Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
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- He/Him
[X] [SCRIBE] Locals
[X] Max
[X] Thorek
[X] Panoramia
[X] Gretel
[X] Brief the Emperor
[X] Max
[X] Thorek
[X] Panoramia
[X] Gretel
[X] Brief the Emperor
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- being near locations is my passion.
None.
The Light College will have come and gone long before we get a look-in.
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[X] [SCRIBE] Locals
[X] Panoramia
[X] Max
[X] Brief the Emperor
[X] Gold College
[X] Sylvania
[X] Thorek
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Edit: Sorry; I'm sure this has been mentioned in the narrative somewhere, but do the three tributary rituals we have result in those lovely Earthbound channels that can barely be noticed, and are made of basic plinths of rock that aren't worth bothering with?
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Also I am not sure if anyone noticed it but we basically have confirmation of souls being liminal as @Alratan posited. Specifically the Dreaming Wood was called the soul of the forest, the draining of which made the forest non-magical, if this forest were a person it went from being a wizard to being mundane.
It's counterintuitive, but historically, children who were raised in orphanages have a significantly above average literacy rate for their age until about the mid 1800s.
Most orphans are raised in Shallyan orphanages, and those orphanages are basically recruitment centres for the major cults, so whilst I don't expect all or even most of them to read, I do expect there to be a slightly higher level of literacy amongst them than amongst the peasantry.
We have three working tributaries and the Reikland nexus. In the matter of the tributaries specifically he needs to be briefed because they all come with political tangles that but against the Articles. As for the Nexus , he needs to get a garrison in there now now before something else does and it is the source of a major portion of his province's fertility... as well as the solution to his Marianburg problem.
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deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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- Earth
Not really? Rather, it seems to indicate that being magical is linked to being born in high wind environments? The individual trees all have their own souls still, and the latest chapter hasn't revealed anything about Dreaming Woods we didn't already know.
For all we know he's considering wrapping the project up and siding against Laurelorn for some political reason we're not aware of.
Best to keep him aware what the empire would lose in that case so that he won't ever pull the rug from under us.
I mean just because the forest is composite does not mean one class of soul is displaced compared to another, especially since we know that souls, all souls besides vampires, refresh with contact to the Aethyr. That sure does sound like a liminal effect.
I agree with this. At the very least, we're the Empire's diplomat-spy to the Eonir, and if the Eonir are making deals with the Druchii we need to be kept in the loop.
Especially if it turns out (worst case scenario) the Eonir are planning a military alliance with the Druchii in order to raze Nordland to the ground. Which isn't completely unreasonable at this point. The Eonir get their forest back, the Druchii get slaves, and the Empire loses half its coastline again. Thankfully we have plenty of time and resources to tip the situation in our favour, but the threat of war is still looming over us all.
Sovereign Hunt
A Concentric Circle
- Location
- Bereft of Name
[x] [SCRIBE] Orphans
[x] Panoramia
[x] Druchii Diplomats
[x] Brief the Emperor
[x] Panoramia
[x] Druchii Diplomats
[x] Brief the Emperor
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
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- She/Her
I guess we now know why Teclis only taught the Jades how to draw Ghyran from waystones - if the same principles can apply to nexuses, doing it with any of the other winds could be pretty darn dramatic and bad for the Empire, but strangling vines and the like are downright tame in comparison.
There's very few situations where I could see use for the other winds doing the same.
[X] [SCRIBE] Locals
It's gotta be permanent guys who can be trained to know every language we need them to. The training time may be worth it, and it may take a while to do a bunch of other languages so we may as well start early on them.
[X] Brief the Emperor
[X] Panoramia
[X] Amber College
[X] Gold College
[X] Max
[X] Gretel
A single one of either the tributaries or the Reikland nexus would be worth briefing the Emperor on, honestly - the sooner we tell him, the sooner he can delegate on this matter to ease things.
Panoramia is obligatory in my mind, she's our girlfriend and regardless of result she'll need our support. The Colleges have been an option for a super long while and would grant favors and interesting papers (plus maybe a gas mask).
And I'd love to talk to the Druchii but we still don't have the darn books on them so eh. They can wait. So instead, either Max or Gretel.
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[X] Thorek
[X] Sylvania
There's very few situations where I could see use for the other winds doing the same.
[X] [SCRIBE] Locals
It's gotta be permanent guys who can be trained to know every language we need them to. The training time may be worth it, and it may take a while to do a bunch of other languages so we may as well start early on them.
[X] Brief the Emperor
[X] Panoramia
[X] Amber College
[X] Gold College
[X] Max
[X] Gretel
A single one of either the tributaries or the Reikland nexus would be worth briefing the Emperor on, honestly - the sooner we tell him, the sooner he can delegate on this matter to ease things.
Panoramia is obligatory in my mind, she's our girlfriend and regardless of result she'll need our support. The Colleges have been an option for a super long while and would grant favors and interesting papers (plus maybe a gas mask).
And I'd love to talk to the Druchii but we still don't have the darn books on them so eh. They can wait. So instead, either Max or Gretel.
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[X] Thorek
[X] Sylvania
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deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
In that case we've known souls were liminal since we were told that Dreaming Woods have "been called the soul of a forest". Of course, we were also told that calling them that was not technically accurate and unlike a regular soul, Dreaming Woods require a bunch of magic to come into existence, so comparing them directly still seems to me to be somewhat flawed. None of that means souls are definitely not liminal, but I'm not seeing anything from the latest chapter that would confirm this theory either.
NSMS
Probably evil, unfortunately.
- Location
- A rapidly widening tear in the fabric of reality
Well, that's a much bigger find than expected. And if I understand it correctly we could probably learn a decent amount about how the Waystone base components work from it, as this seems to be adapted from one.
Social-wise, Pan is the main obvious one for me. And I repeat my desire to punch her mother in the face.
Social-wise, Pan is the main obvious one for me. And I repeat my desire to punch her mother in the face.
Happy birthday to Raven, and tell them to ignore any prophecies about opening hell-portals! Giant four-eyed demon lords; just say no.
- Location
- Finland
And then Laurelorn burns to the ground.
There is a reason why the Eonir have been avoiding war, and it's not them just being super nice and patient.
Allying with the Druchii to attack the Empire would not turn out well for them, and i don't think they are stupid enough to not know it.
Burned_Cookie
Very tired girl.
- Location
- Plato´s cave.
- Pronouns
- She/Her/It/Its
[X] [SCRIBE] Orphans
[X] Max
[X] Brief the Emperor
[X] Panoramia
[X] Skull River Ambush
[X] Gretel
[X] Max
[X] Brief the Emperor
[X] Panoramia
[X] Skull River Ambush
[X] Gretel
- Location
- South Africa
Thanks, I miscopied Panoramia it seems.
It also involves allying with the Druchi for presumably a significant length of time. You might as well write 'knife magnet' on your back at that point.
If it was Ghur, we'd probably have to hack our way through a legion of owlbears or something. We would have never found it if it was Ulgu, and if it was Shyish we might not have even survived getting close enough to identify it. And I can't even imagine what a wellspring of Azyr or Hysh would look like.
- Location
- South Africa
Besides the objections already given, the Eonir already have their forest back.
- Location
- Actually pretty lost
I think Panoramia said that Teclis extremely begrudgingly taught them when the newly-conscripted druids refused to give up their existing Waystone rituals, on the basis that if they weren't going to stop they could at least just stick with Ghyran like they were supposed to, so that's why he didn't teach the other Colleges.
Unless you mean why he only taught the Jades to use Ghyran, which seems self-evident.