And this might be a bit confusing, considering all the approval votes for different options. Wonder how exactly we're going to untangle all the book votes to see how many people voted for books in general total.
The tallier has a feature that lets you merge different versions of a vote together without double-counting any of them. Boney said he'd do it, so it's fine.
Also if it wasn't clear, all three versions of the vote will do the same thing - the latest wording is just making it more clear what that thing is, based on boney's clarifications about what bartering for books would get us. (Namely, a Laurelorn-scribed copy of nearly the entire Library of Mournings including most restricted texts, save the MOST militarily critical ones like spellbooks and "how nordland could get through all our defenses")
I'm also partially convinced that we're only even being offered such an insane deal
because the Eonir just haven't realized that their library is a resource for getting prestige on the international stage, and thus aren't pricing in the risk that we use our access to undermine that prestige.
Like, we won't do them dirty like that, we can even help them use their library to advance their geopolitical goals once we know what's in it, but objectively speaking if you know that's a risk you're going to set the price accordingly and I'm pretty sure the queen isn't doing that, but might start later.
That is to say, I think the price of getting anything like this again is very likely going to go up in the future, making the already difficult prospect of finding something to trade for bookmaxxing later even harder by requiring something
even better than the ithilmar sale to afford it.
