Pulling shit with a full-on EC already on suspicious footing is unlikely to be a productive learning opportunity. That is way out of the league of an apprentice.
I don't want to give her something small, I want to give her something important. Even if sucks for her it's still a learning experience. Considering the shit we got into as a mere Journeywoman I don't think we should baby Eike and let her try to do actually dangerous things, because she's gonna have to face them anyway, and better our allies catch her than our enemies. Plus my plan puts the Gambler on her anyway as a type of protection.
As a Journeygal Mathilde did stuff like infiltrating single barons. Infiltrating an entire Elector from scratch would have been a multi-turn project back then.
I actually agree, in general. The reason I wanted the answer to this particular question is that there's a face of the coin that makes some Hedgewise trust us, so if there's a chance they'll be involved in the liminal realm action that's something that's relevant for writing turn plans.
That's fascinating, because that implies that myth either isn't all that old or it was lost to the Eonir. I can't think of any reason why either would be the case.
ALSO lacking the swordmasters makes it seem like it might be more of a just so story about the militarization of the white tower specifically in reaction to the sundering. Technically that happened before the eonir split from ulthuan but honestly it sounds like the CULTURAL divergence from ulthuan may have actually been going on long before the war of the beard itself.
I'm not proposing for Eike to personally infiltrate the cabinet of the Al-Ulric, just to find out what's happening politically, which could be accomplished by a perfectly mundane spy. In fact, if we are considering sending the Hochlander to do this we might as well send Eike since she's about as magically capable and has better Intrigue then we started the quest with. We can do something similar with Nordland, she just needs to spend some time as a courtier or something. Nothing invasive is needed.
I don't think that there is the biggest push to do the orbs. Most of the plans are doing liminal realm instead, but I do agree that there is more interest than expected.
nitpick: The Orbs want the Room of Calamity, which is offline, not the Room of Utter Neutrality. Overall though I am also surprised by how much it's being mentioned.
Note that I use the phrase "insert agents into the Cult of Ulric" because that is the phrasing of the action. Here is what I would actually want from that action:
Halfway into the moratorium, and the rough plan mockups break down as:
Is it normal that there is no option to deploy river leylines?
