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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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pucflek said:
Kinda feels too soon. Might as well wait until we style on dhar some more.
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I am willing to spend some AP practicing if you peeps are. C:

Parabola said:
Or possibly Vlad! That'd be even more inexplicable.
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Mathilde rescu-ressurrcting Vlad an subsequently becoming his mentee is perfectly explicable... Had we not chosen to burn all his underwear.

Vlad is pretty magnanomous for a Vampire, but I think even that has its limits.
 
Any wizard can learn the Chaos Lore.

If you get the proper miscasts, the Warp opens and for a moment the inner workings of the dark realm become clear (but you still have to pay 200 xp to get your certificate, which is like two training sessions*).

No riches to sacrifice, no oaths to swear. If you survive long enough, the road will become clear to you all by itself.

Sometimes you have to wonder if that's a human's special talent.

*( A miscast on par with being cast screaming into the warp is that a Daemon Prince gives you a 50% off voucher, which is pretty funny if you think about it. ).
 
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Omegahugger said:
I am willing to spend some AP practicing if you peeps are. C:


Mathilde rescu-ressurrcting Vlad an subsequently becoming his mentee is perfectly explicable... Had we not chosen to burn all his underwear.

Vlad is pretty magnanomous for a Vampire, but I think even that has its limits.
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Quite possibly we did worse than that - I recall Boney saying that what Mathilde did with the contents of his and Isabella's drawers of... stuff, was left to the realm of imagination.

...Also we kinda destroyed his home. The only way we could make a worse first impression is if we excavated the mountain itself until there's nothing left.
 
K von Carstein said:
I'm still grumpy about the fact that option couldn't be taken.
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You misremember. That option could have been taken. What wasn't possible was destroying the mountain and then excavating a pit.

Boney said:
Goal:
[ ] The confirmed death of the Elector Countess.
[ ] The sacking of Castle Drakenhof.
[ ] The taking of Castle Drakenhof at least somewhat intact.
[ ] The complete destruction of the keep of Castle Drakenhof.
[ ] The complete destruction of the entirety of Castle Drakenhof.
[ ] The complete destruction of the mountain that Castle Drakenhof is built upon.
[ ] The exacavation of a pit on the site where the mountain that Castle Drakenhof was built upon used to stand.
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Reaching is not reached. But i guess.

EDIT: I think it just feels weird that Mathilde would´ve completed her understanding without actually seeing Druuchi in action idk.
 
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I've just got back from watching a video on overfishing of cod.

And it's just occurred to me that we-silk has applications in fishing net construction. In real life it was the invention of nylon that allowed for the creation of large drag-nets that are pulled behind a moving vessel.
But We-silk could fill in for that role, depending on how it takes saltwater.
With their steamships It'll be interesting to see if the Dwarves go that way, and how soon.

The other major ingredient of industrial fisheries is an on-board processing machinery(the video indicated canning machinery) that allows the fishing boat to unload their catch onto other ships, then have those ships bring the catch back without the large fishing boat needing to leave the job.
 
Parabola said:
It also wouldn't be the end of the world if the child in question went to a Cult, as long as it was the one of their choice or it suited them. If they were already dedicated to a god, probably that one. If they're not particularly dedicated to any one god and their parents have a profession that pushes them in a certain direction, they may go to an appropriate god (e.g. if they're the child of a KAU scribe, going to Verena).
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If their family is one of the ones that's converted to worship of the Dawi Ancestor Gods, a human miracle worker for that cult would be interesting to see.
 
T_of_A said:
@Boney, Mathilde has a lot of Dhar knowledge and traits, from many different sources.
Does she think that there would be value in writing a "here's how Dhar works" book ? Obviously this would be the sort of thing that only gets published posthumously (or "only gets taken out of Dwarven vaults when Mathilde is dead and somehow Nagash has returned"). But could she produce any added theoretical value or useability ? Or is there no point in doing more than leaving the Liber Mortis in good hands when Mathilde passes ?
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Assuming you're going for something that has more value to those opposing Dhar than it does to those using it, it would be a significant challenge to thread that needle, but in theory it's not impossible.
 
