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Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism
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Just joshing, geez….
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So… don't count on such warnings in the future, got it.
Might be a good idea for the future Trident/Electors meeting - figure out naval early warning system.
Might be a good idea for the future Trident/Electors meeting - figure out naval early warning system.
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I think we already gone over that, not politically convenient for him to do it. Easier and more usefull to execute the surving leaders for incompetence. With only deathbeinger have enough nepotism to weesel his way out of that.
I mean.
The quest ends, pretty much. So.
It's not really a matter of political convenience, when you run a society based on bitterness and vengeance and Dhar like Malekith has artificially forced, sometimes you just do stuff out of spite. It's more that Malekith cares a lot more about Ulthuan than the Empire, and again, not like Black Arks haven't been lost before. Usually more to Asur/Lizardmen/Chaos/Dwarfs before, but still. From the Imperial perspective, it's tremendous. From the greater Druchii perspective, it's an unexpected but not overwhelming or utterly truly devastating surprise kick from a child at your shin. Maybe the skin is broken, maybe even a bit of damage to the bone if the kid was wearing steel toe boots.
For the most part, the Druchii will be paying more attention to the Empire now, regardless of how this fully plays out.
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Which naturally means we should invest heavily in restoring our main naval city and fleet, and ideally upgrading everything greatly too.
That goes for all the coastal parts of the Empire really.
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"You explicitly refused anti-ark grade walls on the grounds that it would have costed an order of magnitude more than your entire treasury and it would take two centuries too long to build."I wonder if we can get a discount for new sea walls from the dwarves if we told them that the elgi managed to break most of them in one go?
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Earlier on they mentioned it in the meeting with Magda at the electors meet. A priest of mannan who was serving on a lone ship, encountered both of the arks while they were on their course towards the sea of claws. His ship was completely wrecked, and he had been wounded by the Dark Elves crossbow bolts. He began to swim. Bleeding from many wounds, he swam, day and night, fighting of sharks of stormfels, bleeding the whole way, until he managed to get back to imperial shores, where even in his exhausted state, warned of the coming Arks.
I don't know about you. But I want to name our Naval school after this madlad!
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Yeah, especially considering, clawing your way up to commanding a Black Ark means making a ton of enemies.
And then failing badly at the task, to a bunch of stone age people? You damn well bet they're gonna do their best to win here, they need to keep their skins unsailed.
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Seconded, motion passed. This man deserves to have his name go down in Imperial history for setting up this victory. At the very least a monument in rebuilt Salkaten.
They were really loitering on the trip here if a guy managed to outswim them, huh?
Malekith this turn:
Wakes up from his dream about conquering Ulthuan and brutally torturing Teclis.
Goes to his spiky breakfast table.
Opens his copy of the "Naggarond Times"
Raises the burnt remains of one of his eyebrows at the headlines about Salkaten.
Reads the article.
Takes a sip from his mug of Tears of Asur children. "Fucking idiots."
Goes on with his day.
Wakes up from his dream about conquering Ulthuan and brutally torturing Teclis.
Goes to his spiky breakfast table.
Opens his copy of the "Naggarond Times"
Raises the burnt remains of one of his eyebrows at the headlines about Salkaten.
Reads the article.
Takes a sip from his mug of Tears of Asur children. "Fucking idiots."
Goes on with his day.
Oh absolutely. I might have backed them off 1 wall, *maybe* 2, but not, what was it 4? 5? Yeah. That would have been a brutal gut punch. Without Sadrina, we lose a massive chunk of our forces to the initial ramming. Quite possibly some of our cannon even, which given how critical that was in the fight would have been rough. Without the Eonir, we don't have anywhere near the kind of mages to counter the enemy magic and we get absolutely annihilated by their sorcery and demon summoning. Not to mention Freddy trying to do that dragon fight without his ranged supporters. Without the pegasi knights, we don't have enough aerial units to properly contest the dragons. Considering what *one* dragon going unchecked resulted in, a second would have been disastrous. Hell, even the Flagellants were incredibly crucial to breaking the enemy's push. Ostland's forces, on their own, would have certainly put up a fight, but I'm not convinced they would have even gotten past the slaves and monsters to fight the druchii regulars.
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Not just outswim them, but outswim them so hard he got there half a year ahead of them, while the Druchii were already close enough that the Cult of Manann could guess they were going for Ostland/Nordland rather than an unrelated raid into Tilea or whatever.
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Yeah, I can honestly see Malekith going "For you, the day you repelled two Black Arks was the most memorable day of your life. For me, it was just another Tuesday."
Malekith has lived thousands of years and expects to live for many more thousands of years. He's got enough composure to shrug this off and mentally add it to his big stack of "things for which vengeance shall be taken, in due time".
I mean, one of the Black Arks was *captured*, that's at least one of the holiday mondays in significance
High precision clocks and/or lunar charts.
But what if we stab them all to death first?
Even if we get enough forewarning to call upon everyone we know who is willing to go and try to shank Malekith?
I ascribe that to the priest hearing from younger Corsairs talking about the plans as they were cutting their way through the crew, discussing how many kills they think they'd get, how many slaves, how many spoils and what value, oh hey plug this pathetic human full of holes and he topples into the ocean, back to killing and slaving, that guy is definitely dead and there is no way he's still alive let alone swimming to shore.
The Arks were loitering for a good while there, but a good portion of it was them gathering up supplies/troops/getting arrivals from certain people like Dreadbringer, etc.
Young, bored, shit-talking Corsairs dreaming of plunder in a few months underestimating a human priest of Manann.
Or, really, they estimated him just fine, he just happened to actually make it. Most other priests of Manann would not have survived half the swim, let alone completed it and delivered the message.
Some other Druchii pissed off Manann on the opposite side of the planet and he was just like, "Eh, fucking with *a* druchii in return is good enough, lemme help this dude out."
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Also underestimating that this particular Priest happened to understand Druhir. But fair enough, it's a possibly-divinely-inspired coincidence, I was just wondering about how that was physically possible.