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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Ericwinter said:
Hmm, has it been long enough since we last visited Vlag for anything interesting to have developed? It's only been a year or so, I think?
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I am not sure you can say it has been long, not on the scale things would develop IC. We have had a lot of updates, but it has been what, a year and a half IC? I do not think we will see much change in terms of how the hold works and as to politics... these are dwarfs on both sides and they have been presented with something really odd. Outside of life and death situations, which this is not, expect them to go slow
 
Boney said:
Magical.
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Small followup if it is not too much trouble:
  1. Would the Eonir count them as militarily relevant?
  2. Are there any imperial books on the subject? Or to be more specific are there any college books on the subject? I suspect the cult of Taal have their own books on this but we would obviously have to go ask them about it with an action and they might just say no
 
DragonParadox said:
Would the Eonir count them as militarily relevant?
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Yes.

DragonParadox said:
Are there any imperial books on the subject? Or to be more specific are there any college books on the subject? I suspect the cult of Taal have their own books on this but we would obviously have to go ask them about it with an action and they might just say no
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The book category would be Liminal Pathways. Includes Worldroots, Beast-Paths, Fey Paths, Walking the Hedge, and the Impossible March of the Damned Soldier. Empire, Bretonnia, Eonir, Asrai, and presumably Asur.
 
Hmm... OK I cannot think of any other imperial books we want to make the library purchase this turn imperial. We could do something like Back-fill and then add Imperial Liminal Pathways (full buy) out of our own money. As there is no option for Dwarf books on the subject it does not make sense to make a sponsored library buy on the subject. We can certainly spare the 250 Gold.
 
Boney said:
the Impossible March of the Damned Soldier
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Can someone explain what this is? I couldn't find anything on the wiki.

DragonParadox said:
OK I cannot think of any other imperial books we want to make the library purchase this turn imperial.
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Some ideas I had for College subjects were elementals, apparitions, forest spirits (though Eonir would probably be better), elementalism (hopefully there's some way to get stuff out of the College in Nuln), magical creatures, and the Chaos gods rituals.
 
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StormySky said:
Can someone explain what this is? I couldn't find anything on the wiki.


Some ideas I had for College subjects were elementals, apparitions, forest spirits (though Eonir would probably be better), elementalism (hopefully there's some way to get stuff out of the College in Nuln), magical creatures, and the Chaos gods.
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I'm a bit confused why the wiki wouldn't have it, but alright. I made a huge post on rituals a while ago, Impossible March is one of them:
Codex said:
I thought it would be fun to go over all the rituals I've been able to find descriptions on. Note that many of them aren't really the type to be cast by the Colleges, as I'm including Necromancy, Daemonic and Divine rituals in here too. I hope this is helpful in showing examples to people of what rituals are like, including their ridiculous conditions, their effects and the possible backlash you'd get from casting it:

Daemonic. Very High difficulty. Requires at least 5 spellcasters, a full moon, the head of a Beastman shaman, two human sacrifices, one man and one woman both of whom haven't eaten in a week and a thimble of warpstone. Four hour casting time, if it fails the ritual backfires on the casters. Effect causes everyone within one mile with a WIllpower of less than 50% to turn into a beastman for 24 hours and go into a killing spree. The ritual reverts after 24 hours but anyone who survives doesn't come out mentally unscathed.
Arcane. High Difficulty. Requires a dragon's tooth, a diamond worth 500gc, a gong blessed by a dying priest and for the caster to be naked and painted with woad. Failing the ritual causes you to get swallowed by the earth. Eight hour casting time and a 3 mile range, the ritual affects an area equivalent to a small town. The ritual creates an earthquake lasting one minute that destroys all but the strongest buildings.
Arcane. Chamon only. I'm sure we all know what this does, Johann's done it. I'll copy paste the post I already made on it Gilding in relation to Johann:

Fingers and Toes are cosmetic, so he did them as part of Hands/Arm/Feet/Leg. Hands and Arms are separate processes, the Hands improving manual dexterity and the Arms improving Strength and increasing the Armor of your arm. The process is separate for each hand and arm, and I'm pretty sure Johann did it for each hand and arm instead of skimping on any of it.

