Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

[Boney]

... Speaking of heirs, and inheritance; forgive me if this is a verboten idea but I've been thinking of the flicker-rune training sword and the fact Eike will be expected to have her style set up a long time before I see Mathilde setting down the blade.

My question is, can we put in an order (pay with AV, I'm presuming) for a second Moonlight Wit sword in a number of years if we manage to get our hands on some more gromril?

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No. There's some flexibility in the Rule of Pride if they're making a set, but a Runesmith won't outright duplicate something they've already made.

You know, thinking about this.

This is essentially the insanely difficult to determine and optimize digitally ability to identify a target and put a projectile into the target. Even with modern computation it STILL only really works with a target that has reasonable clearance from its surroundings and at a temperature/velocity that really sticks out.

But a human can still hit aircraft with a weapon that doesn't even have that much precision across that range, if not very efficiently.

Its a perfect comparison.

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It's like how it takes a ridiculous amount of PhD man-hours and millions of dollars to make a robot with the athletic capabilities of an average child.

Yeah, it kinda sounds like a simplified and magic version of Moravec's paradox. Hard problems are easy, and the easy problems are hard. Recognizing faces, lifting pencils, walking, answering questions - children can do these things, but are among the hardest things to try to set an AI to do.

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Huh, I didn't know there was a name for that. Neat.

Wait a second. Remember those Shyish swords created by an enchantment that absorbed ambient Winds, which Mathilde rolled well on understanding the function of but poorly on finding uses for? Could we do something like that for Waystones if we try to extend the range of the enchantment?

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That's because the sword isn't doing anything with the magic, just holding it. Of course different Winds put too close together would curdle. But maybe it'd be different if we kept moving it.

@Boney Am I onto something potentially useful about that enchantment, or is it a dead end?

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Mathilde might end up going back to her notes from those studies to see if the same principles could be adapted, but in general drawing in Winds is the easy part, the hard part is drawing in eight at a time without getting Dhar. The only reason those swords weren't Dhar-bombs is they were kept in a mono-Wind environment for thousands of years.

@Boney I'm a little confused about this detail on the Dean. He's serving prison sentence on behalf of someone else's crime? Is that actually a thing? perhaps he allowed himself to be a scapegoat for the Guildmaster and gain connections from the blackmail?

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If someone confesses to a crime that's very often the end of the investigation into that crime, especially in the era before forensics.

 

[Aranfan]

Perhaps.

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If Khatep barges his way into this project I will laugh uproariously. Then fight to accept him because we could use his help.

 

[GreenReveal]

There's been a lot of interest in binding a Rider in Red or a Handmaiden.

Rider in Red would be a strong combatant and play into the whole Dammerlichtreiter thing. And people think having a Nazgul would be cool.

A Handmaiden would be good for assassinations and feel like they'd fit well with Ulgu.

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Couldn't find great results of Dammerlichtreiter on google but a translation shows dawnlight rider? Is this something the dawi named her?

The Handmaidens sound spooky and could potentially see more adoption/use from other Ulgu users. Perhaps this option would result in more College Favour from the Grey College which we could use for the Orbs of Sorcery thing?

 

[Mellithae]

If someone confesses to a crime that's very often the end of the investigation into that crime, especially in the era before forensics.

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Oh!

I took that as the guildmaster being convicted and his associates going down with him, not the dean taking the fall for him instead. This makes more sense.

 

[Jyn Ryvia]

Couldn't find great results of Dammerlichtreiter on google but a translation shows dawnlight rider? Is this something the dawi named her?

The Handmaidens sound spooky and could potentially see more adoption/use from other Ulgu users. Perhaps this option would result in more College Favour from the Grey College which we could use for the Orbs of Sorcery thing?

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It was her title back in the striland days. People noticed the scary wizard riding all over the place on the scary shadowsteed

 

[Nerdasaurus Rex]

Couldn't find great results of Dammerlichtreiter on google but a translation shows dawnlight rider? Is this something the dawi named her?

The Handmaidens sound spooky and could potentially see more adoption/use from other Ulgu users. Perhaps this option would result in more College Favour from the Grey College which we could use for the Orbs of Sorcery thing?

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Here's the origin of the name:

"The Dämmerlichtreiter," the man breathes.

You blink in surprise at him. "The what now?" You had been prepared for all sorts of reactions, but not calling you that.

He stares, wild-eyed, pointing accusingly. "You! The Rider of Dusk! The woman who rides the coming of night across Stirland, bringing ruin to the enemies of the Hunter-Count!"

You stare back, and a delighted smile spreads across your face. "I mean... gosh. I hadn't realized people had been noticing. The Rider of Dusk? That's... wow."

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[pucflek]

Its almost as if even the simplest life is a rather wondrous and miraculous existence and creating its simile is essentially reproduction of millions of years of evolution and couple of miracles all at once

 

[Andres]

The College of Engineering, little-known would-be rival to the Imperial Gunnery School

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Huh, the Nuln College is a thing in DL. In canon, it didn't exist until Emmanuelle von Liebwitz.

@Boney, wasn't the College of Engineering meant to be a rival to Altdorf's Imperial Engineers School rather than Nuln's Imperial Gunnery School?

 

[Waela]

Ohhh, Wilhelmine is tempting but in the end...

[X] You

Gib apprentice.

 

[Sparsebeard]

[x] You
[x] Regimand

 

[Hydroplatypus]

[X] You

was considering Wilhelmine, but Eike's ambitions lie in the magical side of things, rather than economics. And Mathilde seems a better fit for that than Wilhelmine.

 

[Boney]

Huh, the Nuln College is a thing in DL. In canon, it didn't exist until Emmanuelle von Liebwitz.

