Not really. The library of Laurelorn isn't going anywhere, we will have opportunities to get wider access to it in the future and may well have stronger boons that could be used to get at the Grey Lord's books eventually coming.
Like what opportunities? The waystone project finishing, are we sure we get a boon for that. I would imagine the reward for success is having waystones. And we would almost certainly need to negotiate with the gray lords for there books, and I don't know what we could give them. We would need somthing of direct military use to get another chance at the magic books. Like I don't know if I want this over gems for ulthuan, but this is definitely an opportunity.
I don't think I'd have wanted to ask him that- I don't really want him throwing away his own forces on that.
The only way we stop being a part of the Eonir's community at this point is if we choose to walk away. The waystone project could last another dozen turns and the thread jumps at any chance to earn status or knowledge through benefitting an ally.
I feel the same way about the EIC. There's no point in investing in the EIC for the sake of investing in the EIC. It's a trade company that constantly benefits from us passively and we've already set them up trade to Lothern.
That's a massive number of assumptions, we would need to trade something of equivalent value to them to get there knowledge, what do we have that could compare to an arcmages personal insight? You will note that even this barter doesn't get us those books. It's probably only a +3 or 4 to magic, but that's still worthwhile. And how did elemetlists do their magic was at most a curiosity. Like it was neat that we learned it, but it is even lest reagent than these books.
I did mean Laurelorn.
I don't care about the numbers. If the books don't have a narrative purpose then I don't care and value the answer of 'how do elementalists even exist' other them a hundred times over.
We have, to date, spent no general actions and no rewards beyond the initial boon on the Library. If you consider debating in thread to be in and of itself an unpleasant experience, then - and I say this without mockery - questing may not be the hobby for you. Maybe go browse the Creative Writing section.
I've said it before, but if you don't think the entire magical corpus of a polity - including books written by Caledor Dragontamer - will have interesting lore, I suspect you haven't really thought about it at all.
Technically speaking, wasn't it 'books even older than Caledor Dragontamer'?
See my earlier post on the Eonir currently undervaluing their library, and how the way we've used our existing access to start competing with them economically may change that soon. We are not assured another opportunity to get access to their restricted books.
Bookmining and the metalsmithing guild boon on nuln, actually.
Pretty sure bookmining was a Library action, not a general action?
Ah shoot, you might be right. That's still a prime Lore vein to mine!
I wasn't counting Bookmining, as that was its own little adventure I assumed someone mad about the library getting screentime wouldn't care about. But fair enough.
Yeah, Library action.
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Yes, but we could have chosen a different reward. We spent the boon from nuln which we got via a boon from dawi on books. It definitely counts, and I'd be shocked if it wasn't on the minds of the people who ask for less book, considering we're voting on another reward shortly.
If you've said it before than you must know - what lore? What questions do we have that they can answer? Or are you assuming it will answer some future question we may have?
I don't think anyone has to explain why a polity's version of the British Library will have answers to some of their questions, or interesting non-fiction in general. Rather, I think it would take quite a bit of explaining to back a claim that it wouldn't.
Does this matter? The Colleges are a military institution and will remain so. The Imperial Engineers School could do more civilian engineering, but focus their efforts on war anyway. The Colleges will do the same, entering no newly opened doors.
And? Monofocus like that isn't actually good for military research, they're left with military-relevant lore alone not because Telcis designed it that way, but because his work was incomplete. A broader foundation permits sturdier buildings, and military institution or no the colleges will be very interested in getting an entirely new field of wind-based magical lore to study.
