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Though I think the Sea Dragon Cloaks are basically exclusive to Corsairs, at least tabletop-wise?
Not quite. Malus Darkblade, Lokhir Fellheart, High Beastmasters, Black Ark Fleetmasters, and Black Ark Corsairs have Sea Dragon Cloaks by default. Dreadlords and Masters can get Sea Dragon Cloaks optionally.

It is a narrow list, but it's more than just Corsairs. It's not implausible that we might run into one of these in Nagarythe.
 
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?
Look at the Deceiver. A blank check that makes any lie appear to be the truth as the teller knows it. Narrow that down to an extremely tight focus of 'this person did this thing to help you, no strings attached, aren't they cool?', attached to something that did in fact happen, and can be explained to a six year old in understandable terms that make them want to grow up to be a grey wizard.

Behind the scenes, Ranald is likely working overtime to play on karmic connections and the laws of sympathy and contagion and any aethyric links he can scrounge up, but that's a him problem. If we run into an edge case or sufficiently immovable paranoia, I imagine we would get a heads up like we did with the Grey Order and the Deceiver.


That said, note that Vlag didn't immediately invite us in, and had to have their paranoia assuaged over time through rather drastic measures. All we got is 'maybe this is actually true' from one optimist who got immediately grumbled down.
 
Protection
How wearing the Protectorate is actually going to work out, totally 100% canon.


Mathilde grimaced as she stepped forward, smoke and shadows rising from her footsteps by the magic inside her body, as she cleanly bisected the Druchii in twain with her swords.

As was perhaps expected, the Druchii were fearsome opponents, though one that she had started to eclipse, clad in both magic and dwarven tools as she were. As she supressed the urge to touch the coin, who's cold metal surface chilled her chest, she wonder on the results of it.

A huge favour and boon from the Asur would been great, but without proper druchii killed it was doubtfull. Still, she wondered how much the Protector from her closest companion would end up changing things.


Caladrielle hummed as she stood above the slave pits, the ruefull and yet broken in lessers rumbling beneath her...And she was about to bark out an order, there was the distinct touch of divine within her soul, a whisper Baine has been slain in combat, a treacherous ilk whom was gonna betray you upon returning back.

Caladrielle blinked before swearing. Baine, that bitch. After everything, she thought she had properly supressed that annoyances ambitions. Grumbling, she turned back, the distinct annoyance and godly gratitude towards somone called Mathilde Weber.


Elreth held in her breath, as she carefully crawled underneath bodies and bushes. The boots of the newly trained traitors and the suspicious absence of any footsteps at all from the veteran ones. She thought those idotic Asurs were suppose to be pushovers compared to their gloriousness, and yet..!

As she came stumbling through the dry bushes and onto the shore, allready looking for a boat, something within her whispered Hargan was planning on to kill you, having grown jealous over how you curried the captain's favour. Elreth stopped for a brief second, before crawling even faster. Like hell she was going to die to some up-start Asur, when she had to get revenge on Hargan's family! And after that, find whomever this Mathilde Weber was.


All across, Druchii society, men and women would stop. As the touch of a God, flickered over them, revealing what betrayl had been planned, what knifes had been ready to be planted.

And further still, to the highest peaks, where the Golden masked once heir of a kingdom, sat. Jadus was planning to b- Kakaukin Had a plan to-Koval hated you from the start and- Maglan was never loyal-

Malekith sighed, as he stared up into the sky. To receive a message on whom might have killed you was great, if not for "You are enjoying this, aren't you Loec" For the fact that the messages never stopped. Najjirah had a special poison-

 
That said, note that Vlag didn't immediately invite us in, and had to have their paranoia assuaged over time through rather drastic measures. All we got is 'maybe this is actually true' from one optimist who got immediately grumbled down.
I'm not sure that's the best example. It's not that they had to be convinced Mathilde saved them and for the purest reasons. They just didn't believe the figure standing before them was Mathilde, and not a demon.
 
Well if nothing else I am growing more and more convinced that we are finally going to choose to go to elf-land, omakes and all. This is the kind of energy a major plan needs to push through.
 
I don't particularly want to go on the Elfcation immediately, but just in case that wins the next turn's vote I will vote to buy an Ulgu Power Stone for Mathilde in the buying vote.

In case we don't go, it'll still be available for when we do go.
 
