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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Jyn Ryvia said:
The thing I'm interested in is how much of a push/pull factor will be placed on the elven artisans to move to the empire.

Like, will there be enough of a pull (money, personal standard of life etc) to move their families to an empire city over staying.

I don't think the first order of artisans will, they will get the best of both worlds, money from the empire and living in the elf city.

But those that don't get in on the action in time might be tempted.
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Why would they move to the Empire? The artisans are by definition either in the City or in highly mobile workshops, and the City is about to expand for the first time in.... ever.

And noone but Marienburg or Elector Count could possibly afford the wages on retainer for a highly skilled Elven artisan. We sunk 3K into a lab made in half a year. Noone is going to pay that outside of prestige cases when they could just buy stuff.
 
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pucflek said:
Why would they move to the Empire? The artisans are by definition either in the City or in highly mobile workshops, and the City is about to expand for the first time in.... ever.

And noone but Marienburg or Elector Count could possibly afford the wages on retainer for a highly skilled Elven artisan.
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That's why I said 'the first order' won't,

I'm talking about those that come later and don't get any of that pie.

Those ones might get tempted by Marienburg and the EC's
 
Boney said:
There are buildings called 'factories' where standardized goods are mass produced on assembly lines, but machines aren't reliable or precise enough to be a part of the process so every step of it has to be by hand. That means it doesn't actually have many advantages over artisanry except for a few specific niches, like outfitting state troops.
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Don't forget pin making! :p
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
Those ones might get tempted by Marienburg
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I think Eonir is a bit allergic to Marienburg since it is something of a Ulthan pupet and Eonir won't want to get entagled with them. It might even end up a law or something like that once Queen get around to it since one of the first things they objected about trade is Ulthan goods undermining Eonir economy and Ulthan gold causing brain drain would be second biggest thread in their minds.

Some EC might get court artificers or something like that but I think that is far off.
 
Yeah, it's probably not a coincidence that one of the first really meaningful leaps of industrialization was in mechanized looms. Weaving cloth used to be painstakingly slow work, and it was mainly done by individuals for their own uses. Suddenly turning it into work a factory could do at hundreds of times the output of an equal number of individuals freed up an enormous pool of previously tapped labour.
 
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