0th generation is still a generation for this purpose. Presumably the culture of Karak Vlag has snappier names for each of them.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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0th generation is still a generation for this purpose. Presumably the culture of Karak Vlag has snappier names for each of them.
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Its not clear to me that the empire has a developed theory of the benefits of free trade rather than a mercantile understanding which would say every transaction has one winner and loser.
Also it doesn't profit the empire by kicking off a stink with the dwarves.
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Burned_Cookie
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Steve.
Or less jokingly, I don't think the handful of survivors need a special designator, because they are just already well known as a handful of individuals.
Oh sure I'm not saying trade right away, by all means wait until things have settled enough that we can be sure the Guild will not be upset with us for buying from the Rhunkit
The dwarfs have had polyandrous relationships for their entire recorded history. Mostly to deal with high casualties among fighting males. That Vlag applied this tradition isn't really surprising.
What's new is A) inviting someone else, B) inviting someone of a different species and C) doing so on the first meeting. Plus maybe D) two husbands sleeping with their wife at the same time and E) sex for pleasure. Boney would have to weigh in on how new/different these attitudes are compared to Mathilde's experience.
It should also be remembered that this is one guy/group, and he could be totally unrepresentative. Probably not, but it could be.
If there are enough of them to make a shield wall there are enough of them to need a collective name
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I'm still concerned this relies on Mathilde to develop ground breaking economic theory to justify it.
Also the EIC has no presence up north, and it is already heavily invested in the canals. So sounds difficult to manage anyway.
I think we can explain it in terms of the sheer rarity of the product which would otherwise not exist on the Empire's internal market. This is not setting up a market for nails here.
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Basically what I was trying to communicate. Is that they could be indulging in running trains on each others wives while the husband watches for all we know. But following those fours rules I layed out would mean that is in no way wrong and in fact has no pointers to corruption what so ever.
I should probably tone down my example but I feel I need to make the point get across.
Dwarves are usually intensely private about that sort of thing. Some of the fiction she's encountered would suggest that those sorts of attitudes and practices are not unknown, but it's difficult to judge how representative the fiction is of actual practices. Genre fiction tends to create unique and divergent ecosystems that can sometimes veer far from the mainstream.
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Oh... so it might not just be about Vlag, this could be a consequence of Mathilde being a dwarf as far as other dwarfs are concerned.
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Ah yes, I too watched that video about lawsuits in omegaverse fiction.
And Vlag hasn't had experience with non-hostile outsiders in quite some time. It's possible the Vlag locals might default to thinking of her as 'one of them' because that's the only mental category they really have for non-Daemons.
Romv
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I'm going to take this opportunity to post my rune speculation.
My theory is that all runes draw from the same unified source, and all runes absorb ambient winds. Basically all runes have at least two functions: absorbing ambient magic, and whatever effect they're supposed to produce.
All that magic is sent to a single 'place' (which may also be the Dawi afterlife, but it doesn't really matter). Then all runes use that energy, maybe transformed in some way, to produce their effect.
The only difference between large runes, or rune assemblies, and small 'everyday' runes like simple light runes, is the amount of rune magic they consume. Or rather the difference between how much they take in to how much they need to produce their effect. A small light rune may very well break even, but the huge impressive wonders we heard about in Thorgrim's interlude need way more than they could ever bring in. Not enough ambient magic would even reach those runes.
And this is where the waystones come in. It's an enormous amount of magic that is channeled straight into whatever reservoir runes draw on. No issues with the low energy density around the physical runes; no, or very little, additional drain on the reserves. You can just power everything you want, who cares if it uses up way more than it adds? It's not like so many Holds would ever fall that it would become a liability.
Anyway, this is really is mostly speculation based on bits and pieces I may well have interpreted incorrectly, so be gentle.
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No wonder Ranald was so hyped with the Karag Dum expedition's results. Beyond the reasons we already knew (STEAL KARAK), Karak Vlag was functionally a Dwarf Republic trapped in the Aethyr. For the God of Freedom and Liberty, the place must have been an attention-grabbing beacon shining out from the mess of Slaanesh's realm. One nobody could do anything about.
It'd be like looking out your window every day and seeing a lighthouse in the distance, but never being able to approach it because it's surrounded permanently by crashing waves, jagged rocks, and an endless storm.
Also, it seems like necessity forced Karak Vlag to pursue a similar path to the one the Norse Dwarf civilization pursued by choice: much greater focus on magical Runes to replace conventional methods that use unavailable resources. Digging in and surviving in isolation from the outside world, following underground rivers and farmable soils under Runelight is exactly what Johann speculated that the Norse Dwarves could have done to survive. I'd call that a pretty conclusive proof-of-concept, if Vlag was able to make it work while literally trapped in the Chaos Realm.
It'd be like looking out your window every day and seeing a lighthouse in the distance, but never being able to approach it because it's surrounded permanently by crashing waves, jagged rocks, and an endless storm.
Also, it seems like necessity forced Karak Vlag to pursue a similar path to the one the Norse Dwarf civilization pursued by choice: much greater focus on magical Runes to replace conventional methods that use unavailable resources. Digging in and surviving in isolation from the outside world, following underground rivers and farmable soils under Runelight is exactly what Johann speculated that the Norse Dwarves could have done to survive. I'd call that a pretty conclusive proof-of-concept, if Vlag was able to make it work while literally trapped in the Chaos Realm.
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Well, official word is that she's a dwarf, she's about the right size, and she has one of the primary attractive/social signifiers of female dwarfs, aka plaids.
She's not as stocky as Dwarf women tend to be, but if Brokkr was an indication, neither are Karak Vlag's Dwarf women. Honestly if she hadn't introduced herself as a Wizard they may not have realized she wasn't a Dwarf.
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Sex for pleasure certainly isn't entirely new, unless Kazrik and Edda were actually just spending the whole time chatting.
Hey, Edda has some real interesting insights on Karak Azul minecart design, ok?
Mathy really needs to change her hairstyle, she is going to get a complex if this keeps going.
.... wait, no, that didn't mean taking up Enoir hairstyles! those leaves will rot in your hair mathy!.
New idea.
We know Karak Vlag has gone into kickflip zone in order to survive. They even lowered their requirements on Runecrafting. Have they also lowered their requirements for metal parts like big nails or long bars of steel? Can they mass produce some parts if we ask nicely or are they still perfecting each railnail for ages?
We know Karak Vlag has gone into kickflip zone in order to survive. They even lowered their requirements on Runecrafting. Have they also lowered their requirements for metal parts like big nails or long bars of steel? Can they mass produce some parts if we ask nicely or are they still perfecting each railnail for ages?
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They don't have any smiths at all, lacking metal to smelt.New idea.
We know Karak Vlag has gone into kickflip zone in order to survive. They even lowered their requirements on Runecrafting. Have they also lowered their requirements for metal parts like big nails or long bars of steel? Can they mass produce some parts if we ask nicely or are they still perfecting each railnail for ages?
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They have people in charge of maintenance and repairs I'm sure, but I wouldn't expect them to be particularly good at crafting just because they can fix what they have.
They probably do have a few actual smiths from the Before Times, it was a pretty common trade so odds are one or two lived through all this and they are now urgently taking apprentices so they can pass on what they know before they die.