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.
yeah, the only reason he doesn't seem like he's a major god is the fact he is effectively illegal to worship. He might not be on the official list of proscribed gods, but practically every single human nation still has laws effectively making worshiping Ranald a crime anyways*. Even if its a law that often gets ignored in favor of Dont Ask, Dont Tell. Still means that his priesthood is in almost all places forced to be covert and secret.

*For those wondering how, remember that Ranald's religious creed includes anti-aristrocracy, pro-democracy and taking from the rich. Aka 2 counts of Treason and Theft in basically every single nation outside of Sartosa. Being publicly outed as a Ranaldite is effectively being outed as a traitor in the eyes of most governments in WHF and very likely seen regardless of conduct as a thief as well.
 
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yeah, the only reason he doesn't seem like he's a major god is the fact he is effectively illegal to worship. He might not be on the official list of proscribed gods, but practically every single human nation still has laws effectively making worshiping Ranald a crime anyways. Even if its a law that often gets ignored in favor of Dont Ask, Dont Tell. Still means that his priesthood is in almost all places forced to be covert and secret.

That is not entirely true, no one has seriously tried to legislate lying and gambling is legal in most places. Only about half of his worship is generally forbidden in any one place and he has plenty of people in positions of power willing to go to bat for him since well he is quite useful for scheming nobles and ambitious merchants (see: The Empress). Ranald is is anything one of the most secure of the gods in the Old World precisely because he is not bound to any one holy place or people. as long as people are alive and breathing they will lie, cheat, gamble and resist oppression.
 
The thing about a God of Doing Crime is that if you did manage to push out Ranald, the options to fill that void range from hugely worse to astonishingly worse. That didn't stop the crack-down on Vylmar, but Ranald has a longer and more established history that makes it impossible to argue He's actually Tzeentch, plus He is also the God of Luck so even the people who usually would yolo it get really nervous about cracking down super hard on Him. The pseudo-proscription of Him isn't pushed back against because it effectively acts as quality control for a God who likes His shrines and priests to be sneaky.

But yes, if you're a worshipper of the God of Doing Crimes and the powers that be want to put you in jail, even if they haven't criminalized His worship there's often a fallback charge or two they could find.
 
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The thing about a God of Doing Crime is that if you did manage to push out Ranald, the options to fill that void range from hugely worse to astonishingly worse. That didn't stop the crack-down on Vylmar, but Ranald has a longer and more established history that makes it impossible to argue He's actually Tzeentch, plus He is also the God of Luck so even the people who usually would yolo it get really nervous about cracking down super hard on Him. The pseudo-proscription of Him isn't pushed back against because it effectively acts as quality control for a God who likes his shrines and priests to be sneaky.

But yes, if you're a worshipper of the God of Doing Crimes and the powers that be want to put you in jail, even if they haven't criminalized His worship there's often a fallback charge or two they could find.
Be gay, Do Crimes hits different when your a "Friend of Shallya" and also on a first name basis with Godfather Ranald and his girls.
 
But yes, if you're a worshipper of the God of Doing Crimes and the powers that be want to put you in jail, even if they haven't criminalized His worship there's often a fallback charge or two they could find.
To be fair, you wouldn't expect your worship to be the principal reason for said powers' animosity towards you in the first place, when your religious beliefs are only ancillary to the more serious charges of looking scruffy, smelling bad, fleecing important people in card games, stealing their Cathayan vases or plotting to blow up their government buildings.
 
I don't particularly want to go on the Elfcation immediately, but just in case that wins the next turn's vote I will vote to buy an Ulgu Power Stone for Mathilde in the buying vote.

In case we don't go, it'll still be available for when we do go.
Seconded. I'd say we should want it even without Elfcation, you never know when there's going to be an event interrupt like the Skull River Ambush and it'd be useful to have a spare, or if there's an enchanting project that could use a stone.
 
To be fair, you wouldn't expect your worship to be the principal reason for said powers' animosity towards you in the first place, when your religious beliefs are only ancillary to the more serious charges of looking scruffy, smelling bad, fleecing important people in card games, stealing their Cathayan vases or plotting to blow up their government buildings.
We would never blow up a government building. Someone inside would just get killed by a spontaneous Lahmian plot.
 
Why do Bretonnia, Kislev, and Naggaroth have exclusively female wizards? I'm not asking about in-lore reasons, more why GW designed the factions that way.
 
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