Honestly just shows how much awesomeness has been in this quest. Crazy to me that I've been following this since middle school and I'm already halfway through college and the train is still rolling.
 
1. Mena's kids are much better trained than she was at their age, thanks to being trained by their noble father whose marriage with Mena is 100% political and barely 20% emotionally motivated at this point. She loves them, and she spends a lot more time around them now, but overall, there is a hard distance there between her and the rest of her family. Plus, as ya'll know, she's technically been ramping up her training and experience in that arena.
Sad that Mena's family life isn't as emotionally nice as Magnus' or Reinhardt's since girl deserves love, but hope that kids and her still make each other happy and she and her husband can still respect each other.

Honestly, their relationship still better then likely most politically minded marriages in Empire.

We have been too spoiled in seeing such happy marriages in quest with Freddy/Nat, our allies in Trident, and even political opponents.
 
I still want Freddy to Adopt that Dragon into the Family and raise it with Bugmans and Esmerelda Kitchens!

With Nosh and Libations of that quality, why would it ever even want to leave Ostland?
 
Sad that Mena's family life isn't as emotionally nice as Magnus' or Reinhardt's since girl deserves love, but hope that kids and her still make each other happy and she and her husband can still respect each other.

Honestly, their relationship still better then likely most politically minded marriages in Empire.

We have been too spoiled in seeing such happy marriages in quest with Freddy/Nat, our allies in Trident, and even political opponents.
I mean, a significant part of the fault for that lies with Mena

Difficult to fall in love with your SO and enjoy close relationships with your kids when you're never home
 
I still want Freddy to Adopt that Dragon into the Family and raise it with Bugmans and Esmerelda Kitchens!

With Nosh and Libations of that quality, why would it ever even want to leave Ostland?

Because it's a dragon, it could get bored and fuck off whenever it wants, and unless we go the caging and enslaving it route, that could happen at any moment. And the real biggest issue is that a dragon would straight up bankrupt us. Like, Oskana and Octaine both cost like 4000 (reduced to a more manageable 2500) gold a year already in food. A dragon will doubtlessly eat more, and going by the same pricing scale, if it eats even double it'd be 8000 a year (maybe a bit less if it gets reduced by favorable deals too, so maybe 5000 for the single dragon) on top of the combined amount we already pay for our gryphons. It'll be worse if it eats even more than that too, like if it needs three or more cows a day for food. Their meals come out of our farming income, which is currently about 4000 while accounting for the presumed -5000 of the gryphons. Another 5000 like I'm guessing it'd be would actually create a true drain on our funds. It's just not worth the cost at all
 
LAs it is, Bloodglade is in fact stronger than ever, thanks to certain factors, one of which being how absolutely pissed off she was that Drycha came barreling in and nearly subsumed her.
Hmmm.

Imma speculate.

She got the support she originally was petitioning for prior to Coeddil's death that saw her returned, with interest.

Durthu has the ability to strengthen the forest and spirits as a whole by dint of wielding ALL the power Coeddil once possessed alongside his own, and being given to helping the forest rather than directing all his energy to killing part of those within.

Drycha's head, which was slyly noted to have been taken by someone unknown, was taken by/for her.

Alarielle's presence is noted to bring even dead wood to life, and she was there for some time, exercising a great deal of her power, something no Everqueen has ever done before to a Forest tied to Athel Loren (outside of Ulthuan).
 
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Alarielle's presence is noted to bring even dead wood to life, and she was there for some time, exercising a great deal of her power, something no Everqueen has ever done before to a Forest tied to Athel Loren.
Ariel was also there and was hit by the healing hug of the millennium.

If Laurelorn didn't regenerate from THAT much Ghyran, then we could probably have just razed it for lumber anyway.
BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO DEAD THAT EVEN NAGASH COULDN'T HAVE RAISED IT!

I repeat. Ariel healed her unhealable wound! The Beastmen are fucked.
*cough* *hack* My old bones ache
You know reading about those does make me wonder how do dragons make a living in Ulthuan, since they can clearly have wants beyond just hunting down whatever comes up in order to fill their belly until the next meal. With exception of those dragons that do go to war for Ulthuan and presumably paid for such service how do Ulthuani dragons in DODA fund their various wants like baubles, unique meals etc,etc if they decide to not go to war with the Asur.
It's okay.

