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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Nerdasaurus Rex said:
What do elven surgeons do when they are not cutting people open and rummaging about with their insides?
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I'm fairly sure "elf surgeon" is a weird way of saying "Hysh/Ghyran Mage"

This is distinct from someone who just has knowledge of how to patch up an injury or some tinctures to treat common maladies
A lot of Elves might pick up those skills to some degree over their lives, most of whom probably aren't dedicated mages
 
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Abby Normal said:
As a headsup, i have finally had the time to update my previous post...also took the time to pretty it up, using tables and giving splits on how much eonir vs asur we got, as well as changes for each category. And of course the 'final' diff checker:

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I need to get lunch and get ready to go to a friends wedding, so please tell me if anything is missing/typoed, but i wont be able to fix it until tomorrow :p
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Outstanding post. Beautiful enough to make grown men weep.
One thing that is missing: it was not, in fact, safe to take the current org sheet as the final version of the eonir gains. Two more additions to the library happened:
-Arthropods got Extensive and Esoteric Eonir, going from +10 to +15
-Serpents, a new topic, got Extensive and Esoteric Eonir
For a total of +10 Eonir and 1 new subject in the Fauna category

I also found a small typo: in the Advanced Magic category, the bottom of the table says "Category Title" rather than "Category Total".
 
Boney said:
The Dwarven soul, in comparison, has high rigidity; being exposed to large amounts of magical influence does nothing to them, up until it reaches the point where it does, at which point they do not bend or deform, they
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We have evidence that runesmiths can increase their magical resistance. Kragg's mere presence makes magic flee rapidly.
All three can be described as a form of magic resistance, and a significant number from all three groups would consider their way to be the obviously optimal way of being able to withstand magical influence.
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I think Kragg the Grim would win that competition. :V
 
[X] [DWARF] Open negotiations to allow the Colleges of Magic access to the favor economy of the Runesmith Guild on an institutional level (Pay with AV)

Why not, K8P's burning shadows murder mountain is an example of what can be made when combining magic with runecraft, as are the Waystones and other wonders of the Golden Age. Karaz Ankor and the Empire are already pretty integrated together so it's only a step further.

I'd also guess battle wizards would be quite interrested in getting runed gear in exchange for their services on Karaz Ankor's crusades.

Finally, netting such an accord would probably net us a lot of favors and reputation from the colleges.


[X][LIBRARY] Colleges of Magic: Liminal Pathways, Nehekharan Pantheon, The Mortuary Cult, Nehekharan Incantations
[X][COLLEGE] An Ulgu powerstone (5 CF)
 
[X] [DWARF] Open negotiations to allow the Colleges of Magic access to the favor economy of the Runesmith Guild on an institutional level (Pay with AV)
[X][COLLEGE] An Ulgu powerstone (5 CF)
 
Boney said:
Medicine is a field with massive and unpredictable demand hikes. You need a lot of capacity and you need something for those people to do when that capacity isn't needed. For humans, that's haircuts. For Dwarves, that's leatherworking.
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So the average Dwarven leatherworker actually has some medical training, they're just not expected to use it most of the time but when the time comes they're actually competent?
 
NexusEye said:
So the average Dwarven leatherworker actually has some medical training, they're just not expected to use it most of the time but when the time comes they're actually competent?
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Yep. Dwarves are pretty hardy and their skin is fairly thick so most of the skills that let you make or repair a jerkin are also applicable to Dwarven medicine, just with a different and less horrific set of chemicals.
 
Boney said:
Yep. Dwarves are pretty hardy and their skin is fairly thick so most of the skills that let you make or repair a jerkin are also applicable to Dwarven medicine, just with a different and less horrific set of chemicals.
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Are they trained on things that aren't just cutting and sewing skin and pouring chemicals into wounds, like surgery on organs, suturing major blood vessels back together if possible, suturing them closed so the patient doesn't bleed out if not, that sort of thing? Or is the more complicated stuff left under the remit of the Priests of Valaya?
 
How does the original-We feel about the Library-We? Does it think of the relationship as that of a parent and chid? Siblings? A clone? Does it ever send some hunters to the library to visit?
 
mathymancer said:
How does the original-We feel about the Library-We? Does it think of the relationship as that of a parent and chid? Siblings? A clone? Does it ever send some hunters to the library to visit?
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There is no original-We, there is the Citadel-We and the Library-We and both have equal claim to being the same We we encountered in the tunnels and spoke to with the Ambers. It's like mitosis, when the cell splits both resulting cells are have equal claim to being the original except with the We their entire soul seems to undergo mitosis when they split.
 
@Boney not sure if you were just planning to add this after the purchase round, but just in case it was missed since the action itself did pas:

This past turn we took this action

-[] KAU: Hire educators to teach a language or group of languages to your scribes (Old World Languages)

So the languages section for the library should probably be updated from:

Scribes recruited from the human and Halfling population of Karak Eight Peaks. Languages known: Reikspiel, Tilean.

On that note since I was looking at that for a reason, do you guys think we should grab Vlag with the next library action? I imagine they would not scoff at our +6 Demons, various other Chaos gribble books as well as other foes like Greenskins, vampires and the undead.
 
NexusEye said:
There is no original-We, there is the Citadel-We and the Library-We and both have equal claim to being the same We we encountered in the tunnels and spoke to with the Ambers. It's like mitosis, when the cell splits both resulting cells are have equal claim to being the original except with the We their entire soul seems to undergo mitosis when they split.
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Didn't they hatch, raise, and teach a bunch of new Egglayers for this? Or am I misremembering?
 
DragonParadox said:
On that note since I was looking at that for a reason, do you guys think we should grab Vlag with the next library action? I imagine they would not scoff at our +6 Demons, various other Chaos gribble books as well as other foes like Greenskins, vampires and the undead.
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Yeah, I think Vlag is a good one to go for soon.

One thing I've been wondering though—on our last backfill action, it was pointed out that there were a lot of dwarven books we couldn't get because they were clan and guild secrets. But Vlag doesn't have clans and guilds anymore. Assuming they have copies of equivalent texts, would Vlag be willing to hand them over to us? If we used the boon, would there be any limit on what books they would or would not give us—say, any surviving books on runesmithing, or engineering guild schematics. And how would the rest of the Karaz Ankor react to Vlag handing out these sorts of texts to Mathilde?
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
Yeah, I think Vlag is a good one to go for soon.

One thing I've been wondering though—on our last backfill action, it was pointed out that there were a lot of dwarven books we couldn't get because they were clan and guild secrets. But Vlag doesn't have clans and guilds anymore. Assuming they have copies of equivalent texts, would Vlag be willing to hand them over to us? If we used the boon, would there be any limit on what books they would or would not give us—say, any surviving books on runesmithing, or engineering guild schematics. And how would the rest of the Karaz Ankor react to Vlag handing out these sorts of texts to Mathilde?
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I don't think they would be breaking any extra taboos. The thing about Vlag is they broke one (1) big taboo to stay alive, mass inducting rune-pokers and when when they were called out they answered: 'say that to my face with an army'. They are not just going to break more of them just because, or even for profit, otherwise they would be making bank mass-producing rune lamps.
 
NexusEye said:
Are they trained on things that aren't just cutting and sewing skin and pouring chemicals into wounds, like surgery on organs, suturing major blood vessels back together if possible, suturing them closed so the patient doesn't bleed out if not, that sort of thing? Or is the more complicated stuff left under the remit of the Priests of Valaya?
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More complicated stuff like that is left under the remit of Priests of Gazul.
 
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