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Personally Both the Canal and the Gold College seem pretty much the same in terms of any sort of relevance to Mathilde's life (Which is not a whole lot directly, and a decent amount diffusely) with the exception that Mathilde has more of a personal stake in seeing if Feldmann lives up to his boasts of a quick turnaround of wonder weapons for the next war, since it was her stuff she traded.

Also there's an Everchosen coming up. Having a new river route is relevant to supply in that situation, but I suspect one new river route in (probably) the wrong part of the country to directly supply the front lines is likely to ultimately be a more minor benefit.
 
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The Fey Paths are Liminal Pathways, the Haven is a Liminal Realm. Worldroots are Liminal Pathways, Dreaming Woods are Liminal Realms. Beastpaths are Liminal Pathways, the Heart of the Dark is a Liminal Realm. If you want to get really provocative, you could theorize that the Grey Vaults are a Liminal Pathway, while Morr's Realm is a Liminal Realm.
The Shadow Realm is Liminal Pathways, Mirai is a Liminal Realm.
Sounds like a lot of Pathways are connected to Realms, regardless of size or importance, in a variety of ways. Not that they're necessary (you can enter some Liminal Realms directly, like the Colleges or Dreaming Woods), but the utility of being connected in such a way is obvious.

...I wonder if there's some kind of Liminal Pathway to Gazul's Underearth.

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From the 7e Beastman book.
 
The Fey Paths are Liminal Pathways, the Haven is a Liminal Realm. Worldroots are Liminal Pathways, Dreaming Woods are Liminal Realms. Beastpaths are Liminal Pathways, the Heart of the Dark is a Liminal Realm. If you want to get really provocative, you could theorize that the Grey Vaults are a Liminal Pathway, while Morr's Realm is a Liminal Realm.
Which of the two is the Grey College?
 
The Underearth is indeed believed to be "within and of" of this world.
The Aethyr is," he waves a hand skywards. "Out there, at least metaphorically. More literally, some sort of sideways in a dimension imperceivable to us, but not, perhaps, to you. But either way, entirely separate and outside of what we call reality. The Underearth is not, it has been made within and of this world."
Perhaps then a Liminal Pathway between two real world locations. I.e. accessed by the Sally Port (in KaK?) to the… Old One Warpship Glittering Realm(?)/Underearth- which Gazul returned from the Aethyr to deep under, uh, the earth.

Damn literal, Dwarfs.
 
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Which of the two is the Grey College?
The Colleges stay in one place, so they kinda have to be a Liminal Realm.

The Sally Port of Gazul might be one, or at least the gate between the material world and the pathway leading to the Underearth.
I mean, I assume the Sally Port does something related to that, but given how the bit that mentions it talks of how without it every Dwarf that falls far from a priest of Gazul is defenseless, I don't think it's a physical gate.
 
That said, I can definitely see the argument for doing a Barak Varr purchase on Druchii of Naggaroth/Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan/something else (Nehekhara, maybe?), despite the inefficiency of doing so, and just letting our general info books roll in over time from copying agreements rather than backfill.
I'm more interested in getting books relevant to our work. Tilea for the mapping action (and to help Mathilde learn another language), Nehekhara for coin writing, and Dendrology for lornalim trees.

I think it'd be particularly important for Mathilde to learn Tilean. There's no Classical-rooted speakers in the research group, which'd make the Estalia and Tilea mapping actions harder than they have to be. Unlocking Tilean and Estalian books would be pretty cool too.

I don't think Imperial and Dwarven books are available on the Druchii due to lack of contact. We're not dealing with Ulthuan so books on them aren't particularly in demand. Back-fill gets us a lot of books, but not the ones beneficial to us, and we have an entire city district worth of books to copy if we want sheer quantity.
 
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It's where you banish little kids after beating them in card games.
You know the other funny thing is, if we do apparition binding we'll be doing something pretty close to how Yu-gi-oh Ancient Egypt bound duel monsters to souls.

So what I'm saying is that the Everchosen can be defeated by Mathilde challenging them to a card game and successfully drawing the four five faces of Ranald, instantly winning the game.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq77PpXgxVU
 
You know the other funny thing is, if we do apparition binding we'll be doing something pretty close to how Yu-gi-oh Ancient Egypt bound duel monsters to souls.

So what I'm saying is that the Everchosen can be defeated by Mathilde challenging them to a card game and successfully drawing the four five faces of Ranald, instantly winning the game.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq77PpXgxVU

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It'd be funnier with a yugioh card generator, but I had this ready as part of an omake I've been working on for a while coming Soon™.
 
Tome of Salvation, page 40
"I was going to study The History of War, but when I discovered that Myrmidia's Book of War had twenty-seven different translations, each with key annotations by different, well-respected generals, I lost the taste for it." —Gebberd Pesche, Student of Imperial Literature, Nuln University
Twenty-seven translations. Now let's see, assuming Classical is the original, there's Estalian, Tilean, Bretonnian, Reikspiel, Khazalid, Eltharin, Kislevarin, Norse, Wastelander, Arabyan, Southlander, Indic, and Cathayan. That's thirteen languages with generals who could conceivably want a copy of the Book of War. What are the other fourteen?
 
Tome of Salvation, page 40

Twenty-seven translations. Now let's see, assuming Classical is the original, there's Estalian, Tilean, Bretonnian, Reikspiel, Khazalid, Eltharin, Kislevarin, Norse, Wastelander, Arabyan, Southlander, Indic, and Cathayan. That's thirteen languages with generals who could conceivably want a copy of the Book of War. What are the other fourteen?
27 different translations into Reikspiel that have been done over the years.
 
Tome of Salvation, page 40

Twenty-seven translations. Now let's see, assuming Classical is the original, there's Estalian, Tilean, Bretonnian, Reikspiel, Khazalid, Eltharin, Kislevarin, Norse, Wastelander, Arabyan, Southlander, Indic, and Cathayan. That's thirteen languages with generals who could conceivably want a copy of the Book of War. What are the other fourteen?
Probably that actually literally means 27 translations just into Reikspiel, as the language that Gebbard Pesche Specifically Can Read It In. Gebbard Pesche Specifically doesn't care about how many translations there are into languages that Gebbard Pesche can't read.
 
Do they? We know for a fact that whole areas can be moved and cut off. It also has entrances/exits scattered about town that I presume (maybe wrongly) to be further from each other than the College's diameter.
I don't know, it sounds like Pathways go much further than a single city. But maybe there's some overlap or grey (haha) areas to account for.
 
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