B/c with the first choice we would only be on the defensive, sticking to our primary goal of protecting the group while the Goblins can still skirmish and attempt to harry us the whole way. Whereas if we went with going after them we would be going on the attack and directly pursuing them, and they wouldn't be as able to get away from us due to us and the Ulgu Elementals being invisible.
Mercenary Mage Quest: Asur Dogs of War in Warhammer Fantasy
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This 2 saddens me.
I wonder what would it be like to nat crit-fail the singing of a marching song.
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Fanriel would begin yodeling, everyone would be confused, the goblins would yodel back to assert dominance.
It'd be Joachim the Lucky singing out loud to (keyword: try) improve morale: "Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down! Never gonna run around and desert you!"
The nearby warherd lead by Moghur would hear and come to take a look.
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Yes, and Mistwalkers of Yvresse, and Cothiquean Mistweavers, and so on.
But even Shadow Warriors are surprisingly heavily armoured, and these are in anycase small subgroups of the Asur.
It's not a blade made out of fire, its an ithilmar blade that sets itself on fire and shoots fire on command.
Which it wasn't doing when Fanriel examined it.
Imperious
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The funny thing is that just knowing Tale of Metal would have been enough to reveal the blade's identity. I can't help but imagine that if the Order of Loremasters knew about that mishap that they'd view it as a bigger fail then even the plaque theft. For people like that they could probably at least sympathize with the thirst for knowledge that lead us to steal the plaques, but one of their own having such an epic fail on a knowledge check? For shame.
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Look, there are Loremasters and Loremasters.
There are Loremasters that are Masters of Lore
There are Loremasters that are Masters of Magic
And then there are the "jock" Loremasters, that entered the program with the sports grant. They can bash heads and recite prayers like no one else.
Guess which type of Loremaster Fanriel is?
There are Loremasters that are Masters of Lore
There are Loremasters that are Masters of Magic
And then there are the "jock" Loremasters, that entered the program with the sports grant. They can bash heads and recite prayers like no one else.
Guess which type of Loremaster Fanriel is?
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Imagine Joachim the Lucky wielding Sunfang and use it in battle with Butterbeak.
Joachim: "Run me closer! I want to hit them my fire sword!"
Imperious
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Anyway thinking about it Aisha is probably the Ghur mage that bonded with that mammoth we saw earlier. Despite what the Middenheimers said I do hope we get to meet her. If she really is good enough in Ghur to bond with something like a mammoth then she probably knows much we could benefit from learning. In particular getting the tier 3 Ghur spell Beast Master would be fantastic, as word of god is that it can be used to help us get a monstrous mount.
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Name: The Knight and the Little Witch
Description: Damien Renaudin is a young Knight Errant who like many other young noblemen of Bretonnia started to travel seeking adventure, honour and justice.
Only son of a minor landless noble family, Damien was pretty sheltered in his childhood and raised by his overprotective parents to see the world in black and white, good versus evil. That all nobles are good and just, all peasants humble and hard working, and that evil only shows itself in the form of Beastmen and Greenskins.
Unfortunatly for him, he discovered early on during his journeys that the world was a much more complicated place that his parents lead him to belive.
After killing some Beastmen and Greenskins who threatened travelers along the roads of the Southren provinces of the Empire, he reached a village in Averland. There a crowd was gathering in the central square, to watch a Witch Hunter burn a young girl alive for the crime of witchcraft.
Damien tried to talk down the Witch Hunter and stop his execution, to get him to explain the reason of his actions. Thus learning the girl's story.
Thirteen-year-old Angelika had for the first time wielded the power of the Wind of Life, Ghyran, to heal her elderly grandfather of a fever. But the neighbors had seen her, and called the Witch Hunter.
Seeing that it was impossible to reason with the Witch Hunter, Damien made the first hard decision of his life, killing the Witch Hunter and freeing Angelika. Eventually the young knight was forced to fight his way out of the village and take the little witch with him, killing half a dozen peasants in the process and injuring even more.
It's been two years since that day, and since then Damien and Angelika have traveled together throughout the Old World. Damien's desire for justice has always gotten him into trouble, leading him to defend the weak and innocent even against insurmountable odds, joining peasant revolts against tyrannical lords or protecting poor debtors from the henchmen of their rich creditors.
Angelika's healing powers proved indispensable in healing Damien's wounds after battles. And the little witch, who travels under the false identity of the squire Stefan, has become like a younger sister to the Knight Errant.
For her part, Angelika is very happy to help Damien and reciprocates his affection. The young girl is very shy but also very curious, and she wants to find someone to teach her how to control her magical powers.
Numbers: Knight Errant Damien Renaudin (heavy armor, barded horse, longsword, war lance and shield)
Squire Stefan/Angelika of Averland (chainmail, steel helmet, short sword, spear, small round shield, healing Ghyran spells)
Description: Damien Renaudin is a young Knight Errant who like many other young noblemen of Bretonnia started to travel seeking adventure, honour and justice.
Only son of a minor landless noble family, Damien was pretty sheltered in his childhood and raised by his overprotective parents to see the world in black and white, good versus evil. That all nobles are good and just, all peasants humble and hard working, and that evil only shows itself in the form of Beastmen and Greenskins.
Unfortunatly for him, he discovered early on during his journeys that the world was a much more complicated place that his parents lead him to belive.
After killing some Beastmen and Greenskins who threatened travelers along the roads of the Southren provinces of the Empire, he reached a village in Averland. There a crowd was gathering in the central square, to watch a Witch Hunter burn a young girl alive for the crime of witchcraft.
