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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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I wonder if you can runesmith on top of enchantments? Well, no, I'm sure the answer is no for game balance reasons, I'm just curious if it was ever actually tested. Whilst no doubt there were plenty of wizards who tried to enchant runic weapons before finally giving up, it wouldn't surprise me if there hasn't been a runesmith alive since the founding of the Empire who was radical enough to try.
Alric was insane enough to try to use warpstone, by comparison trying to carve runes on enchanted metal would be downright tame.
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Well, I'm always glad to learn more about the less savoury parts of society 😅
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This gives us greater gains against the enemies we struggled with the most before.
This gives us greater gains against the enemies we struggled with the most before.
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That's true, but I think in Alric's time there weren't any dwarf-friendly sources of enchantments to try. (Otherwise, he might have been able to try Powerstones from the elves.)
I'm also not entirely sure if warpstone is less crazy from a runesmith perspective? It's a material that only they're working with, even if it's the worst material imaginable. Enchantments require trusting the handiwork of the craziest umgi or asur "craftsmen" out there, especially from a runesmith perspective.
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I mean there weren't any dwarf friendly warpstone merchants, but he got the thing from somewhere. I think that if you are insane enough to trust your work to congealed Dhar, you are insane enough to work with whatever random alchemist you can pay to help before you get to the point of 'but what about warpstone'. At least that is my take, assuming he worked his way up to it.
Mopman43
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Well, supposedly he might have had the opportunity- rumors say he forged weapons for the Khan-Queens when the Gospodar migrated over the mountains.
Sinsystems
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So on the Isekai book thing here is how I think the series would go:
Book 1: Standard Isekai start, have Markus die in a manner that is vaguely heroic to garner initial reader sympathy (saved a girl from being hit by a bus, died in an accident swerving to avoid a child or hit by a bus while in the bathtub) then wakes up as a baby with his rather well off family. First half of the book is about setting up the basics of the setting (or at least his misunderstanding of it) and some of the supporting cast during his childhood. Probably includes a childhood friend of some kind (I'm thinking girl from a merchant family or farmer girl), a trainee priestess and a rough tomboy girl who is implied to be part of some shady criminal stuff. On defining characteristic of his would be that he is a massive wizard fanboy due to Isekai views on magic and this will be used to introduce the colleges to the audience, along with namedropping some important characters.
Then the magic is discovered and he is sent to the colleges, with the obligatory scene of him meeting the potential waifus and making some promises to them.
Second half follows his journey through the college and meeting some other cast members like Eike who is totally the Ojou-sama archetype. Probably also includes some lore drops of the sort of things that he couldn't know about in the first half and some struggles to improve, likely framed as him using his Isekai knowledge to do great (although whether he actually is all that good is unknown, maybe he actually is just average but sees himself as great) with Eike holding the position of the Ace in comparison to sell the Ojou-sama archetype.
The finale would obviously be his graduation and becoming an apprentice, likely with a line about how his legend starts here or something.
Book 2: Will mainly open with him meeting his new master, now personally as part of the contrast between him and Eike I think it would be interesting for the master to be one of Mathilde's former classmates who was top of their class but hasn't had much in the way of career success and is a bit resentful of Mathilde (Although Markus sees it as being a grown up Tsundere).
This book mainly contains Markus going through his training while in the process running into or meeting up with his childhood friends. With the trainee Priestess now a full priestess but rather than the expected evolution from her shy personality she is very intense and stern, the childhood friend either got married and had a kid in the meantime and the tomboy girl is now a full on crime boss. Either don't remember Markus all that well or they do and never took the promise that seriously.
Some action happens in the book as Markus helps his master on an assignment or two, with him justifying his meetings with the girls as good information gathering (which is actually is, mixture of things people tell the priestess, housewife rumor mill and underworld tips) even if he views it differently.
Eike doesn't appear as much in this one but through a few master rants the impression of being the Ace remains via association with some of Mathilde's achievements. Maybe even some lore tidbits about Karak Eight Peaks to foreshadow that.
Book ends with something her hears from the girls actually helping his master's investigation in some way and leads into a climactic fight.
