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It Belongs to a Museum

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They are all good, I would be happy with all of them.
And thus...

[X] Black Lion
skeletons+elves

[X] Barrow King
skeletons + grumpy grandpa

[X] Stranded Valkyrie
Lustria + collection of pseudo-nieces/apprentices
 
Was Pahtsekhen opinion on the gods revealed? I figured he was impious and generally unconcerned. Or is that something that can be decided by the thread? Or is that unrelated to the goal of the quest
 
These two seem the most immediately useful for making the most of Aelsabrim's specialty in acquiring animals.
[X] Black Lion
[X] Priest of the Shark God

This one seems useful for our planned exhibit showing off the splendor and history of Haakon, though even if we don't recruit him now, he'll probably stick around as long as he doesn't get himself killed.
[X] Vampire Skald

Edit: approval voting because I feel that Barrow King really has too little to do with our current exhibits and goals
[ ] Stranded Valkyrie
Second edit: Deleting my vote for her now that it seems that Vampire Skald has a genuine chance to win. For the glory of the Dread Abyssal, 1600-year-old flagship of the Pirate King!
 
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[X] Vampire Skald

Boney said:
Knowledges: Vampire Coast (Authority - Vampires, Navy, History), Lustria (Detailed), Norsca (Detailed)
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We won't get a better option for anything related to Luther Harkon and the Pirate Coast's history. Considering that we already choose to make Luther Harkon's ship as our very first exibit piece, there is no one else that can make a better use of the Dread Abyssal exibit than the bard who sailed it.

Getting the most suited vampire of Harkon's original crew is basically hiting the jackpot in my opinion. He basicaly can create a whole exposition around the Dread Abyssal AND would be useful to turn our skeletons into exibit pieces.

[ ] Barrow King

The leading option might be sympathetic, but unless we want to built an undead Jurassic Park, the is little I see him bringing to our current exhibits?

Boney said:
Knowledges: Weaponry (Detailed), Land Warfare (Detailed), Scythians (Detailed)
Rare Capabilities: Necromancy
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Are we really going to make our museum about land warfare or scythians? Do we need a necromancer?
 
All of the options are good but since two of my favorites are at the top I'm going to vote for the third that isn't.

Everybody's really sleeping on how cool it is to have a priest that swims with sharks and somehow regrows her own severed limbs.

[x] Priest of the Shark God
 
A lot of cool options. The vampire historian is perhaps my favourite option, but the Barrow King and the Valkyrie deserve my vote as well.

[x] Barrow King
[x] Vampire Skald
[x] Stranded Valkyrie
 
Will not mind when the Barrow King wins, but may as well vote for Lara Corpse and the Blood Bard

[x] Vampire Skald
[x] Stranded Valkyrie
 
Boney said:
He outlived them.
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"'Nothing in this life or the next is free, and whilst I am willing to trust in my own abilities and limitations, and accept any errors I make while weaving my spells, I do not wish to trust the continued benevolence of a deity whose need for my faith and dedication might far outweigh my own need for His or Her aid.'" - Supreme Patriarch Volans

"Especially as you can't trust their sorry asses not to up and die on you one day, balance owing." - Unca Liche Priest


[x] Stranded Valkyrie
I like Valkyire Adventurer making the most of her unlife, plus her Lustrian knowledge is cool. I also like the Skald, but we'll see.
 
To review, our current selections suggest the following areas of focus:
Boney said:
Specialities: Animals (Ulthuan, Lustria), Asur Colonies, Tiranoc
Rare Capabilites: Royal Connection
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Boney said:
This could form the centerpiece of an exhibit relating to the Vampire Coast, Norsca, or Piracy.
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One presumes the Black Lion would be of at least some use for contextualizing elven artifacts (even if he's apparently too uncultured to be much of an expert in any not used for violence) and he's of course an exceptional pick for animals, making him probably the closest available synergy with Aelsabrim. However, he offers none of the expertise that'd be necessary to best showcase the Ship of Luthorseus.

The Barrow King is not directly useful for any of our nascent specialties, but his necromancy could enable our skeletal exhibits to make up in excitement what they lack in precise accuracy.

The Priest's knowledge of Stromfels might be sufficient to support a Piracy exhibit, and she'd be helpful for any aquatic beasties Aelsabrim sent our way, as well as perhaps even offering input (albeit probably scathing) on some forms of elven religious artifacts we might be able to procure down the line. A surprisingly fitting subject-matter expert, but she doesn't personally grab me and if all we want is a perfect expertise fit there's a better option yet to come.

The Gunsmith might have been an okay pick if we'd started off with a collection of ranged weapons, but as is, he's not really useful for either of our initial exhibits or especially so for anything we can realistically expect to acquire (effective Weaponry: Minutiae isn't entirely terrible for handling elven weapons we might obtain but they won't be firearms and the Black Lion is close on that axis while wildly more flexible in other relevant uses).

The Skald is hands-down the best possible pick for the current exhibits we've obtained, as well as being an excellent prospective museum guide (though the latter is less of a big deal than it might have been had our own character been less personable). His biggest flaw is a lack of any particular suitability for handling elven artifacts or Ulthuani beasts, but we can just keep Aelsabrim on Lustrian beasts until we've got the chance to expand our staff. IMO this is the yardstick against which all other options should be measured - if we're giving up on this good a match for our picks so far, we should have a clear vision as to why.

The Valkyrie can handle Lustrian beasts fine and would be singularly suited to the relics that Aelsabrim can apparently also offer, per the last vote. Her Old Ones: Surface knowledge could even provide an interesting lens on some sufficiently ancient elven artifacts, though I'm not sure anyone involved would know enough to set about acquiring them deliberately. As such I'd say she rivals (if not quite equals) the Black Lion as a fitting pick for Aelsabrim, but unfortunately she also matches him in lack of suitability for the ship.

Hm hm. For now I'm just going to vote the Skald, but I'll mull over if any of the others presents a compelling enough alternative vision for the museum.

[X] Vampire Skald
 
Boney said:
He outlived them.
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I can't help but feel like that is ten different kinds of poignant.

Maybe the relationship with them was good, more likely it was fraught, given the way Paht talks about the Gods. (And the way our very limited perspective of Nehekharans, like Vlad, do more generally)

All the same, here is someone, something, you thought once was a pillar of the world, who you might not have even been able to conceive of a world without. And then, one day, they're all gone.

However much they were loved, or hated, admired, or feared, they're gone now. I can only envision the relationship to that moment of history in all the same mixture of emotion of someone who lost a parent one had a strained relationship with. If one where there have been centuries to have grappled with it.
 
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Love BK but he isn't well suited for the needs of the museum at the moment

[x] Stranded Valkyrie
[x] Priest of the Shark God
[x] Vampire Skald
 
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