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...Also it'd be the right kind of funny to see Mathilde come up with an appropriate Eltharin name, like she was a weeb coming up with an Elfsona. I actually came up with one in an omake, Issariour.


It could also mean that Mathilde is good at using magic for trickery, or that she's using her normal trickery for evil deeds. The moon is also quite silver, which could add to Mathilde's repertoire of titles that are silverish - the Silver Savage and Azrildrekked.
I approve of your silver moon snake name. The entire idea is both silly and sensible enough for Mathilde, I think.
 
Whatever we have Eike do, it should have a concrete goal or objective. "Acquire an object" "establish a trade route for a certain good" "recruit a specific faction as a partner for the EIC". It should also have an easily managed fail state.

Wandering around with minimal direction, making friends, and stumbling into trouble is what the journeying is for. It's not a training exercise for an apprentice.
 
Just tell Eike her journey is starting after we get to Lothern, and it's her own job to make it back to the College with proof that she's gotten good.
 
Seriously just give her the task of building as many contacts as she can with the various merchants, elves and the like. The more contacts that she has the better as it gives her more resources to draw upon or potential patrons during her journeying phase.

Hell just imagine a situation where Eike is just randomly friends with a bunch of powerful people.
The problem with that is that it leaves an apprentice to make diplomatical blunders on behalf of Empire. Not a journeyman, Apprentice.
 
We aren't telling her to make connection for the Empire, we are asking her to make connections for herself.
As an apprentice to a lady magister her conduct reflects on us and the empire anyways. That's the main reason she'd be able to get her foot in the door anywhere, you know?

Drawing on her connection to the EIC also reflects on the empire, since it's one of the foremost trade orgs of the empire at this point.
 
We aren't telling her to make connection for the Empire, we are asking her to make connections for herself.
That makes about as much sense as Mathilde making a blunder in Kislev and it not spoiling the diplomatic relations between Kislev and Empire.

Dragomas also represented himself in Cathay, you know. It ended well for him, but 1) he is Dragomas, 2) Even he was a journeyman.

EDIT: What i am trying to say is that as a member of colleges, you are not a private citizen. You are an agent of the Imperial institution, and what you do reflects on the Empire in general and that institution in particular.
 
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I have a question that's been percolating in my mind even since the Vlag rescue, and I do apologize for if it's already been answered, but how the hell does the Protector side of the Coin work? The Deceiver makes sense to me, and we know (or at least heavily suspect) that a sufficiently suspicious person can still realize their mind is being influenced. But the Protector made every single Dwarf in Karak Vlag viscerally aware of what had happened outside of the Karak, implanted knowledge into their minds that logically should not be there, and yet somehow none of them are questioning it? Oh, they didn't run out and proclaim Mathilde as their savior, sure. But that was when it could have still been a Daemonic trick; now that they know that they're free, why haven't they started asking why they know what they do?
 
I have a question that's been percolating in my mind even since the Vlag rescue, and I do apologize for if it's already been answered, but how the hell does the Protector side of the Coin work? The Deceiver makes sense to me, and we know (or at least heavily suspect) that a sufficiently suspicious person can still realize their mind is being influenced. But the Protector made every single Dwarf in Karak Vlag viscerally aware of what had happened outside of the Karak, implanted knowledge into their minds that logically should not be there, and yet somehow none of them are questioning it? Oh, they didn't run out and proclaim Mathilde as their savior, sure. But that was when it could have still been a Daemonic trick; now that they know that they're free, why haven't they started asking why they know what they do?
Iirc the dwarfs said Ranald told them? So maybe it was just literally a voice telling them what happened. It's hard to argue with a divine voice in your own head.
 
I have a question that's been percolating in my mind even since the Vlag rescue, and I do apologize for if it's already been answered, but how the hell does the Protector side of the Coin work? The Deceiver makes sense to me, and we know (or at least heavily suspect) that a sufficiently suspicious person can still realize their mind is being influenced. But the Protector made every single Dwarf in Karak Vlag viscerally aware of what had happened outside of the Karak, implanted knowledge into their minds that logically should not be there, and yet somehow none of them are questioning it? Oh, they didn't run out and proclaim Mathilde as their savior, sure. But that was when it could have still been a Daemonic trick; now that they know that they're free, why haven't they started asking why they know what they do?
Souls touch upon the Aethyr simultaneously to reality, so when someone's actions resonate strongly enough with a given god (or in this case, when a powerful divine artifact meets the right conditions), a God can touch upon them. So it could have been as simple as all of Karak Vlag having a dream about how their rescue went down.
 