Book 1: Standard Isekai start, have Markus die in a manner that is vaguely heroic to garner initial reader sympathy (saved a girl from being hit by a bus, died in an accident swerving to avoid a child or hit by a bus while in the bathtub) then wakes up as a baby with his rather well off family. First half of the book is about setting up the basics of the setting (or at least his misunderstanding of it) and some of the supporting cast during his childhood. Probably includes a childhood friend of some kind (I'm thinking girl from a merchant family or farmer girl), a trainee priestess and a rough tomboy girl who is implied to be part of some shady criminal stuff. On defining characteristic of his would be that he is a massive wizard fanboy due to Isekai views on magic and this will be used to introduce the colleges to the audience, along with namedropping some important characters.
Then the magic is discovered and he is sent to the colleges, with the obligatory scene of him meeting the potential waifus and making some promises to them.
Second half follows his journey through the college and meeting some other cast members like Eike who is totally the Ojou-sama archetype. Probably also includes some lore drops of the sort of things that he couldn't know about in the first half and some struggles to improve, likely framed as him using his Isekai knowledge to do great (although whether he actually is all that good is unknown, maybe he actually is just average but sees himself as great) with Eike holding the position of the Ace in comparison to sell the Ojou-sama archetype.
The finale would obviously be his graduation and becoming an apprentice, likely with a line about how his legend starts here or something.
Book 2: Will mainly open with him meeting his new master, now personally as part of the contrast between him and Eike I think it would be interesting for the master to be one of Mathilde's former classmates who was top of their class but hasn't had much in the way of career success and is a bit resentful of Mathilde (Although Markus sees it as being a grown up Tsundere).
This book mainly contains Markus going through his training while in the process running into or meeting up with his childhood friends. With the trainee Priestess now a full priestess but rather than the expected evolution from her shy personality she is very intense and stern, the childhood friend either got married and had a kid in the meantime and the tomboy girl is now a full on crime boss. Either don't remember Markus all that well or they do and never took the promise that seriously.
Some action happens in the book as Markus helps his master on an assignment or two, with him justifying his meetings with the girls as good information gathering (which is actually is, mixture of things people tell the priestess, housewife rumor mill and underworld tips) even if he views it differently.
Eike doesn't appear as much in this one but through a few master rants the impression of being the Ace remains via association with some of Mathilde's achievements. Maybe even some lore tidbits about Karak Eight Peaks to foreshadow that.
Book ends with something her hears from the girls actually helping his master's investigation in some way and leads into a climactic fight.
Sir_Travelsalot
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Could have her mix into a mafia princess archetype, too. Altdorf does have the Hooks gang, who are often described as seeing themselves as a better class of criminal and refraining from certain criminal enterprises they would see as harmful to that reputation. That'd work for retaining audience sympathy.
Mopman43
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Hmm, the Hooks are also the racist gang that will work muscle for the guards when there's Halflings to beat or similar.
Have that be a shocking reveal?
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"The New Game+ final boss will be harder!"
pucflek
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Me, playing Dragon Age Origins, finishing the game with 100+ potions, continuing to hoard them in Awakenings, Golems of Amgarrak and Witch hunt despite them being completely useless at that point due to hp scaling.
People get passionate when asked how deep into ap hell they want to go.
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On the topic of elf and dwarf cooperation, has anyone ever tried to alloy ithilmar and gromril? Seems like the sort of thing someone would have poked at during the high point of the two powers working with each other.
"Bah, who needs antidotes or paralyze heals anyway" *walks into Viridian Forest*.
Sinsystems
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True, although another option could have her be a noble's daughter who is sneaking out to slum it with the poor in secret if you want a different sort of shocking reveal.
deathofrats0808
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Canon says he found it under a tree after being ambushed by some Skaven. That said, he did try everything from Gromril to Dragon Scales first apparently.
Pretty sure Alaric was dead by then, as he'd forged the Runefangs 1500 years before the Gospodars arrived, and more recent canon says that Miska forged Fearfrost herself.
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Mopman43
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Every single description of the Master Rune of Alaric the Mad, 4th through 8th edition, says that he is said to have forged weapons for the Khan-Queens.
Only 4th edition Dwarfs talks about him forging Fearfrost, so I didn't mention him forging Fearfrost.