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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Silverking said:
At this point, I'm not sure if Boney is viewing the Library Infodump as the best way to explain all the miscellaneous errata he's had in his notes for years, or the WORST decision ever as he has to figure out every bit of lore that Eonir may have ever put to paper.
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Legend tells that should the library ever grow large enough, then Boney will upload his private wiki for us all to browse.

This prophesied time is known to the Order of the Loremasters as the Revelation, and it is their singular goal to bring about the coming of this new age.
 
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Boney said:
Eonir: Mundane, Divine, no military topics (via Library of Mournings)
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Minor, ha, bookkeeping note: I believe this entry under "Book purchase availability:" in the Organizations threadmark should either be deleted or struck through, similar to the entry on the purchase round.
Talon TigerDino said:
The fact that it has been long enough for Eonir to write Ulric books and we *still* haven't talked to them boggles my mind. This is the first instance of elves adopting a human god that we know of, I want to know of it so badly, but it keeps losing every vote. It's unfair it is.
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*annoying Pickle voice* Akshually, the social vote you're talking about isn't about talking to the Eonir about Ulric:
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[ ] Middenland
See how the Ulricans are going with their new Eonir coreligionists.
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It's about seeing how the mainstream Ulricans feel about it and what they've been up to, which I suppose might involve talking to Eonir who happen to be in Middenland but only if they're Forestborn for obvious reasons. Don't get me wrong, I do really want to take this action and have been voting for it for a while, but I believe in precision.

(I've been toying with the idea of cataloging the average "age" of social actions that get voted for because I like data analysis, but it felt too close to implicitly shaming voters for their choices and I'm not about that life.)
 
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Hey, if it's worth doing it's worth spending AP on. I, for one, works definitely vote for a turn full of long-delayed socials instead of personal improvement or project work.

We can tell Regimand we are retiring to try it out, like he does.

Mopman43 said:
Though AV makes its own argument for cooperation.

"Completely by accident,
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I have the feeling most dwarves would stop reading right about this point.
 
Glau said:
Hey, if it's worth doing it's worth spending AP on. I, for one, works definitely vote for a turn full of long-delayed socials instead of personal improvement or project work.

We can tell Regimand we are retiring to try it out, like he does.



I have the feeling most dwarves would stop reading right about this point.
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Ah, so that's how Mathilde falls to Chaos, going mad trying to retire. Good to know, avoid at all costs. :V
 
Parabola said:
I'm currently entertaining myself with the mental image of Panoramia and Mathilde making their cool treehouse and then when they've gotten everything settled in, a very confused Asrai scout pops in via the Worldroots, having done the magical equivalent of taking a left turn at Albuquerque.

It's unlikely the tree actually connects with the Worldroots, but it's amusing nonetheless.
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The tree is a passageway through the Karak's defenses?!? I knew you could never trust a tree! *grabs axe*
 
mathymancer said:
You know, I think our book haul is going to draw some Jade Wizards to KAU. The Eonir live in a magical forest and their chief Goddess is the Goddess of all things that grow, and it really shows in the books we got. There's the +5 on potions, but also +5 on forest spirits and +5 on liminal realms, which considering the Eonir's circumstances will no doubt include a lot of information on Dreaming Woods, and in the mundane topics there are the +5 bonuses on Old World forest fauna, forestry, and ecology. And depending on what it covers, Terraformation could be very relevant to the Jade order, since turning wastes into inhabitable and arable land is part of their job (and a part that is probably going to get more focus now that the Waystone project is creating actual Waystones). I sure hope that a bunch of a Jade Wizards show up in K8P to get some elf wisdom, only to see Panoramia's terraforming project and a giant magical tree (which they'll attribute to Panoramia because come on, who else would plant a giant magical tree? the Grey Wizard?).
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It definitely seems like the sort of treasure trove that the Jade College would be willing to give a favorable book deal to get their hands on.

And, well, our Fauna and Flora sections look a bit mismatched, given that asides from Arthropods and Canines and a bit of Dragons and Rodents, we only have Elven books on the current topics. The Jades probably have a lot on those subjects on top of magical topics.

...Hell, at this point it'd probably be fine to approach the University of Altdorf for a library deal.
 
