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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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I'm reading the End Times and I'm around 2525 IC at the moment. Not super relevant to DL, but the world ends 2528 IC. 2525 is roughly a year after Nagash gets revived and it's when he starts invading the Tomb Kings. It's also around the time that the Auric Bastion breaks down after Balthasar Gelt becomes fully corrupted and turns into a Necromancer apprenticing under Vlad von Carstein.

I do think that his corruption would have been pretty awesome if it was stretched out over the length of an entire book instead of a chapter, but in terms of the concept, they did a decent job presenting the "well meaning mage dabbles in things they don't understand, falls down a slippery slope" narrative. Fun fact, what got the snowball rolling was Balthasar Gelt touching Hysh with his soul at the same time as Chamon and weaving the two together in a desperate manuever, which slowly unraveled his sanity until he decided to dive into the deep end. I kept thinking of Mathilde and how that could have been her under different circumstances while reading.
 
Codex said:
Fun fact, what got the snowball rolling was Balthasar Gelt touching Hysh with his soul at the same time as Chamon and weaving the two together in a desperate manuever, which slowly unraveled his sanity until he decided to dive into the deep end. I kept thinking of Mathilde and how that could have been her under different circumstances while reading.
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Oh dear, looks like we will have to revamp Project Tongs for renewed consideration.
 
@Boney: you might have explained before, but what do you view as the lore behind the Fire Spire? It seems like you're referencing it as a mix of priesthoods with the divine references.
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
…. Sure

But I'm assuming the Liber Morris is staying in the forbidden, no really fuck off, part of the library.
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Unfortunately someone wrote an omake that had Mathilde leave it to Algard and a line of it really stuck with me so now I want it to go to him:

"I regret that I must bring you the best kind of bad news: It could have been so, so much worse."
 
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Tobtorp said:
OK, so the formula for a good work/life balance and a nice employer is ultimate cosmic power, got it.
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Unionizing is for Goblins. Real wizards make their boss behave by singlehandedly having the power to beggar him or lynch him and burn down his house, no collective action required.

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As I typed this, I wondered if Light Wizard Choirs unionize.
 
Lampshade said:
She has at least three different paths to immortality as far as I can tell, and that's without counting the undead options. She would really have to go out of her way to avoid them if she wanted to drop dead from age at this point.
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What 3? Becoming one with Ulgu, Shallya and?

Codex said:
I suppose unionising in the Warhammer Universe is essentially them going Goblin Mode.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4ZskMflw4&ab_channel=GianniMatragrano
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I didn't understand the jokes😅
 
IronFist said:
Presumably necromancy or vampirism
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We do not have access to vampirism... I mean I guess if Mathilde wanted to risk just getting bitten by one of her collection, but they are unlikely to just hand her the Blood Kiss out of the kindness of their unbeating hearts. She would have to figure out how that works (and it tends to be bloodline specific) then find out some way to force them to give it to her without being enslaved to their will. That sounds like at least 3 AP worth of research. :V
 
It would be interesting to see how elf's react to young teens and children.

Can't be a lot of them around considering that they age the same as humans up till physical maturity. (Or at least the lanky stage of teendom)

'Smol' person is an incredibly small part of the elf life cycle. There can't be many of them around at any one time.
 
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Jyn Ryvia said:
It would be interesting to see how elf's react to young teens and children.

Can't be a lot of them around considering that they age the same as humans up till physical maturity. (Or at least the lanky stage of teendom)

'Smol' person is an incredibly small part of the elf life cycle. There can be many of them around at any one time.
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If they end up projecting their attitude towards elf children I imagine they would feel somewhat protective and maybe a little perturbed by the fact that she is expected to learn magic at this age, nevermind if she gets arcane marks. They will know intellectually that this is normal for human wizards, but this is a very isolationist society that is only now opening up.
 
Though I'm still hoping that eike ends up taller then Mathy by 14.

I don't think the Hochschilds are native strilanders. So there is a high chance that she doesn't have the short gene.
 
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