That's over an entire continent. The big cities having 1 or 2 institutions (with the truly massive ones like Altdorf and Nuln having 4-5) means there's a bound to be a decent number of them even with much of the populace being illiterate.
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That's over an entire continent. The big cities having 1 or 2 institutions (with the truly massive ones like Altdorf and Nuln having 4-5) means there's a bound to be a decent number of them even with much of the populace being illiterate.
To add to your point the age of Three Emperors was something like 800~ years long; so all empire-wide institutions are likely tripled because each territory needed their own version (plus possibly Marienburg, if they were angling to secede from the 'empire' at that point)
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More like a butchering and leech breeding academy 😏
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It's mentioned that Streissen's practices are largely picked up from its close proximity to Nuln, which makes the other more farm focused Averlanders look at them like they're weird as a result. It's also mentioned that the University of Nuln's medical division severely protested the Cult of Morr's restrictions on bodies being dissected after death. So much so that the Univesity keeps it a secret that they hire grave robbers to bring corpses to the University for dissection in their medical classes. So I do think that Streissen has some good butchers.
Speaking of the University of Nuln, one particular group in there got so wasted they thought summoning a Greater Daemon of Nurgle was a good idea. Needless to say, most of them died and those who lived started spreading "remedies" causing disease in anyone who took them. They call themselves the Brotherhood of the Crimson Plague.
University life in Warhammer is wild.
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I'm sorry. Did I just hear you say "something that you have to be as daft as an umgi beardling to understand?"Something that even an Umgi Beardling can understand.
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Wait. I missed this while reading through the thread and just realised what this means.
Just to make sure I went back to look over Settra's stats again. Settra has Weapon skill 7, Strength 6 and Initiative 3 normally (he also has LD 10, T5, and W4).
So, if I got this right, back in the "Golden Age", Settra had Weapon Skill 10 and Strength 9? He was as skilled as a bloodthrister and physically stronger? (S9 vs S8). That's kind of insane.
In fact, Settra's stats as a skeleton are kind of crazy. He doesn't have any magical items augmenting his stats. He just has T5 as a pile of bones. What the hell is he made of.
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Maybe it's the fact that he lacks organs?
He's made from sheer, unadulterated Settra. Nothing else could contain his glory.
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Early Modern Germany is what Sigmars Empire is based off, and that was a literate enough society we have diaries left that were written by wandering mercenaries. Empire-wide it's likely 20%-30%, with big cities having a majority of their population literate
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As far as I remember the elite among the Nehekarans were all heavily blessed by their gods, in permanent ways.
Like the elite guards of Ka-Sabar were blessed by Geheb to have skin tougher than bronze, the strenght of half a dozen men and near-infinite stamina.
These blessings were even stronger on the actual Tomb Kings and Settra was the greatest of them all.
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Ah I checked. Apparently Tomb Kings in general have T5, and Necrotects have T4. Maybe it is the general "hard to kill" nature that gives them high toughness. It might be to compensate for them being flammable and therefore very susceptible to being burnt to death.
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That just makes me jealous. Why aren't the Gods of the Old World this interventionist? We sure could use a bunch of super soldiers to fight CHAOS.
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A lack of large groups of slaves to conduct mass-sacrifices to the gods on?
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The Nehekharian gods walked the world according to their people in their history which was probably during the breaking of the polar gates.
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I think the special connection the Nehekarans had with their gods made that possible?
They were somehow closer to their gods than usual, which also resulted in stuff like Nagash being able to use the chosen of the gods against their power and led to most of the gods dying when Nehekara eventually fell.
So one could guess they made themselves unusually vulnerable for gods.
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Is that the reason? I don't think it was ever made clear. If so, then I stand corrected.
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Article: Settra the Imperishable was a king of Khemri. Born in a time when Nehekhara was plagued by drought, famine, disease and war he was determined to lead his people to greatness. He was an arrogant, vain and tyrannical ruler, but also especially devout and instigated the building of many great temples so as to earn the favour of the gods.
On the first anniversary of his coronation he beseeched the gods to restore Khemri to its former glory and to give him the strength to unite all of Nehekhara under his rule. He sacrificed his own children in a grand ritual to demonstrate his dedication, commitment and worth. The gods were pleased and when the Great Mortis River flooded for the first time in decades Khemri was purged of its sickness and collected a harvest of unparalleled size. Seeing this as evidence that he was the chosen of the gods Settra became the first Priest King of Nehekhara.
It wasn't just slaves he had sacrificed,but princes.
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Because they saw what happened to the Nehekharian Gods (and people) and want none of that?
The Lady is - Grail knights are her super soldiers.
The others don't go the super soldier route but they still empower spellcasting priests so it isn't like they're just doing nothing.
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The Lady kind of irritates me. She only empowers male human bretonnian nobles and not even all the pure of heart who go on quests get the Grail. Gefreid the Pure's been questing for 40 years and his epithet isn't a lie, and he has not seen a glimpse of the grail in years. Really flawed system.
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Tell that to Questing Knights that spend their entire lifes on the Quest and often dying on it without finding the grail.
The flaws in the system is why 'the lady is actually a elves god' is actually a bit of end time lore I actually like.
Ithe creation of knightland is literally a younger goddess playing doll house because the flaming chicken told her she couldn't make her own race, so she reproduced a bunch of humans. But then shit happened(well, will happen) so she had to reproduce it into a super solider program.
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As pointed out by another poster, the Lady is closer to the Nehekharan gods in terms of how much blessings she gives.
"will god be pleased with my sacrifice?"
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Is an entirely possible result, and it doesn't mean you get whatever you sacrificed back.
Mythology is filled with difficult to appease gods.