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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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I still think you are reading too much into the English translation, and I want to propose a humorous alternate translation of the Khazalid:

Axe That Leaves People Alone. :V

(as in "causes them to be alone".)
 
soulcake said:
Baraz Kron - Book of Debts, both honour and monetary.
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Boney said:
Where is the Dalaz Kron, to be a weight around our necks when the acts of honour and courage of our oldest allies are not repaid? Let the message go forth for all to hear: just as the Dwarves will spill a lake of blood to avenge the past, so too will we move mountains to repay it.
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Also just remembered this. Funny how close Boney got.
 
Tobtorp said:
... That would make morathi the most ancient widow...

I am now firmly convinced that both human nations bordering the empire are lead by fake gods that are actually elves...
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Oh come on man, that's crazy talk. If Morathi was really the one behind Kislev's organized religion don't you think that the Kislevites' would have picked up some of the Druchii's behaviors like, for example, forbidding the existence of male magic cas......
 
Imperious said:
Oh come on man, that's crazy talk. If Morathi was really the one behind Kislev's organized religion don't you think that the Kislevites' would have picked up some of the Druchii's behaviors like, for example, forbidding the existence of male magic cas......
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Also you can clearly see Morathi making sure no one suspects her by targeting the nations with the most clothes per capita! It's a brilliant scheme!
 
Imperious said:
Oh come on man, that's crazy talk. If Morathi was really the one behind Kislev's organized religion don't you think that the Kislevites' would have picked up some of the Druchii's behaviors like, for example, forbidding the existence of male magic cas......
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Are you suggesting the Bretonnians, who also forbid male magic users, and whose religion is centered around a single powerful female goddess, and where a magical chalice plays a big role, is set up by some elf?!? Unbelievable. If that were true, you'd expect some sort of heavily repressed, down right enslaved, underclass. You don't see that, do you. Now back to the field, peasant dreg.
 
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BurnNote said:
Are you suggesting the Bretonnians, who also forbid male magic users, and whose religion is centered around a single powerful female goddess, and where a magical chalice plays a big role, is set up by some elf?!? Unbelievable. If that were true, you'd expect some sort of heavily repressed, down right enslaved, underclass. You don't see that, do you. Now back to the field, peasant dreg.
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If I had a dollar for every nation that is lead by a single female god and forbids male magic users, I'd have two dollars, which isn't much but its weird that it happened twice...
 
Tobtorp said:
If I had a dollar for every nation that is lead by a single female god and forbids male magic users, I'd have two dollars, which isn't much but its weird that it happened twice...
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I wouldn't exactly call Kislev 'lead by a single female god'?

In DL Boney seems to be increasing her role, but as presented in Realm of the Ice Queen, the Widow has no clergy and doesn't really seem to have worship. She isn't even listed with the other gods of Kislev.
 
FalloutCow said:
Unless you want an answer to the hundred-plus and counting mysteries that plague the setting. Spoiler: the White Dwarf's identity aside, there are none.
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There's a difference between mystery and "we don't fucking know, we're making it up as we have to". If you forget that, you get Lost or BBC Sherlock. Although GW isn't that bad, both because it's not a mystery story, because there actually is a surprising amount of underlying logic (though let us not underestimate Boney's work in fitting it together either), and because histories are messy like that.
But GW is definitely also very guilty of "it sounded cool, and we'll figure out an explanation when we have no other choice"
 
BurnNote said:
There's a difference between mystery and "we don't fucking know, we're making it up as we have to". If you forget that, you get Lost or BBC Sherlock. Although GW isn't that bad, both because it's not a mystery story, because there actually is a surprising amount of underlying logic (though let us not underestimate Boney's work in fitting it together either), and because histories are messy like that.
But GW is definitely also very guilty of "it sounded cool, and we'll figure out an explanation when we have no other choice"
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I get it, and was making a joke.

I am somewhat exacerbated by how often (at least it seems that way, I could be wrong) GW uses it. At least it's not 'this super-valuable resource/technology that could change everything/the tides of war are limited because the way to make them was lost with the creator' shtick.
 
FalloutCow said:
I get it, and was making a joke.

I am somewhat exacerbated by how often (at least it seems that way, I could be wrong) GW uses it. At least it's not 'this super-valuable resource/technology that could change everything/the tides of war are limited because the way to make them was lost with the creator' shtick.
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I like whf a lot more then wh40k because of this.
Whf feels like the enemies are actually somewhat competent and scary while the good guys are also somewhat competent and scary.
It's not limited by "oh no the ancient technology of (insert better gun here) was lost and now we only have flashlights!)
(Also whf feels more grounded, you have the "poor fucking infantry" but you don't have it in "trillions of trillions of men being mowed down.")
 
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