I think you're reading far too much into this, and just how politically motivated Snorri is. Most of our political actions, in character, have more been Snorri doing what he thinks will help the most and ignoring the politics. He's not some political animal despite the fact that his actions do have political consequences, and I also think you're overestimating how political what doing this will be, as are the people going on about the runelord school or whatever.
There's a large difference between living with his daughter & successor, and people that have sworn their lives to us who we have in turn sworn to provide for, and then also living with dozens of strangers who've come by to learn a rune or two then leave.
Edit: This is basically turning Snorri's home into a hotel. It's not logical, and for those after the whole "gift giver generosity" angle, it's not any more or less generous than setting up something for them outside, nor does it encourage cooperation any more than setting up a dedicated dorm outside. And those expecting this to somehow flip the runesmith paradigm and have everyone working on everything together haven't been following the quest, honestly. Frankly I don't get why it's a vote in the first place.
No, that was a meta "we - the questors". The thread is very politically motivated as we're aware of and actively trying to shape Snorri's decisions to minimise or prevent the end of the Golden age.
After all, the question was why so many people are choosing to vote for it, an OoC choice.
Theres also a large difference living with your successor and living with your successor and a small army of bodyguards. I don't mean to slippery slope here, but I think this is a smaller jump than some we've made previously.
I didn't mention generosity and logic probably went out the window around the time Snorri got enough people coming to learn that there's probably always some dwarf banging on an anvil at all hours of the day. I'd rather live permanently in a hotel rather than a forge, so theres probably some "Dwarves are not humans" odd thought processes and priorities going on. What's important is that if this where really so objectionable to Snorri, it wouldn't be up for a vote.
I don't know how political you think I think it is, or if you think that theres some minimum level of 'political-ness' below which I wouldn't care about. I'm just sticking with the update:
Your southern colleagues may grumble and growl, but when have they not?
This is setting a new precedent. Dwarf politics and runesmith especially are always slow and conservative measured in centuries and millenia, on that scale I think as a precedent this is pretty significant.
I don't really think this is a particularly good angle to discuss it on because I suspect we actually have different interpretations of what it means for a thing to be Snorri's home. And I just don't see anything objectionable about setting up some dormitories or smaller forges on Snorri's property, which is a giant hill and all the ground beneath it. I think that Snorri's 'Home' has more in common with a palace complex where a huge amount of work gets done there and its almost coincidental that its where someone lives, and I think embracing would also involve significant expansion of the current home, rather than Snorri putting up some spare beds in his bedroom.
As soulcake put it here:
The vote with the Workshop is also saying something about what Snorri considers his home. Karstah will always have her Workshop in Snorri's home, but is your Home just a part of the Workshop, or is it the whole of the Workshop.
This may be the important thing to discuss as the source of our contentions.
it seems unlikely we'd get a vote with nothing but bad things as one of the options. Further Yorri seems to be getting closer and closer to telling us about what the hell he's got going on, and this seems likely to help make that happen. I agree we don't know what it is, but it seems to make narrative sense that Yorri would say or do something beneficial for us for listening to him here.
I don't care if its unlikely and I don't care if people vote to reject it to get closer to Yorri. I just think that suggesting 'the mystery box will be good because all votes must be balanced' is a valid reason to vote to reject it, is a terrible idea.
That is the start and end of what I've contributed to this part of the vote.
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I don't even get what you're trying to argue at this point. Snorri isn't doing this, or most things, with a political motivation. Wether or not others take his actions as politically motivated is irrelevant. Like your earlier statement of "opportunities that Snorri sees where he can thread the political needle to make Runesmiths more cooperative are extremely rare so grabbing a little bit of ground here is a pretty rare opportunity." makes no sense with Snorri's characterisation. He's not looking at this as a political opportunity. He's not actively looking for every chance to "thread the political needle". He's trying to decide which way is best to stop these idiots from napping inside his home. You're reading far too much into this, and likely also projecting your out of character motivations onto a pretty apolitical Snorri.
Hey, just letting you know, make sure to check who you're quoting as you're actually speaking with multiple people and that statement came from me not DragonParadox