Damien tried to talk down the Witch Hunter and stop his execution, to get him to explain the reason of his actions. Thus learning the girl's story.
Thirteen-year-old Angelika had for the first time wielded the power of the Wind of Life, Ghyran, to heal her elderly grandfather of a fever. But the neighbors had seen her, and called the Witch Hunter.
Seeing that it was impossible to reason with the Witch Hunter, Damien made the first hard decision of his life, killing the Witch Hunter and freeing Angelika. Eventually the young knight was forced to fight his way out of the village and take the little witch with him, killing half a dozen peasants in the process and injuring even more.
It's been two years since that day, and since then Damien and Angelika have traveled together throughout the Old World. Damien's desire for justice has always gotten him into trouble, leading him to defend the weak and innocent even against insurmountable odds, joining peasant revolts against tyrannical lords or protecting poor debtors from the henchmen of their rich creditors.
Angelika's healing powers proved indispensable in healing Damien's wounds after battles. And the little witch, who travels under the false identity of the squire Stefan, has become like a younger sister to the Knight Errant.
For her part, Angelika is very happy to help Damien and reciprocates his affection. The young girl is very shy but also very curious, and she wants to find someone to teach her how to control her magical powers.
Numbers: Knight Errant Damien Renaudin (heavy armor, barded horse, longsword, war lance and shield)
Squire Stefan/Angelika of Averland (chainmail, steel helmet, short sword, spear, small round shield, healing Ghyran spells)
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Imperious
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I'm not sure an Imperial pre colleges would know what Ghyran is. IIRC the druids that Teclis met when he founded the colleges thought they were actually invoking their deity when they were casting Ghyran, and remember how the Middenheimrs don't think the winds are even a thing?
Realms of Sorcery even goes so far as to suggest that the concept of the Winds of Magic is itself simply the internalisation of the model that Teclis taught the early Colleges shaping Magisters' perception of a more complex phenomena. There is clearly sigbificant truth to it, but they perceive the Winds in the way they do with their Witchsight because they are taught to understand them that way.
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I will note that, while his backstory is by no means impossible, most Knights Errant don't travel around on their own, that's more the Questing Knights' thing, and most don't leave Bretonnia outside of an Errantry War because the whole point of being a Knight Errant is impressing higher nobility until they promote you to Knight of the Realm, and it's really hard to do that outside of Bretonnia's borders.
Most Knights Errant will attach themselves to a specific lord, campaign or cause, with the hopes of making enough of an impression to earn a promotion.
You can't wear armour while casting magic without special training, which she definitely won't have figured out on her own at fifteen years old while also figuring out how to use magic in general and to use weapons. Also that is a somewhat implausible amount of armour for the squire of a travelling knight anyway.
Otherwise approved.
She doesn't need to know what it is to make use of it.
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Imperious
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Sure, I'm just saying that when he heard her story he wouldn't have heard that she "wielded the wind of life, Ghyran" as no one involved is likely to know what Ghyran is.
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Boodlesnoop
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Isn't that precisely what Anaerion did while riding a dragon?
She dosen't know that she is using Ghyran, i put it there just for the benefit of the readers.
I just wanted to make him an errant knight, but i wasn't sure how that worked with imperial knights. Also, Bretonnians are less likely to see magic as an abomination thanks to the Damsels i think.
Anyway, if exceptions exist, Damien is simply one of those. He already is uncommonly altruistic afterall, and hiding a witch as a squire. One more unccomon thing abaout the situation should't be too much of a stretch.
She dosen't cast spells in battle, she just uses magic after the battle to patch up herself and Damien. She is 15 and knows just a few self-taught spells. She isn't a combat caster.
They had 2+ years to buy or loot all that gear for her, i don't think its that unrealistic.
Exactly what i meant.
Yeah pretty much but imagine Joachim the Lucky use Sunfang and get stupidly lucky in cutting down enemies while Butterbeak do some mauling charge.
Beware the Silly One indeed.
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Hmm, such silly characters are the first to get cut down (e.g. by a "Knight of Cerebus" that gatekeeps the more serious story parts) when stories takes a turn for the grim.
And all of this quoting just makes me think that Joachim The Lucky would make for a delicious sacrifice when the going gets tough, with an appropriately tragic yet plucky and valorous death
And all of this quoting just makes me think that Joachim The Lucky would make for a delicious sacrifice when the going gets tough, with an appropriately tragic yet plucky and valorous death
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Nah, whatever sacrifice he shall be subject to will surely backfire and he will remain unscathed as ever, while we pay the price.And all of this quoting just makes me think that Joachim The Lucky would make for a delicious sacrifice when the going gets tough, with an appropriately tragic yet plucky and valorous death
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Like, Joachim the Lucky's "gimmick" is that he is "reverse Lamenter" (see: Lamenters Chapter from Warhammer 40k)
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Well, to be fair, Aenarion's preferred style of fighting was for the dragon to carry him to battle and then drop him into the middle of the greatest concentration of enemies he could see.
A full set of chainmail with a steel helmet is what is considered the standard for "heavy armour", and is what the majority of Bretonnian Knights wear.
Sure, it's not impossible, I'm just noting that it is unlikely.
Is it because it's expensive to buy one and maintain them with repairs after every battle?
If its approved anyway, i don't want to change it.
2+ years of adventures feel like enough to buy/loot one set of chainmail sized of a young girl.