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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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ChronOblivion said:
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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I want to finish our sword style aswell, then see if we can codify a "Shadow Sword" that can do the important flickering tricks from Rune of the Unknown, so we can teach both at the Grey College. Put a even bigger stamp onto the Ulgu spellbook.
 
nothingtoseehere said:
I want to finish our sword style aswell, then see if we can codify a "Shadow Sword" that can do the important flickering tricks from Rune of the Unknown, so we can teach both at the Grey College. Put a even bigger stamp onto the Ulgu spellbook.
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I'd put that as quite low on the priority list, tbh. I'd want to put Aethyric Vitae and Apparition Binding firmly behind us before starting brand new R&D projects.
 
Right bracket, as transcribed from a flagellant's frothing dialogue with a Night Goblin stoned off his ass, translated by a Stirlandian peasant:

17. Karak Vlag
18. The We

19. Urmskaladrak(The Dragon)
20. Urmskaladrak(The Landship)

21.Cython
22.Deathfang

23. That unnamed gyrocopter pilot that we never repaid properly for our dragon skull
24. Our predecessor as spymaster of Stirland

25. Codrin Petrescu
26. Ljiljana

27. Wolf(the priest)
28. Wolf(the wolf)

29.Teclis
30. Thorgrim Grudgebearer

31. Anton
32. Gabriella von Ernachtafen
 
Boney said:
Don't put too much faith in terminology, as something being called a rifle is no guarantee that it actually has a rifled barrel and probably just means that the writer didn't want to use 'handgun', which is more technically correct but is misleading to modern audiences because the meaning has drifted over the centuries. Hochland's 'long rifle' is technically an arquebus, formally known as Leon Todmeister's Fantabulously Far-reaching Harquebus of Unforseeable and Unperceived Bereavement, and has been around for at least five hundred years so it would have very primitive rifling if it had it at all. And if we really go down the rabbit hole, then the Reikspiel word for all of the above would probably be 'gewehr', which means something like 'long gun' and doesn't necessarily specify rifling.
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To say nothing of the countless science fiction writers who speak of "plasma rifles" or "laser rifles" or "particle rifles", even though there is no rifling in them either.
 
Ericwinter said:
On the way back from Dum, we came very close to stealing a mammoth. This spawned a number of mammoth-related memes, including one about a Mammoth Everchosen that would've been Archaeon's mount if it hadn't turned on him.
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Thanks I usually just read a few pages before and after an update so sometimes these thread madnesses escape me completely.
 
Interesting. Obviously chaos pushing things a bit early because of Vlag. Which really makes me wonder wtf Nurgle is up to. We never once saw Nurglites of any power in the chaos wastes, which is frankly weird.

the good news, such as it is, is that chaos probably does this a lot more often than they actually produce everchosen and the process is likely to be best measured in years to decades.
 
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Byzantine said:
Interesting. Obviously chaos pushing things a bit early because of Vlag. Which really makes me wonder wtf Nurgle is up to. We never once saw Nurglites of any power in the chaos wastes, which is frankly weird.

the good news, such as it is, is that chaos probably does this a lot more often than they actually produce everchosen and the process is likely to be best measured in years to decades.
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Vlag, Almost half a dozen gods walking up to their backyard and stealing one of their toys, Ranald punching Khorne in the face, the Dwarves getting a resurgence... all of those probably played a part.
 
If I'm reading the wiki correctly, the canon 13th Everchosen began his reign in 2519, or about 32 years in advance of the current quest date. Of course there's no guarantee that the quest will follow that timeline.
 
Briefvoice said:
If I'm reading the wiki correctly, the canon 13th Everchosen began his reign in 2519, or about 32 years in advance of the current quest date. Of course there's no guarantee that the quest will follow that timeline.
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...That is a suspicious number. Considering, you know, there are apparently 32 candidates.
 
Boney said:
Grey areas like 'if Borek was killed on the Expedition, do we record it as a Grudge?' and 'does evil performed against Imperial Dwarves get recorded, and if so, by whom?' are matters which are debated and addressed by Loremasters specialized in Grudgelore.
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That sounds an awful like like someone combined the most tedious parts of being a historian and a lawyer. Eugh.
 
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Ok, so some quick theorizing: we got the chaos wastes at the absolute low point for the chaotic powers. If the brackets for the everchosen are just starting up, then the rebuilding of numbers must have more or less just completed and the *potential* armies at at their most numerous, but least aggressive and organized. From here on out, as the gods pick their favorites and pit them against each other, the armies get larger as the winners absorb the losers and the magic gets more potent as more deaths and dead bodies feed into the zeitgeist up there.

My bet is that too be a potential everchosen, you need to be in the chaos wastes to get the heavier touches from the gods and access to the blood bowl. Maybe a few dark-horse candidates who could sweep in at the last minute and decapitate/claim an army, but a minority I think. The rank and file need to be blooded and boosted too, after all. So what canon characters are in the north now? I'm not well-read on that side of the lore, but I'm thinking that since the info is that 31/32 slots are talked about in the published materials, they can't all be shamans or warlords from the Kurgan. A few of kul's old lieutenants, a few named demons, borek maybe?

Pretty sure the one non-canon candidate is the guy we watched count coup on Cor-Dum. He has a specific mutation, we can keep an ear out for rumors.
 
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