Where can we find a teacher for Greatswords?
We should finish this up soon, if we get 3/3 do we gain a trait?
The Ulrican knights should have some.
And yes.
In practice it would amount for the same thing:
- Asking them what they want
- Suggesting that the dwarfs make it
- Hand it to them
That is transferring favor.
I think it'd be appropriate if we owed them our lives or something, rather than them doing their jobs and us doing our jobs.
I took a look around. Is this the one you were referencing?
Close enough.
I mean, if we want to give all our Journeymanlings something to remember us by, why not just give them a bound spell each? I'm pretty sure we can do it on objects rather than them directly, and it will be one use only- but it's a hell of a lot more personal (and affordable) than Dwarf commissions.
Ulgu can't bind to objects. Needs SOME kind of mind in them, and the bound spell is cast on the bound creature.
Maxmillian could.
Personally I think we don't need a particular memento just to have mementos. We were their nominal commanding officer for this campaign, we worked with them to effect, and we did science together for a bit.
Look at them each:
-Panoramia will be staying here for a few years to revitalize the land, then testing for Magister. What she has in mementos was us working with her to collect rare plants, which she'd be working with in the years to come. Its more personal than any gift or enchantment.
-Maxmillian will be staying here for at least a few years to learn smithing under a Clan Angrund smith. Depending on his aptitude and the smith's skill this might take a decade. For him what he'd consider a good memento is probably wielding something he made as advertising when he's done.
-Johann we never really liked and vice versa. Not much memento stuff.
-Esbern and Selja have their lionbirds which is a better memory of this campaign than just about anything else. Ambers don't tend to value material possessions that much, though the dino eggs might be worthwhile or not. We'll see yet.
Whilst I am inclined to agree, for us there is no reason we would want to pay back a no interest debt. Which is why I argued against it before, but I was thinking from a diplomatic point of view. Stirland is still recovering, and it is a sizable sum, plus our fief and friends and memory's are in stirland. Mathilde might want to make peace with the new elector count. And paying back the "debt" the little lass no doubt knows about might help. At the very least, its important from a reputation point of view. It can be used against us. If I remember correctly, I was merely reminding people of Ranalds ring, and how we can use it to patch relations using the debt as an excuse. We could settle the debt when ever, I was just positing the idea in others heads about uses for that damn ring. That being said, I would recommend settling that debt, when we decide to return to the empire permanently. After our stint with the dwarfs, if we decide to become a spymaster or advisor for an Elector Count or noble family or we just return period. We don't want the debt hanging on our head, period. People keep talking about our long life span, some might posit the argument that we are abusing our longer life span, to get away with not paying the debt. Even if we were to make a partial payment. That being said, you mention the profits paying off the debt. My memory was that our profits were being funneled back as investment into the EIC. If as you said, our profits are activily paying off the debt. We have proof we our activly paying back said debt, and this isn't a weapon to be used against us or are allies politically. Can we get a copy of all the documentation at the EIC. I worry our proof of paying our debt might disappear.
A couple of points.
1) The contract is ironclad, the debt is being paid, and the documentation is
done by the current owner of the EIC. Furthermore, as a Grey Wizard she can put the squeeze on but nothing for her to squeeze out. Confiscating the fief would be a net loss to her, on top of rustling the jimmies of basically every merchant and noble in Stirland.
2) Roswita actually respects Mathilde just fine, she just considers magic too risky to have in her council, or more importantly, in her personal presence. This point is one that players have a persistent problem with, we generally have trouble with fine gradations of relationship than friend and foe.
2.1) The current situation of Mathilde doing hero things far, far from Stirland is basically perfect. The heroic wizard is far from the Empire, doing good things for the Empire, and when she inevitably explodes nothing that matters(like Elector Counts) will be caught up in the explosion.
2.2) Her debt means that the biggest trading concern in Stirland is feeding the national treasury a much needed drip of cash. While she'd prefer to have all the money
now, theres literally no way to get it. The money doesn't exist, and Stirland would need to spend more than what she could get just to send people over to call on the debt. At
best she might put the squeeze on our steward to turn over the income from our fief. Pity the fief generates shit all in money huh? Its more a place to dump money into charity than make money.
2.3) Mathilde's resignation was remarkably civil for how she was treated. The spy network was handed over intact, so she doesn't have to spend the first decade of office building ANYTHING at all. The friggin
Runefang was delivered.
2.4) Word on the rumor mill from all the returning Stirlanders was that Mathilde disappeared off the map for a few months then emerged killing three warbosses in solo infiltration-assassinations. Nobody knows how those were incredibly lucky opportunities, only that she goes in, and comes out with the leader dead, and everything sabotaged. All indications from her side is that if Mathilde WAS mortally offended they'd probably have found themselves with a rogue Grey Magister and a dead Elector Count. Best not to kick the beehive without reason.
2.5) Finally, right this turn? The Stirland economic problems are
wiped. Over nine thousand Stirlanders are going home to buy farmland from Roswita with loot in the neighborhood of a 50-100 gold each, and the sudden surge in demand means she could jack up the price and rely on the soldiers simply not knowing the value of their money to squeeze out more.
2.5.1) And of course the EIC would be making mad bank all the while. Nobody better placed to supply all the seeds and tools the newly wealthy farmers need.
As far as Roswita is concerned the debt is not a concern, and Mathilde is a sadly cursed patriot.
