I mean, a not uncommon theory is that there's a connection between Sotek and Sigmar, considering that both are connected to Twin-tailed Comets and that in recent editions Sotek is not neccesarily an Old One.
That was Mathilde investigating the substance so she could have dwarven levels of thoroughness before involving a Runelord.
We could just reveal the fact that AV exists and hire someone who can make powerstones for some CF, letting us get it done in 1AP.
Not sure if you saw my edit but I when I said next I meant as our next course of study not next turn. As for elves supplying Powerstones we can already buy them if we want to from the colleges. I'm mainly thinking of the benefit of having the inhouse knowledge and experience in WEBMAT.
...I had not considered that going for Truth means that it becomes pretty unsafe to publish our work. Oof. That means that trying to find Teclisean applications that the Colleges could use (like refueling the Winds on a battlefield to allow Battle Wizards to continue operation, which seems like the most straightforward possible result from booping it with a powerstone) becomes kind of closed off forever, since we won't be able to share.
And if there's one thing Lizardmen are known for, it's that their artifacts never leave Lustria.
I'm not quite following: why does picking Truth lead to closing off our ability to find other prosocial uses for AV?
I think the biggest issue with who to collect is that there are lots of conflicting visions ranging from: of course we will collect good gods to bad gods first to only bad gods. Goals range from IDing cults to stopping Waaaghs to killing Gods. This diversity of goals and motivations, combined with competing AP actions does give me concern that Truth won't be followed up for a very long time, in which case its benefits are non-exstistant.
I want to avoid wasting AP out of a desire to hide knowledge from both our own college and even from the other members of WEB-MAT.
You already don't want to share knowledge of AV, and given as we haven't shared knowledge of AV that seems to currently be the majority position. Given an additional reason to keep it secret (the gods might know that it can be used in this way, and investigate whether we're doing so) do you really think we'll become more open about it?
I mean, if that happens then by the same token the risks will be non-existant.
I really doubt that is an issue. For one, AV already is out there, because we've sold a good chunk to runesmiths. So perfect secrecy isn't possible in any case. And if we put it out there, then so other wizard might decide to do the same as us and make a ruckus, but the blame will fall on them (and it probably doesn't happen anyway because Avatar is kind of a prerequisite and incredibly rare, while the Cults probably wouldn't try for the direction). They won't immediately search Mathilde for heretical secrets.
How is that any different for Faith? We don't have to mention anything about the interaction with the Divine. So that only leaves people extrapolating from what we publish on non-Divine interactions, and that isn't solved by the Faith option.