FWIW, my what I expect we should probably do with Eike over the elfcation if she's not ready to journey by then is leave her with Regimand or Wilhelmine or Wilhelmina and let them pick the curriculum to round her out a bit and maybe cover our blind spots. There's no particular reason she needs to go to Lothern to be doing interesting stuff.
 
What do the druchi use for their armor? I can't imagine they have a ton of Ithilmar left. Do their mages just not use armor? I guess their aesthetic *is* often kinda skimpy...
 
I have a question that's been percolating in my mind even since the Vlag rescue, and I do apologize for if it's already been answered, but how the hell does the Protector side of the Coin work? The Deceiver makes sense to me, and we know (or at least heavily suspect) that a sufficiently suspicious person can still realize their mind is being influenced. But the Protector made every single Dwarf in Karak Vlag viscerally aware of what had happened outside of the Karak, implanted knowledge into their minds that logically should not be there, and yet somehow none of them are questioning it? Oh, they didn't run out and proclaim Mathilde as their savior, sure. But that was when it could have still been a Daemonic trick; now that they know that they're free, why haven't they started asking why they know what they do?
IIRC the answer is just "Ranald willed it." He's a bit disparate and easy to overlook, but He is one of the major gods of the setting, and fully capable of pulling off big flashy miracles if He feels like it.

Heck, IIRC he pulled the island Sartosa's on out of the ocean on the spot.
 
What do the druchi use for their armor? I can't imagine they have a ton of Ithilmar left. Do their mages just not use armor? I guess their aesthetic *is* often kinda skimpy...
The regular druichi uses a mix of leather and steel. Now the druichi does have Ilthimar and Ilthimar alloys I guess is the best way to put it. But the druichi who wear those are rich, deadly, khainites, extremely skilled, or a mixture of all those.

Edit the druichi have Ilthimar that they looted from Asur.
 
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FWIW, my what I expect we should probably do with Eike over the elfcation if she's not ready to journey by then is leave her with Regimand or Wilhelmine or Wilhelmina and let them pick the curriculum to round her out a bit and maybe cover our blind spots. There's no particular reason she needs to go to Lothern to be doing interesting stuff.
Boney has said before that Regimand has no reason to be interested in Eike- he really isn't her Wizard-Grandpa.

What do the druchi use for their armor? I can't imagine they have a ton of Ithilmar left. Do their mages just not use armor? I guess their aesthetic *is* often kinda skimpy...
Pretty sure Asur Archmages typically don't use armor either?
 
The regular druichi uses a mix of leather and steel. Now the druichi does have Ilthimar and Ilthimar alloys I guess is the best way to put it. But the druichi who wear those are rich, deadly, khainites, extremely skilled, or a mixture of all those.

Edit the druichi have Ilthimar that they looted from Asur.
To add to this, I imagine some have ithilmar items that are really really old heirlooms, too, just like the Eonir have some.

Druchii are also known to occasionally have Sea Dragon cloaks, which (at least mechanically in the tabletop) stack with regular armor.
 
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To add to this, I imagine some have ithilmar items that are really really old heirlooms, too, just like the Eonir have some.

Druchii are also known to occasionally have Sea Dragon cloaks, which (at least mechanically in the tabletop) stack with regular armor.
Though I think the Sea Dragon Cloaks are basically exclusive to Corsairs, at least tabletop-wise?
 
To add to this, I imagine some have ithilmar items that are really really old heirlooms, too, just like the Eonir have some.

Druchii are also known to occasionally have Sea Dragon cloaks, which (at least mechanically in the tabletop) stack with regular armor.
Yeah and unfortunately unless a Major invasion is going on most of the druichi there are going to be people who Made Maeklith mad or press ganged druichi.

Actually that cloak may actually be something Mathilde is likely to loot than Ilthimar. I can imagine a corsair who had a bad season and not pay his taxes be forced to fight there for a intermediate amount of time.
 
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