- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
So essentially anti-fanon.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- warhammer warhammer fantasy fantasy be gay do crimes (gay) female protagonist pansexual protagonist ck2 quest divided loyalties mountain vietnam ranald is real this is a dwarf quest (dwarfs) this is maybe an elf quest this is not a vampire quest this is not an empire quest try it and find out open voting
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Lovely update as per usual, and I'm glad to see my concerns about the Grey Lords have seemingly proved to be baseless.
Not necessarily:
Just because there are real, and part of the community of the elves.
Doesn't mean that they aren't amoral mad scientists. (There has to be a reason that the rest of the elves don't want to talk about them.)
So don't worry, there is still plenty of ways this goes wrong! 😊
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Given that peasant-opposition to noble excesses is the entire point of the Herrimaults, I wonder if Ranald has a solid following among them? (May-or-may-not include the ones who are secretly nobles)
@Codex, out of curiosity, have you read Realm of the Ice Queen yet? In general, I think it presents a better take on an RP book focusing on a nation in the Old World that isn't the Empire. Might be my favorite RP book- it's closest competitor is Shades of Empire.
I said this before about Bretonnia:
A palatial style redistributive economy may just work best in Bretonnia. Unlike the Empire it's mostly cleared land, so the rural population within their claimed borders is probably a lot higher, and they also have fewer cities. However, they're still subject to the same random disasters that the Empire is when a Waaagh or Norscan invasion sweeps in and burns a year's harvest. This means they have a much greater need for secured local stockpiles distributed across their territory. Hence, knights in castles running palatial economies to build up and preserve those stockpiles. That way the year the harvests are burned by Norscan raiders and the year after that as the nurgilte taint is cleansed from the fields the knight can distribute from the granaries built up over previous years.
The Empire, by contrast, is much more concentrated around cleared 'islands' surrounding towns in their forests, so it's population is more locally concentrated. They probably have higher producivity fields but concentrated in a much smaller area. The more distributed Bretonnians have to rely on different ways of concentrating force.
I think you pretty much have to assume that Bretonnia works on a palatial* rather than manorial economy. That makes some sense in a situation like the one faced in Warhammer Fantasy. You need to keep your food supplies in very strongly defended central locations and be able to distribute resources across both time and space to cope with frequent disasters of various scales.
* In a palatial economy palaces exist to draw in a large proportion of resources produced in the region around them but then send most of it back out again to the places where it's needed while retaining stockpiles to smooth over supply problems.
* In a palatial economy palaces exist to draw in a large proportion of resources produced in the region around them but then send most of it back out again to the places where it's needed while retaining stockpiles to smooth over supply problems.
A palatial style redistributive economy may just work best in Bretonnia. Unlike the Empire it's mostly cleared land, so the rural population within their claimed borders is probably a lot higher, and they also have fewer cities. However, they're still subject to the same random disasters that the Empire is when a Waaagh or Norscan invasion sweeps in and burns a year's harvest. This means they have a much greater need for secured local stockpiles distributed across their territory. Hence, knights in castles running palatial economies to build up and preserve those stockpiles. That way the year the harvests are burned by Norscan raiders and the year after that as the nurgilte taint is cleansed from the fields the knight can distribute from the granaries built up over previous years.
The Empire, by contrast, is much more concentrated around cleared 'islands' surrounding towns in their forests, so it's population is more locally concentrated. They probably have higher producivity fields but concentrated in a much smaller area. The more distributed Bretonnians have to rely on different ways of concentrating force.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The Protector is only one of Ranalds four facets after all. And each of the four is equally important in His eyes.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
They exist within people to some degree due to emotions. There was that scene with Roswita where Mathilde worked a bunch of stuff about her out because of where the winds were in her body, including the "believes she's going to die" thing because she had lots of Shyish in her brain.
- Location
- California
I think it would be very interesting to see how the Herrimaults would be portrayed in this quest. I'm not the biggest fan of their canon setup, since they're portrayed as unwaveringly heroic outlaws who always live up to their ideals, but their existence is due to a Bretonnia where not everybody lives up to their ideals; that creates a kind of dissonance.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
― Ursula K. LeGuin
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They are attracted to certain mental states and repelled by other Winds, so they'd circle around some people, blow right through others, and eddy and pool in some.
Does that mean mad people can attract and accumulate dhar ?
All people can attract and accumulate dhar.
Through only their state of mind ?
Extremes of emotion can accelerate Dhar corruption as Winds are attracted and then get absorbed and corrupted by the Dhar, but anyone exposed to Dhar will begin to accumulate it no matter their mental state.
- Location
- being near locations is my passion.
Awww, that's sweet. Dhar just wants to be friends with people.
We should give it a hug.
And i suppose extreme of emotion by themselves can initiate dhar corruption as extreme of emotion is textbook chaos corruption.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
Why do you want to set the friendly thing on fire?
- Location
- USA
Obviously, we should hug it without wearing the belt.
No. If extreme emotion by itself was enough to spontaneously create Dhar, the world would already be dead.
Codex
Fantasy Addict
- Pronouns
- She/Her
No I'm still on Knights of the Grail. Realm of the Ice Queen is next on the docket
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Now let's be clear, that goat was - by technicality - a landed knight and you will refer to Sir Wigglechin as such!
...note to self, if we get the time help Ranald steal the Grail or an equally powerful substitute so he can use it to bless the herrimaults.
The only End Times canon I like is Valaya as the Widow, because it gives her something better than just being the forgotten Ancestor God with no lore.
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- Location
- Australia
I love that Prince Piggalo I is actual Warhammer canon.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Wait, what?
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His.
I must admit that I first read that as "Valaya as the Widowmaker", and I was extremely confused. Having read it properly I'm now only somewhat confused.