Imagine, she pops out, swearing vengeance on the silly Grey Jouneywoman that ruined her plans...
Well, whether she's still running about or she's collapsed under the rubble of Drakenhof, she's certainly not doing anything anymore. She could be laying low, but any claim that she's a Von Carstein is completely undermined if she continues to lay low while Roswita celebrates her victory by giving away Sylvania. I think it's more likely she's dead (for a certain definition of dead). Some confirmation would be nice, but I imagine it would be more beneficial as a balm to Mathilde's soul and an addition to her collection than an actual coup at this point.
I have no idea why I thought we had six AP. Woops.
Honestly, Countess Von Carstein overall did not impress. A Varghulf might be more dangerous. At least in close quarters.
In her defense Mathilde is also vulnerable to massed cannon fire. It's not exactly a unique vulnerability
Her Castle was bombarded by about a hundred artillery pieces. We didn't really get much of an accounting for her personal ability, aside from us copying her technique to make the Matrix. We assumed she was one of the people that miscasted, but Mathilde has miscasted in the heat of battle and she wasn't even using Dhar.
She also had a casting attempt that Journeywoman Mathilde felt contemptuous of.
Mathilde was also trashing Jovi Suncryer and Hexensohn during that campaign for getting themselves killed and being useless Mages. There was even a possibility to hate the use of Magic as a negative trait after Drakenhof. It was a real shit show.
(Spurious is a good word. That's the only time it's appeared in a main post, made this easily searchable.)
I mean, she also spent a great deal of time as Gabriella bluffing.
I had no idea there was actually a Constantin von Carstein 😅 All in all, all those you mentioned here look really cool. I hope we will see at least one of them in the Quest, but I've few hopes of that. The only exception would be somehow recruiting Sangster or at least getting informations from him.
I forget: What is Wild Magic exactly, and how is it relevant to Waystones?
It's Beastmen magic, and contains the magical part of Herdstone information (as opposed to Beastmen books discussing their cultural significance).
Wild Magic refers to Lore of the Wilds, a theorised Dhar+Ghur mixture. It's the Lore of the Beastmen Bray-shaman when they're not using Chaos Lores or standard Winds. It's basically a more primal and darker Lore of Beasts. Beastmen have a bunch to do with Waystones, although it's usually toppling them and converting them into Herdstones that they turn into a ritual site called a "Blood Grounds" where they smear blood and feces all over it and sacrifice tons of people to gain the favor of their gods and enhance their powers/boost the ambient Dhar. It's like Dark Waystones.
This feels like a waste of money unless we have a use for those books. I'd much rather just pick up the full plus five on relevant gods with the library option or make a deal with the library so we can unleash the scribes on them and get all of them.
