No one in Empire has tried to solve Waystones situation collectively before Mathilde. At most there were interested loners, who gave up quickly. And even for Mathilde, Colleges are not offering any help freely, only exchange for deals and favors. That does not scream "important" to me. For us, as OOC players? Sure. For IC Empire mages? Maybe in a sense of preserving existing ones, but not more.
People here are really clingy to their AP. Be cautios, offering something that is not optimal could be seen as heresy.
Dragomas + Other Patriarchs + their trusted magisters is somewhat 6 persons already. Not many secrets will survive that many people. Unless it's Conspiracy of Silence of course.
I agree that risks of college are overstated. But what risks from Imperial one are understated in you opinion?
Huh. Is it fair to use the Conspiracy of Silence as evidence that Imperials have an above average secret keeping ability? Maybe they learned it from the Dwarves, who keep all kinds of secrets from each other?
Isn't the Conspiracy of Silence supposed to be something like the population of the Elves--it can have as many or as few people as the story needs?
Nobody in the empire has been in the position to solve the situation, or to even be aware of how bad the situation is, until now.No one in Empire has tried to solve Waystones situation collectively before Mathilde. At most there were interested loners, who gave up quickly. And even for Mathilde, Colleges are not offering any help freely, only exchange for deals and favors. That does not scream "important" to me. For us, as OOC players? Sure. For IC Empire mages? Maybe in a sense of preserving existing ones, but not more.
People here are really clingy to their AP. Be cautios, offering something that is not optimal could be seen as heresy.
Dragomas + Other Patriarchs + their trusted magisters is somewhat 6 persons already. Not many secrets will survive that many people. Unless it's Conspiracy of Silence of course.
I agree that risks of college are overstated. But what risks from Imperial one are understated in you opinion?
Ah... That's a Journey to the West reference. The Power of Friendship is beyond comparison. No wonder he succeeded where so many others failed.
Ob they probably think it's super important too. They just think our project will not amount too much and will putter out without results.
Which is why they asked Mathilde to do something for them in exchange.
What great secrets did we get from the elder races... That the whole waystones network is made out of free flowing dhar? That's gonna go over great... We have nothing to show yet, literally nothing. Them being sceptical is totally warranted.
That's...about the distance IRL. I thought you were using double-Earth size Warhammer World?
Thsi is the same collaboration of people who made Bok, who by all accounts is basically an AI.
Nah. Journey to the West had a Five-Man Band, I'm guessing Boney means significantly more "all of the animals" than that.
Even if this project utterly fails to accomplish anything Waystone related, it will still funnel quite a bit of Elven magical theory to the Empire and to Kislev. More if it goes on for longer.
It's either Colleges does not have any trust that Mathilde will succeed, or they don't think this is important at all. Otherwise they wouldn't let us base this Project outside of their authority.
That's your opinion of optimal, other's opinion may or may not differ.
What does elves have to do with Empire inner secret? It's like calling Conspiracy of Silence useless because Skaven are aware of their own existence.
True but that's not as important as SAVING THE WOOOOOORLD.
Ahh yes. The one good point to feudalism.
And dawi know how to make stones channel magic, and everything about the rune, that the leyline network goes through Athel Loren and Marienburg.
I have no idea what you are arguing here for.
...yes, runesmiths know how to make stone channel magic... What a surprise...
I'm not seeing your point?
None of those were secrets. Runesmiths channel magic through stone all the time, through runes. That they have techniques that make that easier is almost elemental. And that the waystones networks spans the old world is no secret. No one cared enough before to actually map it but they all knew it was widespread.
That was literally the first action we did on the WP, we're not going to get everyone's juicy secrets after just a few days of conversations.The people working for the Manhattan Project didn't make a functional nuclear bomb after the first afternoon of work.
