Mathilde is, by official decree, a dwarf. It would be a very upsetting affair for multiple reasons, but I reckon they'd let her.
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The role of the dwarf was called 'Barazul'. And he was very explicit about how reaching out to Mathilde is a sign of respect:
And I don't think it's just the mere fact of feeling shame so great that you feel only death could atone for it that makes slayers alien to other species; that feeling is rare but hardly unheard of, and that same update mentioned that Markus found his death with a number of slayers on what was a pretty obviously suicidal attack. What really makes slayers alien is that the entire thing is so ritualized, that the dwarf seeking his death is so explicit about it and the society around him so supportive of his sucidial desire.
Last we heard, Algard said he'll ask the Magister Matriarch about it, but whatever he learned he didn't share with us.
This and the fact that they are seeking death but can never just take it, a dwarf will never just kill themselves, and that is I think that makes a slayer , the iron conviction that they must die (that in a sense they have already died) and yet that they cannot just give up their lives, it must be taken from them in battle while they fight as hard as they can in imitation of their God.
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It was somewhat amusing to me at the time that Algard asked a Journeywoman (at the time) if she'd poked her nose into and uncovered the dark and terrible necromantic mystery that slew the Amethyst Patriarch, accompanied as far as he knew by two Battle Wizards, far beneath the surface of Drakenhof.
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This is less likely to come up:
But the details have been requested not to be gone into:
So... on to lighter topics does anyone know if the matter of staffs for apprentices has ever been broached? I have this vague memory that it has, but nothing concrete on the answer, but by the same token I do not want to pester Boney if he has already replied in the matter. I would like to get a staff for Eike as soon as she is out apprentice, but not if it is practically unwise for a developing wizard. A breach of social norms I could deal with more readily, but I know others would be concerned over it.
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Panoramia had her staff-with-a-quirk when we met her earlier in her perpetual Journeying. That milestone would feel more appropriate to me than handing one to an Apprentice. We know Grey College standard was to hand one out on Graduation to Magister, even one step Iater..
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To be fair, she in the area when it happened. The reason she didn't look into it was that she was busy avenging Abelhelm, not that she was a journeywoman.
Mathilde made her own stuff. If Eike decides she wants to be an enchanter and/or stout walking staff turner wouldn't it be best to let her make her own equipment as well? We can provide her high quality materials such as our spare dragon bone or Drycha's arm (here's hoping), but I feel like actually making her stuff might be too coddling. Of course, if she shows no desire to be an enchanter none of this would apply, but making her a staff before she begins her journeying means providing her with equipment before she gets to make that choice.
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I'm not sure if the staff taking root is a quirk of the staff or a quirk of Panoramia's Magic?
Staffs are usually built to increase the amount of power a Wizard can channel. If Eike has the potential to reach Magister, then during her Apprenticeship her bottleneck is going to be control, not power. That typically switches over somewhere during Journeying, which is why a staff is often given upon graduation to Magister.
So a custom-made 'training wheel' staff might be of use to her, but it's going to be something that she'd outgrow within years, rather than something that she could make use of for her entire career.
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Iirc some Master gift their apprentices staffs when they become journeyman/woman. But the Grey's didn't have a staff turner at the start of our journeywomanship and so we got squat.
Edit: I got Grey Wizard'd
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That was actually when Mathilde made Magister.
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Greys still don't have a staff turner. Lord Magister Reiner Starke is just sitting there, staffless.
If I had the editing skills I would make a Mathilde Megamind edit with the caption "No Staff?" but I'm not up for it.
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Who knows, my assumption has been the former. It's been described as taking root when she leaves it the the ground for too long.
We only needed to make our own staff though because there was no longer anyone making them in the Grey College, to hand them out at graduation.
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Lady Slayers do exist, albeit the only extant example easily found is a one-off for an individual game but they do exist it seems!
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From my understanding of things it's likely very rare already. I won't comment on Boney's canon about what Dwarf women do, but given that Slayerdom is in mimicking Grimnir as he was when he went off to his Doom, I believe the Mohawk trumps most conventions of beard and such. Also as seen in Gringri's picture I imagine female Slayers keep some vestige of their plates, if only to show how old they are.
Lady Slayers do exist, albeit the only extant example easily found is a one-off for an individual game but they do exist it seems!
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"Grots hit harder than you do." —Gringri Heldenbrand[1] Once a merchant in the major trade centre Karak Hirn, Gringri Heldenbrand became a Slayer after a deal went wrong. Although details are sparse, it is known to have involved a swarthy Tilean merchant, and shipments of Tilean Steel dueling...
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From my understanding of things it's likely very rare already. I won't comment on Boney's canon about what Dwarf women do, but given that Slayerdom is in mimicking Grimnir as he was when he went off to his Doom, I believe the Mohawk trumps most conventions of beard and such. Also as seen in Gringri's picture I imagine female Slayers keep some vestige of their plates, if only to show how old they are.
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Stuff, not staff. I was thinking of her robes, too. And all the many items she didn't literally make she still earned through hard work and headpats. But my main point was that maybe Eike ends up wanting to fill that vacant spot in the Grey Order, and in that case she will definitely want to make her own staff. I think we should let her decide what she wants to be before giving her anything.
So a Grounding Rod would be a decent investment?
Yes, but getting into specific items might be a tad premature.
I don't think we need to go overboard in equipping Eike for anything—after all, the only thing Mathilde started her journeying with was a scroll of summon shadowsteed and an angry mirror snake, and she did fine.
That's a good point. We should get Eike an apparition to haunt her. Maybe the whispering darkness?
It builds character.
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We don't want to coddle her she can get her own apparition.
I assume the basics of 'don't blow up' the majority of training days. so we cant just pump Eike up with every petty spell.
plus, magic isn't the only aspect of her training we will be in charge of.
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All the more reason to go into apparition binding before she start her journeying, we can give her all the excitement of a personal daemon without the risk of getting eating by one.
granted, it will be wise to be outside of knife/sword/staff whatever range when Mathilde tell her that she unleashed her personal bound apparition on her to 'build character'.