No kidding, you haven't even mentioned her most famous witch hunter hat.
Speaking of hats, Altdorf actually has this:
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Meme aside, Paris has weekly protests which turn violent about twice a month (I don't want to use the word "riot" because that's conservative talking points, but...). Local law enforcement gets really good at civilian brutality, at making sure riots happen in the same areas every time, and at warning local shops to close up on Saturdays.
The size of the city matters too. Riots that only hit a tenth of a city with 1 million plus inhabitants? You could have those twice a week basically forever as long as it always hits the same neighborhoods.
(I post this exact joke surprisingly often in this thread. Starting to feel a little weirded out)
I'm honestly not sure the College invented that ritual. I mean, what use could they put it to? It just seems needlessly malicious and convoluted/inefficient. If you can cast the ritual, you can just kill someone. The only reason you'd want to use it is to spread chaos, fear, psychological warfare and torture. The fact that the Dance's spread is uncontained makes it very unfortunate, because if you use it in any public space you'll get bystanders involved. I don't think every Magister cares about morality, but I do think they care about image, and this spell doesn't produce a good one.
"Thats clearly an illegal hat violation."
On a meta level, its probably a reference to Dancing mania - Wikipedia
That or the Cult was just not willing to take chances, and figured even if there wasn't vampires, best to get rid of all the potential zombies any vampire in the city could raise up. Save them a lot of headaches down the line and all that.
It seems very useful for attacking fortresses actually. One spell, then wait and watch as the fortress falls apart. The Colleges are primarily designed to supplement the Empire's military forces after all. Not the mention the "I saw a phenomena and want to recreate it to prove I can" thing, which definitely exists.
In a way it is a good thing this world is much less densely populated then our world. I suspect that using that ritual in modern England might take out the whole country.
Technically speaking 33%-50% taxation is, at least in theory, believeable. That's roughly what we pay here in Denmark*, and people are plenty capable of surviving here. And we do also have a 25% sales tax in addition to that.
1) England has huge stretches of country side. The only way it could take out a whole country is if the entire place is one big city.
To be fair, I think "mildly embarrassing" is underselling it a bit. If the Dwarves had the option of pretending the Dawi Zharr didn't exist to outsiders, I think there's at least a fair chance they'd take it. One thing the Dwarves and Elves have always had in common is debilitating excesses of pride, and part of that is not wanting to confess your greatest shames to outsiders.
Can I interest you in A Practical Guide to Evil? The setting is one where story tropes are as real as the laws of physics, and potentially have equally lethal consequences for those who fall afoul of them.
Literally anyone who sees this can get sucked into the ritual. Would you want to bet on greenskins not being tough enough to last long enough to reach a human population center? I mean, imagine giving a report like this:
Without food? Why without food? They don't need their arms to dance, they can still carry shit and/or load it onto beasts of burden.