Feet and Legs are also separate, and a separate process for the left and right ones. Feet grants bonuses to resisting fatigue on travel by foot, and leg grants armor of the Legs on top of boosting Movement. He probably did every single one of these.

There is no Torso Gilding in Realms of Sorcery for some reason, but I'm pretty sure that it should exist and Johann took it. He also took the Lung gilding which means he doesn't even need to breath air, which he told Mathilde that he uses on solo ventures, probably by using gas.

The Lung one is dangerous if failed, as it causes you pain every time you breath if you fail, but then we get to the very delicate part. The Head. The Head can either be done all at once, or separated into components such as Ear and Nose (eyes aren't included in the book for some reason, but it's clearly a thing). Ears improves hearing, Nose improves smell, and Eyes would logically improve sight. Head lets you gild everything at once, giving you the benefits of everything being gilded (improved senses overall) as well as boosted head armor. The downside is that it is one of two Gildings that results in instant death if failed.

There is another very dangerous gilding that results in instant death. The Heart. If you Gild it then you no longer feel emotional pain, which let me tell you I'm not sure if that's worth risking death.

The book only gives guidelines for these modifications, but you can get creative and gild more parts I'm pretty sure. The only ones in this list that are left for Johann are the Head ones and the Heart. After the disaster that happened with his eyes, I'm not sure if he's keen to possibly ruin his other senses, and I'm not sure he should risk death for the Head. The Heart is not worth it. Maybe he can do Liver or Kidneys or Intestines I guess. I'm pretty sure bones and muscles are linked to the limb in question so I don't think you can gild them directly unless it counts as a separate "organ".
Arcane. Very High difficulty. Effect causes a target to dance until they die. Anyone who looks at the dancer must attempt to resist or they will join the dance. Other conditions include an incredibly well made lute strung with hair from a unicorn's mane, five gallons of the blood of agile dancers, and one pair of dancing shoes made by the finest cobbler of the "realm he cobbles". The caster must also be a dancer to cast this. Finally, in order to curse someone the caster need to spend four hours casting while the target is held immobile. If the caster fails the casting, they dance until they're dead, but they don't cause anyone who looks at them to dance too. Only a Shallyan caster with Cure Insanity can stop the Dance. It should be reminded that the Dance infection only occurs by looking at the original cursed Dancer, not at the ones they infect.
Arcane. Medium difficulty. Requires the boots of 100 soldiers, one coin of the wages of each soldier who will travel, an eagle's wing, and an order for deployment written on flawless parchment in ink made from the troop commander's own blood. This ritual is pretty complicated, but basically, it's a teleportation ritual with a ton of caveats attached to it. You can cast it with one person, or you can cast it with multiple people with no upper limit. Bear with me here, because there's a lot to go through:

Essentially, you and whoever is helping you cast the ritual cast throughout "all the hours of darkness in one night". If you're successful, you teleport an entire group of individuals, including the casters."The march's objective may be any natural place in the Old World to which the body could eventually travel, unbarred, on foot". It's important to note that this teleportation is basically acceleration rather than traditional teleportation, so it actually counts as a "full night's hard march". At least half the people being teleported have to be soldiers. The number of people being teleported depends on the total magic scores of every caster involved in the ritual. Each caster is in charge of a portion of the group. Each caster who fails the cast suffers the consequence alongside their portion.