Something that would benefit from Max's paper writing trait to hit the necessary threshold, then. I foresee no problems with recruiting him to take notes on this.
 
Boney said:
Assuming you're going for something that has more value to those opposing Dhar than it does to those using it
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Fantastic ! I'll definitely push for it when we next have some book-writing time.

And honestly, it doesn't even have to achieve that. I'm not envisioning something we'd publish, I'm envisioning something we'd leave in a vault somewhere to be whipped out next time it looks like a Dhar user is about to conquer the Empire or something. "Open in case of Vampire War", "Open if Nagash taints the rivers again", etc. "Read this to give your top wizards a cool +20 anti-Dhar trait when anti-Dhar defenses are desperately needed. Warning: May also make your top wizards huge security risks in the process".
The Liber Mortis is massively more useful to necromancers than to Grey Wizards, but it's still very useful to keep a copy in the most secure sigmarite basement in case of necromancer apocalypse.

Just imagine it :
Step 1: Writing "Multiple Approaches To Harnessing Incredibly Lethal Dhar Energy" as a flex on Van Hal.
Step 2: Spending the entire process hoping it'll be a waste of time that will never be needed.
Step 3: Still spending an afternoon picking the best acronym because Mathilde is Mathilde (and needs to prove to future readers that she remains Mathilde despite this whole book showing she was obviously secretly a Black Magister).
 
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Gavin Prince said:
If their family is one of the ones that's converted to worship of the Dawi Ancestor Gods, a human miracle worker for that cult would be interesting to see.
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Putting aside how uncomfortable it may be for a human to do that when dwarfs don't, is it even doable? Have any human priests previously managed to get the Ancestor Gods to manifest miracles through them? Do They approve?
 
Parabola said:
Putting aside how uncomfortable it may be for a human to do that when dwarfs don't, is it even doable? Have any human priests previously managed to get the Ancestor Gods to manifest miracles through them? Do They approve?
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IIRC all previous worship of ancestor gods by humans was essentially treated as cargo cultism by the dwarves, there was no real knowledge exchange or acknowledgement of its validity on their end.

Maybe the Undumgi might end up different but I don't think we have anything solid about how that's been going.
 
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Parabola said:
Putting aside how uncomfortable it may be for a human to do that when dwarfs don't, is it even doable? Have any human priests previously managed to get the Ancestor Gods to manifest miracles through them? Do They approve?
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Learning the lessons of the Ancestor Gods is worship. Performing what you have learned is manifesting a miracle. Humans are capable of this.
 
I wonder, at this point do you think Mathilde is the Wizard who knows the most about Dhar Magic at the Colleges (excluding possible Black Magisters and hudde Chaos Cultists)?
 
Parabola said:
Quite possibly we did worse than that - I recall Boney saying that what Mathilde did with the contents of his and Isabella's drawers of... stuff, was left to the realm of imagination.

...Also we kinda destroyed his home. The only way we could make a worse first impression is if we excavated the mountain itself until there's nothing left.
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I'm not sure Vlad had much attachment to Castle Drakenhof. He's not actually from Sylvania after all.

Boney said:
Learning the lessons of the Ancestor Gods is worship. Performing what you have learned is manifesting a miracle. Humans are capable of this.
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Does that mean thta when Dwarfs taught the pre-Imperial tribes to metal smith they started doing miracles?
 
Boney said:
Learning the lessons of the Ancestor Gods is worship. Performing what you have learned is manifesting a miracle. Humans are capable of this.
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Nods in sage understanding

Retrueno said:
I wonder, at this point do you think Mathilde is the Wizard who knows the most about Dhar Magic at the Colleges (excluding possible Black Magisters and hudde Chaos Cultists)?
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Given how every enemy the Empire has seems to think he has a bunch of forbidden books, I'd put my money on Algard as possibly having some theoretical knowledge.

deathofrats0808 said:
I'm not sure Vlad had much attachment to Castle Drakenhof. He's not actually from Sylvania after all.
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He met his beloved wife there, and it's where he established his bloodline. I'm sure he had some attachment to it.
 
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