Hmm, what if we phrased it as asking the dwarfs for help understanding the artifice of our human ancestors, since humans have obviously already achieved this once before, all by themselves? Though I suspect that it would be a case of 'If you don't know it now, and the dwarfs do, then it's a guild secret.' If humans relearn how to make steam tanks and then ask the dwarfs to supply parts, then it's just the humans wanting superior dawi craftsdwarfship for their stuff.
I'm pretty sure that if we actively want to see the provinces covered in tributaries, we would normally have to spend the actions ourselves due to us being the crux of the Project, the one through whom everything Project-related passes through.
I'm sure if the Empire gets in a serious enough war to deploy the big battle altars in the next 6 months, Mathilde will be able to bring up the Orbs a little early.
Ah, I see the play now. We just need to rescue/reclaim another Major Hold, then play into our internal desire to
I am not sure why would it be less impressive?
Unless Anton is asking, but that's Anton for you.
I don't think we'd get less of a reward out of it, but it would be slightly less jaw-dropping, is what I mean.
I get it, i just disagree with it. Explaining how you did the what the actual fuck may impress straight academia, but perhaps not the magic kind.
For the record, the likeliest outcome is that we deliver the answer on T44, next turn. It is possible that we completely fuck up the rolls on the book and Boney lets us invest extra actions into rewriting it like we did on Thaumomycology (or, for that matter, on our Masterwork paper), but the modal outcome is that we finish writing Aethyric Vitae next turn.
Catharsis.
And i guess this, but i am mostly in for it because it will make our colleagues jaws drop.
That the benefit of waiting is negligible. Which, yeah, there's been arguments that it's not. But it's also fine to not be convinced by those arguments and just want to get the reward now rather than wait for little reason.
Dragomas likely can't share his transformation though. Magic is finicky like that, especially human magic.
I think refusing to explain will detract from the triumphant moment, not add to it to be honest. Also, Mathilde's going to want to expound at length about her achievement to everyone present for as long as they'll let her talk.
Right but we can´t be sure of that, and nobody thinks its any less of an achievement even if it did happen to be so.
Sure. And no one will think Mathilde creating/finding Orbs of Sorcery is less of an accomplishment if she can't explain how or where, but they will think it's more of one if she does.
Not really because thats the thing. Its not just the academics at play here, its magic academia, and secrecy and being smug while not explaining is what makes stuff more interesting. But as i said, thats subjective stuff. I just like it that way more.
Why thought? There is not really any benefit for explaining how we made them because AV is literally one of a kind, and six months of research on how to get it is not that much of a headstart.
Honestly? Not a big fan. The Orbs are Mathilde's work, and having them be attributed to someone else for even a second is painful to me.
