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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Alright, with our position as Court Wizard, we are going to have to deal with a bunch of weird, strange, and altogether bizzare stuff. I predict that all of these things will come from three avenues: Greenskin Shamans, Skaven Grey Seers/technology, and natural things corrupted by Dhar/broken waystones.

It also means that we'll have access to a lot of material to write papers on, which is good because of all that delicious favor.

A couple of initial topics for potential study as a Court Wizard are the strange spiders in the Chiselwards, those trolls that get weird slobbering on warpstone, Skaven technology (most likely with some assistance by Johann), Greenskin Shamanic Rituals, and any other nasty critter that pops their head out.

Hopefully we won't have to deal with Clan Pestilens here, as magical plagues would be a really difficult study in order for Mathilde to be properly prepared to counter them.

And that's excluding our own research regarding the Snakeblood and Heldrake scales. Lots to do!
 
@BoneyM
How would the Arcane Mark Forgettable work? Would people who knew us prior to having it still recognize us? Would people be unable to describe the face, but 'know it when they see it'? Something else?
 
I am super excited to get to bigger turns soon. Lets see what shenanigans we can get up to in the next installment of the adventures of Mathilde !
 
Thor's Twin said:
Hopefully we won't have to deal with Clan Pestilens here, as magical plagues would be a really difficult study in order for Mathilde to be properly prepared to counter them.
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According to the Warhammer Wiki, the relations of Clan Mors (which is pretty much in charge of K8P's Skaven) to the other Great Clans is as follows:

-Skryre: Hates Mors, and would love to see them destroyed.
-Moulder: Dismisses the above's wish to see Mors destroyed, but doesn't actively support them. Still, the presence of a Master Moulder hints that they're more than willing to do business.
-Pestilens: Undetermined.
-Eshin: No one knows.
-Grey Seers: The only group to actively lend support to Mors. They're interested in the unusual unity that Clan Mors displays.

So, we can expect a fairly minimal Skryre presence (at least on the side of Mors), but probably more than a few Moulder monsters. Grey Seer support for Mors may also end up appearing. Clan Pestilens and Eshin are unknowns, but we should hope for the best (that Pestilens' rivalry with the Grey Seers keeps them at a distance) and prepare for the worst.
 
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Chimeraguard said:
-Grey Seers: The only group to actively lend support to Mors. They're interested in the unusual unity that Clan Mors displays.
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I'm not sure that Clan Mors is displaying that unusual unity given that there have been indications of a Skaven civil war brewing in the dark underbelly of Karak-Eight-Peaks. Which might mean that the Grey Seers aren't as keen to support them.
 
Thor's Twin said:
I'm not sure that Clan Mors is displaying that unusual unity given that there have been indications of a Skaven civil war brewing in the dark underbelly of Karak-Eight-Peaks. Which might mean that the Grey Seers aren't as keen to support them.
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I have my doubts that what's going on under Karagril is a Skaven civil war. The corpses there were mauled, but Skaven tend to pick bodies clean to the bone due to the Black Hunger. More likely that either the Greenskins are giving better than they get in the fights for the Underway there, or there's something else in that part of the Karak that's killing them.

And even if it is Skaven vs Skaven, it could easily be between Mors and a rival clan.
 
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Chimeraguard said:
According to the Warhammer Wiki, the relations of Clan Mors (which is pretty much in charge of K8P's Skaven) to the other Great Clans is as follows:

-Skryre: Hates Mors, and would love to see them destroyed.
-Moulder: Dismisses the above's wish to see Mors destroyed, but doesn't actively support them. Still, the presence of a Master Moulder hints that they're more than willing to do business.
-Pestilens: Undetermined.
-Eshin: No one knows.
-Grey Seers: The only group to actively lend support to Mors. They're interested in the unusual unity that Clan Mors displays.

So, we can expect a fairly minimal Skryre presence (at least on the side of Mors), but probably more than a few Moulder monsters. Grey Seer support for Mors may also end up appearing. Clan Pestilens and Eshin are unknowns, but we should hope for the best (that Pestilens' rivalry with the Grey Seers keeps them at a distance) and prepare for the worst.
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> Grey Seers, possibly Pestilens or Esshin

Aalright. That's not quite reassuring. On the bright side, if we survive, we can write a paper on Grey Seer spellcasting!
Also, we need that Invisibility soon. Esshin, ew.

OTOH Skaven are very vulnerable to losing leaders, as their native L is in the gutter. So we have some options to wreck havoc too.
 
