That'd be hysterical, though still immensely profitable.
No, but the trade route to Eight Peaks will drive traders through and/or into Bark Varr. And since they are already in a pretty big trade hub they might as well do more business than "just" the Silk bit, business that otherwise they might have done in Marienburg.
Of course, but I mean that they would probably resent not being the ones gaining the most out of it even if they're still gaining more money than they did previously.
Pursuant to these points - I'd we're not done with the research phase quite yet, because we still have a form of tributary that we haven't studied yet, and that could yield insights useful to future designs, historical value aside.
...kinky.
Now, hang on there. The action isn't about starting up a hellwar. The action itself would only be doing the following, underlined:
The hellwar would be a potential path that would be enabled in the future. One that, even if it was willing and eager to do, the Karaz Ankor simply isn't up for anytime soon. (It's currently occupied with reclaiming the Silver Pass and Karag Agilwutraz, and that's both going to take a long time to do and take a long time to recover from.) No, what Mathilde's action would do is give the Karaz Ankor a nice chunk of Waystone Network, one that I'd wager would be more than enough to reactivate another of the Great Works of the Ancestors.
Why would we want to do this? More specifically, why would Mathilde want to spend her time or the time of her underlings on this? All the factions have the knowledge of what a Waystone is and how it functions. They know what components were tried and whether they worked. If they want to make their own isolationist version then they can do so without involving anyone who is part of the Project.
Gold, silver and jewels. Probably Dwarf-forged weapons and similar.
In response to the Empire and the dwarves building a canal from the southern Empire to Barak Varr, which would undercut Marienburg's monopoly, Marienburg has been
And Marienburg had one of the biggest in the Empire, to boot. Which is kind of surprising, considering how many times it's gotten sacked.
You may find this post on Imperial Naval Policy enlightening.
They only threatened a blockade, which they didn't follow through with when Mathilde gave the Chamberlain of the Seal the Barak Varr card.
He only mentions the benefits of removing excess magic, and knowing any vulnerabilities of the network's bottlenecks. With a working waystone, we could probably call that task completed but I dont think he would complain about more varieties of waystones or tributaries. But we should definitely make a full map of the nexus, at least of whats downstream of the Empire. And he also explicitly wanted to know specifically about Norn's situation, and what might happen with Athel Loren getting power redirected to them.
Asides from what other people have said, Boney has also elaborated at length on non-threadmarked posts on how the Empire super hates Marienburg and its many whys.
We're doing that in Laurelorn, a grey zone where everyone can pretend that Aksel isn't a witch that the Colleges is legally obligated to burn at the stake. In the Forest of Shadows, the ritual can be done by anyone who has learned enough Was Jutonian. It's the Forest of Shadows, it's mysterious, who knows who is doing it? Outside though you have to systematically bring (probably Hedgewise) outside of the Forest of Shadows. That's not something that can happen without the Cult of Sigmar noticing and asking questions about the magic practitioners. And the Colleges are obligated to assist in the destruction of witches.
I don't think we are going to learn how waystone gold is alloyed, or will be able to replicate it if we can. It's made by Caledor. The Dwarves might be able to replicate it, but honestly I don't expect them to be able to. As far as I understand it, it took until about the early 1900s for it to be used in manufacture, over a century after it was discovered.
I was referring to Mathilde deploying tributaries. That's why I mentioned AP. I also mentioned us potentially deploying tributaries to Kislev. We can pretty safely leave tributaries to the Elector Counts to manage. We don't need to impress them anymore. We can just point to Praag for that.
