Indeed.
"The reasonable Wizard adapts themself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to themself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable one."
It's not illegal to hold Druid beliefs while being a member of the Jade Order.
I think I kinda remember something about how there used to be waystones and tributaries in the Kurgan territories. (Something about grave sites?) I don't think I remember that well enough to find it in a search, but if I'm right, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say the same might have been true of Norsca too.
You're right, I forgot that. That does make recruiting Bretonnia next turn more reasonable, but I think it's still probably not the way to go. I do think this might alienate our contributors at this stage, and it'll be better to first research the Foundation and either have Waystone prototypes when we approach Bretonnia or to make it clear that we are not as close to Waystone prototypes as we thought.
We don't know about Waystone, but there were apparently tributaries. Mathilde mentioned them in the first meeting of the Waystone project:
Just to be clear, the kurgans mentioned there aren't the Kurgan people, they're burial mounds - though I bet that Kurgans had kurgans too, that's where the name comes from. The option to study them is in our tributaries section:
The Scythians are the ancestors of the Gospodar and the Kurgans, and they came from the Eastern Steppes. This is actually a bit puzzling because it implies there was some part of the network in the Eastern Steppes, unless the Scythians only started building their kurgans when they reached Kislev I guess.
"I wonder if they're interested in joining my project..."
I mean... is it against the articles to have friends that were victims of necromancy?
I had a flashback to the tomb that Mathilde broke into back in turn 9 alongside Kasmir and Abelhelm. The idea that that could have been a tributary at some point before Vlad came along and destroyed the waystones proper of Sylvania is intriguing.
You probably weren't actually looking for constructive feedback on your fictional lecture but that you are doing history without first establishing the space is something I can't not comment on
You probably weren't actually looking for constructive feedback on your fictional lecture but that you are doing history without first establishing the space is something I can't not comment on
"Now, some of you may have been unsure what forest I was speaking about for the last 45 minutes. This is fair, between the Great Forest, Forest of Shadows, Altern Forest, Gryphon's Wood, Dead Wood, Drakwood Forest, Reikland Forest and also Laurelorn, we have a lot of them. If you are in this situation, you should have done some basic familiarisation with the subject rather than stumbling into my lecture at random."You probably weren't actually looking for constructive feedback on your fictional lecture but that you are doing history without first establishing the space is something I can't not comment on
Two consistent throughlines of their history are their desirable natural resources and their defensible but isolating borders. Even within this story that Schadensumpf keeps popping up."Now, some of you may have been unsure what forest I was speaking about for the last 45 minutes. This is fair, between the Great Forest, Forest of Shadows, Altern Forest, Gryphon's Wood, Dead Wood, Drakwood Forest, Reikland Forest and also Laurelorn, we have a lot of them. If you are in this situation, you should have done some basic familiarisation with the subject rather than stumbling into my lecture at random."
The write-up actually comes up and says the opposite, that Dragon mages are students of the Tower who don't know they can ride dragons, but find out.
Minor wars? Like, sure there's probably always some level of conflict going on between every polity, it's that kind of time period, but for reference, the Third Parravon War lasted twelve years and had Altdorf under seige for one of those, and the Fourth lasted three years, and ended when Dieter IV bribed Parravon to leave (I think this is the one and only time Dieter ever did something actually sensible).
Not sure what you're trying to say.
Geography doesn't stop at pointing at a map and - in this example - telling everyone which patch of forest we are talking about. My initial comment was that it's awkward to explain a section of history without having first set the stage by detailing the space the history was shaped by.
This is extremely well-said. My favorite example of Boney pulling this off is this scene:
It is stated that Mathilde has a preference. At no point do we learn what Mathilde's preference is. Boney's style is to maintain enormous amounts of quester agency and not curtail it by telling us "what does Mathilde want," because in this quest's paradigm we are the ones who decide what she wants. And to support that, he uses all sorts of writing tricks to maintain plausible deniability and keep options open for as long as possible before we-the-voters collapse the waveform and pick something for her to do.
