I'm sure there's somebody on a pulpit somewhere in the Empire predicting Mordheim 2.
Personally, I'm not keen on payment and am inclined to deal with it entirely as a logistics problem: Finding the best way to handle things in good times, and the least bad way to handle them in bad, drawing down what can afford to be drawn down, and triage what cannot. Hopefully a lot of the time ensuring that polities with a surplus can send things to those with a deficit, a la what we see in grain or energy distribution in the event of a crop or power failure. (One of the things that struck me back when talking about the infrastructure possibilities Windherding might allow is that it would be fun to deliberately send energy to the Karaz Ankor to help power some of their great works of yore. The Empire doesn't link many of its works to waystones after all, and the Karaz Ankor does. Finding out if we could deliberately empower some lost great work of Ulthuan would likewise be an intriguing prospect.)
All else aside, even that would need negotiations, just so we know how much magic we can take before Ulthuan sinks.
Just to answer this specific one. The elves couldn't even have negotiated with anyone in the empire until about 300 years ago because until then magic was outlawed and someone would have tried to burn an elf on the stakes.
Elf wizards are still illegal in the Empire, the Empire just doesn't classify them as wizards for diplomatic purposes.
Absolutely, my point was mostly that before 300 years ago there were a) no wizards of the empire and b) 3 empires.
Personally, I'm pretty sure it's not just the humies that that lack of trust applies to. Nor that humans are uniquely or even particularly bad in that respect.
On the other hand, it has now been 200 years since the Colleges were founded and it doesn't seem like they were going to be giving them more info on Waystones any time soon.
Well...
Find someone fluent in elf and have them spend a year listening to poetry to make sure they understand exactly what is being talked about?
200 is decently short still. But I do get your point.
Point, but Malekith has been a known quantity for millennia. With humans, you make pacts, you make sure they understand the agreement, and a hundred years later you wake up surprised because the original people you've talked to are long dead and the new generation has some unfortunate ideas. Just ask the Eonir.
Hell if he made one it would probably punched a hole in the warp to pump the winds directly in there. While also projecting a gigantic frowny dwarf face in the warp.
I observe that we have since fulfilled these criteria. Figuratively on the beard front, but the high conclave saying it makes up for the fact, I'm sure.
Personally the best thing about giving him the serviscope is that he will realize that, yes, we made the damn thing just for him, and he didn't even ask.Apropos of nothing, but with respect to the meeting where we plan to give Kragg the Servioscope...
I observe that we have since fulfilled these criteria. Figuratively on the beard front, but the high conclave saying it makes up for the fact, I'm sure.
I mean, a good work is just expected of a proper dwarf. (Kragg's standards are such that a simple acknowledgement from him equates to high praise.)
Snorri: DID SOMEONE SAY GIFTS?
Please quote who you mean. Because I missed who wants to destroy the world.
Regarding that specific example, Thorek hinted that their existing network has a limited capacity to deal with Dhar, and any potential Sylvania link would have a great deal of it, so we'd need to solve that problem first.
Oh thank the gods Luitpold is a reasonable person.