What are the consequence? You get transported to somewhere random anywhere in the world. There's a reason most soldiers who go through this spell really hate it. Many of them see their friends disappear.
Arcane. Medium Difficulty. Requires a sheet of parchment made from the skin of a stillborn lamb and bearing the exact words of the oath written in the blood of a judge, a drop of the oathbreaker's blood and spit, and a vial containing the breath of one wronged by the breaking of the oath. The ritual must be cast within one mile of the oathbreaker and the oathbreaker may not speak a word for the 4 hour casting time of the spell. If the ritual fails, then you're forced to carry out the oath yourself. If the ritual is a success, you force someone who has sworn an oath and has either broken it or intends to break it, even if they swore said oath in jest, under compulsion or when blind drunk, to carry it out in both letter and spirit to the best of their ability. They will not be suicidal in doing it and will be capable of holding back for the right opportunity, but they will fulfill it to the best of their ability.
Daemonic. Very High difficulty. Requires the whole and unhewn corpse of a Daemon of Nurgle, a forty-pound candle made with the drippings of three dozen men killed by the Neiglish Rot, brackish water collected from three foetid swamps at least one thousand miles from each other, and the hand of a mad surgeon. The caster must also have survived the Neiglish Rot at least once in their life. If they fail the ritual they contract Neiglish Rot and auto fail their saving throws, resulting in near guaranteed death over the course of the illness. If they succeed, everyone within one mile must test for toughness or contract Neiglish Rot. I'll talk about it later, but NR is pretty horrific, and it's very serious business to get infected by it.
Arcane: High Difficulty. Requires a drop of blood taken from a male of the line since the previous sunset, a fist-sized chunk of warpstone, a solid silver goblet worth at least 100 gc, and a stillborn goat. No member of the lineage the ritual is being cast on may be expecting child or an auto failure happens. A failure results in your lineage being affected instead. A success means every single person from a particular family related to the individual you're targeting by blood will be infertile for all time. You can choose to affect only men or only women. 8 hour casting time.
High Nehekharan. High Difficulty. Requires a piece of stone from a Nehekharan building, a map of the tower drawn with the blood of a mason, the skull of a Stone Troll. Caster must be capable of Stoneworking. Failure results in one hand turning to stone permanently. 4 hour casting time, this ritual causes a 50 foot tall building to spontaneously form. The layout is determined by the map drawn as part of the ingredients.
Necromantic. High Difficulty. Requires the sword arms of ten dead soldiers, a drum made of bones and Human skin, a fragment of Warpstone the size of a skull, and a barrel of rum. An assistant must continuously beat the bone drum while the four hour ritual takes place.The ritual raises up to 30 skeletons or zombies. The difference between these and standard undead is that they don't count towards how many undead the caster is limited to controlling, there is no time limit for them, and they listen to orders no matter how far they get from the caster. They remain even if the caster is slain. If the caster fails the ritual, the undead turn on them.
Arcane. Medium Difficulty. Requires the hearts of five followers of Khorne or Shallya or a combination of both, a Griffon's feather, a calf born in the last spring in the lands targeted. It must be cast on the highest ground in the area to be affected. Takes 4 hours to cast. Success means a rain of blood for one hour over an area of five square miles, feeding vampires on the march and disheartening the enemy. Failure means a rain of holy water instead.
High Nehekharan. Incredibly High difficulty. Requires the hands of a midwife, the last drop of a Human's blood, a Dragon's tooth, the womb of a cow raised on blood, the remains of a Vampire. 4 hour casting time, and it may only be cast on an "accursed location", which means an area where a large scale tragedy has taken place. Failure on the ritual causes the caster to suffer the same tragedy as those in the accursed area. A successful cast returns a Vampire to unlife. The caster need to not only be successful, but beat the casting roll by five. If the casting roll is not beaten by five, then the Vampire doesn't come back but difficulty lowers a little. The ritual can be attempted again in another accursed location that is at least 20 miles away. Each failed cast takes years away from the caster's life.
Necromancy. Medium Difficulty. Requires the birth caul of a sailor, a ship that sank with her crew, the hands of a drowned priest of Manann, a ship's manifest written in blood, a fist-sized chunk of Warpstone. Failure causes the caster to be tormented by visions of being drowned in an ocean of damned souls. Success in this four hour ritual means that a sunken ship rises from where it's resting place. There are as many skeletons or spectres as there were crew when it sank. The ship is as rotten as it was on the ocean floor but it rots no further. The ship needs no wind on its sails, it moves at an even speed regardless of weather.
