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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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deathofrats0808 said:
Nice post! Quick note, there is (at least in canon) an Amber Battle Magic Spell called "Curse of Anraheir". Could be the same person as the Amber LM you listed.
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I knew about it but I was a bit hesitant because it's a Total War Warhammer only spell, not in any of the books as far as I know. So it's of dubious canonicity.

That being said, it does use his name.
 
Don't know how I missed that. Yeah I'll correct it. It's probably a Gehenna thing, or maybe a Melkoth thing who knows with the Colleges.

EDIT: Apparently I can't remember most of the Ghur spells. I literally blanked out most of their names and could only remember Kadon and Spear.
 
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Castly6 said:
1. I am haunted by the question of rejuvenation. In a conversation with the Empress, she said that with offerings and good relations with God, he may well roll back age. Is it generally spread out? It's just such an opportunity and it seems that no one is using it. Like a rejuvenated count or an old witch hunter.
Is this possible for Matilda?
I know this is a small question, but it haunts me)
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Heidi's life extension is a divine blessing from Shallya, and Heidi had to do a lot of work for the Goddess to earn it first. It's unlikely that Mathilde would be able to earn the same blessing. Shallya is also the daughter of Morr, the god of death, and he restricts her blessings to ensure people die when they are supposed to.

Additionally, the divine magic will probably react with the Ulgu in Mathilde's soul, creating Dhar and poisoning Mathilde from the inside out.

However, because Mathilde has Ulgu in her soul, her life is naturally extended, and it's possible for wizards to live over 120 years in the warhammer setting. It has been implied in quest that fully converting your soul to a single wind can grant a form of immortality; this is what the ice dragon Cython did with their soul.
 
Honestly, if it's old age that gets Mathilde, that's already beating the odds hundreds or thousands of times.

Nothing about the quest so far makes me think that she's going to die peacefully.
 
Codex said:
Magister Grey: Very skilled enchanter, whose enchanting skills were vital for the construction of the Burning Shadows tower and its IFF system.
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Insofar as my Org Chart is canon, it's worth noting that the Magister Grey that helped us with our tower was confirmed by Boney to have an official position as the Artificer of the Grey College, reporting to the Dean.
 
Redshirt Army said:
Insofar as my Org Chart is canon, it's worth noting that the Magister Grey that helped us with our tower was confirmed by Boney to have an official position as the Artificer of the Grey College, reporting to the Dean.
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Indeed.
BoneyM said:
you assemble the team that will lay down the base design of the tower, some of whom can only venture this far due to the gyrocarriage able to whisk them across the continent. Magister Grey, who recently taught you and is a master of the fundamentals of enchantment.
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He is also the same chap who taught us Shadow Chisel, and the very handy lenses, that in many ways seem better suited to fieldwork than Enchanting.
BoneyM said:
He introduces himself as Mr Grey, which is possibly the worst alias you've ever encountered, and he explains his purpose here today: to break you of your reliance on the trappings of enchantment paraphernalia. You think he's going to teach you new enchanting techniques, and you smile in anticipation.

Except what he actually teaches you is a suite of very specialized spells to do all the things your tools normally would.
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Back when Journeymanling 'of course I knew that' Weber didn't know of the Magister Grey pseudonyms used by those forced to retire to the College grounds.

I believe this combination of factors led Mathilde/the thread to previously speculate (to Regimand) that Magister Grey was one of Algards' Hands:
Alliterate said:
It's quite funny, really.
Times (successfully?) using Shadow Enchanting Cantrips for Enchanting... I want to say zero, because it'd be funnier, but the Spider-Goblin River Horn(s), perhaps. Not many, I don't think.
Didn't even use a Shadow-Chisel to turn our staff- we wore out multiple regular chisels instead.

Times using Shadow-Chisel cantrip to kill things: Several.
Times using Shadow-Chisel cantrip to leave graffiti: At least once.
Times using Shadow-Lenses cantrip to create telescopes and other light-manipulating arrays that would be the envy of every Celestial Magister the Empire over: Many.

I'd say this Enchanting Magister Grey who taught us really misses their fieldwork.
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BoneyM said:
You dismiss the dagger and reform the energies into a chisel. "Cantrip to replace enchantment paraphernalia. Learned it from who I think was one of Algard's Hands."
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But, with the Enchanting Magister Grey coming up again, I thought it through, again.
As he hadn't previously been read in on the Conspiracy of Silence, that makes me think it's less likely he was a Hand.
BoneyM said:
"We could certainly set up a small array of magical signatures," Magister Grey points out. "Greenskins, of course. Ogres. Undead. Beastmen, if you get them this far south."

"Oh, right, remind me to read you in later," Magister Patriarch Algard says.
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Not impossible, but reduces the likelihood in my view.
 
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Codex said:
Do you struggle to remember the members of the Colleges of Magic in Divided Loyalties, and wish there was a resource that listed them all and who they are? Then you're in luck, because I spent way too much time on this. Please tell me if I missed anyone or made any mistakes.
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For apprentices, there are also all of the other Grey Perpetuals that we could've recruited for the EIC, who are listed at the bottom of this turn.
HeWhoAdds said:
Character Organizational Database, Encyclopedia, and....... dang, not a lot of words start with X
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Cross-references?
 
> Mathilde's soul is adapted to the flow of Ulgu not the flow of Ranald

Well we could have changed that if the thread had voted to waifu Ranald :V
 
Darth. said:
> Mathilde's soul is adapted to the flow of Ulgu not the flow of Ranald

Well we could have changed that if the thread had voted to waifu Ranald :V
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Ranald actually wasn't an option.

Mathilde is of the belief that he's committed to Shallya, and she wasn't at the point of trying to make a play for two gods at once.
 
Mopman43 said:
Ranald actually wasn't an option.

Mathilde is of the belief that he's committed to Shallya, and she wasn't at the point of trying to make a play for two gods at once.
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He wasn't in the first vote where Abelhelm was alive (iirc it was struck out and labelled "NO THAT'S HERESY") but iirc he was a viable vote in the Pan/Johann/Roswita/Cython vote, although there weren't many takers (I don't think they even crossed the double digits).
 
Darth. said:
He wasn't in the first vote where Abelhelm was alive (iirc it was struck out and labelled "NO THAT'S HERESY") but iirc he was a viable vote in the Pan/Johann/Roswita/Cython vote, although there weren't many takers (I don't think they even crossed the double digits).
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This is from March 2020, the more recent romance vote.

BoneyM said:
Mathilde believes him to genuinely love Shallya, and making a play for double God is too much hubris even for her.
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