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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Valmond said:
And on top of that, a dwarf will judge you based on how well you have kept the promises your great great great grandfather made.
Well, not necessarily, but when it comes to noble families or political entities, they almost certainly will take that into consideration.

Dwarves are capable of deception, but it is deception based largely on silence about shameful things where a thing is just memory holed, active lying is, while a thing that happens, not as culturally acceptable.
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Bit fae like, but never ever say that to them or you get hammered somewhere painful.
 
You know, in all the hectic nature of Heidi and Mathilde's conversation about Mandred's future, I've noticed that they haven't said anything about the whole Alberich Haupt-Anderssen situation. I assume Heidi was informed of the whole thing, but I suppose what's done is done and she only cared for Mandred at the moment. I do think it's funny in hindsight that it was effectively brushed under the rug due to circumstances.
 
We dealt with it before it even needed to be brushed under the carpet. That was the whole point of not calling up Heidi.

Solved issues like that really aren't worth worrying about in WHF when there are so much more unsolved issues to deal with.
 
TimEd said:
We dealt with it before it even needed to be brushed under the carpet. That was the whole point of not calling up Heidi.
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It's been brushed under anyway. Aside from Mathilde, Regimand, Roswita, and a few high-ranking Sigmarite Witch Hunters (oh, and Heidi), does anyone know it was actually Alberich instead of some random chaos cultist? I'm not even sure if the Taalites were told just who he was.
 
It doesn't need to be a big deal. In hindsight maybe I expected a short thank you for the good work, but she had no obligation to do so when Mandred's fate was currently at stake.
silentorphan said:
It's been brushed under anyway. Aside from Mathilde, Regimand, Roswita, and a few high-ranking Sigmarite Witch Hunters (oh, and Heidi), does anyone know it was actually Alberich instead of some random chaos cultist? I'm not even sure if the Taalites were told just who he was.
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Yes, the majority of people don't know it's Alberich. Anton can probably take a guess on why Mathilde asked for details on him.
 
It being brushed under means it took effort to hide some of the information.

And like you mentioned, nobody likely even knew who the perpetrator was aside from maybe Egrimm's old master (forgot his name), let alone it's relevance in Heidi's con. And since nobody else knew all the relevant information, no effort was done to hide this thing being solved, thus it not being brushed under the carpet. It just got forgotten over time.
 
TimEd said:
It being brushed under means it took effort to hide some of the information.

And like you mentioned, nobody likely even knew who the perpetrator was aside from maybe Egrimm's old master (forgot his name), let alone it's relevance in Heidi's con. And since nobody else knew all the relevant information, no effort was done to hide this thing being solved, thus it not being brushed under the carpet. It just got forgotten over time.
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Explicit effort was done to hide the details of this thing. Mathilde's involvement was explicitly kept hush hush and all the credit went to the Longshanks, despite there being several witnesses who saw Mathilde personally bisect the Chaos Cultist. That is already effort spent trying to control the narrative. Sure people don't know he's Alberich, but there's so many odd things surrounding the situation that it's enough to fuel weeks of gossip, which takes some effort to misdirect. This is putting aside the fact that a Councillor of the Templars of Sigmar knows of Alberich and is certain to check for himself.

Egrimm's old master is Alric. He probably doesn't know it's Alberich, but he's likely pretty pissed. I don't think he's much of a factor here.
 
I like the idea that the Cult of Shallya contains a ton of lamians. It's just that they're actually loyal. If they are part of the conspiracy, then they put serving it below serving Shallya. A temple needs funding, y'know.

They, the totally loyal conspiracy lamians, are just there to keep an eye on those maverick lamians, which is a very hard task since they certainly don't have weekly tea parties, and so it requires all their attention. And also funding, because there's a lot of decentralized temples that need an eye, and somehow more just keep popping up. No idea where they get the money, but we, extremly loyal members of the conspiracy, certainly need to keep an eye on it.

So that's my Vampire Mathilde and Heidi shipping AU. It's obviously total crack. No, since the biggest problem of vampires is feeding, the actual religious vampire conspiracy sect is part of the church of Esmeralda. The Moot, after all, is directly next to Sylvania.
 
