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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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A rune on a bedframe to induce more restful sleep? Well, better rest makes people more productive. A rune on an oven to more finely control the heat? Better cooked food could boost morale... A... beard braider? I dunno.
While the thread is somewhat on the topic of Athel Loren, I have no idea if any books on the oak of ages even *exist*, given the wood elves don't seem super interested in printing books, but it would be fascinating to see what connection the worldroots have to leylines, if any. It could be the tree itself is acting as a massive waystone and that's why it's so magical. Of course, we have fuck all chance of successfully getting a chance to study it.
I think there are plenty of other things we know have +5 in both that we could pick before the history of a dead vampire realm. I mean just general things like Ethics would be useful with teaching Eike.
- Something that changes taste or smell, sure they could be used in assassination but dwarfs would not think about it
- Complex adaptations of light runes that do artistic things say in time with music
- Dreamless sleep runes, sure they might help against magical attack in your dreams, but a dwarf is not going to use that on you
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Restfull sleep seems like awesome to have on campaigns, rested troops are effective troops.
anything that improves or helps with food is an obious one.
Beard braider? This is dwrves, immaculately braided beard is a must for a respectable general.
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See above.
Ability to send signals.
Also see above.
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I guess it has to do with whitch capstones we are looking at. The ones made by dwarfs or the ones made by elves.
In The elf case the bonus from the elf one might be smaller, but is more relevant.
Could even argue that with a dwarf runesmith and max on the team but no elven smith in The team, the elven perspective in book form will add more than books on human and dwarf metallurgy.
Because we will have two experts to just ask.
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But when we're doing Waystone-related research, we can use the Library of Mournings all we like. We have access to all those Eonir books. That was one of the selling points of Laurelorn.
So for Waystone-related research, we don't need to spend our Library slots on Eonir books. We can just access as we need it. Buying Eonir Metallurgy books would br useful to KAU, but not to the Waystone Project. Imperial and Dwarf books are another story.
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Well, IIRC the Asrai have books on the Old Ones (which they perhaps inherited from the Asur), so I guess it's fair to assume they do have libraries in there somewhere. Though good luck getting any of those books right now.
deathofrats0808
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I'd guess Asrai books are just hand made and written on parchment, rather than printed. Not having paper isn't really a huge detriment to having writing, especially if everyone can afford to take twenty years to learn without effecting their employment.
Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
A rune that constantly generates a particular perfume scent. It doesn't clear the air, doesn't remove other smells, just produces that one scent at a constant level.
A rune that enhances the lustre of whatever stones are placed in the socket of the jewelry the rune is worked into.
A rune that temporarily alters the coloration of small sections of skin on contact.
A rune that maintains a given temperature for a small pool of water, but that only works if the rune is socketed into a structure rather than being readily movable.
If your definition of "military purposes" extends to cosmetics and emplaced creature comforts then your definition of "military purposes" is "anything to do with existing", so of course you can't imagine something that doesn't include it.
Bill Bryson begs to differ.
On the one hand I doubt the Dwarfs will ever sell guns to Elves. In large part because they need all the guns they can make for their own use.
On the other hand I world not expect it to take all that long for Elves written by Boney to learn how to make their own guns.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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Think it's the Eonir that said they have those books.
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- Finland
My definition if "military purpose" is "useful for the military functioning and missions".
Coloration can be used for camouflage.
Scent to either mask your scent or mark trails.
Lustre, probably trail markings at least.
Thing is, almost anything can, with minimal imagination be turned to military purposes.
Because the "purposes" of militaries are so wide and varied.
I think it depends on how versatile Luxury Runes are. I wouldn't expect a (hypothetical example) "music box" rune to double up as a radio or a communications device, and wouldn't be particularly useful on a battlefield.
Something I just realized while rereading - Mathilde and Thorek literally don't count the mostly disenfranchised Forestborn. Now to be fair, Mathilde's math still checks out because the Wards of Frost and Storm are both highly in favour of contact, but it's still a very unfortunate oversight on their part. That kind of makes me give a higher priority to an 'explore a ward' action, so that Mathilde (and Eike) can spend some time with the least represented among the Eonir.
Because largely they don't get a vote.
Power of the people isn't a thing Mathy or Thorek would think of when talking politics.
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The question isn't 'is there any imaginable circumstance ever where the rune could assist, in any way, in any form of conflict'. It's 'did the rune have enough utility to survive a thousand years of total war'. A Runesmith Council didn't sit down and think 'hmm, maybe we should preserve the Lipstick Rune because you could use it to draw a map of enemy positions'. It was more of a 'it's been twenty generations since we last experienced peace, does anyone alive still know how to make a Lipstick Rune?'
If you're trying to gather political influence, focusing on the enfranchised is not an oversight.
If you're trying to gather political influence, focusing on the enfranchised is not an oversight.
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I'm not sure that would help us politically, but exploring a Ward might get us in contact with the leadership that does have political sway, plus leveling up our Eonir Diplomacy to 2/2 Advanced, which isn't much from a pure numbers perspective but may be very helpful narratively. That's the status of our Dwarf and College of Magic Diplomacy skills, for instance.
But the Forestborn are, as I said, mostly disenfranchised. They have two votes, and while that's an easy number to gloss over when you think of the full 25 votes on the council it does kind of matter when the vote is pretty much tied and Mathilde and Thorek count four uncertain votes for them and two possible votes that might switch against them.
I would like to explore the Ward of Storm, though not on this turn and probably not on the next. Getting advanced Eonir diplomacy will be good, and exposing Eike to Forestborn is also good, but I also just want to know what's their deal. Cadaeth is on the project so I'm not worried about the Ward of Frost, but while the Warden of Storm seems really in favour of contact it probably won't hurt to check.
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Which is probably not a deffinition the average dwarf runesmith would use, if something is the Shine Making Rune and it has been used to make gems more shinny since time out of mind they are not gonna hand it to the local rangers to make a slightly more shuiny signal mirror
It's possible, but between Shadowsteed, teleportation, and various flavours of sneakiness, most situations where bodyguards would be useful would be ones where they wouldn't be able to come along.
One of those votes is led by a council that Cadaeth is on, so they're unlikely to be the weak link, and the other is a heavily militarized bulwark against greenskins and gribblies, which I don't think has come up on-screen but is why Mathilde and Thorek don't think they're a great candidate for commerce.
dinomannitro6
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Yes,
but yes we could hire some, but I don't know how much of the thread would be on board with the expense and the limitations on our mobility
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