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My Life as Mordred in Warhammer World After Training on Earth Bet
- Thread starter wowow2264
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- Mature Fantasy
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- washington
all human magic as in all human magic ever? Cause if so then what about settra and nagash stuff? Cause they did some real bullshit stuff unless they don't count as human which uh well fair.
Edit: ah nvm spoke too soon so no strealing settras entire civilization of super god magic and nagash and vampire bullshit.
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It's on the backburner right now, she has had people monitoring skaven activity in her land but there is a lot on the surface that needs dealing with before she can try to deal with the war below. At the moment, the focus on fighting the skaven and their influence has only a bit more focus then most human countries do, so not much but it hasn't been even half a year since the unification war ended.
Border patrols, lots and lots of border patrols like most other countries. Actually, probably more since she actively spends a lot of resources to make sure there are lots of patrols everywhere to cut down on things like beastmen, greenskins, skaven, and other such foes.
Well, she wouldn't be building the walls, not unless you want a giant dry moat with an earthen wall on one side that has wooden spikes made from tree trunks in it. She can make a quick and sort of effective wall but the basics is the most you can really expect from her there. Not that making a giant ditch with the dirt piled on one side acting as a wall in a couple hours is that bad but it's not really fortress quality and only really done via brute forcing it via overwhelming stats.
The hope would be to have had walled off all of the main surface entry points in twenty years. Pretty quick if you consider they are making pretty massive walls and they all need to be armed with things like cannons and defended while and after being built. Of course, that timeline also relies on Drachenreich not going through any major losses so that the economy can build up and they can afford to spend a bunch of money on walls.
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- India
What is her GDP compared to other nations? Also is she able to impose tax on merchants who do eastern focused trade?
To answer in reverse, she can (and is) imposing tolls on all of the traveling merchants that pass through, allowing her to collect some money everytime someone goes to araby on land, the silk trading route to and from Cathay known as the silk road actually is made in 1714 which is in two years from now and that will help quite a bit since she made her country actually safeish for merchants to go through.
her GDP is kind of low for a country her size but that makes sense since most of it is a crap fest right now. She can't compare to Tilea of course, Estalia is better than her by a decent bit as long as you count all of the micro kingdoms as one whole. Drachenreich is about equal to one of the three emperors of the empire but that winds up being about a third total of the empire. Bretonnia probably has about the same GDP as the empire as a whole and Araby is blooming right now with very little to worry about and is doing a lot of trading with Tilea. Kislev is in their golden age right now.
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- UK
She just needs more time and money to invest in infrastructure. Drachenreich is on the rise.
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- India
What is policy of mutants under her rules? Is there any steps taken to cure them?
What new inventions are introduced? Printing press, paper and agricultural tools?
What new inventions are introduced? Printing press, paper and agricultural tools?
Well, Mordred does know how to remove Chaos corruption from someone as long as it isn't too bad and has taught a lesser version of that to the most skilled mages she has. So if they aren't too bad then the mutants, as long as they can get in line without being killed for one reason or another, will get cleansed of Chaos and can go about their lifes. If it is too bad, then they still get cleansed but that tends to leave the body a drooling vegetable or worse.
Well, the printing press was only invented in the 2500s of warhammer and books were said to have been made after the "modern" empire came about. Which means it was probably around 2300 IC before even books were made. Mordred does know enough to be able to describe a printing press to an engineer but Mordred has very little idea how to make paper and paper is supposedly only available as an import from Cathay of which trade only starts opening up in another two years. Good news is that Parchment and Vellum work pretty well as a replacement and actually last longer if taken care of.
Agricultural tools maybe, does Mordred knowing (and thus able to tell someone the general shape to make it for her) how to use a post hole digger, shovel, pitchfork, and watering can count?
- Location
- India
Can she not use her memories as blueprint and use ulgu to materialize them as illusions or holograms and let others reinvent them?
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- Madness realms
This is insanely powerful and beyond basically anyone else in the setting's ability to do but considering she is transmuting into a physical god then maybe it makes some sense but I very much doubt she could teach this. It's also the kinda thing that gets huge waves of beastmen and chaos servants coming at you to distract you and then blow up your faction out from under you.