Divine. Very High Difficulty. Requires a quart of blessed liquid (different cults prefer different liquids, including fresh water, brine, animal blood, and beer) and a holy symbol of your cult. The caster must purify themselves for a full week and then spend a further two days contemplating divine texts before drawing their holy symbol with the blessed liquid and casting for 1d10+4 hours. Casting becomes easier on holy days and holy ground. A failed cast causes the caster's god to retaliate viciously with their Vengeance. A successful one summons a divine servant, which differs based on the god and the variation of the ritual cast. This can summon a holy animal, a Venerated Soul, or an odd manifestation like a twin tailed comet for Sigmar and a Cat's Paw for Ranald. Whoever summons the Divine Servant has absolutely no control over it, and it does what it pleases. The caster must have a very good reason for summoning, or they will suffer the Wrath of the Gods.
Divine. Difficulty fluctuates based on the size of the area consecrated. The materials are variable but generally involve blessed liquid, holy symbol, sacrifice appropriate to the cult, a fitting site and sometimes more. Casters must purify themselves beforehand. Most widely known divine ritual. If properly cast it boosts all divine casters of the particular god within the consecrated area and holds certain implications against specific creatures like Vampires. If failed, the ritual makes it look like it worked but it didn't.
Divine. Sigmarite only. Shallyans have their own version called Rite of Casting Out. Ritual casts out a Daemon possessing someone. Medium Difficulty for the actual cast, the difficult part is the battle against the Daemon. Requires an illuminated copy of The Book of Sigmar, the sign of the hammer or twin-tailed comet, new Priestly vestments, rope and nails for binding, a vial of holy water, a hammer, a goat (or some other animal) or mirror, and a roaring fire. Also needs the Exorcist to spend three consecutive days prior to casting the ritual in meditation and prayer. Once they are finished, they gather their witnesses, one to see and watch, one to help, and at least one who is bound to the victim by blood or marriage. The helpers must bind the victim to a tree with stout rope and nails, while the Exorcist readies the animal (or mirror) to contain the fiendish entity. Failure results in the Daemon becoming more resistant to exorcism, or if a miscast occurs allows the Daemon to possess the exorcist. Success means the fight actually begins as the Exorcist and Daemon get into a battle of wills. The process is long and arduous and can end in either victory or defeat.
Daemonic. Medium difficulty. Ritual from the Codex of Unspeakable Damnation. Requires a bowl of the caster's blood, a sacrificial knife covered in Human excrement, and a Human sacrifice. The Human must be nude and painted in profane sigils and runes invoking the names of Tzeentch. The caster must forgo using magic for 8 hours and abstain from alcohol and stimulants for a week. Failure causes the caster to glimpse Chaos, blasting away sanity. Success draws the soul out of the victim, killing them in the process and turning the soul into a ball of stretchy ectoplasm. The ball lasts for a few weeks and can be expended at any point to boost a singular spell significantly. 1 hour casting time.
Arcane. Easy. 1 hour casting time. Requires the caster's body to be nude and covered in arcane sigils from head to toe with ink mixed from the caster's own blood and expensive compounds (20 gc). The ritual must be cast before sleep, and the caster must sleep in a circle made from a chaos follower or Daemon's blood. Daemon's blood boosts the spell, making it easier to cast. Failure causes the caster to suffer unadulterated Chaos, blasting sanity. Success in the ritual allows the user to transport their soul to the Aethyr into one of the Legendary Locations in the Realm of Chaos. The spirit form is invincible to harm but not insanity, and what is seen by the caster is likely to leave them disturbed. Seeing the Legendary Locations provides an unprecedented level of knowledge and understanding of Chaos. This ritual is from the non-redacted version of the Liber Malefic, available in the Cathedral of Sigmar's archives.
Daemonic. Every detail in this ritual varies based on the circumstances. Difficulty is determined by the power of the Daemon being summoned, casting time is dependent on the Daemon, ingredients are determined by the Daemon, and the consequences of failure are dependent on the Daemon and its power level. Generally the consequences are severe and involve insanity and mutation, and depending on the Daemon straight up death. Ritual can involve drawn Octagrams so the caster can make the process of containing the Daemon and contesting its willpower to gain control easier. If the caster has the Daemon's True Name, it makes things much easier as it allows direct summoning and proper containment, as well as domination of the Daemon in question. Certain Daemons can be bound as familiars. Well, technically any Daemon can be bound as a familiar as long as an agreement is reached, but there's a reason you don't try to bind strong Daemons as familiars.
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StormySky said:
Can someone explain what this is? I couldn't find anything on the wiki.


