Collating all suggestions I see:
- Damsels regarding Waystone Project
- Wissenland EC regarding the Skaven problem
- Middenland EC regarding the Eonir and the Waystone Project
- Karak Kadrin and Zhufbar regarding the canal
- Ostermark regarding the other canal
- ??? regarding Drycha (Some Bretonnian? Who else borders them? Edit: Karak Norn does.)
- Heidi regarding Alberich
- Karak Vlag regarding their current status or about books
- The relevant Guilds of Karaz-a-Karak regarding ??? (general socializing?)
- Gunnars of the Priests of Gazul regarding the weird results of the emergency Conclave that made us a "Dwarf"
- Barak Varr regarding the Skull River incident
- Stirland EC regarding the war in Sylvania, the new Markgraf and the ruins of Castle Drakenhof
- Tileans regarding the Queekish dictionary (massive breach of OPSEC)
- The High King regarding Karak Vlag
- Thorek regarding Tor Lithanel politics
- The We regarding their cultural development
- The Loremaster of K8P regarding his new job
- The High King or the King in Exile regarding Mount Silverspear
- The Imperial diplomatic core regarding Cathay/Ind??
- House Fooger of Marienburg regarding the Skull River incident and being a Dwarf Clan in Marienburg
- Imperial representatives regarding Laurelorn's natural defense systems
- Nordland to spill Ulrikadrin secrets and initiate diplomacy
- Mira regarding Alric
- The Ambers regarding the Waystone Project
- Barak Varr booksellers to thank them, socialize and introduce them to Bretonnian nobility potentially interested in selling rarer books
- Introduce the EIC to Kislev and Karak Vlag
- The Cult of Taal regarding Waystones
- Introduce Heidi to Thorek and other Dwarves
@Boney A small amount of these options rely on specific people being here to make sense. Specifically Mira (we can't just talk with anyone from the Lights about Alric and Alberich), the We (they are one person who would have to come here with their main population to actually be present) and maybe High King Thorgrim himself (due to more sensitive matters regarding Mathilde's soul or the method she used to return Karak Vlag). Could you tell us who of these three is here?
As for people like Gunnars and Okri, I don't think we need to ask whether they came to the neighboring Hold to witness the marriage of two of their colleagues.
The only thing I can think you're referring to here is the killing of the Rat Mothers. Which wasn't the death of Mors. Mathilde says in that update that they were already dead, because Mors had been broken as a figthing force and everyone who could maintain the machinery necessary was gone, one way or another. And even before that, Mors were in a desperate last stand mode, needing to feed current troops over getting more. They could have turned things around with a bit of luck, but crediting Mathilde with their demise is more than a little over-exaggeration IMO.
Maybe the literal final blow wasn't as important, but it was Mathilde's decisions as Thane of K8P that bottled Mors in, slaughtered a lot of their armies on multiple fronts and kept the leadership that was engaged in battle with Eshin from even knowing how dire the situation was and regrouping and rallying their forces. Without that I'm sure that Mors would have been a massively weakened Clan but that they would have managed to take at least a few Rat Mothers and escape, probably similar to how the K8P Eshin contingent skedaddled through form of Skryre device. So yes, Mathilde didn't kill them alone, but she played a major role in sealing their fate.
Like for context if both she and Lutipold died you could make the argument that Mathilde would have a duty to stand by him as a parent would. Also the fact that she did this in secret
In practice those two things together clash though. Mathilde would have a hard time standing by Mandred as an ersatz parent if he were to suddenly be orphaned. The official guardian would apparently be the Grand Theogonist himself (or a Holswig-Schliestein aunt/uncle/cousin) and the Reikland regency council (which after a chaotic transition would probably be different from the current Imperial council) might not want the former Empress's favorite Grey LM around to muck with their political ambitions. And Mathilde would not even have any proof of her right to be there, not that a piece of paper would do a lot on its own.
Mathilde had to fiddle the paper a bit, because she knew exactly which necromancy spells he based the improvement upon.
Forgot about the paper fiddling and thought it was just straightforward observation of results through the use of her superior Wind-sight, same as with the Eshin Sorcerer.
So, various ideas in more concrete form, in no particular order:
[] Ask Karak Vlag about what kinds of books they have, and also take the time to check in on them in general
[] See if there are any Damsels interested in joining the Waystone Project, and what kinds of things we'd need to do to make one join
[] See how the Middleheimers are dealing with their Eonir correligionists
[] Check up on how Weissenland's campaign against Under-Nuln is going
[] See what things the Tileans would be willing to trade for a Queekish dictionary
[] Check up on the Skull River ambush investigation
[] See if there's any way to get the Grudge on Ranald for stealing and reincarnating your allegedly Dwarven soul lifted
[] Get House Fooger's view on the canal project and Marienburg situation. Perhaps bring up the Skull River ambush and likely framejob
[] Run around bragging about how you totally owned Drycha's butt... literally
Your phrasing is much better than mine. I'll continue my list anyway.
Boney says in the update this is where you lay the ground for future negotiations and agreements.
So what wheels do we wish were in motion, but currently aren't? What broader trends would we seek to encourage?
Or... Are there parties we want to bring together? We've facilitated a lot of good by easing cooperation and knowledge sharing between the forces of Order. Three-party conversations would be much easier to arrange here than elsewhere.
(While I am certain even bringing up the very existence of a Queekish translation at this event is a terrible idea.)
This is a very good and important point. At the same time I don't have any concrete ideas in this direction. Do you?
There's no overarching organizations for that, it's the responsibility of each Clan and Guild and Cult to keep their portions of the Hold clean.
I assume that public spaces and paths between them are either divvied up based on their distance to private spaces (everyone cleans the road in front of their door), or responsibility of the royal and noble Clans (this would be hilarious), or one of the few jobs outsourced to Clanless inhabitants (depressing but realistic). Otherwise, what do Guildless Clanless "long term visitors" even do, professionally speaking? Other than Rangering that is. I assume that not everyone booted out of their Clan or born to those that were can deal with a life under the open sky. If for no other reason than cultural agoraphobia.
We could sound out potential waystone partners like the Hedgewise, a cult, the Ambers, or an Eonir house.
While a lot of people are present, some are not. Like Cathayan/Ind government representatives which were joked about. Or any Eonir according to WoQM. I'm pretty sure that also applies to the Hedgewise, who are both persecuted and have little connection to Dwarves, especially so far from home.
If we want to know the disposition of the hedgewise or an Eonir house, someone here will be familiar enough to give some sort of answer. In regards to the hedgewise, it could indeed be Kurtis who gives us an answer. Or maybe someone else. Either way, we should assume we can get some information.
"Just about any" is not the same as "Any".
Also, can we introduce Heidi to the Dwarves, to start that Heidi-Thorek collaboration ball rolling?
If we do this I want us to explain our Belt's capabilities to Heidi before we walk over to Thorek. Otherwise it could ruffle some feathers, what with it being Kraggs masterpiece.
By the way,
@Boney, have you decided whether the Emperor came in person? I guess he wouldn't have to, having sent his wife and probably multiple other Imperial representatives from both the diplomatic core and assorted institutions.
I don't think favour trading is needed. We can ask for it purely on our rep alone and it'll be done.
There's no reason whatsoever that we should deny Thorek from upping his own Imperial Favor account and Imperial Reputation score.
