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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Wodger said:
We should invite some Knights of the Scroll on our book mining expedition to establish a relationship.
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This is a good idea. Vampire castles are dangerous places so their martial skills wouldn't even be unwarranted.

Codex said:
Also, yes Clotilde is born. She's 47 years old in Sold Down the River, and I think it takes place in the 2510s IC.
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I've been told that WFRP 1e takes place in 2500, except for Enemy Within, which is 2512.
 
Codex said:
I assumed Boney changed the timeline because the De Roelefs are only a Major House "14 years ago", which would be in the future, but then I remembered that the De Roelefs likely existed before they became a Major House, so I was probably a bit confused there.
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House de Roelef specialize in luxury imports from Tilea, Estalia, and Araby, which by Arkat's model makes them the biggest losers once the canals open.
 
Boney said:
House de Roelef specialize in luxury imports from Tilea, Estalia, and Araby, which by Arkat's model makes them the biggest losers once the canals open.
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Oh I know, the confusion is whether or not they're a Major House yet or if they're just another House that isn't part of the Directorate quite yet.
 
Codex said:
Oh I know, the confusion is whether or not they're a Major House yet or if they're just another House that isn't part of the Directorate quite yet.
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Not yet, which means they need to knock someone out of the Directorate if they want a seat. Which would create an interesting dynamic where to a Major House your biggest threat isn't the other Major Houses, it's anyone who's almost a Major House.
 
Codex said:
Nice to have confirmation that Ranald's shenanigans were the reason. Some people theorised that the certainty with which the Conclave sent its message was the result of them questioning Ranald, and apparently that is the case. I don't know how they even managed to pitch the question to him in the first place, but I heavily doubt any answer he gave would have been satisfactory to the Dwarves. They tend to be overly literal about things sometimes.
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The meme Boney made immediately after the post of the conclave makes a lot more sense and reveals a bit now that we spoke to Gunnars tbh.
 
What an enjoyable update, bouncing around all these topics. It's a bit crazy to think of how many things Mathilde has had a hand in until it's in your face like this.

Boney said:
You're intimately familiar with the inside of a Ratling Gun and the many insane yet inspired ways it exploits the nature of warpstone to function. Is there really any chance of a machine so portable as to be carried to be able to replicate its functioning? Surely not.
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Oh how I do hope we'll get to see Mathilde eat those words at some point. I believe in you cousin Okri!
 
Andres said:
We could make a plan wherein we buy all these books and also Eonir books on the Karaz Ankor. 550 gc, but we make 250 gc a turn and our money reserves are still quite big.
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I'm not really for the idea of writing a Karaz Ankor diplomacy book next turn. Or anytime soon, honestly. We have enough on our plate already. Besides, it's been millennia since anyone in Laurelorn has seen a dwarf, they are unlikely to have deep insights into the dwarven psyche that are relevant to a modern diplomacy book.
 
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Codex said:
Manhorak I'm not sure about. Either way, it seems Kasmir has somehow found out the root cause of the weirdness surrounding Sylvania's swamps. This only inflames my curiousity and interest in a Kasmir action.
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Honestly seems believable that it's an attempt to fit Manhavok into the paradigm. "Manhorak is the native sylvanian name for Manhavok, and look at how that name matches the naming pattern of what I'm saying are his sons" genuinely sounds like a good way to legitimize the whole project.

Which is not to say that'd even be made up but it's probably the possible reading of things that was deliberately chosen because it sounded the best if that is the case.
 
mathymancer said:
Besides, it's been centuries since anyone in Laurelorn has seen a dwarf, they are unlikely to have deep insights into the dwarven psyche that are relevant to a modern diplomacy book.
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It's been millennia actually. Galenstra thought it was weird to think of Dwarfs as real people instead of creatures of legend when we first met him.
 
mathymancer said:
I'm not really for the idea of writing a Karaz Ankor diplomacy book next turn. Or anytime soon, honestly. We have enough on our plate already. Besides, it's been centuries since anyone in Laurelorn has seen a dwarf, they are unlikely to have deep insights into the dwarven psyche that are relevant to a modern diplomacy book.
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We write books using the Tower of Serenity, which gives us a free writing action every turn. The dwarf book wouldn't consume any AP or take the place of anything else we can do, save writing papers and other books.
 
Andres said:
We write books using the Tower of Serenity, which gives us a free writing action every turn. It doesn't consume any AP or take the place of anything else we can do, save writing papers and other books.
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Yes, and we have a whole bunch of books and papers to write. We have the Windsoak Mushroom book (2 turns), papers on as yet unstudied artifacts (4 turns) and the very many research topics that Mathilde encounters in the course of her life (~infinity turns). I'll be willing to consider a diplomacy book on the Karaz Ankor once we run out of paper topics, and that isn't happening anytime soon.
 
Wodger said:
We should invite some Knights of the Scroll on our book mining expedition to establish a relationship.
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An intriguing idea, and theoretically this is the sort of thing that would fit the Knights of the Scroll from what I understand so far, but we also don't really know any Knights of the Scroll yet, so I'm not sure I'd trust them with something that big while they're still strangers.

I am definitely interested in the Lorekeepers and Knights of the Scroll though, it sounds like their interests are extremely aligned with ours as Librarian.
 
Actually, thinking on it we could do the chaos orcs thing as a web-mat action with Egrimm. He specialises in fighting chaos, we specialise in fighting orcs, we could totally buddy cop for that.
 
[x] [LIBRARY] Library of Mournings: Trade & Forest Spirits
[x] [PURCHASE] Write-in. - A dwarven axe for Baba Brzeginias/Gerdouen
[X] [PURCHASE] The Lady: Extensive Bretonnian, Shallya: Extensive Bretonnian, The Kingdom Of Bretonnia: Extensive Bretonnian, Write-in. - A dwarven axe for Baba Brzeginias/Gerdouen
[X] [PURCHASE] The Lady: Extensive Bretonnian, Shallya: Extensive Bretonnian, The Kingdom Of Bretonnia: Extensive Bretonnian, Trade: Extensive Eonir, Apparitions: Extensive and Esoteric Imperial, A dwarven axe for Baba Brzeginias/Gerdouen
[X] [LIBRARY] Colleges of Magic: Apparitions, Power Stones, Forest Spirits, Liminal Realms
[X] [PURCHASE] The Lady: Extensive Bretonnian, Shallya: Extensive Bretonnian, The Kingdom Of Bretonnia: Extensive Bretonnian, Trade: Extensive Eonir, A dwarven axe for Baba Brzeginias/Gerdouen

Holding off on the other categories to see if anyone has anything interesting to suggest there.
 
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[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill.
[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] No purchase.
[X] [PURCHASE] The Lady: Extensive Bretonnian, Shallya: Extensive Bretonnian, The Kingdom Of Bretonnia: Extensive Bretonnian
[X] [PURCHASE] The Lady: Extensive Bretonnian, Shallya: Extensive Bretonnian, The Kingdom Of Bretonnia: Extensive Bretonnian, Trade: Extensive Eonir
 
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[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill

This is something I feel strongly about - it's well past time for KAU to stop being Mathilde's eclectic research reference and become a proper library, and that means a great deal of filling in on topics that Mathilde brushed upon once and then didn't need again.
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill.
[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] No purchase.
[X] [PURCHASE] The Lady: Extensive Bretonnian, Shallya: Extensive Bretonnian, The Kingdom Of Bretonnia: Extensive Bretonnian, Trade: Extensive Eonir, The Karaz Ankor: Extensive and Esoteric Eonir
 
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