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The Rim and the Hammer (Exalted/Warhammer Quest)

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K von Carstein said:
Are the djins used by the Arabyan mages wind elementals?
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Gus: What's Araby?

Viking_Berzerker said:
So can the Azyr spirit talk how Sigmar is trapped in the wind of Azyr inthr Great Vortex.
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Also Gus: Do you mean that warlike southern hammer god? Why should I care about him? :V

Massgamer said:
Oh shit, did we basically summon an Incarnate? Kinda like the Incarnate Elemental of Beasts, but Azyr flavored?

If nothing else fits the mindset of our people since all about the sky and shit.
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Ever-seer: There are others like me yes, born to the melody of other songs, most are not as wise nor so puissant.
 
Ever-Seer looks really impressive.

What kind of powers does it wield?
 
Goldfish said:
Ever-Seer looks really impressive.

What kind of powers does it wield?
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It seems to be a manifestation of a specific Wind of Magic.
Here: Azyr

Now none of us now what exactly it can do in detail, since there are no rules for Azyr-Elementals or Incarnates that I ever heard of, but Azyr Magic can generally do two things:
  • Predict/Manipulate the future (from divination to practical things like Rerolls)
  • Control Weather, particularly wind and lightning to the wielder's will, this does go up to calling down comets at the extreme
If the Elemental has either access to some of the common Azyr spells or innate abilties that mirror these spells it will be a decent seer and have some capability in combat magic.
It propably won't be a good spy in particular, besides the general properties of being wind-like and silent, but divination can cover for that.

In terms of actually being our Intrigue-advisor rather than just a spy or seer I foresee some issues though. Wizards using Azyr tend to be pretty out there, with practical and grounded minds being a rarity among them, always looking at the stars or the future, not at what is in front of them.
If the Elemental is anything like that it will need a good handler to use its natural abilities to full potential in a job like Spymaster.
 
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Well incarnates of Fire are said to have been used by the Bright collage to char entire towns. So the elemental capabilities will not be minor. At the very least being very good at preventing unexpected war-herds, chaos champions. Probably also have an thing that picks out a possible action as an favorable sign, giving it a boost if taken that turn.
 
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DragonParadox said:
Also Gus: Do you mean that warlike southern hammer god? Why should I care about him? :V
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We summoned Ever-Seer explicitly for information gathering purposes. Knowing about the main god that troubles the Norscans is exactly the sort of thing we want from him.
Sir_Travelsalot said:
Comet of Cassandra might be a bit of a shock initially, since in Creation's metaphysics a falling star means that a god has died permanently.
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Not necessarily. Stars fall when gods die, but also when a major Destiny stops, either from reaching its conclusion or being broken.
 
DragonParadox said:
They fall under the branches of the trees and whisper to the faceless Glimmers face-stealers of living and dead, they echo through cold mountain's heart where an old old wolf stirs and snaps at the darkness before falling back to sorrow-slumber, they climb the snowy shoulders of the mountains were frost-winged death roosts, they echo off the sheen of stolen mirrors whence thronged scales slither. Many are the ears turned to it and many are the spirits ensnared, swift-shadows before the dawn and wind cold north wind that steals the life of all it touches, but swifter still than all of these is one who flies not on airs high or low, but on the wings of times itself.
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There are many interesting hints here. Nice job. ;)
The Froggy Ninja said:
We summoned Ever-Seer explicitly for information gathering purposes. Knowing about the main god that troubles the Norscans is exactly the sort of thing we want from him.
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Main god? Donno man, was reading Wolfric and Maggot God books a bit back. Sigmar wasn't that much on the minds of Norskasns.

 
Wwind said:
There are many interesting hints here. Nice job. ;)

Main god? Donno man, was reading Wolfric and Maggot God books a bit back. Sigmar wasn't that much on the minds of Norskasns.

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Eh, I'd say Norscans dislike Sigmar pretty bad, he was the one she drove their ancestors out of the Reik Basin. It is mentioned in Tome of Corruption that Sigmar is also the reason why Norscans do not use hammers almost at all. When a people as warlike as the Norscans give up a weapon altogether you know they care about the enemy in question.
 
