I distinctly remember late 20s, partly because Realms of Sorcery page 77 says that there's never been a journeyman younger than late 20s/early 30s and Divided Loyalties is based on WFRP 2e.
I ended up ignoring that because the same source says that while 15-20 is the norm, Apprentices as young as 10 aren't unknown, and a twenty-year Apprenticeship seemed a bit much. And this way the thread got to have as much influence as possible on the person the protagonist ended up becoming, rather than them starting out with someone pushing thirty and already pretty set in their ways.
@Boney are you ever surprised at the way the player base comes up with doing things in these quest?
Not as often as you might think. When I'm deciding what options to present for a vote, it's based on the different directions I think the thread might want to go in. And when I'm writing a post that presents a vote, I'm careful to write in such a way that every possible decision is at least plausible so I don't bias the vote and to keep from writing myself into a corner. Writing Mathilde in a superposition leaves me pretty ready to roll with whatever ends up taking the lead.
That said, I'm very rarely able to predict which votes will be a complete blow-out and which will go right down to the wire.
Wair a moment!
@Boney will Eltharion the Grim still be around Next turn for the Orb Flex? Because if so, we could have him stand their while we do our Two Gifts Day routine and give him a copy of our book and that is hilarious!
Can you imagine the nonreaction from elf batman to finding out we can make Orbs of Sorcery now? Because I can!
He'll probably be at least checking in every now and then until the Project finishes a full Waystone prototype. Probably more, considering how the vote is going.
Soo... are they going to call this the Vladimir Bokha Canal? You know in honor of the late Tsar's great foresight, slain before his time by Lahmian vampires without even getting the chance to unveil his great work.
It's probably going to end up known as the Zhanyka Canal. There's a very minor ataman nearby that has no idea how thoroughly their life is about to get upended.
Hey. Hey. Boney.
I'm not actually asking you what would be needed to make this happen, I just want you to know that I want a canal through the neck. also gunpoweder. to Cathay.
Well, if you build an underground river equal to that of the Chaos Dwarves' one to Uzkulak you could get to the Sour Sea from Ulrikadrin, which gets you to the Sea of Dread and to Ind. Alternatively you could treaty with Nehekhara and build one from the Great Mortis River to the Blight Water and from there to the Sour Sea. Both have big Nagash-shaped complications to them, but that just makes it fun.
The rest of the path is trickier. Either Ind doesn't have rivers, which, uh, no, or the canonical maps omit them. If we assume they're there, then you'd still need to get across the Mountains of Heaven and to do that you'll need to deal with the Monkey King, and if he's anything like his namesake, that'll be
fun. Alternately, in Total Warhammer Cathay already has a canal from their Great River to the gulf between Ind and Khuresh.
