Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Roswita seems more interested in the idea of being elected Emperor than I expected her to be. Those who see her as exploitable will quickly find themselves disillusioned when they find out just how wrong they are about her. I almost pity them, and I would like to see her playing the election successfully.
I wonder who the father of her child is; clearly it's not a secret husband.
Is Roswita the first non-wizard, non-Imperial close confidante to find out about Mandred the Wizard? Regardless, it's good to see how comfortable she and Mathilde have become with each other and sharing secrets.
I wonder who the father of her child is; clearly it's not a secret husband.
Is Roswita the first non-wizard, non-Imperial close confidante to find out about Mandred the Wizard? Regardless, it's good to see how comfortable she and Mathilde have become with each other and sharing secrets.
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Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
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- She/Her
A+ pun.
Now this is a proper supernatural festival. Poor Mathilde, though - she can't benefit from whatever the Phoenix is doing.
I wonder how much time Kadoh has spent improving his pugilism alongside Johann...
Oh it's HAPPENING happening. I wonder if she means the child will be adopted by someone else...
Does anyone wanna go pacify Eastern Stirland with the Protector before fucking off to Nagarythe, by any chance? Make the Dammerlichtreiter ride again and strike fear in the hearts of any hidden gribblies?
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- Washington
Frankly even before the wizard thing empress roswita was a small but not insignificant possibility. Luitpold isn't old but he's also not exactly young. If he broke his neck falling off a horse today without Mandred being a wizard you'd still have people asking whether they do in fact want to elect a preteen.
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Heh. I am finding an amusing parallel with Asarnil's duel at Draksfjord. Both times the first round was relatively even, and then the second overwhelming.
And congrats to Roswita, as well as potentially upended plans.
And congrats to Roswita, as well as potentially upended plans.
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- Red Blood on Golden Shield
Well, if we can fit it into a plan, I wouldn't say no...
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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- Tempe, AZ
Only if Luitpold passes in the near future. Given a decade or two Mandred might well manage to build sufficient support. Either way works for us.
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- Florida
The entire Roswita section was fascinating. So many words spent on implications and knowing expectations and silence.
I mean is there anything meaningful to even pacify at this point? No doubt there are some ghosties and ghoulies, but I don't think any of them are worth the Dammerlichtreiter coming out to play.
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- Earth
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- He
Damn, if Johann has actually been learning martial arts from Kadoh instead of marital, he's going to be a beast on the battlefield. Instead of in bed.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
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- within 2 hours of the White House
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- They/Them
thats also our fault- remember that the sigmarites were trying to puppet her when we first came back? and we killed
And besides Roswita, the other candidate is Boris, who is the Number One Laurelorn fan in the Empire and has several reasons to like Mathilde as well. And the other other candidate is the EC of Ostermark, who is going to get in the near future a visit from Mathilde about how she can fix his Mordheim problem, so potentially an enthusiastic supporter of the Waystone Project.
It's at times like these that I truly realize how influential Mathilde is becoming / already is.
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Nah, there's also Duke of Talabecland. If anything that's the "naive" assumption about who would get it right now.
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- Who knows?
I just wanted to say I agree. Yes the Qaystone project has been an amazing success, and it's results should be spread far and wide ASAP. But imo acting like people should do it for free or completely at cost really grinds my gears. The project involved time, effort and other costs from the many talented people who spent most of their time the past few years doing this instead of the many many other pressing matters they could attend to. Wanting something for the efforts of their work from somehow who did not have to pay those costs is hardly Robber Baron levels of heartless capitalism.
I wonder how much Araby needs it or if they really have the ambient magic levels to have an active spirit pop? Remember WoB that they're close enough to the Equator that they view Tilea up Northwards (so entirety of the Empire and Bretonnia to start) as pretty much all part of the Chaos Wastes.
Hey this...
GODDAMIT.
Wow yeah I am struggling to think of a way to blow up Collegiate and Eonir relations faster than trying to enslave the living symbol of your primary religious ceremony Jesus. And now I want to social the phoenix. What is it's story?
Lmao how much is Zlata suffering right now (then again 99.999999% of elves would probably never want to sleep with a human anyways)
Ha, the image of these guys being the elfish equivalent of raided out bodybuilders amuses me.
How much is the shadow roiling at the lack of curiosity indulging here.
Awww, this is kinda sad. Mathilde, no one comes out of the womb fully badass, all that awkwardness made you the Cool Lady you are today and in general sometimes people really just need to be more forgiving of their past selves.
...Eike's first blooding time?
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
There are always a myriad of paths that could've been, but only ever one there was.
Probably not, the thing is Great Deeds to not set policy, at their utmost they allow us to propose policy, which don't get me wrong is quite a lot when you are talking about the state the size of the empire. But there is a lot of air between 'can propose policy' and 'gets to have some say in who is the next Emperor'.
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- Who knows?
That would involve actually getting involved in Empire politics to start
Honestly I'd think the thread would probably not really commit to either until some time passes since Luitpold croaking earlier vs later really changes what's viable.
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
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- She/Her
It's Sylvania, as long as it's irradiated with Dhar, the undead will always rise up again and need to be put down. And there's gotta be a few corners of the land that the army and the Battle Wizards missed. All the smart vampires probably decided to lay low.
We might also be able to use the opportunity to preemptively scout-out locations in which to place waystones. As I posted yesterday, even Sylvania must have a handful of waystones still intact, even if they're not connected to the main network.
It'd also be a good opportunity to blood Eike.
Though I don't think we can use Great Deeds that way, I'd say we support Roswita given that Mandred's still in the Not Fully An Adult stage of things. Let's give him a decade or two of getting impressive and buff and then when Roswita gets much older I'd say support any bid of his.
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- New Brunswick, NJ
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- He/Him/His
Well, I don't think anyone called that external social.
Superfluous "a".
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- Washington
To spend great deeds on EITHER of them is considerable risk of alienating the other. Much better to just content herself with winning no matter how things shake out. Mathilde's a grey wizard, nobody will hold it against her to NOT put her thumb on the scale for imperial elections.
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- United States
I'll admit, I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly Roswita did a 180 about handing off the reigns once the idea of being Empress was floated. Who hasn't imagined such a thing? Some ambition does a character good, and the Van Hals shouldn't be so quick to surrender their Elector Countship.