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I think I'm going to vote for copying the Minor Colleges, first. That's a wide range of topics, including a lot of comparatively simple trade-based topics, for our rookie scribes to cut their teeth on.

Also maybe we'll get some more stuff relevant to weaving, and Francesco will finally give us the silk we've been patiently waiting for for I don't even know how many years, now.
 
I think I'm going to vote for copying the Minor Colleges, first. That's a wide range of topics, including a lot of comparatively simple trade-based topics, for our rookie scribes to cut their teeth on.

Also maybe we'll get some more stuff relevant to weaving, and Francesco will finally give us the silk we've been patiently waiting for for I don't even know how many years, now.
"GIVE US SILK SHEETS OR GIVE US DEATH!"
A inscription found outside the weaving guild of karak eightpeaks circa 2490, author unknown
 
Actually a question to the thread, we call it karaks eightpeaks... But every other karak has a full dwarven name (karak-a-karaz, karak kadrin, karak Azul)
Does eightpeaks also have a dwarven name and we just don't use it?
 
Actually a question to the thread, we call it karaks eightpeaks... But every other karak has a full dwarven name (karak-a-karaz, karak kadrin, karak Azul)
Does eightpeaks also have a dwarven name and we just don't use it?
Vala-Azril-Ungol, Queen of the Silvery Depths. That's why our library's Khazalid name is Kron Azril Ungol, Archive of the Silvery Depths, and the library actions get abbreviated as KAU in my turn summaries.
 
Vala-Azril-Ungol.

Queen of the Silvery Depths.
Vala-Azril-Ungol, Queen of the Silvery Depths. That's why our library's Khazalid name is Kron Azril Ungol, Archive of the Silvery Depths, and the library actions get abbreviated as KAU in my turn summaries.
Thank you, probably could have remembered that myself but I just kinda didn't. So thanks for the info.

So we just using karak eightpeaks because it's easier?
 
Thank you, probably could have remembered that myself but I just kinda didn't. So thanks for the info.

So we just using karak eightpeaks because it's easier?

Basically yes.

The Karak Eight Peaks / Vala-Azril-Ungol thing is a pain in the butt because its informal and well known name fits the Karak naming convention and its formal one doesn't and is a huge ungainly mouthful, so it gets referred to as Karak Eight Peaks by default when all the other Holds use the formal Dwarven names. It can be generally assumed that if the conversation is in Reikspiel they're saying Karak Eight Peaks, if it's in Khazalid they're saying Vala-Azril-Ungol, and in this case they'd be saying whatever the Eltharin is for it, but all of that gets turned into Karak Eight Peaks by the translation convention unless the exact term being used is meaningful in some way.
 
If we want to make nice with the Verenans we could just pay them to write books for us. Or fund their own bookmining expeditions I guess.
 
Lets just do the usual tactic for befriending the Verenans. So who do they hate the most and we need to murder death kill to get on their good side?

Well, if they're the ones who feel that knowledge should be locked away, we could try burning down a couple of public libraries. That should definitely get us on the Cult of Verena's good side, right?
 
Since T21, 2480. A decade IC, 4 years OOC
A decade. Even by dwarven standards, he's presumably failed the test Belegar was using this job as:
Give the leader of the Undumgi temporary control of Karag Nar and let him know if he proves equal to the task, it will be made permanent and he will be given the title of Thane. Drop management of the silk business in his lap, that can be his trial.
Which is honestly a bit of a shame if I'm right, having the human leader of the Undumgi was politically harmonious.

Taking a decade to create an entire industry from scratch, using a novel materiel, isn't really that long, when I think about it.
They were importing weavers from the Empire, offering high wages. At the very least I'd have expected to hear that they'd cracked the weaving process by now, even if they hadn't scaled up the industry fully.
 
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A decade. Even by dwarven standards, he's presumably failed the test Belegar was using this job as:

Which is honestly a bit of as hame if I'm right, having the human leader of the Undumgi was politically harmonious.
Since then he's been made Steward (because Edda's pregnant), so he must be doing something right, even if the silk has been slow to come.
 
I think I'm going to vote for copying the Minor Colleges, first. That's a wide range of topics, including a lot of comparatively simple trade-based topics, for our rookie scribes to cut their teeth on.

Also maybe we'll get some more stuff relevant to weaving, and Francesco will finally give us the silk we've been patiently waiting for for I don't even know how many years, now.
The problem is that there aren't any human or dwarf books in the Old World regarding weaving silk, which is why it was a somewhat big deal that we gave the Eonir silk books to Francesco. And even then, it's not exactly a casual endeavor to break into a whole new process of industry based off writings in a language where every word has at least three meanings. I'm sure he and his silk-oriented subordinates been giving it his best shot - he's been a busy man.

Also, man. Ten or so IC years since T21. Ten years since we met the Ducklings. Ten years since we saved Roswita's bacon and started memeing on a vampire's name. Ten years since Mathilde was given Branulhune. Ten years since Max rolled really well and uncovered that silk is right here and can be an economic nuke. Ten years since Anton got some insight on dwarven handguns out of Gotri by just asking about his own natural interests. Ten years since Wilhelmina made some pointed remarks to King Byrrnoth about how Barak Varr could make a canal of their own far better than Karak Kadrin could.

Turn 21 was full of stuff that ended up being big deals.
 
We could introduce them to the Druchii. That would be a chance for them to get books no one in the Old World has.
So I said this mainly as a joke, but the more I think about it the more I feel it could work?

The Verenans want rare books the Druchii have very rare and unique books (basically every Druchii book and books from Cathay and Nippon)

The sorceress wants knowledge for knowledge.

The Verenans have plenty of knowledge and books they could give in exchange.

Now it would be up to them (and the sorceress) if they go through this exchange, but Mathilde could just promise to give them the chance to obtain rare books, so regardless if they go through or not we would have fulfilled our promise.
 
I think we should make up with the Nuln Verenans because they're one of the two most important temples of Verena in the Empire. Their word carries weight, and while it won't be impossible to work with other Verenans, it will be harder. Making peace will make things easier for us in the long run.
 
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