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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Zedman7054 said:
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Did you guys know Hexwraiths are actually servants of Morr, sent out to collect the souls of evil men who refuse to die?

And would Ranald really troll the entire Empire by being responsible for something similar, but like, more directly good? I think he would.

But in all honesty I saw something today where someone talked about the Damelichter becoming a god, but I just thought something like this to be more fitting. Nice even. Ranald is so inspired by Mathilde he decides their should more people like her. So why not make some? And maybe, just maybe, Mathilde herself gets to ride through the night, a shadow of justice protecting the people who deserve to be protected.
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It's Mandred, not Manfred.

Also, the only source I can see for Hexwriaths being servants of Morr is the wiki. And neither of its sources say anything of the sort.
 
King Arthur said:
There's also a possibility that the image of the symbol itself is known to people who know about the daughters, in which case just, I don't know, having the image on the father side of the coin embroidered on a cloak might have a similar, but lesser, effect to having the coin set to father mode.

It's not a sure thing of course, but just sticking the image somewhere on our person that people can see might be a way to get some info without actively spending AP on it and without having the coin set to parent mode.
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I think that's maybe stretching it a bit. But we could just research the symbol? Maybe that's a path to find something...
 
reignonyrparade said:
In a vacuum, yes. But the fact that this specifically was what Ranald chose to give us as opposed to any other thing he could have possibly chosen to give us ups the chance that he deliberately chose to give us something relevant. By no means a guarantee, but certainly not abysmal.
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I really hope this is not the case. We have given up the chance to research the Gods, to identify them and use that knowledge to help the World, to reach an understanding of them that no one except Them can boast and all the things that we will never know that would have came up from a branch of research no one will ever investigate.


I'd be extremely disappointed if then we discovered that Ranald just went "Oh, yeah I just told you that because it'd be useful to you. I actually have another 10 or so secrets like it laying around".
 
Boney said:
Ostermarker, where the Hedgewise are a matriarchal mystery cult. So it's unknown to outsiders who they worship.
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Is it possible to talk to Krammovitch as a social action to try to gain information about the Ostermark Hedgewise, or is that blurring the lines between social actions and real AP too much?

As a separate but related question, is there a library topic that would cover the Hedgewise in general and/or the Ostermark ones in particular? We're setting up College ties for magic books this turn, dunno if the Greys have anything that would help.
 
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picklepikkl said:
Is it possible to talk to Krammovitch as a social action to try to gain information about the Ostermark Hedgewise, or is that blurring the lines between social actions and real AP too much?
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They're the ones he's spying on for the Grey Order, or spying on the Grey Order for, or both, so he's extremely likely to be tight-lipped about them.

picklepikkl said:
As a separate but related question, is there a library topic that would cover the Hedgewise in general and/or the Ostermark ones in particular?
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They'd come up here and there in books on the Empire of Man, but books dedicated to the topic would generally be possessed either by the Hedgewise or by the Templars.
 
King Arthur said:
I'm not getting my hopes up or anything, but it'd coat us like 5 bucks in universe to get an image embroidered onto a scarf or something and I can't imagine that taking an action ... so why not?
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Isn't it basically Ranald's symbol but with a split down the middle? So if we're still pretending to keep our Ranaldite sympathies a secret it could give people the wrong idea.
 
Hmm, interesting, so the Father coinface is a bit of a leap-of-faith gamble: Flip to this face to autowin social interactions with a certain group, except you have no idea who that group is, and might not even notice when it takes effect, thus every time we flip to the Father face it'll be a blind gamble with no guarantee of payoff as opposed to another more apparently useful face, but one with the possibility to be a total game-changer despite the uncertainty.

That is so narratively and mechanically fitting, given the vote we just went through, I'm honestly impressed. Unless that was totally on accident. In which case I'm still impressed.
 
Personally I'm more than cool flipping the coin to The Father in more low-stress plans, when we're meeting with new people or suchlike.

Glances at this plan's name

…low-stress to a certain degree of certainty, anyway :V
 
For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know the reference:

Though, I will admit, I have no idea what the context for that image is. Some kind of comic-themed educational book?
 
Look I'll be entirely honest, the smallest benefit of this coin thing is that we can potentially woo two entire new divines. While the old world is polytheistic, most people seem to acknowledge other gods and have one as their main and I can think of very few that had the active favour of more than one (in fact its basically just Magnus.)

Being able to peaceably interact with three as a favoured supplicant is a pretty big deal, never mind potentially connecting with their mom.

Like just think of all the times Mathilde's survived or gone beyond expectations cause Ranald's had her back and add in aid in other areas as well depending on who these two are.

I'd say that's pretty damn sweet.
 
Doomed Wombat said:
Look I'll be entirely honest, the smallest benefit of this coin thing is that we can potentially woo two entire new divines. While the old world is polytheistic, most people seem to acknowledge other gods and have one as their main and I can think of very few that had the active favour of more than one (in fact its basically just Magnus.)

Being able to peaceably interact with three as a favoured supplicant is a pretty big deal, never mind potentially connecting with their mom.

Like just think of all the times Mathilde's survived or gone beyond expectations cause Ranald's had her back and add in aid in other areas as well depending on who these two are.

I'd say that's pretty damn sweet.
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Especially if one of them is Hekarti. She's not just the goddess of dark magic, after all, and the Empire doesn't have a god for magic.
 
Ericwinter said:
Especially if one of them is Hekarti. She's not just the goddess of dark magic, after all, and the Empire doesn't have a god for magic.
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Maybe, but is unimportant to me.

A goddess of any type is fine and my personal interests anyway lean towards goddesses whom we have no idea who they are. Maybe something Boney created wholecloth himself, or thing so obscure that we can't dig it out of a book. Something unexpected ya know :p
 
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