I wonder how the library-WE are doing? They're probably very well read by now. Being a quasi immortal hive mind they could know everything in the library. Super helpful in a librarian. Also means they'll understand the rest of the world a better, in theory at least.
 
mathymancer said:
You know, I think our book haul is going to draw some Jade Wizards to KAU. The Eonir live in a magical forest and their chief Goddess is the Goddess of all things that grow, and it really shows in the books we got. There's the +5 on potions, but also +5 on forest spirits and +5 on liminal realms, which considering the Eonir's circumstances will no doubt include a lot of information on Dreaming Woods, and in the mundane topics there are the +5 bonuses on Old World forest fauna, forestry, and ecology. And depending on what it covers, Terraformation could be very relevant to the Jade order, since turning wastes into inhabitable and arable land is part of their job (and a part that is probably going to get more focus now that the Waystone project is creating actual Waystones). I sure hope that a bunch of a Jade Wizards show up in K8P to get some elf wisdom, only to see Panoramia's terraforming project and a giant magical tree (which they'll attribute to Panoramia because come on, who else would plant a giant magical tree? the Grey Wizard?).

Speaking of books our loved ones will benefit from, Eike would like to ask if naval combat is a seperate library topic(s?), or it it falls under more general topics such as Tactics and Strategy.
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You know one of the mechanically interesting bits about the new lore is that, being neither dwarf nor human, it actually makes for stronger backfilll. We were thinking that Backfill would mostly be to add dwarf bits to what we gather out of human universities, but with say the present natural sciences section we can get a lot more books human and dwarf by doing one.
 
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Parabola said:
It definitely seems like the sort of treasure trove that the Jade College would be willing to give a favorable book deal to get their hands on
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If course, the resident jade wizard of karak 8 peaks should have final say on which members of the jade college are permitted entry to KAU, as she would have the best understanding of their character.
[Bans lady Magister whatserface with prejudice]
 
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Boney said:
The Stacks is pretty much the point where categorizing it all would have gotten more tedious than it's worth, so I just didn't do it. Some day I might be feeling more tolerant towards that sort of task and actually break it down, or I might have it taken over by K8P locals as a sort of community just-for-fun library, or I might never touch it again.
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Honestly, I find the Stacks emerging out of this acquisition to be a fun narrative side note. Mathilde creates an organizational system and library so that no library will ever need fear The Stacks again. Then in the middle of a sudden rush of
topics she usually wouldn't acquire, she runs into her lack of library science knowhow and the limits of her category system causing the Stacks to form anyways.
 
BagFullOfLizards said:
Come to the dark side, we have AP!

(You know, if we used the Libre Mortis to become an unsleeping undead, shouldn't that give us 50% more AP from the extra time?)
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No they don't. You can tell by all the stuff they don't do. The great necromancer has been awake for hundreds of years and had no noticeable effect on the world at large.

The insanity penalty more than makes up for the extra time from not sleeping.
 
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fictionfan said:
No they don't. You can tell by all the stuff they don't do. The great necromancer has been awake for hundreds of years and had no noticeable effect on the world at large.

The insanity penalty more than makes up for the extra time from not sleeping.
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Yeah, plus can you imagine how much AP 'not getting caught' costs. There are a lot of competent non-insane enemies out there we would suddenly have to worry about. Sounds like years worth of AP just re-securing everything.

😈 Chaos and Necromancy 💀 are bad for Action Efficiency:V
 
The Phoenixian said:
Honestly, I find the Stacks emerging out of this acquisition to be a fun narrative side note. Mathilde creates an organizational system and library so that no library will ever need fear The Stacks again. Then in the middle of a sudden rush of
topics she usually wouldn't acquire, she runs into her lack of library science knowhow and the limits of her category system causing the Stacks to form anyways.
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At least for now, people won't need to go into the Stacks because they can't find what they're seeking. They'll only go there if they want to find Eonir sports and arts.

I guess that means that it's technically the Eonir Sports and Arts section?

Anyway, it's only really a problem if we acquire other texts that defy categorization.
 
Parabola said:
At least for now, people won't need to go into the Stacks because they can't find what they're seeking. They'll only go there if they want to find Eonir sports and arts.

I guess that means that it's technically the Eonir Sports and Arts section?

Anyway, it's only really a problem if we acquire other texts that defy categorization.
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The bright side is that it does sound like the sort of thing that will only really grow during mass acquisitions, and that the moving shelves means the issue can, theoretically, be fixed as new systems of categorization arise.

The downside is that Mathilde is about to discover technical debt.
 
IronFist said:
Same reasons why mortal necromancers are better than vampire necromancers.
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Is that the case? Because vampires are immortal, think faster and their soul is made out of Dhar. Even vampires like the Blood Dragons (who aren't very scholarly) don't have any problem to amass big armies.

Pyrelight said:
Almost as hard as distinguishing medical students and necromancers.
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I can assure you, being a necromancer is much less worse for your mental health than being a medical student :V
 
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