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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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'Weather' is great because it's not a weather condition but rather an apparition that blocks vision in a way that is mildly similar to a weather condition/manifests as a weather conditioln. A fitting mistdirection for an Ulgu spell.
 
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For words starting with w there's wind, which Ulgu has a weak association with but it's strong enough that Elves use Ulgu to help prople their boats. There's also the words waft and wisp but both are associated with small amounts of gas.
 
If we went for the spider aesthetic for the red rider it'd be Weber's Webber
And we could make an aquatic version named Weber's Webbed Webber
 
I have a question about BM. Can certain BM spells, like, The Enfeebling Foe, The Whitering or Okkam's Mindrazor be scaled down to 1 or 2 targets and that allow them to be cast as if they were Fiendish Complex spells? And if not would it be possible to create a those spells (Ie: create a FC Withering spell)?

Note: it isn't clear I ask these questions parting from the assumption that Mathilde would already know the BM spell when trying to do these things.
 
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NexusEye said:
For words starting with w there's wind, which Ulgu has a weak association with but it's strong enough that Elves use Ulgu to help prople their boats. There's also the words waft and wisp but both are associated with small amounts of gas.
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On the other hand, humorously misleading names for very scary spells is a classic. 'Weber's Wispy Weather' is something that's technically correct, but hearing a dark wizard scream in horror about the 'wispy weather' coming to eat them would warm any grey wizard's heart.
 
NexusEye said:
For words starting with w there's wind, which Ulgu has a weak association with but it's strong enough that Elves use Ulgu to help prople their boats.
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Do they? I know they have mist mages that they use at sea, but I would expect them to use Azyr if they needed to affect wind and storm ratehr than the mist mages use (which seems to largely be as fighters doing things like creating mists only hte Elves can see through and similar).
 
Retrueno said:
I have a question about BM. Can certain BM spells, like, The Enfeebling Foe, The Whitering or Okkam's Mindrazor be scaled down to 1 or 2 targets and that allow them to be cast as if they were Fiendish Complex spells? And if not would it be possible to create a those spells (Ie: create a FC Withering spell)?

Note: it isn't clear I ask these questions parting from the assumption that Mathilde would already know the BM spell when trying to do these things.
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I would assume that manually scaling down BM to FC isn't possible, otherwise they'd break 'never safe to cast' and we'd see it happen more often.

For modifying spells to create new ones, my take would be that it'd be theoretically possible, but impractically difficult. The lower the difficulty of spell, the harder it is to create, and if it were that easy to scale down versions of those BM spells for combat-worthy FC Ulgu spells, it'd have been done already. It's been stated that Ulgu is thematically bad at standard 'do damage' spells below the BM level, and we don't have any traits to leverage to make that process easier.
 
[x] Plan Girlscouts with Eike
- [x] JOHANN: Hunt an Apparition (Rider in Red)
- [x] MAX: Study an artefact (Lustrian Rubbings)
- [x] EGRIMM: Windherder Enchanting (Van Horstmann's Speculum)
-- [x] COIN (Gambler)
- [x] Waystones: Foundations (Thorek, Hatalath, Sarvoi, Niedzwenka, Egrimm, Elrisse, Tochter, Zlata, Max)
- [x] Tributary: International (Kislev) (Zlata, Niedzwenka, Aksel, Cadaeth, Tochter)
- [x] Receive training: (Scouting, with the Dwarven Rangers)
- [x] EIC: Negotiate and plan a magical route through the Schadensumpf to allow for easier trade with the Eonir without compromising their defences
- [x] KAU: Begin copying the full corpus of a Partner Library (Grand University of Nuln)
- [x] SERENITY: Observations on the Windfall north of the Dark Lands (Egrimm as primary author)
- [x] Eike Actions: Lustrian Rubbings, Paper-writing, Scouting
- [x] Eike Study: Politicking
[x] Plan Daughters of Lakes and Shadows with AV
[x] Glau
[x] Plan Bring Running Shoes with Seviroscope, no liminal research
- [x] JOHANN: Hunt an apparition (Rider in Red)
-- [x] The Gambler
- [x] EGRIMM: Attempt a Windherder enchantment with Egrimm (Seviroscope)
- [x] MAX: Study an artefact (Books and rubbings from an Asur explorer of Lustria and the Southlands)
- [x] Attempt to gain control of one of your Arcane Marks (Mantle of Mist)
- [x] Waystone: Foundation (Thorek, Hatalath, Sarvoi, Egrimm, Elrisse, Niedzwenka, Zlata)
- [x] Tributary: International (Kislev) (Zlata, Niedzwenka, Aksel, Tochter, Cadaeth)
- [x] EIC: Negotiate and plan a magical route through the Schadensumpf to allow for easier trade with the Eonir without compromising their defenses
- [x] KAU: Begin copying the full corpus of a Partner Library (Grand University of Nuln)
- [x] SERENITY: Observations on the Windfall north of the Dark Lands (Egrimm as primary author)
- [x] COIN: The Gambler (Hunt an apparition)
- [x] Eike Actions: Lustrian books and rubbings study, Windfall paper, Windherder enchanting, EIC negotiation
- [x] Eike Study: Enchanting class at the Grey College (1 CF)
 
It just occurred to me, but if/when Eike finishes her Journey, we can do what Regimand did for us and pay for a few months' worth of classes. And, when she graduates, we get CF based on how well she does.

...Actually, I know Regimand got a lot of CF from Mathilde's graduation, but did he get any more as she kept proving herself? It's one thing for your former apprentice to have taken control of an army, destroyed an infamous castle, and insta-beat one of the proctors in combat, it's another thing entirely when less than twenty years later she's released over a dozen papers, discovered a new sapient species willing to join the forces of Order, recovered two Dwarfholds, been declared an honorary Dwarf, holds a lecture completely altering the war on greenskins, and reaches Lord Magisterhood.

Did he get a burst of Favor every time Mathilde did something impressive, like how we got more Favor because people's attention was redrawn to the paper on the We?
 
deathofrats0808 said:
Do they? I know they have mist mages that they use at sea, but I would expect them to use Azyr if they needed to affect wind and storm ratehr than the mist mages use (which seems to largely be as fighters doing things like creating mists only hte Elves can see through and similar).
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I could've sworn I read about it somewhere but searching the thread I can't find any sources for it and I may be mixing up stuff about Baron Henryk's College of Navigation and Sea Magicks in Marienburg, which does specialize in Ulgu in addition to Azyr and misremembering that as them using Ulgu to help propel their ships but they may be using Ulgu for non-sailing purposes. Either way their isn't anything to support my claim so I hereby retract it. My apologies.
 
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