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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Glau said:
Omg someone PLEASE write this omake!
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If it helps, I know for a fact that if you submit fully- and well-written stories to papers like that complete with a selection of pictures, they'll probably publish it, even if it's about how awesome you are and how good a job you're doing.

Prime 2.0 said:
Hm, that's true. @Boney , if Sounds is learned first, does that decrease the risk on Relatively Simple spells further down the vote list? Obviously they're still going to be riskier than the easier grade either way, and miscast chance while learning the spells is never 0, but just checking.
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Yes. I'll do a reasonable amount of rearranging if Sounds is near the top, though.
 
[X] [PORTATIV] Portentiv

[X] [SPELL] Sounds
[X] [SPELL]Dispel
[X] [SPELL]Magic Alarm
[X] [SPELL]Magic Lock
[X] [SPELL]Magic Mapping
[X] [SPELL]Move
 
Boney said:
That's more a community newspaper sort of thing, and nobody's managed to inflict that upon the Colleges yet.
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Collegiate Newspapers:

Ulgu Uikly
The Hierophant Herald
[a series of constant smoke signals in the amber hills]
Druid's Digest
The Tolling Bell Tribune
BLAZE!
The Altdorf Journal of Echo-gnomics
 
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[X] [PORTATIV] Portentiv
I do like this name, nice and short, my only quibble being that portentive is an actual word, albeit long out of fashion, and thus is likely to lead people to miss the portmanteau of portentous and portative.

[X] [SPELL] Sounds
[X] [SPELL] Skywalk
[X] [SPELL] Magic Alarm
[X] [SPELL] Silence

[X] [ENCHANT] Freeform
 
[X] [SPELL] Sounds
[X] [SPELL] Blessed Weapon
[X] [SPELL] Dispel
[X] [SPELL] Magic Mapping

[X] [PORTATIV] Portentiv

[X] [ENCHANT] Freeform
 
NuclearConsensus said:
I do like this name, nice and short, my only quibble being that portentive is an actual word, albeit long out of fashion, and thus is likely to lead people to miss the portmanteau of portentous and portative.
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The definitions said:
1. Portentous; prophetic; acting as a presage.
2. (Grammar) Indicating that something is likely to happen in the future.
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I didn't notice that it was a defined word. I just thought it was a portent pun.

It sure is a thing that indicates that something is likely to happen in the future, though.
 
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NuclearConsensus said:
I do like this name, nice and short, my only quibble being that portentive is an actual word, albeit long out of fashion, and thus is likely to lead people to miss the portmanteau of portentous and portative.
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Well technically that's portentive with an e at the end, not portentiv, so it's entirely different and merely a homophone.
 
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[X] [PORTATIV] Portentiv

[X] [SPELL] Sounds
[X] [SPELL] Skywalk
[X] [SPELL] Silence
[X] [SPELL] Magic Mapping

[X] [ENCHANT] Freeform

So, an apparently contradictory blend of avoiding spells that are Mastered precisely so that they can be taught and avoiding Mathilde's masteries in enchantment so they won't be. Which of course, is no contradiction if you consider which skills M considers are her best, but are not if you consider, oh, a certain super-weapon that annihilates armies or a staff that makes battle magic not battle magic.

Which is part of the delight in making people think you are just a magical nerd that can maybe fast-draw pistols* when you are somehow a human Shadowdancer**
* i really wanted to stunt of elves out of nowhere before the elf-olympics, i don't think they've ever seen Mathilde with a sword
** or an analog, if Loec is not Ranald
 
[X] [SPELL] Sounds
[X] [SPELL] Magic Mapping

The map is not only a very useful spell it's a spell Mathilde never got around to learning in its current format.

So Mathilde can't teach it and can potentially even learn it.
 
Belated thought: Given just how appropriate it is on a deep level that Dhar should cause a shift to the minor key that I have to wonder how much a part Dhar Insight ended up playing into that at all.

Because thinking over the mechanics of how Dhar works, and how the minor key works, It feels like something so elegant that it either came out of the most basic level of understanding, or was the work of a master.

It'd be funny if there was a little rabbithole where every person who looks at a Portentive Organ is struck by it's workings proportional to how much they know.

