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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Is there anywhere that speaks Khazalid with an odd accent? I'm asking for purely academic reasons and not with a plan for Eike to learn every language with an accent.
 
Hmm... Would it be beneficial to have Qrech teach her? It'd be an opportunity for him to professor someone in person, and for her it's an opportunity to talk to an extremely interesting character.
 
mathymancer said:
Do our new books contain pictures and/or descriptions of Qu'aph?
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He's typically depicted as an especially large cobra, but He is sometimes depicted in human form, which is always a hooded person with vague features.

mathymancer said:
And if they do, does Mathilde recognize Him as the God that gave her a tingly feeling way back when she was cataloguing Nehekharan coins?
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Yes.

Wodger said:
Is there anywhere that speaks Khazalid with an odd accent? I'm asking for purely academic reasons and not with a plan for Eike to learn every language with an accent.
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Middenheim, Karak Azul, Karak Vlag, and presumably Karag Dum.
 
I'd totes get behind hanging out with Panpan learning about potions. Mmmaybe not this very turn, since I wanna be putting em Waystones and tributaries down and writing a book before going off to Nagarythe, but it sounds like a very pleasant option.
 
*inhale*
BUCKLE UP KIDDOS, WE'RE DOING THE FATHER THIS TURN!

[] Plan Shoot For The Moon
-[] 1 AP Overwork, no AP from T45
-[] The Father

-[]JOHANN: Explore the Ward of Storm
--[] Try to aid the Ward of Storm Faniour against local gribblies
-[]EGRIMM: Learn written High Nehekharan from the Colleges (2 CF)
-[]EGRIMM: Study an artefact: Kurgan moon shrine

-[] Waystone: Deploy in Kislev (Praag Region)
--[] With Zlata and Baba Niedzwenka
-[] Tributary: Dreaming Wood (Nordland)
--[] With Cadaeth, Sarvoi, Hatalath, Tochter, and Max

-[ ] Attempt to bring a non-Order magical tradition into the Waystone Project (Bertonnian Damsels)
-[ ] Waystone: Nexuses (Forest of Shadows) (Aksel, Ostland Hedgewise, Ostermark Hedgewise, Cadaeth? Thorek? Zlata?)
--[ ] Personally reach out to the Ostland and Ostermark Hedgewise in the hope that the Father face of the coin will earn their cooperation

-[ ] EIC: Attempt to establish a trade route with the Eonir (ore)
--[ ] Attempt to broker a deal between Kislev and the Eonir. Personally work with Kalita worshipping Kislevite traders if possible.
-[ ] KAU: Seek an exchange arrangement with another Library or a Karak's archives to be able to make copies of their corpus (Karak Vlag Archives)
-[ ] Eike actions: EIC action, KAU action, Damsels negotiation, Storm Ward exploration, Shrine research
-[ ] Eike study: Learn sounds, learn Khazalid
-[ ] SERENITY: AV 2/2

FAQ:
"B-b-but mathymancer, what about..." SHUT UP! I am NOT waiting for another turn and however long a fucking adventure arc takes! We're doing this, and we're doing it NOW!

"But didn't Boney say, like, 'giving Bretonnia Waystones first will be kind of a huge diplomatic fuckup on our part?'" Boney DID NOT SAY THAT! He did not say those exact words! He said some other words, which arguably, when read, could be sort of taken to very strongly imply that, but SO FUCKING WHAT? We're giving Waystones to Kislev in this plan. We're giving tributaries to Laurelorn in this plan. We are taking care of our project members first.

And you know what else we're probably going to do soon? We're going to design new Waystones, because our current Waystones are kind of overdesigned pieces of shit, and deploying them in Laurelorn is insane. Guess what's our most complicated parts? The Windy parts. Guess which magical tradition that uses Winds we haven't recruited yet? THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S THE DAMSELS! Recruiting the Damsels before we make new Waystones just makes sense. It's totally sensible. This is not a stupid plan, and I am not obsessed. If anything, you are obsessed with not recruiting the Damsels! What's wrong, bucko? Do you not want to recruit yet another female magical tradition? Do you hate women?!

We're also going to look at the Forest of Shadows nexuses, because why the fuck are we talking about dragging a nexus out of the Forest of Gloom to set up some sort of magical network in the fucking Border Princes when there are three nexuses to reclaim smack dab in the middle of the Empire, controlled by vampires and Chaos, in Ranald's daughter's home turf?! We're also going to make an ore deal with Kislev because of Kalita and yeah I know the mist path is a better action but this works better with the Father coin, honestly if you're still onboard at this point I doubt you're going to let this be the dealbreaker

Honestly, what's the worst that can happen are? "Isn't it possible that The Lady is not a daughter, and also that the negotations with the Damsels go badly enough that we don't recruit them at all this turn, wasting an AP and delaying Elfcation for no reason?" I guess. It's also possible that Mathilde will fucking die in any Elfcation plan, you pathetic coward. Without risk there can be no gain. Shoot for the moon, and possibliy you will crash and die, but if you don't you may land among the stars.

"I'm not scared of a Father plan, I just don't really care about the Father" understandable, have a nice day
 
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mathymancer said:
[] Plan Shot For The Moon
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Something I like about this plan is that it studies the moon shrine and also studies a possible daughter of Ranald. Also just a heads up you spelled the plan wrong.