Some ideas I had for College subjects were elementals, apparitions, forest spirits (though Eonir would probably be better), elementalism (hopefully there's some way to get stuff out of the College in Nuln), magical creatures, and the Chaos gods.
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I think it is worth keeping in mind what we were told about subjects related to the Dark Gods before Dum, if you do not have a good excuse for why you want stuff like that you are going to have some people look over your shoulder in askance.
 
DragonParadox said:
I think it is worth keeping in mind what we were told about subjects related to the Dark Gods before Dum, if you do not have a good excuse for why you want stuff like that you are going to have some people look over your shoulder in askance.
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The Colleges (or at least the ones that use Apparitions) make a distinction in regards to Apparitions and Daemons in case the Witch Hunters come knocking, so they're not a subject directly related to the Dark Gods. There is literally a book that Gehenna pulls out from Mathilde's shelf that's all about the differences between Apparitions and Daemons.
 
Codex said:
The Colleges (or at least the ones that use Apparitions) make a distinction in regards to Apparitions and Daemons in case the Witch Hunters come knocking, so they're not a subject directly related to the Dark Gods. There is literally a book that Gehenna pulls out from Mathilde's shelf that's all about the differences between Apparitions and Daemons.
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I know, I was referring to the fact that the post I quoted literally has 'the Chaos Gods' as a proposed subject.
 
DragonParadox said:
I know, I was referring to the fact that the post I quoted literally has 'the Chaos Gods' as a proposed subject.
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Ah. Well, the majority of the post was talking about every form of spirit with Chaos Gods being only one subject, so it seemed to me like you were talking about the overall subjects rather than just the Chaos Gods. I misunderstood.
 
From what limited knowledge Mathilde has of Drycha, I think possibly the most efficient use of a Drycha staff is to turn it in such a way that it enhances translocation and space manipulation spells that have to do with liminal spaces. Ideally it would enhance Pit of Shades and Smoke and Mirrors, and maybe Penumbral Pendulum depending on how it works.
 
Codex said:
From what limited knowledge Mathilde has of Drycha, I think possibly the most efficient use of a Drycha staff is to turn it in such a way that it enhances translocation and space manipulation spells that have to do with liminal spaces. Ideally it would enhance Pit of Shades and Smoke and Mirrors, and maybe Penumbral Pendulum depending on how it works.
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That sounds like a good bet, but I am not sure how much use we would get out of such a staff. Sure we can make it for Eike, but it will be a long time before she can make use of Battle Magic of all things. We would make one for Starke I guess since he does not have a staff, but I do not like him enough for that.

I wonder if we can use it as part of that old Smoke and Mirrors tower idea? Though I am not sure it would even be useful now that we have a gyro. For that matter we now live in one of the few places where the locals would both be able to sense what we did and likely be very displeased at the backdoor into their city.
 
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    • [*] [KISLEV] Waystone Project: Hag Witches
    [*] [WIDOW] Waystone Project: Ice Witches

    Tally

    As the planning for drilling into the secrets of the unfortunate local Boyar wraps up, you re-enter the conversation. "The Waystone Project has built up quite a roster of Magisters, Mages, and a Runelord," you say. "The magical traditions of Kislev would be more than welcome to join it."

    Boris and Ljiljana exchange thoughtful looks. "Your Colleges are built on Elf secrets," Boris says to you. "Perhaps can squeeze some more out of them."

    "Me and Nadezhda will be busy with Boyar," Ljiljana says. "Militsa only speaks Gospodarinyi, Věnceslava would get herself into trouble... Zlata can go. Good with languages, good with new people, thirst to prove herself."

    "I think I will send word to Boyar Yevschenko. Baba Niedzwenka knows Elf and Imperinyi, and he will be happy for break from her." Ljiljana frowns at that, but doesn't comment.

    "We will be happy to have them," you say. "I'll send word to our Embassy in Kislev City to do up papers for them. If they make their way to Aarnau or Middenheim, I can arrange an escort to Tor Lithanel."

    "I didn't think I'd see you again after you decided to go chasing Elves," Boris says frankly. "But if you give us something we can use to push back the Za on top of all you have already done, you will have proven the value of the partnership between Kislev and the Empire."

    "I'll do my best to live up to the examples of Magnus and Teclis," you say firmly.

