Boney said:
Chaos Dwarves aren't a good fit for that sort of thing. You'd need to find a population of Dwarves with a willingness to part from tradition while still being loyal to the Karaz Ankor. Possibly ones geographically close to the Norse Dwarves and their traditions of skaldic poetry, maybe even ones who might then have had prolonged exposure to a realm of pure excess.
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So, hypothetically speaking, we ask the dwarfs of Karak Vlag to compose a song celebrating the Winged Hussards of Kislev? Or ourselves? For Kislevites, we're basically a flying witch with our helicopter :V
 
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So as always, I apologize for not being sure where else to get answers to Apocrypha, ephemera and obscure tidbits about Warhammer fantasy clarified.

With that disclaimer of by no means trying to be remotely disruptive given, does anyone here know where if anywhere I can learn about the Ogre Tribes of the Badlands?

I know only two things about them, they exist and are territorial, which for me is more painful than knowing nothing about them.
 
Wiggy said:
Where'd you even hear about them? There's a passing mention of them on the wiki but it's completely unsourced, so...
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*blushes* As a relatively poor who owns no sourcebooks that was the where, yes. If I have been fooled by an unscrupulous editor posting plausible but false or unsupported information I am deeply sorry for adding any veneer of legitamcy to such.
 
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*blushes* As a relatively poor who owns no sourcebooks that was the where, yes. If I have been fooled by an unscrupulous editor posting plausible but false or unsupported information I am deeply sorry for adding any veneer of legitamcy to such.
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I mean, I would find it entirely plausible that at least *one* warhammer product has had ogres roaming around the badlands but that bit in the wiki is my first run in with it. And it would hardly be the first time someone's written some random thing as fact in the warhammer wikis.
 
Think it's just a badlands-dark lands mix up, fandom lists the tribe that lexicanum says in the badlands as in the dark lands and actually has citations.

Which you know, still not great, but "I mixed up two similar terms" is an improvement over the wiki standard of "I just made it up."

Edit: yeah the lexicanum page that says their in the badlands even mentions The Sentinals, which is a dark lands location. 100% just a similar term mixup.
 
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adaer said:
I think the Accords have definitely changed the tone of offering Bretonnia a place in the project. I absolutely agree that they should sign on to the accords if they're going to be part of the project itself, and I think that might make it an easier sell for them. They get to frame an infrastructure project as a heroic and glorious work against the evils of chaos and necromancy.

I'd definitely be open to talking to them about joining both after we've got the first prototype either successful made or exploding for unclear reasons, and I think that helping them out with the Iron Orcs could definitely be worth doing depending on what we're negotiating to get in return.
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We can't get Bretonnia to sign on to the accords, at least not easily. For that to happen requires the unanimous agreement of all the signatories, which isn't something that Mathilde can readily do. Bretonnia could show interest and could perhaps say they're willing to abide by the Accords, but signing up isn't likely to be a straightforward thing and would require high level negotiations with each power, I suspect, not a simple matter of recruitment. Bringing the Damsels in as a non-signatory representative is considerably easier, as nobody can tell Mathilde that she can't do it, as the Waystone Project remains completely her baby to run. If she wants the Damsels on the project, they are on the project and it's simply a matter of recruiting them. How having a non-signatory on the project would affect things might be interesting to see (but I'm biased, given I want Bretonnia in and have done for ages).
 
T_of_A said:
Some feedback: some of the memes rely on sound, which isn't audible over the background music.

I also liked the background music changes in the previous video. If you're going to make a 3 min long meme sequence without any subway surfer to keep my attention, there should be some musical changes !
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The clips with sound should have been louder, but the background music needed to remain the same. There were several times where the lyrical or instrumental content matched the clip (Karag Dum's shoulder wiggle, the Johann silk clip, etc.), and the multiple times the song got quieter made it very good for introducing the clips that used sound, since it'd be easier to hear them without increasing their volume. Plus "I'm so lucky/lovely" matches Mathilde pretty well overall.
 
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