So the average wizard wonders "Hunh, how did they make the Dhar detection work. Oh, neat."
The average dark mage is going "Wait, no, how did they make the Dhar detection work?"
And the actual old vampire, very experienced necromancer, or other master dark mage with the inclination to study one is thinking "Oh, this person gets it. Why the hell would a proper dark mage work on a project like that?"
 
[X] [PORTATIV] Collegiate Harmonic Indicator of Magical Energy
[X] [SPELL] Sounds
[X] [SPELL]Dispel
[X] [SPELL]Skywalk
[X] [SPELL]Mathilde's Multidimensional Aethyric Projection
[X] [SPELL]Shadowsteed
[X] [ENCHANT] Basics Only
 
@Boney, my understanding is that when Mathilde sees the winds, she's not actually seeing them with her eyeballs, it's just how her brain is interpreting what her magical senses are supplying. Does that mean she can still sense the winds if she closes her eyes?
 
[X] [PORTATIV] Portentiv

[X] [SPELL] Sounds
[X] [SPELL] Dispel
[X] [SPELL]Magic Alarm
[X] [SPELL]Magic Lock

[X] [ENCHANT] Freeform
 
Andres said:
@Boney, my understanding is that when Mathilde sees the winds, she's not actually seeing them with her eyeballs, it's just how her brain is interpreting what her magical senses are supplying. Does that mean she can still sense the winds if she closes her eyes?
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IIRC she did this explicitly when she did the Karak Vlag 'stone is an excellent insulator of magic' meme-illusion pierce, and a couple other times when she needed to focus her attention / windsight.

Edit: Boney answered, but fwiw my answer isn't strictly correct, just doesn't focus on her mundane sight.

Karak Vlag and Karag Dum. If either of those two nodes on the network remain...

You vaguely hear one of the Rangers ask something, only for Snorri to hush him. You let your eyes slide out of focus as you turn all your attention to the magic around you. All you can see at first is Azyr high above. You redouble your concentration. You can see birds of prey flying overhead, faint dots of Ghur among the Azyr. Patches of Ghyran in the hardy shrubs and mosses dotting the stone around you. The extremely faint hint of something alien yet familiar that emanates from Dwarves. Below you is blank, but it's blankness that's deepening as you focus your concentration down, blocking out everything but the stone.
 
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[X] [PORTATIV] Portentiv
[X] [SPELL] Dispel
[X] [SPELL]Skywalk
[X] [SPELL] Silence
[X] [SPELL]Shadowsteed
[X] [ENCHANT] Freeform
 
Andres said:
@Boney, my understanding is that when Mathilde sees the winds, she's not actually seeing them with her eyeballs, it's just how her brain is interpreting what her magical senses are supplying. Does that mean she can still sense the winds if she closes her eyes?
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Yes. It makes her less able to map the Winds she's seeing onto specific points in space, but it does let her concentrate on just her Windsight.
 
Visual magesight also means Mathilde can effectively look in more than one direction at once - though with her magesight she can't see physical things and with her eyes she can't see the Winds:

Boney said:
"Here comes your first solution," you say as Panoramia emerges from the Citadel's gates behind you. You didn't look to check, and Eike noticed you not looking, and it takes some effort to keep from smiling at the look she gives you. Visual Windsight means you can be actively looking in a specific direction for a specific thing and spot it from a fair way further off than what Eike's Intuitive Windsight allows for.
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And on one occasion she was starting to get a headache from looking in two directions at once while moving at high speeds:
Boney said:
Two hours later you're starting to develop a headache from straining to look downwards with your Magesight while keeping your eyes fixed on the path ahead. While the Shadowsteed has many advantages over flesh-and-blood horses, its willingness to gallop at full speed into a tree or river can be quite a downside.
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In the end Magesight is just an expression. It's a different sense that only depends on the soul, which is why Mathilde can also sense Dhar as something nauseating and Waaagh energies as a loud taste (IIRC).
 
The human brain doesn't 'natively' have a sense for Windsight, so it maps onto something else. Visual is the most common because humans are primarily visual, followed by auditory, and then taste and smell and touch. You also have the non-traditional senses that are generally unfortunate and confusing to end up with - spatial orientation, hunger and satiety, respiration and asphyxiation, the various sensations of your guts that you generally only feel when something's wrong, and so on.

Some people say that Intuitive is humanity developing a native sense for Windsight, others say it's just using whatever internal channel exists for intuition.
 
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