Hmmm,
@Boney we got several choices for the lights but only one for the jades. Is that because we know the lights better or do the jades just don't like this topic very much. Also could we try to get maybe the perpetual through other means? Hiring him? Having Panoramia ask (if it really her dad) if he wants to help out?
There's also hidden rolls. Be they diplomacy rolls or rolls regarding Paranoth's knowledge or anything else that might be going on under the engine hood.
In character Mira believes in the whole thing while Paranoth apparently doesn't. Which is weird honestly. Because even if he himself thinks his Order has nothing to offer, shouldn't he be more than happy to be roped in? It would finally allow his Order to actually know more than people think they do.
Honestly, something is quite off. He didn't even present someone to choose in case we agree with his assessment but want the Jade College on board anyway. You know, a secularist that doesn't cause him political problems and that we therefore get for free, or even with the Jade Order secularist faction owing
us a favor instead. That's what I would have proposed alongside the other options in his position.
If there were enough consistent threads in the rumours to distil into useful information, Mathilde would have already done so.
But that is useful information. It means that the nobles of Ostermark think that the problem is likely of the kind that an army might help solve.
Anyway, I was just confused/annoyed regarding how people could report trouble brewing despite having
literally zero information. "The locals are mustering an army against something and every traveler has some supposed reason as to why they are doing it" is reason enough to note it down.
That said, I don't quite get why Paranoth personally cares about this more than, say, Algard or Dragomas or the Emperor, given that his Order doesn't have much of a presence there anyway. Or why the nobility of Ostermark is keeping the debacle a secret from the Colleges. But maybe Paranoth's reasons are secret too, which is fair enough.
In any case, there's definitely at least some sort of Grey Wizard boots on the ground in Ostermark. It's Kramovich's home after all and the place he had to show contact with back when he was still pretending to be a double agent (which he still is, in a way). So no matter how we tackle it, looping him in and connecting with local agents of our own Order before roping in other magical traditions is a no brainer.
It would also make sense to respect Panoramia's extremely obvious desire to not discuss the subject.
She's literally hiding her parents names from Mathilde. That kind of has me worried about the health of their relationship. Especially if Mathilde has a good reason to want to know like, say, "I might meet them professionally and don't want to be blindsided because for all I know they are aware we're dating and might bring it up out of nowhere".
