Performing a service to Ranald is among the most probable actions, given the current votes. That cat is getting out of the bag disclosure or no.
The only way the Dwarfs would find out about a properly executed service to Ranald is if they have some Umgi spies infiltrate it.
This is the same Wizard that decided to tell Roswita an account of her time as Spymistress, rather than simply yoinking every connection and network she made that she could pry with Roswita none the wiser and putting them under the jurisdiction of the Grey Order to dispose of as they see fit. The moment Plan Be A Bigger Witch won, Mathilde became a character that isn't exactly your typical Grey Magister. So yes, forgive me if I find the Mathilda is a typical Grey Magister argument to be very unsatisfactory.
I see a big difference between the two. Depriving an Elector Count of most available intelligence resources harms the Empire as a whole. And the Grey College would neither approve nor pay the network cost the way the county of Stirland could.
In principle I like this idea. In practice, it amounts to asking the QM to make our decisions for us, and that's a very slippery slope.
In practice it asks the QM to flip a coin. Nothing wrong with that, as long as it is only occasionally.
On the shenanigans, here is what they are about:
I don't like pointless torture, even for Greenskins, so I voted no to shenanigans.
I agree that torturing sentients is always immoral. But I don't think Mathilde would see it that way. So I voted in favor.
On the other hand, if the Chaos Dwarves have become an active threat, the Dwarves should probably know.
We had no indication of this either way.
Gork/Mork schism, Black Orc involvement and origins, what little she gathered of Chaos Dwarves. Information given without a source is not uncommon in the Grey College. Compartmentalisation and need-to-know.
Nice. I also like that we aren't telling them about Ranald's empowerment. Even if there are plenty of sympathizers among the Grey College, it is still an Imperial intelligence agency, and those are often in opposition to various aspects of Ranald.
The eventual report to the Grey College will not mention her possession.
Does that mean that we will default to trusting the Dawi more than Master Regimand and our own Patriarch? That doesn't sound smart, what with Dawi not being the subtlest bunch.
It kind of is, though. Not in very strongly defined or very obvious way, but it is.
One could call loyalty to our Order and their MO to be a more important indicator of integrity.
You make a Dawi friend and human friend.
If both are actual friends then the human one is more likely to not have some slight break said friendship forever.
It's a bloody mockery of stereotypical professor incapable of a modicum of tact.
That's pretty much the most negative possible interpretation of the professor coupled with the most charitable reading of those Dwarfs. Not something that automatically bears out by reading the text.
If everyone thought that he'd just handle his own stuff, why worship him?
Since when is that how religion works? People don't pray to God to help Him, they pray to God to get helped by Himm or thank Him for stuff he's already done.
Full disclosure of Legend of Ranald's Heist To Steal Mork's Power would have been a cool addition to his legendarium, but oh well.
That could have happened regardless. All it needs is for Mathilde (or a random divinely inspired prophet of Ranald) to make up a fitting legend and spread it among the faithful.
The only thing I can do is provide direct citation for this:
When I read that Teclis seems a 100% in the right. At worst he didn't phrase stuff diplomatically/submissively.
See? See? Word of God agrees with the stay silent voters. /s
have you maybe considered that the people taking Umbridge with the conduct of one side might be doing so for legitimate reasons? rather than just being hypocritical fools?
Voting for one option over another for reasons that have to do with the conduct of certain supporters as opposed to the pros and cons of the options is never right. Even if it happens far too often in modern politics.
There were multiple legitimate reasons to vote for honest disclosure, but even if some stay silent voters were, hypothetically speaking, raging assholes, this would not be one of them.
