The (joking) answer for this is "it would never get old for Cython to see visitors bug-eyed over having to ask them for directions." And possibly, very possibly, they could ask the dwarves or Mathilde for a Very Cool And Official Hat.
We give him access to Mathilde dark magic library. Also the dragon would have the ability to acquire books Cython desires. Sure Cython can Barlow books but as a Hysh dragon it desires knowledge. So a job were you get paid to gather knowledge would be a win win .
… he asked about the dwarf gods and mathy got a full collection the same turn for him to read?
Just make him our librarian. The commute is easy and people pay their late fees.
I find it funny in hindsight that Mathilde ended up making friends with Boris and the Ice Witches and dragged both the Ice Witches and Hag Witches into the project, effectively covering all her bases.
We pay him in treasure, There taken care of.
If Cython wants treasure, they definitely don't need a 9-5 for it, they can get it much more quickly and easily. Because they're a dragon.
I'm kind of sad we never got to see the Winged Lancers arrive into the battlefield and fight. We dealt with the problem so fast we couldn't milk a paper out of them. It would have been so cool.
Kind of, but I'm also kind of glad that we are finally seeing the end of the paper pile and are doing something. Secret enough that we aren't shitting out new ones every two turns.
The main paper I'm surprised to still see in our backlog is the Observations on the Windfall. We've been purposely avoiding writing it because, well, it was the Light Order's experiment and we just kind of tagged along and we didn't want to snipe it from Egrimm (because that would be a super jerk move), but it's been two years now and it's still there. With how quickly Esbern and Seija wrote their preliminary paper after the K8P expedition, I assumed we'd be getting notifications any day now about Egrimm or the Choir writing it and us getting credited as a contributor, but no dice. I guess either it was a Light Order-only publication (and so we didn't get notified about it) or they just haven't written it yet despite all the equipment they brought to make observations of it? Egrimm might have better things to do, but for the Choir at least it seems like a huge win: serious research about an exotic phenomenon in a difficult-to-reach location at the Journeyman level.
Sorry if someone has already said this (it's a big thread) but my guess about the Sky Titans is that they are an Old One creation, partially due to the fact that Deathfang doesn't mention them (which seems weird if they were there, especially since they'd be on the mountains which the dragons explicitly invaded) and partially due to them being the only humanoid species that isn't explicitly an Old One creation, which indicates that either they are also a creation, or that they were the basis of the other humanoids (or titanoids, I guess).
It is possible that the Dragons didn't inhabit all the mountains. The only mountain range inhabited by the Titans that we know of is the Ancient Giant Lands, known for having extremely huge peaks and being extremely cold. Perhaps the Dragons found the terrain unsuitable for their purposes and didn't desire to get into a tussle with actual Titans, so they left them alone. If that's the case, then that might explain why Deathfang leaves them out of a myth where the Dragons were the supposed masters of the world.
If I were to be pedantic, then I would point out that the Ancient Giant Lands is technically considered a different area than the Mountains of Mourne, despite their proximity. I assume it's because the ranges have very different fundamental natures. The Mountains of Mourne has moving mountains, the Ancient Giant Lands do not (far as I know). The AGL has higher peaks and is much colder, which also makes it home to far greater proportions of Yhetees and animals that love the cold.
correction: we know that they made pistols that Ogres can use as canons.
Daemons evaporate immediately in Total War, but in books and stuff, the time it takes before daemons discorporate after being slain varies. Sometimes it's similarly instantly, other times it takes a while. Somethings they leave ashy residue behind, and sometimes you can even store daemon blood to use in the crafting of magical items, like the Runefangs.
I'm not really talking about size so much as that's blatantly a matchlock pistol the size of two ogres.
it's already bigger than little grom.
It's not a pistol. Or a matchlock. Here is the model from a different angle.
The Runefang creation using Daemon blood is old lore. I personally find it ridiculous, and I'm pretty sure Boney said something to that effect at one point.
there are... elements of this that are a little interesting: a goddess whose role is to break the types of obsession and zealotry that lead to bad things and chaos worship. that is the kind of goddess that makes sense in setting.... but uhhhhh, when it comes to everything else.
Not in Warhammer. Those two are very separate institutions in the setting.
