Agreed.
May not be quite Gambler of her, but it is very Deceitful, so I suppose it evens out in the end.
A prayer to The Gambler is literally an attempt to stack the odds in your favor via divine intervention. The idea that the Gambler disapproves of stacking the deck is a bit asinine.
What makes this horrible rather then just bad is that they would do it. They would give Mathy every coin and copper in the vault and desolate themselves if that was what she asked.
The main hurdle here is that dwarves tend to be quite reluctant to hand out runecraft to humans who haven't proven themselves to them, and a seven year old isn't exactly going to have done that (or be likely to for the foreseeable future). Not saying it's impossible to get this sort of thing done- if nothing else, Mathilde's word vouching for it would count for quite a bit- but it's probably going to be more complicated than just asking for a favour.
I don't mean literally all the wealth, just the amount they wouldn't be able to spend.
The survivors of Karak Vlag spent a very long time in the Warp, even if they were in a stable bubble. They might have some interesting insights. Could make a good book...
If Mathilde wasn't short of personal wealth, we'd be much less conservative with our purchases. Doing stuff for money costs AP and we can't get any of the listed people or organisations to give us money.
Protector is primarily protecting the populace from tyranny and oppression, ensuring freedom from such things. No Sigmarite cult would claim the Protector. It's one of the primary reasons Ranald is shut down so much.My take away from this is what assholes the cults are to each other. Guess there are pleanty of real world examples to take inspiration from..
Wonder how Mathilde would react to a cult going for Ranald. Hmm Protector-Signar syncretism rage button.
They can be pretty cool to each other though. The Temple of Clio in question has depictions of Verena adorning its walls in addition to Clio. Even cults that compete with each other can be friends. Not all the time, but sometimes.
The downside I worry about to not cashing in our Trancendent Boon is if it nags on the collective Dwarven psyche, in a similar manner to major unaveneged grudges. It's a huge debt.
I think that's more of a cultural thing than just a biological thing. We've already seen Vlag defy many of the Dwarf's cultural mores, I doubt they've inherited the Grudge/Debt stuff to nearly the same degree as their ancestors. They've never had the luxury of doing so when their primary concern was survival. I'm sure it would nag at them, but to nowhere near the same degree as it did Belegar.
We could have had that for around the price of a (later) one or two topic impulse book splurge. Genuine, if tinpot, Princess-in-exile-through-not-controlling-the-fiefdom.
Hopefully? But those Thungni descended apprentices still got themselves killed out of shame at teaching the non-decendant Runekit.
They didn't teach non-descendants, they taught literally everyone else but teaching dwarves who couldn't trace their ancestry to Thungni is the one line they didn't cross.
Its her Brave trait.
That just means we get to do the I got Paaaid Twice Dance. A Lot.
Ranald Cons: Yes please.