    ---

    You return to the Empire in high spirits, passing through Bechafen on the way to send word to the Chancellor of what the problem was and that it has been taken care of. They won't immediately stand down the army on the word of a single person, but they'll be pointed in the right direction for confirming things for themselves and able to start quashing the wilder rumours. You also have reports of your investigations sent off to those that sent you on them. There are, you note, significant gaps regarding the matters you were supposed to look into, but you doubt anyone will mind since you made it so that they were no longer a problem that needs investigating.

    Having spread word everywhere you were required to, instead of heading west back to Tor Lithanel, you continue southwards towards a destination just beyond Stirland. There is, you're aware, a problem with your library. Karak Eight Peaks is quite some distance away from the Empire - though that distance will seem shorter once the Black Water canal is completed - and with its shelves bare of all but your personal collection, it would be difficult to convince most people why they should have any interest in it. This could trap you in a nasty little circle of being unable to expand your library without the prestige of already having a large library. But there's one group in the Empire that has already bought in to Karak Eight Peaks - the Halflings of the Moot. And though the Mootland Genealogical Library in Eicheschatten might not be the most famous of libraries in the Old World, the millennia of accumulated history and culture it contains would go a long way to giving your library a bit more substance.

    The Genealogical Library is run by the Cult of Quinsberry, the Halfling God of knowledge, ancestry, and tradition. The position of Head Librarian is intertwined with that of High Priest, and the current incumbent is a man with substantial sideburns and an unlit pipe never far from his mouth, and he nibbles on the stem thoughtfully as you explain your proposition.

    "And in providing a space for our books, you thereby increase the size and prestige of this library o'yourn." You nod, unabashed. "If yer willing t'take what yer given, might be an arrangement t'be made. Could always use more space, but there's nothing here that's entirely a waste of it. If ye can guarantee that we'll still have access..."

    "Elder Hluodwica has secured rights of free passage for all citizens of the Moot in Karak Eight Peaks," you confirm, "and Barak Varr has ships serving as ferries from the Skull River to Ulrikadrin."

    "And soon that canal upriver. Well, as for the bloodline records, those've travelled to the Karak will've been wanting copies at some point. And those't go there or come here to marry will mean that sooner'r later, there'll be need for copies of every extant bloodline. Long's yer able to wait, ye'll accumulate the lot."

    "I have no problem with that. It's intended to be a long-term project."

    "And ye'll cover transport, I take it?"

    "Just let the local EIC branch know and they'll take it from there."

    "The one with the mark of three swords?" You nod. "Alright then. It seems we have an agreement."

    You smile as you shake the Halfling's hand. That went surprisingly smoothly, but you suppose it's a natural enough partnership. The Cult of Quinsberry is religiously bound to preserve an enormous amount of information, even though the passage of centuries has rendered a great deal of it nearly useless. It may be stricturally required to preserve the complete family trees of the Halfling Clan that was wiped out by Waaagh Gorbad in the 1700s, and once in a very long while it might be necessary to consult a single one of those very many tomes over some manner of lineage or inheritance, but the space and effort and expense it takes to store and preserve entire roomfuls of books would weigh heavily on any library. You've come out of nowhere and offered to take on all of that burden at your own expense, and the only downside is it will now take someone a fairly long boat ride on the rare occasions one of those tomes is needed. And considering the amount of regular traffic back and forth between the Moot and the Karak once the canal is completed, it probably won't even be that big a bother for someone already heading to the Karak to bring a request for a specific tome or set of tomes, and for someone already heading to the Moot to take those books with them.

    And while you're not very likely to ever need any of that information, this does get you a foot in the door to make copies of their other materials. Which... is easier said than done, admittedly. As you experienced for yourself in Stirland, there's only so many literate workers available at any given time. You'll need to think about some sort of method to secure a large number of reliable scribes. Perhaps an arrangement with the Cult of Scripsisti, or perhaps getting the EIC to begin recruiting from everywhere they have a presence, or perhaps a school in Karak Eight Peaks to teach and recruit citizens of Karag Nar who don't wish to become Undumgi... there's a number of possible approaches, and choosing between them all is a matter for another time. For now, you can consider this a good day's work - the first official partner library of the Kron-Azril-Ungol, and soon an influx of tomes that will go some way to filling those empty, echoing halls.

