It does sound neat. Though with multiple libraries now waiting to have their entire contents copied over, that's probably going to be the priority for KAU actions for the next few turns. Getting everything from the University of Nuln etc is just too big an immediate gain to pass up.
I'm seriously worried that the 'seeing through Pall of Darkness' action will end up being a waste and that it'll turn out that there's just no seeing through it, sharp Windsight or no. I'm even more worried that Eike will be incapable of benefiting from that action - Mathilde seeing thourgh her own spell is one (imo implausible) thing, Eike seeing through Mathilde's impenetrable darkness is even less likely. Maybe it's worth trying once Eike learns Pall of Darkness herself, but that's probably not going to happen soon, and might not happen at all before Eike's Journeying.
The Room of Utter Calamity won't come online until turn 43, and we would prefer to wait with the Morbing until it's available since eight Morbs are a whole lot of magic in one place, and while we don't foresee anything going wrong there we also didn't foresee a bird when we used powerstone creation methods on the AV. The liminal research probably can be done without the room, so if we want we can do it next turn, see for example this plan.
It doesn't have to, humorism's concepts line up heavily with human intuition. Its a story the reader wants to believe.
The bounty is for Ranaldians. That means it's essentially "Hey, go and steal books for me". It will definitly get you rare books. It will also get you pissed off people who just discovered KAU mysteriously added a version of their stolen book, shortly after it was stolen.
...well I have a reason, but not one I think we could admit to Thorgrim.
I'd have thought that they would specialize in confiscating and collecting all the potentially illegal or problematic books before some other religion's Templars can burn them. Though I guess they would neither advertise that fact nor share any such books with Mathilde even on a good roll.
It could be early installment weirdness, but there is brief mention of their being a sanctioned school for Magic in Middleheim in the first Gotrek and Felix book.
Would they store such texts in Nuln though? Wouldn't it make more sense to have your private no-read library department stored in a library with actual books (to hide their deliveries) as well as a pre-existing robust guard?
Having the only copy of something is a matter of prestige. If there's another copy freely accessible, and potentially even copyable, it's a lot less prestigious. Especially since now they won't have "Old Rare Book", they'll have "Recent Copy of a Book from a library". Plus, can you be sure the copy you got wasn't modified? Copying errors occur even while doing it honestly, but there's all sorts of potential for deliberate mucking about.
Broadly is there any IC justification I am missing here that would make Mathilde think that letting Thorgrim know that we know about the network is anything, but a bad idea?
mmm. I'm possibly just underestimating the efficiency of dwarves, my impression was that they were lacking in trusted personnel to translate the stuff, since Thorgrim ordered his loremaster to use his authority to bring in scholars from Barak Varr and Zhufbar to help translate due to a lack of bodies etc.
It also just foments a bad reputation.
