Fayhem
Definitely not an escaped SCP
- Location
- At large
- Pronouns
- He/Him
It Belongs to a Museum
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Well, if the princess is passingly familiar with Nehekharan history, and given that while many elves are old she, herself is implied to be relatively young by elven standards, there's kind of that same dynamic as with meeting the guy who can talk casually about "Auntie Rathi."
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Princess Fallenstar is the perfect pick for our Imprudent Tutor, goddamn. What an incredible opportunity to surpass his record in mentorship, he hasn't had a student with such potential since his niece.
[X] Princess Aelsabrim Fallenstar
[X] Princess Aelsabrim Fallenstar
einargs
Verified Spiller of the Egg Yolk
- Location
- The Egg Yolk, Outer Layer
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I'm not sure she wants him back? She married him for the wealth and position, and he can't do either of those reanimated. And I don't think we want that either, because part of what's making her vulnerable is her inexperience. I suppose if we can forcibly alter his loyalty to us it would be great.
I really wanted a ship, but this convinced me.
[X] Princess Aelsabrim Fallenstar
This word play is beautiful. What a perfect analogy that works on so many different levels. Like, I'm genuinely saving it in the corner of my notes I keep for clever word play.
- Location
- Finland
Ptah, and i suspect large parts of the thread, is genuinely here to help.
For a certain, eccentric, definitions of "help".
Also by the time she is raising the dead, i think we've pretty succesfully made it into her confidence with no actual coercion needed.
[X] Princess Aelsabrim Fallenstar
Aegon Targaryen
Dragonking of Fuyuki
- Location
- Romania
We deeply need a new niece after such a long time lacking one...just pray Neferata doesn't hear we found a...totally-not-replacementWow, there's more than 2x gap between the princess and the next most voted option. I guess we're going all in on the character
Somic
It's meow or never
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Don't worry, after millennia she has got to be familiar with our love of spreading the knowledge around
If she were the jealous type, Uncle Lion Butt would've known by now
- Location
- Washington
This isn't even the first non-neferata princess we'll have tutored, given the claim about Jasmina's theories being totally sound
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
So what would be a best case success story for tutoring the Princess? Creating a situation where while nominally still High Elf aligned the port is effecting a part of Awakening? Her going full Elf Necromancer Pirate? Her rising in high elven society and being our agent?
- Location
- Finland
Whatever makes her happy and brings her fulfilment in life.
Be it retiring to life in a beachfront shack with her husband, or seeking to take over the world with an undead armada.
Sure her going home to Ulthuan, finding success in politics and keeping in contact might be, optimal, but for me that's secondary.
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from how the tutor's life seems to have gone, its far more likely the second than the first.
- Location
- Finland
Now now, thousands of years and we have less than a dozen world conquering eccentrics to our name (that we know about).
There could have been dozens of necromancers, sorcerers and whatnot who found quiet lifelong careers running beachfront bars.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
That's not really indicated either way. The closest we get is that she doesn't have the money she was depending on (although why she wanted it is unclear), but there's no indication he was particularly wealthy or connected either, especially as she was the one appointed to the position, not her husband. In the 4e book the character originates from (although this can't be counted on to be quest canon) her husband was an animal merchant, and not indicated to be a noble.
As a question Boney, is there a reason you can share about why you changed which Kingdom she's from?
"I, an Eatainian King, am aware that Yvresse and Tiranoc are arguing over who should get authority over this colony. I am aware that Yvresse has ruled both the Citadel and the Ward for fifteen centuries. But I cannot give control of the Ward to a Tiranocian even once, that would instantly and forever give Tiranoc irreversible dominance over the colony. Instead, I will give it to... an Eatainian. This will definitely be taken as a just and wise compromise instead of a blatant exploitation of royal authority to empower my own kingdom. Truly, I am the greatest statesman alive."
And the husband being killed by PETA is also stupid so there needs to be some stronger motivations and higher stakes in the mix.
daedalus725
Kell of Kells, godking of Planet X
- Location
- Daedalus crater, The moon
What? I do not know the lore of elf so much
- Location
- Many Places
[X] The Salt Lord
Isnt this almost the plot of heroes might and magic 5? That being said
[X] The Tide of Skjold
[X] Princess Aelsabrim Fallenstar
DevilsAdvocate
Always follow the golden rule.
[X] Princess Aelsabrim Fallenstar
In 4e, the husband was killed by a random Asrai that has for some reason infiltrated the Citadel of Dawn and was so outraged at the presence of a trade in animals that she immediately murdered some guy who'd only just arrived in town. The inexplicable presence of a Wood Elf here on the tip of Lustria is a symptom of a larger problem in 4e, that they're scared of making players exert any thought or creativity whatsoever so they make the 'protagonist' races omnipresent. That way you don't have to do the few seconds of thought it would take to come up with a reason for why a Wood Elf is doing adventures in Lustria, because Wood Elves are just everywhere now.
(I particularly don't like to see this because it was a major reason why they blew up the setting in the first place - the higher-ups didn't like it that they had to come up with explanations for why Lizardmen and Tomb Kings and whoever else would turn up for drama in the Old World, and wanted to create a setting where convenient portals could open up between anywhere and anywhere.)
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- Location
- Australia
Is the problem specifically with Asrai showing up in a bunch of places, or is the Eonir's presence outside Laurelorn also a problem? I notice in Divided Loyalties you had them stay isolationist up until Mathilde's time, which may imply an issue with how 4e handled them.
The Eonir are less bad about it since they're less inherently isolationist, but I still think it could have been done better. There needed to have been a substantial reason for why they changed the habits of millennia, some sort of inciting incident like I did with Khazrak's Warherd, but the closest 4e did was retconning the existing incidents - the Great War Against Chaos, the return of Ulthuan to the Old World - to say 'and the Eonir were there too'. That incident could have been just about anything. 4e suggests some potential imminent incidents in that 'here's an adventure hook!' way, but that's a whole other problem where different parts of the world keep being written as playgrounds for adventurers instead of as functioning societies with thinking people in charge, so everywhere accumulates a big pile of really solvable problems so that players have something to do.
Once the Eonir cracked open, I think it makes a certain amount of sense for them to pop up throughout the Old World. Their society has a lot of reasons for people on the losing end to want to seek their fortunes elsewhere. But it shouldn't be automatic for there to be a token Wood Elf in every single odd corner of the world. Different parts of the world should feel different, and that Warhammer has enough accumulated lore for that to happen is a strength that's being treated as a weakness.
Adrian XXIV
Average User, from Poland
- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Cursed Thought: What if that "Asrai" that killed Aelsabrim's husband, was just (particularly moronic) Druchii infiltrator?
Like, there are cases of Druchii infiltrators pretending to be "one of other kinds of Elves" (including particular one that ended up causing War of The Vengeance/Beard)
Like, there are cases of Druchii infiltrators pretending to be "one of other kinds of Elves" (including particular one that ended up causing War of The Vengeance/Beard)