    ---

    Thus concludes the work Mathilde performed these past months, but not every waking moment was filled with work. With whom did she spend her free time? The five with the most votes will be chosen, not counting those locked in.

    [+] Social interaction initiated by someone else (locked in)

    Laurelorn
    [ ] Max
    The entire time you've known Maximilian, he has been pursuing his own goal of true transmutation via magically-enhanced blacksmithing. Check in to see how he's going with that.
    [ ] Thorek
    See what inroads Thorek has made with the Major Houses of Tor Lithanel.
    [ ] Cadaeth
    You've had unanswered questions about Dryads for some time, and your encounter with them in the Shirokij gives you a good pretext to ask them.
    [ ] Magister Tochter Grunfeld
    Get to know Tochter Grunfeld, ritualist, traditionalist, and veteran of the Sylvanian Campaign.
    [ ] Baba Niedzwenka
    Get to know the Erengrad Hag Witch that Tsarevich Boris has sent to contribute to the Waystone Project.
    [ ] Zlata
    Get to know the young woman who is the Ice Witch contribution to the Waystone Project.
    [ ] Panoramia - Tor Lithanel
    Now that you're somewhat familiar with it, introduce Panoramia to the people and sights of the city.
    [ ] Panoramia - Laurelorn
    Now that you're somewhat familiar with it, introduce Panoramia to the beings and biomes of the forest.

    Karak Eight Peaks
    [ ] Gretel
    She's apparently getting involved in the Karaz Ankor's ambitions in the Border Princes.
    [ ] The We
    See how their self-guided societal evolution is going.
    [ ] Okri
    The new Loremaster of Karak Eight Peaks is Okri Drakkisson of Clan Bronzebeard, formerly of Karak Norn. Meet your replacement and gauge what kind of person he is.
    [ ] Kazrik and Edda
    They are to be wed. Attend their nuptials.

    Foreign Relations
    [ ] Stirland
    See for yourself how the war against Sylvania is progressing.
    [ ] Middenland
    See how the Ulricans are going with their new Eonir coreligionists.
    [ ] Karaz-a-Karak
    To investigate their preparations for the Mount Silverspear campaign.
    [ ] The Black Water Canal
    Pay another visit to the canal project, and see if there's any further signs of sabotage.

    Friends Abroad
    [ ] Roswita
    Get a sense for who will control Sylvania after you turned down the position.
    [ ] Kasmir
    See how his partnership with Sylvania's native faith has been going.

    Following Up
    [ ] Mira
    Give an in-person report on the events in Talabheim, and find out how Alric reacted to them.
    [ ] Alric
    Or you could cut out the middleman and ask Alric himself about current events.
    [ ] Paranoth
    Give an in-person report on the events in the Shirokij, and see if he knows anything about the being you defeated.
    [ ] Amber College
    Check in on the salamanders.
    [ ] Gold College
    See what's become of their research into Skaven technology.
    [ ] Organ Vat
    Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it.
    [ ] Skull River Ambush
    Look into the investigation of the mining of the Skull River, and any consequences of it.
    [ ] The Weber Estate
    Pay a visit to your fief, to see if anything has changed. It probably hasn't.


    - There will be a two hour moratorium.
    - Which witch dicerolls.
    - Thanks to everyone that provided ideas to replenish the pool of possible social actions.
     
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    • I'm definitely voting for the wedding and one of the follow-ups. Not sure about the others yet, though I expect a Panoramia option to win.
     
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    [ ] Panoramia - Tor Lithanel
    Now that you're somewhat familiar with it, introduce Panoramia to the people and sights of the city.
    [ ] Panoramia - Laurelorn
    Now that you're somewhat familiar with it, introduce Panoramia to the beings and biomes of the forest.

    The only votes I need.
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    [ ] Kazrik and Edda
    They are to be wed. Attend their nuptial

    Oh! How very nice to see. We've got to drop by.
     
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    [ ] Panoramia - Laurelorn
    [ ] Panoramia - Tor Lithanel
    I absolutely wants one of those 2 (with a preference for Laurelorn), but for the rest i would like most things.

    [ ] Baba Niedzwenka
    [ ] The We
    [ ] Mira
    [ ] Paranoth
     
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