Reading some more of the Middenheim source/adventure book for WHFRP 2E, I was looking for what else we might want to do if we're visiting to talk to the dwarves there.
The Guild of Wizards and Alchemists was apparently founded shortly after the Colleges by Magisters assigned to the north, and has been chartered by all eight of them and has representatives who can tutor members in the use of all eight Winds. It might be interesting to drop by and see what the local representative of the Grey Order has to say about the dwarves and how to approach them. It also might be interesting to see how a branch college works.
The Collegium Theological started out as the Cult of Ulric's seminaries about seven hundred years ago, but has since branched out to study just about every subject and is one of the foremost centres of learning in the Old World. It also apparently contains one of the finest libraries in the Old World. The plot hook, which we may be able to help with if we think they could help with the project, is that they've apparently been denied the Imperial Charter required to be considered a university. There's apparently potentially some Cult and other politics involved, as the Sigmarite sponsored institutions in Nuln and Altdorf are Chartered Universities. I would have expect that we would have the contacts to wrangle a Charter if we thought it was worth it, and it might help both with any mundane scholarship required and potentially also with the College's backers in the Cult if Ulric. It's apparently also a matter of civic pride with the Middenheimers, so this might help repay the Graf if he helps us with the dwarves. Interestingly, the Collegium also has a restriction section of its library where trusted academics study otherwise forbidden lore under the authority of the Cult of Ulric. Presumably this is for teaching their equivalent of witch hunters.
The Comission for Elven, Dwarven, and Halfling Interests, if it already exists, might be very interesting to work with it there's a reason to. The local dwarves have their own community and institutions such as their Engineers guild, and it's mentioned that there are issues between them and the elves, but it would still be very interesting to see if we can get any inspiration of how an institution that contains and represents both dwarves and elves can actually work.
As an interesting side note, in the adventure in the book it's possible for all the PCs, whether they're priests or not (including wizards), to gain a non-standard divine mark after being inside a flare up of the white Eternal Flame of Ulric after dealing with chaotic subversion in his Cult. Called the Mark of Unity, it grants bonuses to dealing with priests and followers of Sigmar and Ulric and extra bonuses when encouraging them to work together. Pissing off either god can make you lose the mark / painfully.
