So what your saying is we also throw the book at them...
Actually @Boney how big is our vitae book, and does it at least have a cool cover? I must know if we put little wood print picture of mathy on the back and a nothing saying quote.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Actually @Boney how big is our vitae book, and does it at least have a cool cover? I must know if we put little wood print picture of mathy on the back and a nothing saying quote.
I'm not going to hash out the exact mechanics of possible options three subvotes deep from now.
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Y'know, thinking on this more, man it must suck being a Longbeard. I mean, humans don't recover from battlefield injuries quite as well, but at least when you get a crippling injury that's the end of it, meanwhile a Longbeard has probably suffered half a dozen injuries like it and is still going on sheer spite and willpower.
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Fermat got isekaied.
It's book-sized, bound in leather, and has a plain embossed or branded title, because that is what books look like in this era. You bind it in leather because that's what lasts and you don't have printings on the outside because ink doesn't play nice with leather. Any illustration would be on the page opposite the title page, called the frontispiece.
Boney has said before that we wouldn't get anything for donations. The colleges will now all frantically work on acquiring vitae themselves and seeing what stupidity they can come up themselves.
Do we at least have a cool frontispiece then?
I leave imagining the frontispiece as an exercise for the reader.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
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Back cover full of reviews from papers that don't exist
"Couldn't put it down," -Ulgu Uikly
"A vile treatise on heretical magicks tempting our youth into living in sin," - Kelham Tribune
"Couldn't pick it up," Hierophant's Herald
Yes, yes we do.
Lord Magister Dame Mathilde Weber revealing the first Orbs of Sorcery created by the Colleges of Magic C. 2491 IC
Truly, this article sold more copies than all our efforts advertising
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
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I like to imagine it's a dramatic depiction of Mathilde's capture of the Wisdom's Asp. It would be a fitting way to open the book with the event that started this whole thing.
Personally, I'd go with a depiction of the apparatus used to make the orbs, with the pick and the AV in the middle and the power stones arrayed around with, and Mathilde observing from the far corner of the room.
In that old fashioned cross-hatch style, of course.
Nothing is sure to get wizards excited like the image of some strange laboratory equipment in operation.
In that old fashioned cross-hatch style, of course.
Nothing is sure to get wizards excited like the image of some strange laboratory equipment in operation.
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I would like to note that in some arguments, that have cycled around several times by multiple people (so not calling anyone out), there has been an in-built assumption that if we don't take the Armor Manfred* will. I think that assumption, while possible, is not guaranteed.
Edit *Mandred.
Edit *Mandred.
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shepsquared
Erratic Aussie
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Manfred might someday get the same access to it that any wizard marching into battle alongside armies does, but him being ready for that at all is so far off we shouldn't be worried about it. He's just an apprentice.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
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Sold more copies than there are readers of the kelham tribuneTruly, this article sold more copies than all our efforts advertising
Mandred, it would be rather annoying if Manfred Von Carstain, vampire and all around awful person stole the armor
(I say this as someone who made that mistype several times myself)
It's a natural logical assumption to make—Mandred is being trained to lead armies, and in Warhammer that means leading by the sword. He is also from the same order as Von Tarnus, so he has a institutional legacy, and is the owner of one of the best magical swords in the setting.
Like, if he was a canon character he probably would have the armour by default. Actually, he'd make a really cool lord—a heavy armoured melee combatant who can buff nearby units and shoot the occasional fireball for when he's not in combat. The Wizard Prince of Altdorf.
Of course, the nature of the quest means there's no guarantee that he'll hit the specific story beats needed to become that character, but it's probably easier for him to do so than become another type of character.
Adrian XXIV
Average User, from Poland
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Btw, what do you think would be name of Mandred's faction in Negaverse's Total War: Warhammer?
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Here's another logical assumption for someone to be wearing the armor in the big climatic battle. The future Supreme Patriarch/Matriarch. The person who is the military head of the militant order of wizards.
Another logical assumption would be any wizard who is performing some key role in the battle (e.g. targeted assassinations, bodyguard to key people, leading important ritual work, casting a major long lasting BM).
None of this is to say that Mandred won't get the armour: he might even be one of the aforementioned examples, but he isn't the guaranteed default, nor guaranteed likely default.
I do agree that Mandred (if training goes well) would likely become someone who would benefit from the armour, along with many other wizards.
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I agree with the general thrust of your point, but it should be noted that depending on how well his education goes and if he supports the colleges when all this is said and done he could be worth more to them alive than any Patriarch/Matriarch. After all if one of those dies they will be replaced, but unless they get lucky and Mandred's heir is also a wizard there's no replacing the Wizard Elector of Reikland.
DocMatoi
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He's replacing Karl Franz, so most likely some variation on reikland. Maybe "The Bright Order" to contrast with gelt being the Gold Order. Hm. Needs an enemy if we wanna structure this like a twwh dlc. Who could be set up to rival him?
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I'm going to be boring and say something like "Reikland" or "The Bright Order". We don't really have enough of a handle on his personality for something more personal than that.
I wouldn't have thought so—she doesn't strike me as someone who wears jewellery, and there's the whole trying not to flaunt wealth due to the vow thing as well (which, admittedly, we're not very good at).