...you mean the force dedicated almost entirely to blind faith is winning over the ones less faithful? And the Dwarves are literally planning on a resurgence. And the Empire isn't even on the backfoot right now. I understand if you're bitter, but the vote hasn't even started yet, and snapping at people is probably just going to make people less likely to go for your preferred option.
If that is your read, then we already have an answer- if a cease and desist order is guaranteed, then we know he does not want us to do it.
…Holy shit, that's something I didn't even think of. Sure, Ranald pretending to be other gods was considered, but Mathilde pretending to be him, or another god? Huh. That could be useful. I'm just not sure if Faith is needed for it to be an option.
There's a difference between making progress on something and researching it, and there's the possibility in the air, albeit small and unlikely, that Ranald might want us to look further. It's less eating the cake and more making note that the cake is there, it can be offered, it can be bought, and eaten. But we don't know if we can get it for a myriad of reasons. Such as lacking money, or the store owner not liking us, etc.
...the knowledge that drive them mad and willing to break the world? That knowledge is more like him giving his followers timebombs to blindly poke at. I don't think any of his followers are actually allowed to grasp anything like his true nature at all.
You have misunderstood me. For a sacrifice to be a sacrifice we need to give something up. If after the sacrifice we can just go and re-create it then we have not meaningfully given up anything and thus the sacrifice is pointless. If we choose Faith we are not asking Ranald for his blessing to conduct research. We are sacrificing to him the possibility of that research. Thus there is no cease-and-desist order because it is not applicable.
Mathilde explicitly says that if the Cults or the Gods themselves found out it would be war. There is no asking them, becasue that is literally advocating for blasphemy. The God themself will personally smite us or torture us like Prometheus. Truth is being completely clandestine in the operation and hoping to Ranald that- Oh wait, we wouldn't hope to Ranald because we'd be betraying him.
So personal privacy is negotiable in the name of searching for a nebulous truth? Never mind the fact Promethius shared fire he stole. We can't. We wouldn't be thanked, nor would lives inherently be saved. We'd be lynched.To be clear: Prometheus was a hero who saved the lives of countless mortals, and everyone with ethics should do the same. We just shouldn't get caught doing it
They most certainly are if we wind up with multiple, incomplete (or worse, failed) projects because of insufficient attention due to swinging vote focuses. Look at the delay between Vitae followup actions gaining traction, for an example of the event, if not the fallout.
Assuming the option itself will have a positive outcome, compared to the risks it invites. Already, we're seeing the beginnings of another Tongs-level theorizing storm, but we have no idea what this could actually lead to at all.
I just said that either result may still end up with progress, even if it doesn't take the form of scientific research in the future, and for all, we know it might be more a series of quests and favors. It's not guaranteed but that is like any other option in the quest and life.
...was it? I'm pretty sure the thread came up with investigating the Coin like this in the first place. Wait, every research option Boney gives us to guaranteed to have good results? Tongs has gold in the seam too, it just requires working with Dhar. Much like how this could be useful with incredible downsides.
