mhm, my main push for who i'd want to recruit go as follows.
The ward people who showed this opportunity to us. The one with mysterious beings with them, the lady we met at the Ulrican temple because hey, they introduced us this opportunity so better reward them back with first dibs as elves in the project. Unsure about what the mysterious beings they were reffering to as unless it's the Grey lords, probably ents or those lizard things that hide in the woods?
Getting the Hedgewise of Nordland as the hedgewise have been noted for their wierd magic involving waystones and unlike the other hedgemages like the 'wise ones' of Ostermark or those in Ostland they don't have the same throw male magic users under the bus like the ice witches from what Codex gathered so yes.
Hedgefolk have many splinters based on their province, so I'll list them one by one. The commonalities between them seems to be that all of them are dedicated to one god or another, typically Ranald or Haletha I believe, but they're not restricted to that as some worship Verena. The only province that hasn't had any Hedgefolk mentioned is Stirland.
Ostland: Reside in the Forest of Shadows, worship their protector goddess Haletha. Fairly insular but has good relations with Ungol Hag Witches from Kislev, which results in them sheltering Hag Witches during a crackdown and the Hag Witches doing the same to the Hedgefolk. The Hag Witches dislike male mages because they believe they fall to the Ruinous Powers easier and will not assist male Hedgefolk. Thankfully for the Ostlanders, they believe the same, so this isn't much of an issue. They are currently dying out as a result of an encounter with a Necromancer in DL and their subsequent refusal to accept help from the other Hedgefolk.
Ostermark: Known as "Wise Ones", which is described in the book as those who believe that they were granted the knowledge of the Hedge by Verena. Have the same deal with Hag Witches that Ostlanders have as well as female dominance of the trade for the same reasons. As mentioned above, they were infiltrated by Sigmarites so they're probably quite cautious.
I'm not throwing out our
Plato Max who's noted of being able to translate our munbo jumbo into actual mage friendly knowledge and causing tension in the group for the male members if they decide to be unkind in who they send regarding their views of male magic users so ugh, ya no for me.
At the very least after we get the waystone project started and make clear fuck of and deal with our male mages at the very least.
The Nordland peeps are also under threat of increasing sigmarite presence in Nordland and Alagard giving us the thumbs up for taking... a long time to inspect their suitability to the colleges makes em prime bait for recruiting amongst the hedgewise i've heard of and in terms of what we can perhaps offer.
Most defenitly if we find one of the children of Ranald and Shallya is a cult that has waystone knowledge as well but that's a maybe so book buying spree go BRRRRR.
Aside from that, the magic House Thyriolan if we can figure out the deal with their isolationist thinking and if it's worth taking them into the group.
Maybe the magic god house Hekarti, depends on the action we take with them.
would prefer at the very least 2 elven houses into the project because elvish presencein the project.
As for Cults, One would be the cult of Verena for their knowledge but our bargaining chips for them is... maybe dwarven assistance in constructing them an uber gamer library meant to last the end times? most definitely something involving our library as was showcased with the light order. Just a question of if it is worth the knowledge they store in their vaults. Dwarf favour trading is a thing in the colleges so maybe, at the very least we can finally spend that boon on something cool and i wouldn't say no to getting to see some of what the cult of Verena has to offer at the very least, even if it a small portion of their books. Imagining an impenetrable library for the Cult of Verena built by the dwarves using our boon that could last a skaven occupation for a hundred to a thousand years would be something, and in the empire at that.
Dwarven Boons:
Karaz-a-Karak (Moderate) / Metalsmiths Guild (Major): You rescued a significant amount of the Karaz-a-Karak Metalsmiths Guild, including their leader, from a sunken monitor. Can be used as either a Moderate-level boon from the Karak as a whole, or a Major from the Guild specifically.
Karak Vlag (Transcendent): They know irrefutably that you risked your soul to tear theirs from the grasp of Hell.
aside from that this is preety much a gamble and i'm preety meh on it but maybe one of the more ancient cults with druidic roots like the cult of Rhya and... I think Tal but that's a gamble.
Mainly pushing for the hedgewise of Nordland, the Frost Ward, magic House Thyindel if we can figure out their isolationist deal and were alright with it, definitely if we find a child of Ranalds cult has waystone knowledge, and maybe Verena.