For what? The agricultural tools? sure. For the printing press? Nope, it's not like Mordred left Earth Bet with the plans to uplift a world to modern day times, just small bits and pieces that came with reading fantasy and to a much lesser existent, "historic" fics. She isn't Japanese after all
Well, when I say Chaos corruption here I mean corruption that leads to Chaos, not being able to remove Chaos from one of their followers. If they are not a Chaos worshiping person and it is merely a physical mutation, then the mages can probably (thinking around 60-70%) handle it. If it is mental (30-40%) then they might be able to do something on it but it is unlikely, if it spiritual then they have a small chance (1%) but well... They have a far lower chance coming out "whole" (0.01% of the 1%) if it is spiritual. Mordred has a higher chance of success seeing as she has Fate magic to help her out and now that she has the minor domain of cleansing, she is even better at all types of corruption removal. But it is still at best a 1 in 3 chance for someone for her to be able to not turn them into a vegetable if it is spiritual.
They will still try to cleanse them even if they are too far gone but that is more like resource denial where you are basically shredding the mutants soul as it is too steeped in Chaos to cleanse safely so they purify them as much as possible and let as many "pure" fragments be removed and sent to Morr if they even still have those left in them.
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- washington
if nothing else mordred can suggest the idea and suggest a big reward for anyone who achieves it and say she knows its possible. But, not how to actually make them maybe you'll get printing presses a few centuries early then a lot of ideas are hard to even think of before their an actual thing.
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- Pale Blue Dot
Most new mutants would risk life and limb to even get to where they could take this deal.
...really wondering how The Empire's border guards would handle that. "Work hard to keep the mutants in and kill them" or "let them go, Drachenreich's problem now"? ...maybe a bit of one, a bit of the other, depending on who (if any) guards that part of the border at the time? And probably a bit worried border guards on the Drachenreich side who makes certain the road goes INSIDE the first possible Aegis, and that any proper checks are done there. Honestly, I would expect a small number of any mutants coming in from the outside to "get cured" would just die and burn up due to that first Aegis, because they have actually converted to Chaos and are there just to make trouble.
The empire's people will kill the mutants whenever possible, Drachenreich can and will use lethal force on anyone trying to cross the border illegally and a lot of mutants tend to do that. If a known mutant displays hostility, it is shoot first, ask questions to his friends and family later. If they somehow get a Drachenreich mage to "sponsor" them then they get led into a small place that is the mutant quarters where they get to remain safely until they place in line to be cleansed or attempt to do bad things and then get killed for trying. Let's just say that right now? Drachenreich's ability to cure mutation is merely rumors and myths from how extremely few mutants get cured.
To clarify, the Aegis of Mordred does not harm anyone, even if they are a greater daemon. Instead it just does not extend its protection to them and the mages in control of the aegis are made aware of that individual.
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- USA
Are they looking to change that? To weaponize the ward? Could they, for example, work with the dwarves to combine an anti-chaos runework with a ward to make it even stronger?
Well, some mages are attempting to weaponize it but it was originally a team effort by dozens of Mordred's best mages and they had full access to the collection of human magical knowledge passed down from hedge wizards and tribal shamans ranging all the way from before Sigmar was even born. And all of them put together were outclassed by Mordred who would just swoop in, see all of their work and use it to make leaps and bounds of progress before leaving them to get ready for her next pass through. It's going to take a while for small teams of average mages to do anything.
Dwarf runes would be pretty hard to integrate into the Aegis of Mordred which is already very complex and highly fine tuned, without knowing exactly how they would interact. It could cause all kinds of problems and the only way to through that is trial and error but that means working together with a incredibly secretive runesmith that is very, very exacting about the process for at least decades straight. It might and probably will drive a mage or three into insanity and/or suicide* trying to deal with that. It would take a very special person with the patience of Shallya at her very best to survive that intact, Mordred wouldn't even try it herself since she knows herself too well.
Another problem with making an anti Chaos ward is that almost everyone can be exposed to it in tiny doses in their daily lives and having something that sets people on fire or smites them with lightning would end with a lot of innocent people dead. So they would have to spend even more time finagling it into something that wouldn't go slaughtering everyone for existing.
