Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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You're suggesting it's unlikely to see mass appeal outside of Caledor?
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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big book of cool shit Ulric did while posing on everyone, the cult agrees that they are 'probably' allegorical metaphors of how his followers should live, rather than strickly things that did or did not happen.
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Okay. Yeah, I'm feeling putting Egrimm on the Seviroscope! It's a difficult job worthy of his talents, and it would undeniably serve a core WEBMAT purpose by making it easier to work with runesmiths. He'll feel like he is doing something good and his time is not wasted, and he will be doing something good. It's a project with a lot of support in the thread too. Spending full actions has been a hard sell, but now we're talking a WEBMAT action and that's a horse of a different color.
The EIC isn't going to be setting up any storefront for obvious reasons, but regular caravans of "novelties" going in and (anything Elven, literally anything) going out could make for a profitable exchange. Suck it Marienburg, guess who else might get a trading contract with elves!
The EIC isn't going to be setting up any storefront for obvious reasons, but regular caravans of "novelties" going in and (anything Elven, literally anything) going out could make for a profitable exchange. Suck it Marienburg, guess who else might get a trading contract with elves!
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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I'm suggesting that, just like Caledorians, people'll either hate it or love it.
they have only 'just' agreed to talking, and its a debated subject.
lets leave to talk of trade and potential economic(and maybe actual) war with Marienburg until after they think that, maybe, just maybe... they should discuss the idea of a road to and out of the forest.
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Yeah, I can really get behind this, especially since our WEBMAT actions seem to be collaborative; he's interested in different kinds of windsight and studied the Windfall, we have really good windsight and enchanting talents, the team is ideal. I think it's a great use of his time, assuming he doesn't shit the bed on the Golden Arm action or throw a fit about us being a new Alric or similar.
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Agreed. I think we should be looking for buy-in to the project rather than recruits, but I'd like to talk to ask of the above as a first tier. Probable frost-wolf-hydra as my 1-2-3, but yeah.
So what are our "look busy" tasks, do you think?
Mapping a bunch of waystones comes to mind, then comparing it to old maps before parts of it got destroyed and see if we can develop a theory on how the streams of magic move when a stone is destroyed?
Material analysis of waystones?
Linguistic analysis of the few rote spells we were taught to interact with them?
Lean on the jades to tell us how to safely draw power out of them?
Edit: Seviroscope sounds good.
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deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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That depends on why the stuff coming out of Marienburg is so valuable (is it Elf stuff? Is it New World stuff? Is it Cathay stuff?). And also if Eonir stuff is valued the same way as Asur stuff. Also it depends on Nordland/Middenland being ok with it (hard to trade if the local government doesn't want you to).
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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- Vermont
It's gonna be a bit, there's still basically all of Middenland between the Eonir and the closest EIC outpost at best.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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If memory serves, aren't Nordland sort of really pissed off about the whole "make peace with the tree Elves" idea?
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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Being fair, I think it's less of a barrier than the Black Mountains are to riverine trade, and the Dwarfs are hacking away at that one in reasonable time.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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- Vermont
What's the blue line?Since I've yet to work it into an update proper:
Nordland has a concern or two, yes.
A continuation of the river Schaukel, as the Nordland maps and the Laurelorn maps disagree quite severely about how far inland it goes.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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That is a lot of territory Nordland is being forced to concede. No wonder they're pissed.Since I've yet to work it into an update proper:
Nordland has a concern or two, yes.
That's not a bad one, it's probably going have serous holes in it's history, especially between the time before the war of the beard and the empire being literate Enough to write stuff down.
but even if we only find the shortest, least Waystones routes to getting the Laurelorn part of the network reconnected to the Imperial part of the network, it would be worth the time.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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Maybe not legally, but they certainly had de facto claim over a not insignificant portion of it.
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
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They actually did, via a treaty with the Eonir that permitted them to establish villages and engage in logging on the very outer portions of Laurelorn. And, as mentioned, had enough de facto control that until Middenland came along, there wasn't much the Eonir could do in the long term to stop them from settling beyond the regions allotted for them.
Like most things this sounds like a problem that can be solved by throwing sufficient Dwarfpower at it.
Now if Nordland was being smart they would be all in favour of improving relations and setting up trade. Both to recoup some financial losses and to dissuade Laurelorn from gutting the remaining northern towns.Since I've yet to work it into an update proper:
Nordland has a concern or two, yes.
Of course the odds of Nordland being smart are… slim.
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Well, if the current ruler or Norland isn't agreable to diplomacy and trade beneficial to the Empire as a whole, isn't it a Grey Wizard's job to make sure the next one is?
Question: when were these illegal settlements created? Are they a recent thing, or have they been around for centuries? Because I've been thinking of the situation as "a long time ago, the elves abandoned these lands, humans moved in and now the elves want it back" but looking at the wiki entry for Nordland it implies that these settlements sprang up under the reign of the current Elector Count.
If it's the former, and the humans have been living there for centuries, then there's the argument to be made that the elves abandoned their claim to the land, but if it's been happening over the last few decades, then the Nordlanders are invaders and very much in the wrong.
If it's the former, and the humans have been living there for centuries, then there's the argument to be made that the elves abandoned their claim to the land, but if it's been happening over the last few decades, then the Nordlanders are invaders and very much in the wrong.