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He's overtly a wind-using dragon, at least some of the time.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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In my eternal pursuit of emulating Pickle, here's a quote!
Qrech eats less than he used to at the start, which indicates something about his environment encouraging constant hunger. This might also extend to him mellowing out away from Skaven environment, but we don't have an accurate snapshot of what he was like before the confinement to compare against.
I think it is a cool notion but not something that could ever work in practice given the pride of the people involved. I do not see the dwarfs instrumentalizing holy rites to get allies and I do not see most dragons being willing to put themselves under the power of strange gods yet again. The last time it happened relations were a lot more cordial, now there is an entire history of blood and killing between the two species.
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No.
More detail: its a secret dwarfs do not share with any but the most trusted. Dragons are not trusted.
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The rites of Valaya are a no go. The only reason we know they exist is because Gunnars, the High Priest of K8P, a close companion of Mathilde's, and an influential priest of Gazul decided to tell Mathilde, the Azrildrekked. It's Dwarf secrets and part of their culture to a very deep extent. They might be able to excuse a bunch of Undumgi converting to the Ancestor Gods, that's fine, but getting priests of Valaya to bless a Dragon they barely know anything about other than it belongs to the Emperor? I'm not sure how we could even justify that.
It must be mentioned that Dwarfs do not have a good history with Dragons. Most of their stories about them involve slaying them, not making peace with them.
In terms of Gor-Dum and Hashut? I could believe Hashut was a former Dwarf god I suppose. Gor-Dum is more questionable, the only evidence we have is that the Dwarfs of Karag Dum managed to bind him to their service, but the concept of fertility being corrupted into the mutative aura of change and chaos of Gor-Dum is certainly interesting. One could even argue that the Divine energy Mathilde sensed that changed the area surrounding Karag Dum was Gor-Dum's, although the energy she sensed was not Chaotic in nature so perhaps not. It would explain why Gor-Dum's aura is usually restrained though, he's spending most of it to alter the surrounding terrain rather than mutating the people around him.
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Keep in mind Max lives in a dwarf hold and most of his interactions are with dwarfs, compared to them he likely does not look that muscly.
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I'll grant that a good portion of his interactions are with dwarves, but...Karag Nar. Undumgi. Humans everywhere! I'm pretty sure he's spent enough time in the tower doing research and writing papers that most of his meals and other daily supply runs are done in Karag Nar, which means interacting with other humans.
Most of which will be former mercenaries, and so also well-built, but yes.
Plus, apparently the artist undersold it if anything.
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Ok, so the impression I'm getting is that you think it *would* work to keep the dragons active and actively growing stronger, but both species would in practice prefer that they die out instead. Accurate?
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Probably evil, unfortunately.
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You know, this is kind of adorable. Just a nice, comfortable silence between the two, with Mathilde presumably occasionally getting up to provide them both with snacks and hot drinks.
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I knew we bought Wolf a collar of Move
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Nope. Dwarfs will never share that secret with what has been one of their longest running enemies. Its a complete non starter.
As to what i think it would do, it would probably work as intended, and prevent the dragon from attuning to a wind.
The dragon would be in the same boat as the ulthuan dragons,but without the option to choose to attune.
Hmm, putting it together right now is rather premature but:
-Original crop strains lost with the Fall. Presumably these were perfectly adapted nutritionally. Knowing dwarf personalities, many of them probably went down defending their fields to the end, you can't really evacuate a farm, and its not really going to be the first thing that occurs to them to seal seeds in a vault prior to the Fall.
-Karak Azul seems to have whats left of their old strain crops in their agricultural guilds.
-Karak Vlag had no choice about what they grew. They used whatever they had for food, and supplemented it with anything remotely edible that they dug into.
-Most other Holds use their domestic crops for beer and import the finest human grain.
--The finest human grain generally meant milled and polished grains. Hard to say without research.
Three immediate possibilities occur to me:
-Constipation. Their major foods are bread(supplemented with stone powder), beer, mushrooms and meat. The closest thing to fiber they're getting is the stone dust(which would not actually behave like fiber would for humans, though) and they preferentially do not consume much fruit and vegetable except as a brewing component, where fiber is not retained. This is a very easy reason to be perpetually grouchy.
-Mineral deficiency. It could be something as simple as needing more zinc(symptoms include depression and reduced sexual desire, amongst other things), which, with a more robust digestive system, the stone dust in stonebread might well be a legitimate supplement. Or fruit vitamins, which have very complicated chain of effects.
-Alcoholism side effect. They culturally consume a vast amount of alcohol and while they have an incredible tolerance for it, we don't know a whole lot about golden age drinking habits .
I think we can largely rule out Wind contamination. The grain is far too processed to retain any Wind in signifiant ratio. We had to WORK to keep the Wind in mushrooms without the cooking process dispersing it.
That said, the simplest(and least inappropriate) test would be to have some dwarves pick up and try the Azul Diet and see what happens.
So I was going to argue we spend as much CF as we can since it's not really doing us much good sitting in the bank, but the it occurred to me that we might need a lump sum for the College Branch. How much do you guys think is a good cushion in that regard?
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Get up? Whats the point of having a familiar if it can't even fetch snacks?
Isn't the College Branch already taken care of by the Great Deed?
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Here's a quote on what we get from the Great Deed aside from the permission:
It's not a carte blanche to do whatever we want. Belegar's transcendant boon is basically that, since he's gonna be supplying nearly all monetary endeavours and provide the work force for the library construction, but the Great Deed is less powerful than a Transcendant boon.
No @Codex beat me to it, but in essence the Great Deed was just to make the branch to begin with and the bare minimum to have it function as such, there are going to be plenty of things we will have to pour gold and favor into.
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Wow, I knew his Mage Sight was developed enough to read things if the ink they're written in had enough metal content, but being to distinguish between pigments well enough to see the details in a painted image is very impressive.
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That might work. Tell anyone who sees it and starts giving pointed looks that it's a fake you're using for bait. Obviously.
Mathilde made sure the artist used a different metal base for each pigment. The 'colours' are probably all over the place for him, though.
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Really? I'm not the most knowledgeable Warhammer expert, but I've never seen that anywhere. If it's true, that would be awesome.