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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Boney said:
A peek at something that might become significant in the long term:



There is a candidate behind each question mark. Over time you might hear about distant events that could indicate who they are and how they're going.
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We actually know who it will be :V

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As a Journeywoman, Grey Wizard Mathilde Weber is dropped into the deep end of intrigue and double-dealing after a surprise assignment to the necromancer-afflicted province of Stirland. Follow her trials, travails, feats and discoveries as she makes her way in the world and does her best to...
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Boney said:
A peek at something that might become significant in the long term:



There is a candidate behind each question mark. Over time you might hear about distant events that could indicate who they are and how they're going.
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You probably won't answer, but I am curious how many slots are characters that have already been introduced/canon notables?
 
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Boney said:
A peek at something that might become significant in the long term:



There is a candidate behind each question mark. Over time you might hear about distant events that could indicate who they are and how they're going.
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Instant first response: Ah, so that's how Chaos is always able to say they planned it all along. They back the better part of 50 candidates so that whoever survives they can just look like they planned it all along while all the failures are forgotten.

In other words: BEHOLD, THE EVERCHOSEN!
 
Boney said:
Regular canon.
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Which implies the one is either DL or someone you just created off the top of your head... and given I can't think of a reason for you to do that, I'm assuming the former. Now the real question is, Mammoth or Mathilde? :V

More seriously, I actually do legitimately think it might be Mathilde, if for no other reason than this list somehow becoming relevant to her. Unless we'll be given chances to intervene--which is probably unlikely--actually being on the shortlist is the only reason I can think of it mattering. Otherwise, we would just get whoever we get and deal with it. I wonder how long Mathilde could run the long con by pretending to actually care?
 
So what are the odds that Mathilde is one of those Everchosen tourney candidates?

Though I'm not sure whether the joke there is Maximum R-strategy Destiny, or Maximum Gray Wizard Infiltration.
 
Codex said:
Oh great. Came across another blister in the timeline. I'm fine with minor issues between different 8th edition army books, but goddamn is this one bad.
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Those coins Mathilde collected, they have a few details about that history.
Boney said:
The Strygosi coins are much more straightforward. The early coins from when the city was Mourkhain are largely dedicated to its ruler Kadon, bearing one of his face, his pyramid, or his crown. The only exception are ones bearing a different face entirely, its eyes closed and its features seeming more Arabyan than northern, which you spend some time puzzling over. When Ushoran claimed the city the coinage increased substantially in quality and started using a regnal calendar, which is extremely straightforward with an immortal ruler. It gets somewhat tedious to see the same fanged face on every single coin, so it's the silver coins that capture your attention, bearing the banners of various Orc tribes and Waaaghs and the year they were defeated. There's a lot of different victories commemorated. You feel a new appreciation for how incredibly difficult it must have been to build a civilization in the Badlands.

The Nehekharan coins are easily the most varied. Nehekhara was a land of city-states and each of them minted their own coins in glory of their rulers and their Gods, which means that even though there's only really a representation of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Dynaties, there's still a dizzying array of coins to catalogue, dating from Lahmizzar to Alcadizzar. That last one causes an itch of familiarity at the back of your mind and it takes you some time to realize why, and upon comparing the Nehekharan coins depicting Alcadizzar to the Mourkhainian ones with the unknown face, you find they're as identical as the quality of the coinage could reasonably permit. What few historical records there are agree that Mourkhain was founded by the Lodringen tribe, so why were they commemorating a Nehekharan King on their coinage? Did they take in Nehekharan refugees? Did Alcadizzar escape the fate of his homeland and spend time in Mourkhain? You put the matter aside as something to investigate in the unlikely event you ever have more time than you have things to do.
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Though maybe they're commemorating Alcadizzar's visage without knowing who's it is because that's the corpse they got the crown from?
 
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Boney said:
A peek at something that might become significant in the long term:



There is a candidate behind each question mark. Over time you might hear about distant events that could indicate who they are and how they're going.
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TOURNAMENT ARC INCOMING LADS! YEOOOO!

(20 quid on '?' beating '?' at the semifinal, but then losing to '?')
Boney said:
All but one are canon characters.
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Mammoth friend! Yay!
Boney said:
I'm not going to answer this question at this time.
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Obvious confirmation that it's Mammoth friend is obvious.
Genuinely hope they win. (Am v. excited)

... Are you allowing omakes to give +'s to the rolls?
I'd like to have a +5 to '?', '?' and '?' please :)
 
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Well that's completely terrifying. I have to imagine that this won't really become relevant for a very long time, or at least I hope it won't. Would be one hell of a final act.

On another note, since we still have some downtime, we should iron out our self-improvement priorities. I get the feeling that finishing our Master sword style is going to be the first thing we get squared away. But afterwards, I hope Mathilde can really direct attention towards Apparition binding, including the actual capture part, binding them to a device or spell or something, and then grappling with the problem of whether she's going to publicize this stuff. I absolutely want to spread the idea of apparition binding, the main reason I liked having that as our price was because I wanted to pry a secret out of this guild and spread it everywhere to maximize benefit to the field. But it ended up being a bit more politically sensitive than we thought.
 
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Alright, so I think I have the left bracket worked out, or at least this is what the Celestial Magister who mistook some of the Jade Order happy shrooms for our Waagh-soak delivery swore was definitely going to happen:

1.Gotrek Gurnisson
2.Borek Forkbeard

3.Egrimm Van Horstmann
4. Alric

5. Karl Franz
6. Skarsnik

7. Archaon
8. The Evermammoth

9. Eshin-friend, yes-yes
10. Thanquol

11. Reiner Starke
12. 'Heidi'

13. Alkharad
14. Vlad von Carstein

15. The Directorate of Marienburg as a hive minded chaos spawn
16. The current Grand Theogonist
 
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Ericwinter said:
You know, it always amazes me to realize that the Dwarves are a people so invested in their pride, that knowing how best to assuage harm to it is a literal field of study.
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I mean, as of 8th edition, they're so invested in it their gods gave them a big arse book (either perfect size for all grudges the Dwarfs would ever need ot magically expanding) to hold all the grudges they knew the Dwarfs were going to collect.

Briefvoice said:
This whole discussion from Thorek was so interesting. It's clear that he despises what the dwarves of Karaz Ghumzul did and feels that their descendants have "inherited sins" but at the same time even he has to admit that they have "fat, happy lives". No matter how much he tries to make it sound like a curse.
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I read that differently. Thorek doesn't think of "fat, happy lives" as a curse, and didn't want it to sound like one. He just hates the fact those (to him) traitors have such lives.

Mopman43 said:
Well, that's ominous, I'm not gonna lie.

(Honestly, not sure how it might become significant, unless the quest ends first)
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Mathilde could be in Ulthuan when the Hordes sweep south. Or the Everchosen could get ganked five minutes after getting picked. Or The Hordes fail to make it south of Kislev and the Empire never finds out. Or no Everchosen gets picked because all the candidates die.

BeepSmile said:
... Are you allowing omakes to give +'s to the rolls?
I'd like to have a +5 to '?', '?' and '?' please :)
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This would be hilarious. Blindly helping random characters seek to become Everchosen.
 
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