The thing is I
want the interaction, the conversation. I never
want to discourage anyone from participating, from doing what they can to contribute to the discussion, to bring up ideas to debate around, or even just talking about Warhammer in general due to the whole 'this being a Warhammer quest' thing. And yes, some things from Total War I use, but not everything. Not even that super much, in the long run. Just some bits and pieces, here and there. Some things are literally in limbo, such as certain End Times details about certain people, places, and things. And will remain that way until I firmly decide on them. But in this case, this just seems like a bit of a mental skip. Which is fine. It happens to me plenty of times. A lot of times when Mass sends me some corrections to do in PM, I flat out don't remember writing some of the sentences and have to go back and reread myself.
But Beastmen have been plaguing the Old World and beyond for thousands of years. They did it right up until the End Times happened. Assuming that it is so easy, so simple, to simply 'locate them' through patrols is a non-starter. Largely, patrols are to keep the claimed spaces of humanity as safe as possible.
Not to try and deeply dive into the centers of the forests to get at the beastmen in terrain unsuitable for cavalry or artillery where the Beastmen hold nearly every possible advantage. So there is no reason whatsoever to be confused that no patrols have somehow managed to push all the way to the Black Pit in the Drakwald and then see everything happening there and then turn around to run to Middenheim. There is no reason to be confused, or to claim incompetence, when the patrols of Talabecland don't locate the secretly hidden entrance in the depths of the forest to the Labyrinth and infiltrate and then escape back to Talabheim with news. There is no reason to decide that the most well-hidden and most holy of herdstones in the existence of the Beastmen is something that 1. Is simply located in Ostermark this whole time and that no one in 2500+ years was good enough to find it ever because it's easy or 2. That it's going to be somewhere that a brand new DLC to a video game releasing a day or two ago is going to overwrite something that I've been writing for and posting openly about for several IRL months. There is no reason to decide that everyone who hasn't suddenly stumbled upon this multi-year long hidden campaign led by the most powerful of Beastmen is something that will simply be revealed by regular old forest and road patrols that never did anything of the sort in, again, 2500+ years of the existence of the Empire. Maybe the Heart of Darkness is in Ostermark. Maybe it's not. You will never be able to force me to tell you where it is until actions, dice rolls, and narrative causality make it so.
I love to have someone discuss Warhammer stuff openly in the thread, to bring up conversation, to do all that sort of thing with. And I think that
@Zrayz10 does a fine enough job of that. I appreciate your participation very much, I appreciate the participation of everyone who elect's to take some time out of their day, even if it's only a few seconds, to do so. But in this case, I do have to say that this one was not so great. Maybe next time though. Sorry for blowing up a bit, and if I was discouraging. Next time, instead of declaring what is or isn't canon based on Total War, just...ask? If I'm using the info from Total War? Like, 'Are you using Total War Warhammer's location of the Heart of Darkness?' I could answer and say 'That information is need to know only, and I wouldn't be able to say if it was or wasn't.' And that could be that, you know?
Are the Cult of Gazul more prominent in dwarf society after Karak Ungor? An ancestor god made an confirmed reappearance after they left to parts unknown. Only the rumor mill has been rather lax about their presence in an obvious way. We've seen the cult in the background with trying to recreate the brew. A mercenary group who answered Freddy's merc call.
Was Gazul's act of aid to Fredddy, which helped kill Ungrim, a reason dwarfs don't take up the slayer oath so thoughtlessly? Or was a reason what Freddy said to that one dwarf mercenary leader, and what the dwarf stone-souled told others?
Perhaps the dwarves who heard of these events, saw Gazul give the Slayers greater respect than a moment of simple shame most dwarves had been using the Slayer oath for incredibly simple moments.
1. Not really, no. They're in the same boat of the Cult of Morr a lot of the time, they don't have much of a desire to
be 'more prominent' in society. It's great that he showed up again, and people are excited about that, but for the most part, it's not as big a deal as one of the Big Three showing up again. Gazul largely only does stuff with the dead. The living dwarfs would love some help in staying that way, which Gazul doesn't precisely have as much skin in the game, yeah?
2. Mixture of many things, this is something I think doesn't require me flatly telling ya'll. It's not a hard one to finagle out of the available information and knowing the cultural information provided through the quest's postings.
