That would work a lot better on Sartosa than it would on the Vampire Coast.
It Belongs to a Museum
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy
That would work a lot better on Sartosa than it would on the Vampire Coast.
Fair, I can see how it might turn out to be a stretch.
@Boney can we have Skaven Abomination as a subvote for Skaven Revenant?
[ ] Skaven Abomination
Stitched from three experienced, but aging rats and an extra leg for stability, this pi-rat escaped war-slavery and defected to Lutr the Abyssal. Who was amused by a creature, whose endless internal squabbling was so reminiscent of his own personality.
[ ] Skaven Abomination
Stitched from three experienced, but aging rats and an extra leg for stability, this pi-rat escaped war-slavery and defected to Lutr the Abyssal. Who was amused by a creature, whose endless internal squabbling was so reminiscent of his own personality.
- Location
- A Pit Of My Own Making
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Plot twist, our character is a personality of Harkon that had decided to become a curator.
Can't wait to come back to this in like 10 turns and it'll either be extremely accurate or extremely funny and cursed to think about our character this way.
Divided loyalties had a lengthy discussion at one point about the weirdness of there being 3 separate female only magical orders in setting. Don't remember the conclusions they came to about why it was made that way though.
It is the most obvious Lahmian plot.
bookwyrm
Doom of Public Libraries
- Location
- Wichita, Kansas
warlock-engineer would be so cool, its like a classic dr. frankenstein type mad scientist working in a gothic dracula land, but instead all nautical-y in port royal collecting diving bells and hand-cranked submersibles and maps to the fountain of youth.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
There is actually one canon example of a Skaven managing to consider beyond the rat-race of Skaven society- Sleek Sharpwit, from the Queek novel.
An elderly warlord of Mors, who actually understands that the Skaven lose something by being a ravenous force that destroys, rather than being capable of actually building and learning from the past.
Might be why Skaven society is built to make sure Skaven cannot grow old, if they might actually gain wisdom.
First vote of the quest is both the most popular of all time and closer than Brexit... Welp! Hope that those of us who voted for Sith Rionnasc stick around - sure we can still get a thoroughly intriguing (pun intended) museum out of this!
To that end... When considering the substance of the quest, I would argue that the most important quality in our curator is that they be a subject expert of some variety - in a matter other than piracy. That makes it far easier for tension to arise between the intellectual integrity and pride of the curator and what is politically expedient for our patron(s).
As such, I'd probably be least keen on Retired Pirate but just about anything else could work well - the Druchii's bending of their society into a war machine results in a variety of specialisations, Skaven have all sorts of bizarre competencies and, as Divided Loyalties has shown, it isn't difficult to combine magic with learnedness (or at least inheritance of a tradition of knowledge). That said, it's Norscan Sage that sounds most interesting, with potential to inhabit someone with knowledge and perspectives far removed from anything in the rest of the world*, even if I worry that people will be drawn away from it towards the most obviously unusual.
*Granted, Skaven Revenant also offers this but DL already does a fairly extensive examination of that culture!
To that end... When considering the substance of the quest, I would argue that the most important quality in our curator is that they be a subject expert of some variety - in a matter other than piracy. That makes it far easier for tension to arise between the intellectual integrity and pride of the curator and what is politically expedient for our patron(s).
As such, I'd probably be least keen on Retired Pirate but just about anything else could work well - the Druchii's bending of their society into a war machine results in a variety of specialisations, Skaven have all sorts of bizarre competencies and, as Divided Loyalties has shown, it isn't difficult to combine magic with learnedness (or at least inheritance of a tradition of knowledge). That said, it's Norscan Sage that sounds most interesting, with potential to inhabit someone with knowledge and perspectives far removed from anything in the rest of the world*, even if I worry that people will be drawn away from it towards the most obviously unusual.
*Granted, Skaven Revenant also offers this but DL already does a fairly extensive examination of that culture!
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Or alternately they realised that "the only winning move is not to play."
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Remember, learning Necromancy is not enough, you also need to spend the actions to actually use it.