BurnNote said:
like the idea that the Cult of Shallya contains a ton of lamians. It's just that they're actually loyal. If they are part of the conspiracy, then they put serving it below serving Shallya. A temple needs funding, y'know.

They, the totally loyal conspiracy lamians, are just there to keep an eye on those maverick lamians, which is a very hard task since they certainly don't have weekly tea parties, and so it requires all their attention. And also funding, because there's a lot of decentralized temples that need an eye, and somehow more just keep popping up. No idea where they get the money, but we, extremly loyal members of the conspiracy, certainly need to keep an eye on it.
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So what you're saying is the Cult of Shallya is mostly Vampires? Neat
 
BurnNote said:
I like the idea that the Cult of Shallya contains a ton of lamians. It's just that they're actually loyal. If they are part of the conspiracy, then they put serving it below serving Shallya. A temple needs funding, y'know.

They, the totally loyal conspiracy lamians, are just there to keep an eye on those maverick lamians, which is a very hard task since they certainly don't have weekly tea parties, and so it requires all their attention. And also funding, because there's a lot of decentralized temples that need an eye, and somehow more just keep popping up. No idea where they get the money, but we, extremly loyal members of the conspiracy, certainly need to keep an eye on it.

So that's my Vampire Mathilde and Heidi shipping AU. It's obviously total crack. No, since the biggest problem of vampires is feeding, the actual religious vampire conspiracy sect is part of the church of Esmeralda. The Moot, after all, is directly next to Sylvania.
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Does the theory of four humours have any basis in warhammer.
Because if it does, there's a lot of bleeding being done for health purposes.
Who cares if the leech is human shaped?
 
The truly baffling thing about 4th Edition is the ridiculous level of detail and work the authors have put in developing Reikland. It's basically the "Reikland Edition". And while that infuriates me to a certain degree, I can't help but respect the sheer level of work they've done to develop Reikland. I found this map of Ubersreik on Artstation, it's an official Gamemaster one, and my brain hurts looking at it:
As a side note, maybe my brain is being weird, but the Duchy of Ubersreik's borders makes it look sort of like Texas.
 
BurnNote said:
They'd be a pretty shitty conspiracy if they were on record, no?
Personally, I had strangely tall people who are totally halflings because they live in the moot in mind. Good eating makes you grow, you know.
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Like you said, Halflings live next to Sylvania. They do know what a Vampire is.

I don't think the Fieldwardens would be particularly fooled.
 
Mopman43 said:
Eldyra (squire of Tyrion) was turned in the End Times.

Not aware of anything apart from that.
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According to the section I read, it was heavily implied and it would make no sense if she wasn't turned. But apparently later on it's revealed she turned into an Avatar of Ereth Khial, although I haven't reached Khaine so I don't know what the hell is going on. That instance is very weird.
 
Codex said:
According to the section I read, it was heavily implied and it would make no sense if she wasn't turned. But apparently later on it's revealed she turned into an Avatar of Ereth Khial, although I haven't reached Khaine so I don't know what the hell is going on. That instance is very weird.
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My understanding is that there's a scene (much) later on that has Vlad claim her as his own. Her death particularly is very explicit that she's a Vampire now.
 
Mopman43 said:
My understanding is that there's a scene (much) later on that has Vlad claim her as his own. Her death particularly is very explicit that she's a Vampire now.
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Are you talking about the Novels, because 1d4Chan (yes I know it's not the most reliable but you referred me to it) says that it's a case of contradictions. The Novel writers were only given broad strokes and told to do whatever they wanted with what they were given. At least, according to the "inconsistency" section.

It really feels like we're both just blindly grasping at something neither of us can see tbh. I really should follow up on End Times.
 
Codex said:
Are you talking about the Novels, because 1d4Chan (yes I know it's not the most reliable but you referred me to it) says that it's a case of contradictions. The Novel writers were only given broad strokes and told to do whatever they wanted with what they were given. At least, according to the "inconsistency" section.

It really feels like we're both just blindly grasping at something neither of us can see tbh. I really should follow up on End Times.
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Hell if I know. I don't even really know the dichotomy of the main 5 books vs. the novels. It's all just a bundle of End Times to me.
 
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