Well that's a certainly spicy meat ball, probably counting chickens but speculation is always interesting.He shrugs. "Only from myths and legends. When Sigmar slew Morath of Mourkain, he charged the local Hedgewise with watching over the nexuses that the necromancer had fed upon, and granted us a fortress in the Middle Mountains for our own. But after he was declared a God, his Cult declared a crusade to claw back all authority he had ever given in life so they could keep it for themselves. When the Everchosen Cormac Bloodaxe attacked Ostland and left us weakened in his wake, the Cult of Sigmar assaulted the bastion that Sigmar had granted us and took it for themselves, and it's been changing hands ever since. At various times Ostland, Hochland, and Reikland have all claimed it, and all have in turn lost it. Similarly the nexuses within the Forest itself have been lost to us, and are now known only as the Tower of Melkhior and the Blood Fane. If the Kislevites hadn't cut off the flow of energy from Norvard when they rebuilt it into Erengrad, the Forest would have been lost to Chaos generations ago."
Either go the elementalist route if the hedgewise want for legitimacy without threat of being absorbed into the colleges, or perhaps try to form some foggy middle ground with the grey college of them forming a branch college like our web - mat which would only be possible under our coin influence to trust us to not pull a fast one over them and two lord magisters in the grey order having hedgewise connections to them, and one outright being a traitor at that and didn't get yeeted and still maintains ??? contacts with the hedgewise.
EDit: mhm, think i'm going secretly for the hedgewise since that cleaves them closer to the grey order and they explicitly trust us because of the coin and 2 of the lord magister's were once hedgewise so if we ever help them reclaim the nexus and perhaps even that keep in the middle mountain maybe we can do some shenanigan's and call the reclaimed keep or nexus point a secretive branch college like our WEB-MAT or the alchemist guilds proxy of the gold order. Such would only be possible through the coin to for these hedgewise to trust us and they seem cool and interesting and willing to try to reclaim the nexus and waystones lost.
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