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Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
Breaking sieges by deception and skullduggery is almost as hallowed a tradition as winning them by same. We rolled up because they thought we were allies.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- warhammer warhammer fantasy fantasy be gay do crimes (gay) female protagonist pansexual protagonist ck2 quest divided loyalties mountain vietnam ranald is real this is a dwarf quest (dwarfs) this is maybe an elf quest this is not a vampire quest this is not an empire quest try it and find out open voting
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Bit of a random lore question: is there a name for the two regions that the World's Edge Mountains bisect Nehekhara into, kind of like upper and lower egypt? I would really expect one to exist, because I have to imagine that they were not always unified and they seem like they have pretty different environments, but I can't find any reference to that anywhere, it seems like a giant mountain range bisects Nehekhara and it's just not that big of a deal.
- Location
- New England, State of Confusion
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Just a silly little thought that occurred to me recently, but in the matter of social interactions has anyone proposed introducing the Library-We to Cython? Seeing as they will be the ones managing and handing out books to our draconic friend, I can see it being worth the action though I suspect it might be a little weird to write.
Ok, this particular bit has been circling my head for a while. But in a hypothetical scenario where everything has gone just utterly wrong, and Mathilde is in the perfectly wrong position in just the right time...are there any other major qualifications for becoming High King of the Dwarves?
If you can convince all the other dwarf kings to accept you as their liege, and the throne of eternity doesn't lock you out for whatever reason, then I suppose it doesn't really matter what race you are.
With elves, it's even simpler—you just have to survive standing in a bonfire for a few minutes.
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
- Location
- The Destination of Fate
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- She/Her
Going by what Boney said, she'd probably also need to quit the Colleges to join a Guild, and quit Ranald or lie to join a dwarven Cult before even being considered an option.
- Location
- Utrecht
If I understand correctly, connecting to the Elven network is done by poking Caledor Dragontamer with Anoqeyan, and we have the keys to do it.
Connecting to the dwarf network is still an unknown... which we'll hopefully get some insight into in the next update.
He visits the library regularly, I would suspect he already knows about them and he might even have formally met them.
"Cython, this is the sapient hive mind of giant spiders who manage my library. Sapient hive mind of giant spiders, this is my dragon friend whom I discuss blasphemy with.
... now kiss."
... now kiss."
Yep cus nothing can go wrong with a relationship between a dragon and a group of spiders.
- Location
- USA
I thought the library he regularly visits is Mathilde's personal one in her wizard's tower, not the massive public library in the depths of a mountain.
I think we moved all the books to VAU when it was built, I do not think Mathilde has a personal library other than the romance books.
I don't think that's required. Being a dwarf doesn't mean being a member of a guild (warriors aren't, for example), and I don't think being a dwarf king requires being a lay member of a particular cult.
Remember this is polytheism, not henotheism. Mathilde should be praying to Morr at funerals, Shallya when a friend is injured, Verena when she has a difficult moral judgement to make, etc.
Just as she does that she can pray to a dwarven god when it's appropriate to do so. Such as Gazul when activating his sword.
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Thinking about Runesmithing the craft is limited by heritage, right? But if Dwarves may reincarnate in their religion can Runesmith souls with the correct heritage be reborn into another clan, in their beliefs?
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- He/Him
Even if they are, without the blood of Thungi they can't become runesmiths in their new life. The requirements are particular like that.
- Location
- somewhere over there.
- Pronouns
- They/It
Even assuming that they hold out endlessly, by the time we reach them I imagine it will be closer to discovering a new faction than it is saving KA dwarves. There were implications of a sort of...cultural mass suicide occurring, of elders purposefully refusing to pass on history so that their children did not feel the same shame as they did at seeing "how far they had fallen". In the hopefully hundreds, or possibly thousands of years it would take to push chaos back that far and hold them, what the dwarves of Dum know of their past may have shrunk to legends at best, and been replaced by a new and unique culture.
- Location
- Finland
You do need to be a very respected dwarf though to be chosen as one.
And while Mathilde is very respected, she is not a dwarf, and being adopted into a clan and joining a guild would probably help with that.
That said, i do not see a realistic scenario where no more appropriate candidate for the High King can't be found, and there is still enough Karaz Ankor left for the position of High King to still actually exist.
That is I think the best case scenario. That said a lot of things have to go right for the best case scenario to happen in the Chaos Wastes.
Valarauko
Demon of Power
- Location
- Angband
Bit late to the party, but I just want to point out that Karag Dum is not part of dwarf society in any meaningful way. They have no interaction with anyone outside their gates, let alone the greater Karaz Ankor, nor does anyone else have any means to reach them or interact with them. Their only relevance to the outside world is the Waystone flow they maintain.
I am not sure he would have much to talk
He probably spends his time off from Killing orcs and rebuilding his kingdom sitting in a chair.
thinking about killing orcs and rebuilding his kingdom.
menacingly.
If that's what he's interested in, the Gauntlet at K8P might make him smile. It's basically day after day of orcs getting fed into a meat grinder full of spiders and dwarves with guns. It's a shame the project isn't based in the Karaz Ankor.
- Location
- Canada
Had a random Airship thought today.
Hydrogen airships tend to burst into flame. Other than the Runesmiths' rune of No Burn Plz, which could have any number of reasons making it unworkable, what do we have that can suppress fire?
Mathilde's Arcane Mark, Flicker.
There's a couple of ifs in the way, but if we learned to control it, and if it could be codified it in a way useful for large-scale enchantment, it would be a very low-magic solution to a problem that would ordinarily take large amounts of magic or engineering to solve.
Also libraries could be enchanted with it. Very practical.
Hydrogen airships tend to burst into flame. Other than the Runesmiths' rune of No Burn Plz, which could have any number of reasons making it unworkable, what do we have that can suppress fire?
Mathilde's Arcane Mark, Flicker.
There's a couple of ifs in the way, but if we learned to control it, and if it could be codified it in a way useful for large-scale enchantment, it would be a very low-magic solution to a problem that would ordinarily take large amounts of magic or engineering to solve.
Also libraries could be enchanted with it. Very practical.
NexusEye
Aspiring God
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Flicker doesn't stop fires it just causes them to burn lower, the fire would still burn the hydrogen and consume the airship just slower.