One of them wants help killing rival dark elves, which means it's good to trade with her instead of bad.
Because it could lead to dead druchii, and it's also a potential venue for the command codes we need.
I'm not sure that's on the table without dealing with Morathi or Malekith directly.
Furrowbrow is definitely Kragg's master. Says so in Dwarfs 4th, 6th revised and 8th editions.
Yes, The problem is whetever that truly is the same dwarf that the Ranuld Silverthumb trained. It would make sense honestly, Kragg living so goddamn long, when his master and his master before him had to be really goddamn old as well.
I was championing the trade yesterday and sometime between that and now the goalpost of druuchi trade changed from trying to see if we could snap up some of their Nippon/Cathay books that they got from raiding to trading information about Empire if i understand ongoing discussion correctly. I am not sure where that change happened but i absolutely do not agree with it.
They will also absolutely be using anything they gain, material or political, to raid other parts of the world even if they're not raiding the Empire. This will absolutely be making things worse for the world, even by the small amounts from trading for books.
When we take Elfcation we should take an action to look at Lothern markets. There will be some stuff.
There is no way for Mathilde to trade with the High Elves except through Marienburg.
Actually if we are sending stuff to K8P we can trade tought the Barak Varr.
The end result of stopping raids and killing dark elves will not be more raids and dark elves simply because some dark elves benefit more.
Might be good to save up some cash specifically for that.
It would make Morek 3000 years old by the time he trained Kragg. Which strains my belief a little honestly.
We cannot. The Treaty of Amity and Commerce means that Marienburg is the sole place where Elves trade New World Goods in the entire Old World, iirc.
There's a fair amount of ambiguity, both baked into it (does the New World actually include Ulthuan?) and because of changing circumstances (the treaty was made with the Duchy of Westerland, which no longer exists)
As pointed out, Mathilde has options the wider Empire does not. And once the canal is completed, the wider Empire will also have alternatives. Trading via Laurelorn could also become another of those alternatives if their relations with Ulthuan normalize.
If they aren't raiding the Empire they will be raiding somewhere else, and trade with Mathilde/the Empire is probably not going to upset the balance of power enough to make a noticeable uptick in internal Dark Elf conflict.
The context of that treaty is entirely about trading with humans, not Dwarfs or other Elves.
We are trading at Lothern and once we buy stuff there, rest is just sending it to home at K8P. Unless said treaty bans everybody but Marienburg from trading at Lothern (which it doesn't) they can sit an spin on that treaty
Bee has the right of it, i think. I misremembered. The wording seems to suggest that Marienburg will only trade for western goods with ulthuan, not that Ulthuan will do the same. At least Lexicanum says so.