EDIT: The Father affects Ranald's daughters themselves, not just their followers, so maybe we can pray at the shrine or something, knock on the moon god's door or something.
 
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[] Plan: Gigaflex, waystones and windherder
-[] Waystone: Build a Waystone (All)
-[] Waystone: Deploy in Kislev (Praag Region) (Zlata and Baba Niedzwenka)
-[] Tributary: Dreaming Wood (Nordland) (Cadaeth, Sarvoi, and Hatalath, Grunfeld)
-[] [WEB-MAT] MAX: Receive dictation: (Linguistic Drift in Lizardmen Glyphs (FADING), The Polyphenic Theory of Lizardmen Society (FADING))
-[] [WEB-MAT] EGRIMM: Attempt a Windherder enchantment with Egrimm (Shadowsteed & Clarity) (Gambler Coin here)
-[] [WEB-MAT] EGRIMM: Introduce Egrimm to Cython with hopes of some sort of information exchange
-[][Overwork] Codify the spell Knightbringer
-[][EIC] Assist in the creation of the magical route through the Schadensumpf, both personally and with the EIC's influence and resources
-[][KAU] Begin copying the full corpus of a Partner Library. (Imperial School of Engineers)
-[][Serenity] Aethyric Vitae (2/2)
-[] Eike Actions: Windherder, EIC
-[] Eike Study: Spells

This is a stay-at-home plan, because I do not want Mathilde to be a person who runs off to another country while her project goes into the critical stage.

Ofc this plan is doing the Gigaflex with AV. Additionally it codifies Knightbringer, because Mathilde made it a habit to never bring a single thing to our boss, but multiple ones.

Kislev gets the waystone, because they are our bulwark against Chaos.
We shall work on a second waystone design, because we had a lot of good ideas last time which are useful in many many cases.

We haven't tried Windherder in way too long. Time to make another go at it. Letting Eike attend to give her a chance at progressing her 1/4 Windherder skill. It's also an enchantment project, so she has a chance to progress there as well. This is also the reason to have Eike attent the EIC action. It's another enchantment project.

One overwork used, no actions from future turns.
 
Andres said:
Oh yeah it's not about research and magical flows, it's about prestige and diplomacy. Laurelorn hosted the project to make friends with other nations, and being part of setting up the first waystone would be good for that, and especially help their relations with Kislev. Think of it like their own Teclis moment.
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I'm not sure Sarvoi is the person they'd want to send out on a diplomatic mission though.

Also, getting him to help risks blowback as it makes it very clear that Laurelorn isn't getting the prestige and recognition that comes from being the site of the first Waystone of the modern era, and instead they're being asked to directly help someone else have that prestige. Given elven pride it seems possible it might come across more like a way of grinding their face in the fact that they've not been selected.

It also reinforces the fact that Laurelorn isn't going to get to switch on any extra magical infrastructure any time soon, which seems to have been their stated and official reason for offering to host the project in the first place.

If that was also the reason offered to the isolationist houses justifying Laurelorn's investment, they might be able to use this as a stick to beat the collaborationist(?) houses with.

Informally Laurelorn may have hosted the project to make friends, but that wasn't the reason they told us, and very likely themselves to justify it.
 
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Just looking at the EIC options, I think that we really should get involved in building the most bridge over the swamp. It's something that we may be able to learn something from, it should accelerate integrating Laurelorn into the trade network of the Reik Basin, and it might make the practicalities of transporting the multi-ton Waystones to places that can't be reached by sea, particularly while Marienberg is potentially being difficult.
 
Hmm. Potion-related concern: would they take up Activated Item slots? If so, that would be a trade-off with the items we have so far, which may well not be worth it.
 
Alratan said:
I'm not sure Sarvoi is the person they'd want to send out on a diplomatic mission though.
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The dude's an elven university professor, so he'll be socially competent. We shouldn't make him a diplomat, but we can expect him to do wizard professor stuff just fine and handle public relations decently enough.

Alratan said:
Also, getting him to help risks blowback as it makes it very clear that Laurelorn isn't getting the prestige and recognition that comes from being the site of the first Waystone of the modern era, and instead they're being asked to directly help someone else have that prestige. Given elven pride it seems possible it might come across more like a way of grinding their face in the fact that they've not been selected.
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I think your assessment is wrong. Just flatly. They do not win less prestige by keeping their magical accomplishments to themselves. That's like saying Ulthuan would be more prestigious if Teclis never taught humans magic. If they set waystones up in Kislev, they become known as the nation that set up waystones in Kislev. That matters.
 
Andres said:
I think your assessment is wrong. Just flatly. They do not win less prestige by keeping their magical accomplishments to themselves. That's like saying Ulthuan would be more prestigious if Teclis never taught humans magic. If they set waystones up in Kislev, they become known as the nation that set up waystones in Kislev. That matters.
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Boney flat out told us getting the first waystones is a prestige boost. And it's also a show of thanking Laurelorn for their help, which was critical for the Project in general and that specific model of waystone in particular. That's contrary to Kislev, who was nearly useless to create the waystone. The message that it would send to the Eonir is « you did the most for the Project, but fuck you let's give the first benefits to someone who did basically nothing ».
 
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