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WFRP 4e: Winds of Magic, page 46
We could go for a similar naming scheme as this. "Thaumic Auditor" or something.
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Sir_Travelsalot
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That Thaumodivinator's description sounds rather close to the Alethiometer of His Dark Materials fame.
Thank you for the update! Hopefully the hint at those sources that only Mathilde has access to will encourage people to check out the library under Karak Eight Peaks, as much as the mentions of the We encourage interest in them.
As for the name...
[] [PORTATIV] Portentiv
[] [PORTATIV] Mathilde's Portentiv
(Not so sure about the second one. Name recognition is fun but this was a team effort.)
As for the name...
I was thinking along similar lines - for something we want to roll out for everyday use in every village in the Empire, we should try to connect this to a concept that everyone understands, and omens are a good framework - but was worried that any such name could become clunky... And then inspiration struck.[] Name: Bellowing Organ of Omens
What more intuitive acronym could you have for a device meant to warn you of imminent spookiness than a B.O.O?
[] [PORTATIV] Portentiv
[] [PORTATIV] Mathilde's Portentiv
(Not so sure about the second one. Name recognition is fun but this was a team effort.)
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The not funny answer is likely cutting corners, using cheaper materials than the ones he advertises, making shoddy work that does not sound right or lasts much less than it should and/or inflating prices.
The funny answer is selling kids these darn newfangled inventions called kazoos. Its not technically illegal, but would you really want to be acquitance with someone who does that?
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Shoddy work, delays, running away with the money...
I would expect the colleges have the money to buy, and expect, the best.
Because shoddily built tools when doing rituals is not a good time for anyone.
pucflek
Verified simpleton
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Why would it be? How many people do you think can tell you what scuba in the scuba diving suit actually stands for?
EDIT: Or Laser, or Care in Care package? Do you know the exact words that the initials for GIF represent? Your average peasant won't know shit if you used the entire seviric spectrum for the name as an acronym. Focus on whats cool, if its magic, noone that would care will know any better anyway.
They make organs out of organs.
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We could propose a technical name for use in academic circles and a common/brand name to sell people in the wider world on the device. Best of both worlds!
What is wrong-suspect about Moulder-brand organs? Made with intestines and muscle-flaps of truly fine-rarest beasts, yes-yes!
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The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
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I don't have the words right now, but I adore all the looks into psyches, enchantment styles, cultures, and cultural exchanges this update, and how they all play into one another. Especially noteworthy in the wake of recent discussions.
Though I will say:
(Not that it's wrong, even outside the world she lives in, but still.)
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For portative names, it strikes me that It's an instrument of folklore. It fits that it has a vaguely mythic name, but it's also a whole run of instruments, meant to be crafted en mass.
I feel like short names are better. Especially since — as this update shows us with magic mapping — long names, used often, will find a way to become short names.
One could call it a Weber, a Horstmann, a Kas, or a Hochschild, a la a repute that grew up around the Stradivarius, but it doesn't fit the group project aspect as much. That said, I think a very short name does fit the idea. Something people could talk about the same way they would talk about "the old Henway."
Alternatively... One could invoke the group project between the Light and Grey Colleges that created it by giving it a name not to invoking light or shadow, but the way light casts a shadow. And perhaps the way the music takes an imprint from magic. Especially if it also invokes theatre, given Kas.
"The eclipse" seems like something that might fit the theme, but is a bit off. (a little too much gravitas for an mass instrumentGSV) There's a space here for something that fits the meaning and connotations, but I'm a bit tired to find words that fit it properly.
...Or that, yeah. Simple, clever, punchy, serviceable. Biggest issue is that people might stumble over the small difference from Portative, but there's an aesthetic there in itself.
(Two townsfolk gossiping about the new instrument.
One says "Portentive Organ"
The other, a pedantic, says "You mean portative organ."
Obvious omens come out.
The first says "no.")
Though I will say:
Your Medieval-to-Renessaince-era Engineering perspective is showing, Mathilde
(Not that it's wrong, even outside the world she lives in, but still.)
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For portative names, it strikes me that It's an instrument of folklore. It fits that it has a vaguely mythic name, but it's also a whole run of instruments, meant to be crafted en mass.
I feel like short names are better. Especially since — as this update shows us with magic mapping — long names, used often, will find a way to become short names.
One could call it a Weber, a Horstmann, a Kas, or a Hochschild, a la a repute that grew up around the Stradivarius, but it doesn't fit the group project aspect as much. That said, I think a very short name does fit the idea. Something people could talk about the same way they would talk about "the old Henway."
Alternatively... One could invoke the group project between the Light and Grey Colleges that created it by giving it a name not to invoking light or shadow, but the way light casts a shadow. And perhaps the way the music takes an imprint from magic. Especially if it also invokes theatre, given Kas.
"The eclipse" seems like something that might fit the theme, but is a bit off. (a little too much gravitas for an mass instrument
...Or that, yeah. Simple, clever, punchy, serviceable. Biggest issue is that people might stumble over the small difference from Portative, but there's an aesthetic there in itself.
(Two townsfolk gossiping about the new instrument.
One says "Portentive Organ"
The other, a pedantic, says "You mean portative organ."
Obvious omens come out.
The first says "no.")
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LMAO
Tell me the secrets of this 'semi-quaver'
Including Kas's which had few shared components.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf4WhCe9Ey4
I can't believe they did this to us.
However, now I can headcanon that most spells start out with punny names that get dropped when the wizard in question isn't around to enforce it.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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Does Eike not get a stat increase from finishing out basic Economics (Old World)?
Honestly, 'Portentive Organ' might be even better, as it's also just a straight-up description of what it does! Perfectly plausible that they could co-exist, of course, just as the minor variations of the portative organ's own name do.
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She did, fixed.
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Huh, I'd have expected Stewardship not Learning. I guess this is a practical/theoretical divide?
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
So why don't we give Egrimm a nod in this name.
[ ] [PORTATIV] Egrimm's Omen
[ ] [PORTATIV] Egrimm's Omen
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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I know the above is a joke, but out of curiosity @Boney is she citing the elf that originally wrote the sources she used, and if she is, is she putting it under layers of anonymity (another Grey and Gold publication amongst other things) to ensure the Dawi Zharr don't get ideas?Scholar reading along: When did she go to Lustria?
My apologies if you make it clear in the text and I just missed it cause I'm an idiot.
Different approaches by different people. Mathilde treats it as a specific kind of dark magic to be carefully quarantined away from everything good and innocent, Eike treats it as a fundamental force of civilized society.
What ideas? Something tragic already happened to the Elf and the notes already ended up at Uzkulak.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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In truth I don't know, just operating from an overabundance of paranoia.
That said I take it we are citing her (the elf) as our source.
Wonder if we can try to deliver them to any next of kin she may have left on Ulthuan? Likely care of someone else on the continent...
pucflek
Verified simpleton
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Now now, let's not go that far. Maybe her gumption impressed captain Maktiq (sorry for prolly butchering your name cool pirate dude) and he offered her board, room and a sorceresses share of booty and she now reaves the seas.
Huffs some more copium.
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Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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Honestly I kinda feel like we could have tried to hire that guy as a privateer to go after other Druchi. Probably wouldn't have worked, but the attempt could have been made.