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[x] Imperial Dispensation
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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Speaking of; I have the impression that Mathilde has the information needed to consider drawing straight lines vertically and horizontally from two waystone nexuses and find a spot in the middle of one of the busiest oceans, and maybe consider that those silly rumours about a hidden island in that region might have some accuracy - something something liminal realm?
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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- Vermont
I feel like you should reverse the arrows?
My attempt at mapping the waylines.
The magic flows towards the Vortex at the heart of Ulthuan.
Albion is something she's brought up before, even if she doesn't believe in it, so if she starts to see evidence of something being there, it is the most likely candidate.
Mopman43
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Oh, one other major point- the Norse Dwarfs aren't part of the Karaz Ankor network, they split off before that was put up.
My attempt at mapping the waylines.
correct, but Mathilde begins by speaking of it in the opposite direction, presumably because she was working with the empire as a starting point. Direction itself doesnt mattter, especially further south where we cant tell as well.
Also some bad news: my maps have Mousillon almost due south of Couronne, and a direct line from Kazvar to Barak Varr runs through Fester Spike.
Heres a revised map:
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deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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- Earth
Why would Tylos be connected to Barak Varr? It was a human city, and further, at the time the Dwarfs made contact, they were busy fighting the War of the Beard and likely couldn't spare the Dwarfpower to be creating Waystones. Waystones which they must have suspected of being used to power stuff in Ulthuan.
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- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Heres a revised map:
This is an excellent resource that will only become more important as progress on the project is made. That said, I'd suggest changing up the color coding? Light and Dark Grey don't really stand out well at all against that background.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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- Earth
No it wasn't. Tylos was settled by a single clan of Dwarfs, who were wanderers from the Black Mountains, so you're already looking at a clan who aren't from one of the Old Holds. As for the title, it means that the Estalians associate the metal with Tylos. It doesn't mean there was a Waystone there. Maybe they produced it. Maybe there's Estalian stories about them having lots of it. Maybe the Estalians believe that's where it's from. It's not a straight indication that there was ever a Waystone there.
Of course if there was a Waystone there, Fester Spike being on the route is really not a concern, considering that Tylos became Skavenblight.
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- Omniverse #1345
Unknown, but higher than previously - it appears that the basic functioning of a way stone is actually a lot simpler than we thought, even if the exact mechanics of the how are still unknown.
But we've actually already seen something similar made for the AV, so presumably inspiration can be taken from that as to how we spin the winds and contain them in part of the waystone.
Presumably drawing the winds in is probably actually something ingenious but very simple. The feeding mechanism seems to be more or less just tossing some dhar in the correct direction with carefully-selected amounts of two or more other winds to form a stable orbit around it.
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Fixing waystones? I'm going to put the chances at "high" provided we crack the mystery of Waystone gold. The rune we can simply imitate, and we know that Thorek has built something similar to the foundational wheel previously. Throw in some tributaries to support areas we can't get actual waystones in and we should be in a solid position to benefit those areas.
Making waystones, as I see it, depends on if Thorek can find the permeability rune, and if we can mass produce the waystone gold. Everything else is seems... I'm not going to say easy, but not as complex as we previously thought.
- Location
- Boston
[x] Imperial Dispensation
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
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- She/Her
I'm sure it's been brought up at some point before I joined: Is it viable to have Johann learn Enchantment so he can be a permanent Windherder option?
Codex
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Johann has limited magic. He can only manage specific parts of the Gold repertoire, so he'd be limited in what he could do even if he learnt enchanting. He would, however, be really good at what he's able to do:
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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Right, his inflexible magic, I totally forgot he had that. Well, it's still a consideration, I guess. I'm not particularly inclined to use College favors when we have WEB-MAT at our disposal.
Codex
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If we really want to teach a Gold enchanting, Max is right there. He's got the perfect attitude for enchanting, considering his patience and self enchancement magic and his aptitude for Mystical Chamon. It might also benefit his whole magical smithing goal. There's also his Anamneusis trait and his affinity for Mathilde which might boost his ability to Windherd with her.
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- New Brunswick, NJ
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The issue with both our golden boys is that getting them to go learn enchanting is AP intensive -- remember, each tier of spell complexity requires an AP of Enchanting training, or at least that's what it took Mathilde, with her trait of a natural knack at it -- it's possible someone else would have needed an AP for petty/lesser magics, whereas Mathilde got that + RS all in one go. So, depending on what Gold magic you want to Windherd with, it'd be a bunch of WEB-MAT AP spent getting them training. At that cost, it seems like it'd be more efficient to just hire a Gold enchanter for CF and a regular Mathilde AP. We've been Windherding with Egrimm because, well, he's the lowest-cost option, rather than because it feels like an inherently Egrimm project or because the Shadow/Light combo spells seem super appealing.
- Location
- Greece
Honestly, the reason I am voting for college dispensation is because, well... There is already a college wizard that does not quite trust us on our team, and she'll learn of our choice regardless of what we pick.
Best not give her more reason to suspect us by being as above board and by the book as possible in these matters.
Best not give her more reason to suspect us by being as above board and by the book as possible in these matters.
I am pretty sure she is the person who asked for Mathilde to be investigated too.
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