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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Redshirt Army said:
Notable Discoveries
Fundamental materials science research regarding spidroins and their conformational conversion from solution into fibers
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How Spiders Spin Silk.

Redshirt Army said:
Tricyclo-hexamer crystalization analagous to edingtonite silica in extreme-pressure water
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Rune of the Unknown used to create a large implosion of water... I don't know the crystalization references and wiki isn't helping.

Redshirt Army said:
High-thaum saturation resonance among cryptoclastic and pharological invocations
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Using both grey and light magic to reinforce eachother in enchantments?

Redshirt Army said:
Initial dipodomylogical and cultural studies following the Fall of Skavenblight
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It sounds like skavenblight fell to greenskins and this is the examination of the aftermath, when researchers were able to first access the location?
 
Parabola said:
And I dunno about you guys, but I'd rather go back to being a literal troubleshooter after this arc.
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My pipe dream continues to be Nehekhara.
DragonParadox said:
The funny thing about this is I do not think the world wide web would run on electricity in this world. I mean they already have magical infrastructure which they have to keep running or everyone goes to literal hell. I have a feeling any wide ranging communication in this kind of Modern WHF scenario would run off that. You would need a way to make a computer, probably with a combination of physics and Light magic and then you can just link them along the network.
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I'm sure there are ways around this, but there are some interesting limitations to explore in that thought, actually. Mathilde listed the speed of magic in the quoted chapter below as propagating 750 miles per hour, through air. I'm certain you can get that quite a bit faster through a more conductive physical medium, but for perspective optical signals in underwater cables are moving at about 2/3rds of the speed of light, so you'd have all kinds of interesting challenges that would likely arise from everything operating with significantly more latency.
It also brings to mind that old meme in which a necromancer builds a mechanical computer out of skeletons; E.G. 'every second you look at these two other skeletons, if only one of them has its hand up, put your hand up.'
You now have a spooky NAND gate made out of bones.
Boney said:
He looks at you askance at that, but produces one from a pouch and hands it to you, and you draw a mental line from where the beam emerged from the trees and the centre of the mound, where it struck. "East-south-east," you mutter. "Delay of just over an hour... propagation speed of magic through air, about 750 miles per hour. That's... about 900 miles. 450 each way. 450 miles east-south-east of Wurtbad..."
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Glau said:
How Spiders Spin Silk.
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Correct.

Glau said:
Rune of the Unknown used to create a large implosion of water... I don't know the crystalization references and wiki isn't helping.
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The implosion created Ice VI, which has the properties described.
Glau said:
Using both grey and light magic to reinforce eachother in enchantments?
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A rigorous mathematical description of Windherding, with the test case being Ulgu and Hysh.

Glau said:
It sounds like skavenblight fell to greenskins and this is the examination of the aftermath, when researchers were able to first access the location?
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Dipodomys is a genus of rodent. This describes physiological and cultural studies of Skaven divorced from the Horned Rat's influence.
 
HungryHamadryad said:
Mathilde listed the speed of magic in the quoted chapter below as propagating 750 miles per hour, through air
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I would assume there is some way to speed that up. Given how alkharad was able to basically telepresence, I think that 750mph is the natural speed of magic, assuming there isn't wacky nonsense going on. Could be circumvented by using weird magic (with with how the wood elves teleport from forest to forest) to make 2 places one, doesn't matter if you're 10000 times slower if you only need to travel 1cm for every kilometre the other guy has to travel
 
rocketroland999 said:
I would assume there is some way to speed that up. Given how alkharad was able to basically telepresence, I think that 750mph is the natural speed of magic, assuming there isn't wacky nonsense going on. Could be circumvented by using weird magic (with with how the wood elves teleport from forest to forest) to make 2 places one, doesn't matter if you're 10000 times slower if you only need to travel 1cm for every kilometre the other guy has to travel
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It would be interesting to test if our teleport spell has a slight travel time
 
reignonyrparade said:
Troll country is mostly steppeland and tundra, not bogs. This is presumably why when boney has talked about what waystones would do for troll country, he has explicitly said it would clear out new grazeland.
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IRL tundra generally turns into bogs in the summer. I have seen speculation that large migratory herbivores can turn tundra into steppe, so possibly the whole Troll Country could be reclaimed.
 
pucflek said:
How are dwarves already on sixth schism, the third one we only just had.
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Let me try:
  1. Hypothetical schism back when the Ancestor-Gods rose (Mathilde speculated about this once, IIRC)
  2. Hashut
  3. That one Karak which rebelled during the War of Vengeance (the one Thorek wants to loot, whose leadership became imperial dwarves).
  4. Losing contact with the Norse Dwarves ?
  5. Karak Dum
  6. This one might be caused by Belegar in the future
 