DarkLight140 said:
Magisters who marry typically do not marry nobles, because it's a massive social and political negative to use magic or taint one's heirs with a magical bloodline (see also: Roswita's reaction to being in the room with a wizard, the fact that most of the Empire's population will still burn magic-users rather than send them to the Colleges). ​
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To be fair the Colleges are fairly recent and attitudes seem to be mellowing.

Thor's Twin said:
I'm not sure that Clan Mors is displaying that unusual unity given that there have been indications of a Skaven civil war brewing in the dark underbelly of Karak-Eight-Peaks. Which might mean that the Grey Seers aren't as keen to support them.
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Those seem to be either orcs, trolls or Moulder creations. At any rate Mors aren't necessarily the only rats interested in Karak Eight Peaks.
 
Zero Gravitas said:
To be fair the Colleges are fairly recent and attitudes seem to be mellowing.



Those seem to be either orcs, trolls or Moulder creations. At any rate Mors aren't necessarily the only rats interested in Karak Eight Peaks.
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Canonically, attitudes didn't start mellowing out until post Storm of Chaos, in a timeline where the Old World doesn't vanish in a puff of bad logic anyway, based entirely on how the Colleges effectively T-Posed publicly against Old Night to assert the dominance of righteous wizardry over evil sorcerers. It's one thing to trust in witches and wizards, it's another thing entirely to see your witches and wizards standing against the Literal Devil and screaming "YOU WILL NOT PASS"

And the devil fled before them.

Now mind you, individual communities can be better or worse, but wizards didn't start getting general acceptance until the Storm of Chaos.
 
10ebbor10 said:
I wonder if we could cut off a small extremity, keep it alive with magic, and give it to people that we want to remember us.
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"And then I gave him my heart."
"It was the most traumatic experience of my life."
"It was just a vein, you big baby! Those grow back."
"No they don't!"
"They do if you know someone in the Jade College."
 
@BoneyM how does the Power Drain miscast works for us? Do the "wizard levels" come back after the headache passes? Does knowledge of spells?
Akasha said:
I heard from a friend of a cousin's sister's daughter's colleague's pet corgi that a party of teenagers with attitude broke into Boney's house and killed him dead. It turns out he was a skeleton in disguise all along. Who would have thought?
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It is sad how one must be ever ready to use one's arcane might to obliterate random groups of plucky so-called "heroes".
 
ctulhuslp said:
> Grey Seers, possibly Pestilens or Esshin

Aalright. That's not quite reassuring. On the bright side, if we survive, we can write a paper on Grey Seer spellcasting!
Also, we need that Invisibility soon. Esshin, ew.

OTOH Skaven are very vulnerable to losing leaders, as their native L is in the gutter. So we have some options to wreck havoc too.
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Skaven typically make up for their shit LD with being brave when there's lots of them though.
 
Why give someone sliced extremities when a handful of crummy trinkets will do the same thing?
 
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Huh. Just had a thought.

Should we decide to ask Roswita what she's thinking about the entire taxes thing - (this isn't the first time that option's been suggested in this thread so far, is it? Please tell me it's not the first.) - we do have an official channel to do it by and a reasonable reason to be asking in the form of our status as a vassal baroness.

Combined with, say, asking the question by letter rather than showing up in person, she might even answer us.
 
ctulhuslp said:
That...
Wait, we have Seed. Oh lord we might be able to do that.

Would be the weirdest wedding gift though.
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Guile said:
"And then I gave him my heart."
"It was the most traumatic experience of my life."
"It was just a vein, you big baby! Those grow back."
"No they don't!"
"They do if you know someone in the Jade College."
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Dating a wizard likely means you have to expect a lot of weird shit in your life.
 
Candesce said:
Huh. Just had a thought.

Should we decide to ask Roswita what she's thinking about the entire taxes thing - (this isn't the first time that option's been suggested in this thread so far, is it? Please tell me it's not the first.) - we do have an official channel to do it by and a reasonable reason to be asking in the form of our status as a vassal baroness.

Combined with, say, asking the question by letter rather than showing up in person, she might even answer us.
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I mean, it is entirely in her authority to sell the rights to the taxes, and we have a pretty good idea of why. Stomping down on Sylvania is expensive, as is transitioning the army into using more guns. She believed that she needed immediate money more than steady sources of income.

I do believe that we should keep an eye on Stirland to make things don't get out of hand with the EIC, but currently Roswita is doing what she believes she needs to do in order to accomplish her goals. And questioning her methods, from a wizard no less, is likely to get Roswita defensive and not really help anything in the short or long term.
 
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