Otherwise you end up with a character who learns Necromancy spells directly from the Liber Mortis and 13765 pages later still has yet to cast a single one of them.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
Not that you've been counting or anything.
consequences
Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
To lean more toward the supernatural side of things I could see a renegade Damsel who manages to cross a line that even their ability to ignore social mores can't cover with an urge to uncover the hidden truths or at the very least catalogue the conflicting lies. To which my mind immediately went to them being trans or non binary.
But it's still probably not a great fit and may be an unfun headspace, so I'm just going to leave this idea out there for adoption or improvement if it gels with anyone.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
I'm not sure there can be renegade Damsels.
We don't really know enough about what exactly the Lady does with them.
I think it was something to do with prophecy? Like, the Ice Witches believe a man will destroy Ice Magic, the Dark Covenant believes a male sorcerer will overthrow Malekith, the Bright Collage believes that the greatest Bright wizard of all time will be a woman. Hags are chosen by spirits, and the fact that spirits always choose women is kind of weird. Bretonnian children with magical potential are whisked away in the night, and only the women are seen again as Damsels. The Amazons are an all women society with a connection to one of the few explicitly gendered Old Ones.
If we ignore all the Out-of-Universe/Doylist reasons for all of the above (modern western archetypes on feminine power vs masculine power), then that means there's something weird going on with gender and magic in the Warhammer universe.
Women with magic = normal and correct
Men with magic = subversive and wrong
consequences
Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
A universe where the only avenue for breaking the mold is actually rigidly locked down is also a distinctly unfun one where Brettonia goes from generally ick to my sensibilities all the way down to 'see it burn no matter the cost', so imma pass.
Besides, my next thought was renegade Skink that rides around a Saurus Master Blaster style to run Barter-Salon. Canon can go somewhere else.
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Ever page is torture to Omegahugger's wicked little necromancer heart
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
You might want to make it clear here that these are Necromancers trained by these Bloodines & Etc, not the option to be one of the Vampires ourself.
If an undead skaven could escape the predelictions of The Great Horned Rat here, what are the odds a *Chaos Dwarf* could do something similar?
Well, can't say my best case scenario won, but the part of my brain that has the Total War vampire lady living in it is happy at least 
Regarding the options we have now, Druchii Warlock is the one that I like the most (surprising, isn't it). We get to be in the head of an Elf - the other kind of Elf than we've had a chance to get familiar with in DL, to boot, and look at Druchii society without having to compromise Mathilde's morals. As an ageless inheritor to one of the most ancient societies, we get to be on a more equal footing with our employer, and in general it is a more exotic option without having to go somewhere outright silly like a Skaven (no offense to Skaven voters-supporters, yes-yes!)
Also, elf twink. I rest my case
Regarding the options we have now, Druchii Warlock is the one that I like the most (surprising, isn't it). We get to be in the head of an Elf - the other kind of Elf than we've had a chance to get familiar with in DL, to boot, and look at Druchii society without having to compromise Mathilde's morals. As an ageless inheritor to one of the most ancient societies, we get to be on a more equal footing with our employer, and in general it is a more exotic option without having to go somewhere outright silly like a Skaven (no offense to Skaven voters-supporters, yes-yes!)
Also, elf twink. I rest my case
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I was thinking about them, but don't really know much about Chaos Dwarves to make a good argument besides they're evil and pirate vampires also kinda evil. And didn't really care to much as I preferred some of the 'official' choices. But honestly while I still prefer ex pirate or necromancer. I think a chaos dwarf could provide a pretty unique and cool story for this setting
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The issue isn't "could this happen", which in Warhammer is generally yes. It can be pretty wacky.
The question is "does this character both offer and interesting perspective for the museum which isn't horrendously depressing, and does it make sense for them to run a museum?".
The burden to answer that question in a way that Boney finds interesting and writable is on us for any write-ins.
There's actually been a suggestion for a Chaos Dwarf, though it failed on the unpleasantness criteria.