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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Codex said:
This was funny, but also, I'm a bit surprised. I did not expect Paranoth to know so much about Drycha. Did this guy actually go into Athel Loren? Athel Loren isn't the type of place that's all that welcoming, and Boney has said that it's not like Drycha is a topic that Athel Loren actually wants to talk about. His familiarity and knowledge of the whole thing is almost as if he read the damn Army Book. Paranoth continues to surprise me. Was he boyfriends with Scarloc or something?

Yes, I know it's far feteched and odd for my brain to jump to that conclusion, but I will not apologise for having one setting.
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It could be worse. The underlined section makes me imagine Paranoth as an isekai. 🚛
 
mastigos said:
My meaning wasn't "ask an npc" it was "regardless of what the thread decides, the fluff should probably include a prayer session, most likely followed by a cat studiously ignoring the question"
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Then that is not really something to vote for, i think, or at minimum be worded very differently.
Asking Ranald might be something Mathilde and Heidi decide to do, but the vote is, ultimately, about what we want to see, and then Boney will come up with the method that Mathilde arrived to the answer.
 
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I trust Ranald's judgement in this at all. Yeah, he may be a god, but he's also a liar and a gambler who takes big risks—not because they pay out well, but because the consequence is always entertaining to him, won or lose.

And I'm really not comfortable throwing a seven year old into that.
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I trust Ranald's judgement in this at all. Yeah, he may be a god, but he's also a liar and a gambler who takes big risks—not because they pay out well, but because the consequence is always entertaining to him, won or lose.

And I'm really not comfortable throwing a seven year old into that.
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Ranald will egg Heidi on, that's what she's afraid of.
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I trust Ranald's judgement in this at all. Yeah, he may be a god, but he's also a liar and a gambler who takes big risks—not because they pay out well, but because the consequence is always entertaining to him, won or lose.

And I'm really not comfortable throwing a seven year old into that.
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There is no honor among thieves, but there is honor among Ranaldites. That is a saying in the Cult of Ranald telling you that betraying your fellow Ranaldites will get you shivved.

I'm not advocating for letting Ranald decide Mandred's fate, but I'm not fond of this rhetoric. Ranald isn't some unthinking addict who will throw every one of his followers into danger for his own amusement. He is Mathilde and Heidi's friend. Even if he won't honor other people, he will honor his friends.
 
Codex said:
There is no honor among thieves, but there is honor among Ranaldites. That is a saying in the Cult of Ranald telling you that betraying your fellow Ranaldites will get you shivved.

I'm not advocating for letting Ranald decide Mandred's fate, but I'm not fond of this rhetoric. Ranald isn't some unthinking addict who will throw every one of his followers into danger for his own amusement. He is Mathilde and Heidi's friend. Even if he won't honor other people, he will honor his friends.
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I get where you are coming from but there is plenty of conceptual space between 'I think Ranald is too much of a risk taker' and 'I think Ranald is an unthinking addict who will throw every one of his followers into danger for his own amusement'
 
DragonParadox said:
I get where you are coming from but there is plenty of conceptual space between 'I think Ranald is too much of a risk taker' and 'I think Ranald is an unthinking addict who will throw every one of his followers into danger for his own amusement'
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The statement I'm replying to is ltierally saying that Ranald is a liar and a gambler who takes risks that can turn out either good for bad not for benefit, but for his personal amusement. I legitimately don't see how you're leaning towards the first when it looks to me like it's leaning towards the second.
 
Well, this is very exciting.

I won't be able to be too active in the thread for another 24 hours or thereabouts, because I am traveling, my laptop screen broke overnight somehow, and phoneposting sucks, but I don't feel a strong need to argue against the dominant vote so far, so it works out ok.

I notice there was no discussion of having a proverbial "spare" to go along with the heir, one more able to be elected Emperor, but I guess Heidi's devotion to the Gambler lines up with that. Put all your chips on Mandred rather than dividing them up among multiple children.

[X] Wizard
The political gains of a Colleges graduate becoming the Elector Count of Reikland are significant, though the colleges are definitely going to fight over who gets to have him, assuming he doesn't show a predisposition to one of the eight along the way.

[X] Ulric
For those voting Sigmar as a politically palatable Anointed option, I strongly encourage Ulric instead. It's not going to win, but I think it would be very in character for Mathilde to consider Ulric more than Sigmar, since Sigmar is kind of a tool and Mathilde's dealings with the Ulricans have been pretty uniformly positive. There's also the political angle of binding Laurelorn more tightly to the Empire via coreligionism.

(That said, I'm still rooting for Empress Roswita at this point.)
 
Derpmind said:
"I Was a Warhammer Gamer But Now I'm a Plant Wizard for The Empire?!?"
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The "twist" is that My Plant-Based Healing Magic Is Actually The Most Powerful Ability and everyone is constantly surprised by how OP the protagonist is. He ends up as the leader of his organization, naturally, but he doesn't do any actual leading because that is too boring, instead spending most of his time going on wacky adventures.
 
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Boney said:
"Such an abrupt departure is the sort of thing that starts rumours," you observe as the doors swing shut and you run your Magesight over the room, confirming it's as empty as it seems.

She waves a hand dismissively. "Those rumours exist for every Empress, doubly so for the attractive ones. At least with you there's no way for it to cast doubt on Mandred's legitimacy."
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Will MAGDA WESSEN be able to resist the TEMPTATION of not only her Godson's MOTHER, but of the ILLICIT THRILL presented by the EMPRESS herself?!?!
 
Also, I want to say how glad I am that Paranoth squeezed in to the social lineup. We got exactly what I was hoping for from that social action: the wizardly, academic context from someone who is used to thinking of Athel Loren in oppositional terms, to go along with the mystical lived experience of someone whose nature is closer to the being in question. Great synergy there, and the headpats in the form of his spit-takes from "you kicked Drycha's ass without knowing who or what that was?" were *chefkiss*.
 
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