I too am a steadily crumbling pile of bone and weakening sinew.
Oh god we did do that. I remember that section now lmao. Jeez, what is my memory. I blame the fact that Ungor was back in 2017
Honestly just shows how much awesomeness has been in this quest. Crazy to me that I've been following this since middle school and I'm already halfway through college and the train is still rolling.

Started questing WHFB since 2012. This is the 5th long quest I've joined.
Been with DoDA since 2018. I think.
I just realized that I didn't greet anyone here a merry Christmas or a happy new year with how much these Quests have consumed my life.

So uh. Belated happy holidays guys.
 
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No. Did you look it up? Because it would have been easy to look up.
I have re-read the quest, at most we have water powered ones, but in the case of Ostland our waterpower is on the side of talabec river and the middle mountains, which are obviously a logistical nightmare to process wood, because the forest is on the other side of the province.
 
I have re-read the quest, at most we have water powered ones, but in the case of Ostland our waterpower is on the side of talabec river and the middle mountains, which are obviously a logistical nightmare to process wood, because the forest is on the other side of the province.
I have utter confidence that there is forest by the rivers. Wulfenburg itself has barely cut back the forest from the city. We literally just found a beastpath that went right up to the Talabec, so there's definitely trees by the river. I guess the oceanfront is surprisingly far from any rivers so transporting cut lumber there is probably a job when we build up the towns on the coast.
 
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I have re-read the quest, at most we have water powered ones, but in the case of Ostland our waterpower is on the side of talabec river and the middle mountains, which are obviously a logistical nightmare to process wood, because the forest is on the other side of the province.
Wait what? You literally 80-90% of Ostland is nothing but trees very clearly right up to Talebac on the map on the front page. There is a reason why armies of Beastmen can hide in the forest with nobody the wiser.
 
Not wrong though, forests are everywhere in Ostland.
Yeah, but processing all that wood needs to be done on the talabec side of the province, but if wanted to say, do a deforestation project on the other side so that we can expand, say, the northern march, we would have to basically sell the wood in natura.

And that's a no-no in logistical sense
 
Yeah, but processing all that wood needs to be done on the talabec side of the province, but if wanted to say, do a deforestation project on the other side so that we can expand, say, the northern march, we would have to basically sell the wood in natura.

And that's a no-no in logistical sense

Below the abstraction level of the quest. That's the stewardship advisor's job to sort out before any proposal is placed in front of Frederick.

Much like how we okay'd the super Lighthouse but did not get the deets on the logistical challenges of sourcing the titanic quantities of materials, manpower and talent it needs. We just got the broad view, potential benefits and cost of the project.
 
We can always load wood on a ship to transport to points in the coast.
Doesn't look like there are rivers to transport the trees to the coast. Over land travel is a bitch.
We could however import lumber if it ever became an issue.
But since the QM is handwaving it i suggest we move on.
Yeah, but processing all that wood needs to be done on the talabec side of the province, but if wanted to say, do a deforestation project on the other side so that we can expand, say, the northern march, we would have to basically sell the wood in natura.

And that's a no-no in logistical sense
The QM is handwaving it so maybe we should move on before we're made to figure out the logistics of moving lumber from the riverside sawmills to our cities on the other side of the EXTREMELY DENSE AND BEASTMEN POPULATED FORESTS.
 
Now, alcohol engines for various industrial usages outside of military use *is* an interesting project idea. The problem is, they are both extraordinarily expensive, far more than is worth it for a sawmill most likely, and might occasionally explode? Which is a problem. We don't have the engineers to spare to send them all over the province doing regular inspections of any engines we distribute. Even the vaporcycles when we get around to them are probably gonna be a not inconsiderable addition to our engineers' maintenance schedule. It would probably be *more* doable in Wulfenburg since the engineers are right there, but we have the river right by the city so it's probably not really necessary. Vapor engine ships are the project I really want to see, personally. Get a couple ironsides to patrol the coast? Good stuff.
 
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I'm mostly looking forward to alcohol powered ships (as opposed to just alcohol powered sailors like we currently have)

I am curious if the dwarfs would complain about that though. I guess we could always ask an engineer or 2 in the fleet that's on its way
 
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