The Real Adventures of Norgrim Grimsson, Exasperated Recluse (Warhammer Fantasy SI)

High King Kurgan Ironbeard: "Thank you for saving me from those vile Greenskins, Umgi! I reward you with the Ghal Maraz and your people's alliance with the Dawi!"

Sigmar: "Uh, you're welcome.... I guess? Look, I was just going for a very enthusiastic walk and asked those Orcs if their health plan was apparently great."
Funny, but the way it's worded gets my heckles enough I feel the need to do this.

Edited version
Sigmar: "Uh, you're welcome.... I guess? Look, I was just going for a very enthusiastic walk and asked those Orcs how good their health plan was, apparently, it was great."


Apologies if this annoys you, but this is a better way of wording it.

Optional one I just thought of, or "Sigmar has an internal freakout"
Sigmar: "Uh, you're welcome.... I guess?" (I wasn't planning to save this guy, I was just going for a very enthusiastic walk, that's all, the fuck do I do now!?)


Again, apologies if this annoys you, I just really didn't like how weirdly worded the original one was.
 
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This could be bad for Norgrim's mental health... what little of it he has left anyways. Because what will happen to his grudge if he isn't the one to kill the Ghoul King? Hell, to even get there he'll most likely have to kill Gorkil as well. That'd be A LOT of grudges stricken from the books.
The convenient thing about Vampire grudges is you can kill them more than once!
 
It sounds like the kind of case where you evade like hell because you already like someone who's out of your league only for it to turn out to be them
 
Making my choice now - I hope Norgrim and Alrika do get hitched. In all of SB/SV/QQ there's only one story I know of that does an actual marriage I can recall, and DoDA is damn near an icon about how even an arranged marriage can become a healthy, loving one. Including other fanfic websites, I can count on two hands the marriages I've seen, and one hand the ones that were done well.

Besides, it's an ironclad standard of soulcake's worldbuilding that the one being matched - in this case, the lady - gets final say, which cuts out all the worst aspects of the arranged marriage tropes.

Kind of weird to think that "Guy/girl gets the guy/girl" has become such an under-represented story.
 
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Not sure what that is.
Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism. One of the longest running and most beloved quests on the whole SB/SV/QQ trifecta.

If you haven't read it before, and the sheer word count looks like too much hassle, I strongly recommend starting with Chapter 0.5 Karak Ungor campaign - there's a threadmark for it. It's self-contained and well constructed enough to be a novel in its own right, doesn't require you to read the preceeding parts to understand anything/everything that's happening, you can finish reading it and start again at the quest start without spoiling anything, and is one of the most brilliant "shit has gone down and everyone's fucked, that's not nearly enough to stop us" stories I've ever read.
 
I like to point out too that Alrika is going to have that grudge unsettled on her end. Remember that part of her og payment was effectively her doing all these things to help Norgrim + Clan to recover.

Now that Alrik has repaid it, Alrika technically doesn't have to but this also mean that she didn't do anything on herself to settle her DEBT.

I don't think soulcake has decided yet, but I think this leaves open the door for both Alrika Engagement and/or Alrika the really really good friend.
I don't think it works like that? Alrik helping out the clan is partially because Alrika's been pushing for it, if she feels like her efforts have been lacking it's more likely to be down to whether she manages to prevent Norgrim from going Slayer.
 
I don't think it works like that? Alrik helping out the clan is partially because Alrika's been pushing for it, if she feels like her efforts have been lacking it's more likely to be down to whether she manages to prevent Norgrim from going Slayer.
True. I forgot about that.

The only question would be what precisely did Alrika ask for. Since the wording kinda imply that Alrik went above what Alrika expected.
 
I thought they retconned both versions to have red blood. Or do the 40k ones really still bleed green?
If Greenskins were like their 40k counterparts as the older editions claim they were spores that hitched a ride on the Old Ones' ships and set up shop when they land, they'd easily overwhelm the entire Warhammer Fantasy world long ago even before Chaos come crashing in through the Polar Gates.
 
If Greenskins were like their 40k counterparts as the older editions claim they were spores that hitched a ride on the Old Ones' ships and set up shop when they land, they'd easily overwhelm the entire Warhammer Fantasy world long ago even before Chaos come crashing in through the Polar Gates.
I mean, it does make sense when you remember that Orks grow with the quality and quantity of their enemy, in 40k, compared to Fantasy, the Quantity and Quality of the enemy is stupid high, as in you could blow up a star system and still get a fight that'll trump ya.

Whereas in fantasy, the Orcs have to deal with medieval warriors with much less numbers, thus limiting and lowering their growth and strength because of the low quantity and quality.

Effectively, the Fantasy Orks are just Orks undergoing insular dwarfism due to being just isolated on Fantasy's planet, and as such, are weaker and less then a normal Ork.

(To explain insular dwarfism, it's an process where an typically large animal, like say, an elephant, undergoes shrinkage in height, weight, mass, etc due to being limited to the range of an small island that usually wouldn't have been able to support their existence.

Something that the Warhammer Fantasy World can be considered when one remembers that 40k Orks usually travel the galaxy looking for fights and has more then enough krumping to last them a life time.)
 
If Greenskins were like their 40k counterparts as the older editions claim they were spores that hitched a ride on the Old Ones' ships and set up shop when they land, they'd easily overwhelm the entire Warhammer Fantasy world long ago even before Chaos come crashing in through the Polar Gates.
To be fair, there are orks in 40k on medieval worlds and tribal worlds and every other type of world in 40k and they don't automatically become space farers that utterly crush the locals. Orks scale to the threat presented to them. If somebody starts nuking them, they rapidly scale up in tech to counter the problem. If people are just rushing them with swords and shields they'll happily play medieval war with them.
 
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