DragonParadox said:
Eh, I'd say Norscans dislike Sigmar pretty bad, he was the one she drove their ancestors out of the Reik Basin. It is mentioned in Tome of Corruption that Sigmar is also the reason why Norscans do not use hammers almost at all. When a people as warlike as the Norscans give up a weapon altogether you know they care about the enemy in question.
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Well, he was the one to drive them out the second time, after they had subjugated the Roppsmen and killed the king of the Udoses, who was one of Sigmar's closest friends.

The first time was the Teutogens looking at Nordland and saying "it's free real estate."
 
I forget what tribe did the Nordlanders come from? I think there's some prejudice from the rest of the Empire due to there being a fair amount of Norscan blood in them from the raids and when the Norscans used to live in the Reikland, but I can recall what the tribe that stayed and joined Sigmar's confederacy was called.
 
brian boru said:
I forget what tribe did the Nordlanders come from? I think there's some prejudice from the rest of the Empire due to there being a fair amount of Norscan blood in them from the raids and when the Norscans used to live in the Reikland, but I can recall what the tribe that stayed and joined Sigmar's confederacy was called.
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It's a bit of a complicated story. The original inhabitants of Nordland, and for whom the province is named, were the Norsii tribe. After they refused to join Sigmar's tribal confederation out of fear of religious persecution towards their ancestor worship, the Teutogens pulled a real Cappellan move and used their refusal as pretext to invade and attempt to genocide them, leading to the Norsii fleeing across the Sea of Claws and soon afterwards becoming the first Norscans. A tribe known as the Roppsmen had in the meanwhile been brought to resettle the depopulated lands of the Norsii, when they suddenly returned, brimming with Chaos blessings and eager for revenge.

After beating back the Empire's forces and subjugating the Roppsmen, the Norscans marched over to Ostland to do battle with the Udoses, where Sigmar turned up in a state that was beyond furious and drove the Norscans and their Roppsmen auxiliaries back across the Sea of Claws. (The Roppsmen would then found a new kingdom in what is known as Troll Country, before being overwhelmed and assimilated by the Ungol people after they had in turn been displaced from the most fertile parts of Kislev's Oblasts by the Gospodars, the modern-day Kislevites.)

In the meanwhile, Nordland was settled for a third time by the kingdom of the Jutones, the rulers of what would become Marienburg, and remained independent for a bit over eight hundred years into the Empire's existence, when they were finally conquered and confederated by Emperor Sigismund II.

So Nordland's populace is of Jutone heritage with some traces of Norsii/Norscan bloodlines.
 
Sir_Travelsalot said:
It's a bit of a complicated story. The original inhabitants of Nordland, and for whom the province is named, were the Norsii tribe. After they refused to join Sigmar's tribal confederation out of fear of religious persecution towards their ancestor worship, the Teutogens pulled a real Cappellan move and used their refusal as pretext to invade and attempt to genocide them, leading to the Norsii fleeing across the Sea of Claws and soon afterwards becoming the first Norscans. A tribe known as the Roppsmen had in the meanwhile been brought to resettle the depopulated lands of the Norsii, when they suddenly returned, brimming with Chaos blessings and eager for revenge.

After beating back the Empire's forces and subjugating the Roppsmen, the Norscans marched over to Ostland to do battle with the Udoses, where Sigmar turned up in a state that was beyond furious and drove the Norscans and their Roppsmen auxiliaries back across the Sea of Claws. (The Roppsmen would then found a new kingdom in what is known as Troll Country, before being overwhelmed and assimilated by the Ungol people after they had in turn been displaced from the most fertile parts of Kislev's Oblasts by the Gospodars, the modern-day Kislevites.)

In the meanwhile, Nordland was settled for a third time by the kingdom of the Jutones, the rulers of what would become Marienburg, and remained independent for a bit over eight hundred years into the Empire's existence, when they were finally conquered and confederated by Emperor Sigismund II.

So Nordland's populace is of Jutone heritage with some traces of Norsii/Norscan bloodlines.
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If ancestor worship was the catalyst for that whole disaster, then it's rather ironic considering that probably due to the influence of the Dwarves, at least veneration of one's ancestors among those with ancestors worth venerating is pretty common if not the primary recipient of worship during the Post Storm of Chaos Era Empire. At least according to the 2nd Edition TTRPG Splat book Tome of Salvation.
 
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