T_of_A said:
Let me try:
  1. Hypothetical schism back when the Ancestor-Gods rose (Mathilde speculated about this once, IIRC)
  2. Hashut
  3. That one Karak which rebelled during the War of Vengeance (the one Thorek wants to loot, whose leadership became imperial dwarves).
  4. Losing contact with the Norse Dwarves ?
  5. Karak Dum
  6. This one might be caused by Belegar in the future
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Mathilde wrote book on Dum, called it third schism.
Aliya said:
Thorek accidentally causes the fourth with his action in regards to the guild, of course. :V
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This makes sense thought. :V

I mean Southern holds is a polity here so i guess that was one.
 
pucflek said:
Mathilde wrote book on Dum, called it third schism.
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But it is not a fact that 700 years later they adhere to the same classification as in the time of Matilda. From Matilda's point of view, the empire founded by Sigmar and restored by Magnus is one state that simply went through a long civil war. From the point of view of the authors of this text, these are two different states.

vsh said:
I think Schism implies religious conversion, so 3 and 4 don't qualify. Also 1 happened pre KA, so while it's definitely a schism, it's unlikely to be called "of Karaz Ankor".
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Well, to a certain extent, 3 is appropriate. Occurring during the War of the Beard, the dwarves rebelled against the rightful rule of the High King, who occupied the throne of Grungni. Refusal to submit to divine law is, in some right, a religious schism.
 
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By the way, remembering possible religious splits among the dwarves. We must also remember Tylos and the fact that city and its population also worshiped the Horned Rat. This would certainly fit within the framework of schism from every possible point of view.
 
I assume the Dwarves can get several schisms in if things actually improve for them.

Basically, as long as they are all together backs to the wall they will stick together no matter how much they grumble about their neighbors. But imagine the situation changing, with Orcs and Skaven driven back, with the Karaz Ankor rebuilding and expanding, and for the first time in 4000 years actually having hope and a bright future. That's were internal dissent is suddenly no longer overwritten by sheer desperate pragmatism.
 
Xexilf said:
I assume the Dwarves can get several schisms in if things actually improve for them.

Basically, as long as they are all together backs to the wall they will stick together no matter how much they grumble about their neighbors. But imagine the situation changing, with Orcs and Skaven driven back, with the Karaz Ankor rebuilding and expanding, and for the first time in 4000 years actually having hope and a bright future. That's were internal dissent is suddenly no longer overwritten by sheer desperate pragmatism.
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One would think so but they did not schism at all in the Golden Age when things were as good as it gets and that lasted about four thousand years. From what we have observed dwarf schisms are always responses to things going badly
1st: Dwarfs being abused by their handlers down south, Ancestor Gods lead them north and also kill a dragon
2nd: Isolated among the Great Catastrophe the eastern dwarfs, turn their back on the Ancestors for Hashut
3rd: (Honorable mention): That Middle Mountain Hold that refused to attack the elves and just declared independence during the War of the Beard
4th: Dum left to fend for itself against Chaos, bound Cor Dum and turned its back on the Karaz Ankor
 
Weren't there Lustrian Dwarves or something like that? They would count as another schism. If so we'd have the Fire Dwarves, the Norse Dwarves, Karag Dum, the Lustrian Dwarves, and maybe Karaz Ghuzmul? Leaving room for the Sixth Schism, which I assume would be an escalation of the split between Eight Peaks and Everpeak, with the "Southern Karaks" (probably K8P, Karak Azul, Barak Varr and maybe some of the Young Holds like Hirn/Izor/Norn) going their own way.
 
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Ergosum said:
Weren't there Lustrian Dwarves or something like that? They would count as another schism. If so we'd have the Fire Dwarves, the Norse Dwarves, Karag Dum, the Lustrian Dwarves, and maybe Karaz Ghuzmul? Leaving room for the Sixth Schism, which I assume would be an escalation of the split between Eight Peaks and Everpeak, with the "Southern Karaks" (probably K8P, Karak Azul, Barak Varr and maybe some of the Young Holds like Hirn/Izor/Norn) going their own way.
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In the worst timeline, the King of Karak Hirn decides not to shave his head and let Ulthar rule. Instead, he *insert horrendous thing here* and causes a schism.
 
Boney said:
Karak Vlag (Transcendent): They know irrefutably that you risked your soul to tear theirs from the grasp of Hell.
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A thought: we know that they're good at stonework, and that they have experience in digging tunnels involving rivers. And they've promised us a Transcendent Boon.

Do you think we could ask them to provide technical and/or financial assistance to the Kislevite canal projects ?
 
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