*That might be by dwarf or by hanging themselves. Either way, not a good thing for anyone involved.
Whoops, I had sworn I had posted this hours ago. Sorry about that.
Probably better to get those mages working on something more practical then. There are likely easier and more efficient ways to both hunt and kill enemies of the state than attempting to weaponize the ward. Well-trained wizards, depending on their specialty, can deal with most problems, and a single master of a single wind of magic will likely always be more versatile than any single ward. The fact that you would be preventing them from potentially being suicided, would just be icing on the cake!
Outside of making sure they don't dive into dark magic at all and are trained to at least journeyman level in their wind, and hiring them for research projects, Mordred doesn't dictate what her mages learn. It's part of the deal she made with them when the mages came to join her. They are all required to go to war or at least be a part of the war effort if Drachenreich is under attack, no ifs ands or buts. They also are responsible for policing their own and making sure those with magic get training so they don't unleash abominations on people intentionally or not. Plus the whole "don't even try to learn dark magic or using multiple winds because it will end badly for everyone." is also a stated restriction. Edit: and naturally they are still under Drachenreich's rule, so trying to make their own little domain inside of her kingdom like the college of magic did isn't going to fly.
In exchange, they get to: Keep all of their non-dark magic traditions and knowledge, gain access to people to pass their knowledge onto, fearful/wary respect instead of "burn the witch", additional knowledge from other people to advance their own, freedom to do whatever they want as long as they follow the rules, guaranteed food, water, and shelter as their abilities are always in demand somewhere no matter what, protection from witch hunters and everyone like them, and likely some other things I'm not thinking of right now.
So on one side of things, far less focus on combat abilities albeit there is still some since they all know what they will have to do at some point since Warhammer is still Warhammer. On the other side, far more "civilian" applications of magic like the prospector's spell that had been made earlier in the story. The Aegis of Mordred actually helps a lot with making sure people with magic get training. Since with so many mages spread out, it is getting easier and easier to find new mages and send them to get training.
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- Usa
This is there major duty other then policing their own and sustaining their traditions.
However being involved in defense will mean that they will be able to use a variety of skills.
There are no doubt a lot of mages happy that healing is one of the most in demand needs in case of war. Others can be involved in building defenses or especially helping take down threats to humanity such as Orcs and the corrupted. Being involved in defense does not always mean they need to fight other people.
What they pay is so small that compared to elsewhere this deal is amazing. The largest is to not dabble in combining winds which has bad ends.
That's intentional on Mordred's part. She remembered that Teclis missed out on a bunch of mages because of his disregard for their own magical tradition and demands of tossing all of that away for his new traditions. But Mordred wanted to gather as many as she could, along with their knowledge since she didn't have the most talented high elf wizard in thousands of years to help make up for all of those magically skilled people. It also helps poach other nation's mages like the empire, Tilea, Estalia, maybe a few males from Kislev, and very, very, few from Bretonnia.
Edit: Also, as a very good mage herself and one of the founders of it, she is naturally on their mage council and as their ruler, has veto power.
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- Pale Blue Dot
The weaponization of said ward probably involves the city guard. "Hey, there is a demon worshipper in the smithy right now, looks such and such, can you take care of it before things go horribly wrong?" would probably get any sane city guard in Warhammer up and running for reinforcements more or less immediately and with great enthusiasm.
If the witchhunters find out that the "rotten apples" among the Drachenreich wizards have actually been taken care of, "Immediately knowing about chaos infiltrators" sounds like it might get a few witchhunters to seriously consider switching sides. Of course, most of the rotten apples among the witchhunters will violently disapprove - the religious fanatics, the ones who're in it to steal and kill with impunity (actually knowing for certain who the guilty are would get in the way), and the chaos infiltrators.
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- Texas
Even better if she meets Gil, he hates Gods and so does she. His confusion would be hilarious.
Where did I give you the impression she hates gods? I'm being serious here, I have no idea where I screwed up enough that someone would think Mordred hates gods.
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- Florida
I think he was referring to the chaos gods.