In the Middle Ages life was generally shorter, so people were considered adults (with the responsibilities and duties of one) much sooner than our time. Furthermore, in this moment the Empire (and the whole of Mankind) is facing an existential threat. Everyone who can hold a weapon is needed to prevent extinction.
Different roll. Also, that was a popular thread theory but never confirmed. (I'm one of the people who don't agree with it.)
Also Luthor Huss, a puritan asshole priest who thought that Valten was the chosen one was the main person who decided that poor innocent blacksmith's apprentice should be forced to fight. Luthor Huss makes a lot of bad decisons
That is like 3rd evil Luthor from GW. I wonder if that means something.
I mean, the modern US military allows 17 year olds to enlist and go to war (with parental consent), or 18 year olds (without consent).
To be fair to GW here they clearly *intend* for him to be the fantasy conan equivilant of the Luther who started the irl protestant reformation. Its just that the end result comes off as an unhinged proto-fascist.
I believe there's an interesting bit in one of the books between Storm of Chaos and End Times where the guy who replaced Volkmar while he was dead is an awfully corrupt person, but after Volkmar retook power the corrupt guy started making the very reasonable point that having a man who was revived by a daemon as pope might not be a good idea. He's mainly making that argument because he wants to be Grand Theoginist again, but he can't be completely discounted, which I think is cool.
If you don't mind me asking, what made Thousand Thrones difficult to get through? I have no experience reading it myself, only playing it.
Did someone say "Hey Pickle, I know I remember [Thing] but I can't find [Thing], can you help?" No? Well, I'm sure you meant to.
Honestly, the second sentence weakens the argument of the first sentence. Like, everyone's generally more reasonable in Divided Loyalties than canon so it works here, but canon Warhammer, not so much.
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Umm. Won't he grow faster than normal if blessed/avatar/chosen?
I'm not sure why you would think that is the case. He's not a Primarch.
Ulgu is the wind of those sorts of early mysteries after all, of things you don't understand, so it showing up first in most magic using people makes a good amount of sense.
I think the logical conclusion of this would be that the natural progression is for Hysh to be the last Wind that a magical discipline masters- if confusion and mystery comes first, knowledge and certainty would definitely come last.
It wasn't necessarily Thousand Thrones itself. It's 258 pages long and I spent a lot of time reading adventures, so I was starting to get tired of reading adventures. It's pretty hard to get through adventure books for relevant information when you're most likely not going to be running the adventure yourself (not for lack of desire, I have no one to run the adventure for).
Putting aside that I don't think that should be the case, and that just because something is the case doesn't mean it's ok, I would like to say that my statement there was kind of joke-y. An 18 year old is considered an adult, but to me that is barely an adult, and he was forced into the position of being the "Chosen One" carrying the weight of the Empire and all its expectations, fighting in the front line with Ghal Maraz, when he's barely out of puberty. I understand the necessity, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's okay for an 18 year old to be the pillar of civilisation.
Yes, Esmer III. He's mentioned quite a lot in the 2nd Edition WFRP. He hates Luthor Huss and Valten and wants to discredit them, and is generally an asshole. He also made an extremist group of Witch Hunters called the Seekers which hunt down sanctioned Wizards from the Colleges through any opportunity they can get (for example, hunting down undercover Perpetuals who are maintaining the College's safehouses).