@Boney, wasn't the College of Engineering meant to be a rival to Altdorf's Imperial Engineers School rather than Nuln's Imperial Gunnery School?

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Mathilde doesn't have access to the wiki. To her perspective the Nuln College struggles and mostly fails to get out of the shadow of its immediate neighbour, so the idea that its trying to compete with an institution all the way over in Altdorf doesn't even occur to her.

 

[veekie]

No, Ranald would claim he totally knows how to drive. It would be Sharlya in the background who'd be shouting he's lying and have absolutly no idea what he's doing

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Shallya is following in her ambulance.

 

[LadyLynn]

Yknow, us suspecting the vampires may have done fucky stuff with the Waystones could be a pretty good extra justification for us going book mining.

Not that we strictly needed it, but a little bit of extra totally reasonable and innocent justification never hurts with this sort of thing. Could help smooth over a few suspicions if they pop up.

 

[IronFist]

[×] yuo

This is for polandball

Edit: in the same vein
[×] wilhemoney

 

[LadyLynn]

I wonder what exactly the Colleges will expect us to do with the books from the Black Library.

Like, uh, reading books on Dhar would be breaching the Articles, wouldn't it? But at the same time we can't exactly avoid reading the vampire books if we want to put them at the appropriate clearance levels/figure out which ones are Bad and which ones are not.

Would it just be a sort of "yeah, we all know Mathilde read a bunch of vampire/necromancy books, but we don't really talk about it"?

What is the normal protocol when the Colleges have to figure out what to do with possibly-Article-breaching-books?

 

[IronFist]

I wonder what exactly the Colleges will expect us to do with the books from the Black Library.

Like, uh, reading books on Dhar would be breaching the Articles, wouldn't it? But at the same time we can't exactly avoid reading the vampire books if we want to put them at the appropriate clearance levels/figure out which ones are Bad and which ones are not.

Would it just be a sort of "yeah, we all know Mathilde read a bunch of vampire/necromancy books, but we don't really talk about it"?

What is the normal protocol when the Colleges have to figure out what to do with possibly-Article-breaching-books?

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There are people who are authorised to read them, but they can't ever leave the college

 

[DragonParadox]

I wonder what exactly the Colleges will expect us to do with the books from the Black Library.

Like, uh, reading books on Dhar would be breaching the Articles, wouldn't it?

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Using Dhar is a breech of the articles not reading books on it, the only difference the Liber Mortis is different is that the book itself is terrifying to a lot of people. In the hands of a petty sorcerer one chapter of that book would be a threat to an imperial province

 

[Nerdasaurus Rex]

I wonder what exactly the Colleges will expect us to do with the books from the Black Library.

Like, uh, reading books on Dhar would be breaching the Articles, wouldn't it? But at the same time we can't exactly avoid reading the vampire books if we want to put them at the appropriate clearance levels/figure out which ones are Bad and which ones are not.

Would it just be a sort of "yeah, we all know Mathilde read a bunch of vampire/necromancy books, but we don't really talk about it"?

What is the normal protocol when the Colleges have to figure out what to do with possibly-Article-breaching-books?

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"Magister Patriarch, I have concerns about what Lady Magister Weber is doing with the ruins of Drakenhof—"

"Oh boy I'm sure GLAD a TRUSTED and RESPECTED Lord Magister is RESPONSIBLY securing those books in a DWARVEN VAULT, BEFORE they fall into the hands of the Empire's ENEMIES."

"Magister Patriarch, that doesn't address my concerns—"

"TRUSTED AND RESPECTED."

"But Mag—"

"No. Now get out of my office."

 

[IronFist]

"Magister Patriarch, I have concerns about what Lady Magister Weber is doing with the ruins of Drakenhof—"

"Oh boy I'm sure GLAD a TRUSTED and RESPECTED Lord Magister is RESPONSIBLY securing those books in a DWARVEN VAULT, BEFORE they fall into the hands of the Empire's ENEMIES."

"Magister Patriarch, that doesn't address my concerns—"

"TRUSTED AND RESPECTED."

"But Mag—"

"No. Now get out of my office."

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It still only goes so far: we are on a watch list after we learned of those rituals when we were hunting albreich.

 

[Pyre]

[X] You

 

[LadyLynn]

Yeah, I'm not worried about us getting in trouble or something, but previously we were planning to use our many experiences against a plethora of Dhar users to justify any uncanny insight into Dhar we display...

But now another obvious explanation is "mathilde read a bunch of vampire books", and I'm wondering if that will impact things. Would that be considered something that makes Mathilde having that uncanny insight less or more suspicious? I can see either, depending on whether or not people actually expect us to read the vampire books.

 

[Dark as Silver]

I wonder what exactly the Colleges will expect us to do with the books from the Black Library.

Like, uh, reading books on Dhar would be breaching the Articles, wouldn't it? But at the same time we can't exactly avoid reading the vampire books if we want to put them at the appropriate clearance levels/figure out which ones are Bad and which ones are not.

Would it just be a sort of "yeah, we all know Mathilde read a bunch of vampire/necromancy books, but we don't really talk about it"?

What is the normal protocol when the Colleges have to figure out what to do with possibly-Article-breaching-books?

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Pretty sure the answer is that a few librarians who are already under heavy watch are the ones that read them. And if Mathilde read them she'd get added to their ranks and never leave the College again.

 

[Chlof]

But now another obvious explanation is "mathilde read a bunch of vampire books", and I'm wondering if that will impact things.

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I wouldn't think so. I'm fairly sure if they had a problem with us collecting forbidden knowledge they'd have brought it up when they found out about the massive trove of skaven warpstone knowledge we have.

 

[Jrin]

[X] Wilhelmine