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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Boney said:
1: Tool-Free Enchanting (that guy is still teaching)
2-5: Advanced Materials (1/2) (Eike continues her own paradigm)
6: Windherder (1/4) (Eike manages to further hone her Windsense)
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Since we rolled a two, does that mean Tool-Free dude retired?

Hope he's alright.

Boney said:
[ ] Niedzwenka
Ask Baba Niedzwenka how she feels about the new Tzar, and about the political landscape of Kislev in general.

[ ] Lord Seilph, the Mystic (NEW)
The Grey Lord, Lord Seilph, is currently erecting Waystones in Sylvania, and the suspected reason for one of the usually-reclusive Grey Lords to be so far from home is an interest in questionable magics. An interest that one could describe you as sharing. See if there's anything of interest to be found in a very cautious talk on the matter.

[ ] Pan's Treehouse (NEW)
Panoramia has previously been quite happy with her cottage, but when you're a Jade Wizard and you create a mind-bogglingly enormous tree, you can't not build a house in it. Witness how a Druid flexes.




[ ] Orb Reveal (NEW-ish)
The Orbs are made, the books are written, the time is right. You'll show them. You'll show them all.
[ ] Silk (NEW)
At long, long, long last, Francesco has finally figured out how to weave the We-silk into something that can be worn. Be there for its debuts into the various markets it is destined to disrupt, and make sure that one of the first pieces off the loom - or whatever it is they use - will be your silk sheets.
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My choices.

I think people might actually riot if the Orb and Silk isn't chosen .... maybe not the Silk, but definitely the Orb.
 
He was believed to be one of Algard's hands; I'm not surprised he's too busy to teach apprentices.

We could probably teach the cantrips to Eike ourselves; most of are debatable usefulness, but Mathilde got a lot of mileage out of the lenses.
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
Hatalath claimed that a tributary couldn't be formed in Laurelorn because the forest is "owned" by the Grey Lords. Cadaeth (who's part dryad), Aksel (the priest of a forest goddess), and Tocther (who has a soul made of Jade wind) all immediately caught Hatalath's claim as completely incorrect because they understand forest souls better, but didn't want to publicly humiliated the thousands of years old Archmage by telling him exactly how wrong he was.

They didn't do a very good job of hiding it (probably because they don't have Grey Wizard training).
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I can't help but think that the Cadaeth-Aksel-Totcher trio must think the others of the trio are fascinating, being a sort of alternative take on being highly attuned to forests and nature. Lots of notes-comparing, insights-sharing, and "what's it like for you?" going around, I'd guess.

Cadaeth is part forest-spirit. Aksel is soul-attuned to a goddess of a huge local forest. Totcher has part of her soul made of/transformed into the Jade wind of nature and life. That's a group whose members approach a forest from the perspective of the divine, the arcane, and the soul.

Cadaeth being able to talk to Totcher is like being able to talk to someone who's part Ghyran, and the inverse is being able to talk to someone who's part forest-spirit. And Aksel has a forest goddess on speed dial via soul attunement.

Judging by how fascinating it is for Mathilde to talk to Heidi, who's merely another (high-level) priestess of Ranald (the same god), I can only imagine how mind-blowing and exciting it must be to talk to someone who's made up of part of your area of expertise down to their very soul, but in an entirely different way from your own.
 
Zaealix said:
We must Orb Flex, orbviously.
But also Pan's tree flex is also high priority.
I like the sound of the swordplay…
But we've been grumping about those sheets for far too long.

So one slot left and I don't have any clear winners.
Any takers?
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We're going to orbflex and treeflex and sheetflex. We're going to flex in so many shapes no one is going to know what hit them.
 
Carcer said:
On another subject,is demonology still a thing in warhammer fantasy ?,i remember reading my father roleplay book of first edition warhammer and how they described demonologist as complet madman/fool for doing that,but i have never (or at least that i remember) seen them mentioned somewhere else .
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Every warlock or cultist who ever summoned a daemon thinking they can control it would count, but I do not think they are as defined as in First Edition. The Sorcerer Prophets of Hashut probably come closer to the traditional daemonologist who actually tries to control the daemon and has it work most of the time, in their case by hammering it into stuff.
 
DragonParadox said:
Every warlock or cultist who ever summoned a daemon thinking they can control it would count, but I do not think they are as defined as in First Edition. The Sorcerer Prophets of Hashut probably come closer to the traditional daemonologist who actually tries to control the daemon and has it work most of the time, in their case by hammering it into stuff.
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And the Fimir.
 
Mopman43 said:
And the Fimir.
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Yeah, you're right. I think they might actually be closer since they do not have a patron as the Dark Gods abandoned them. So it would come the closest to 'arcane' daemonology. Still corrupt as hell, but they make no claim to being anyone's priests.

SaltyWaffles said:
the divine, the arcane, and the soul.
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The divine, the arcane and the fey I 'd say. All of them have soul deep connections, but only one of them is connected to a nature spirit/is part nature spirit. The fey often use Ghyan and they are often connected to local forest gods, but they are not of either.
 
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Carcer said:
On another subject,is demonology still a thing in warhammer fantasy ?,i remember reading my father roleplay book of first edition warhammer and how they described demonologist as complet madman/fool for doing that,but i have never (or at least that i remember) seen them mentioned somewhere else .
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2e has some spells and rituals for it, but they're of the "You can go for it, but it'll probably suck" variety. They're great to lay down on an assorted collection of peasants, cheesemakers, and apprentice scullery maids turned mercenaries who've blundered into your evil chaos lair while you make a perfectly unhurried and not-cowardly escape, though, since the fail state is that you have to fight the daemons and you've got some volunteer daemon fighters you don't know what to do with.
 
DragonParadox said:
The divine, the arcane and the fey I 'd say. All of them have soul deep connections, but only one of them is connected to a nature spirit/is part nature spirit. The fey often use Ghyan and they are often connected to local forest gods, but they are not of either.
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I mean in the sense that Cadaeth's soul is part-forest. Remember her introduction, and her following scenes? Her soul occupies the trees around her as much as her elven body. She's not quite a forest spirit hybrid because she is part forest, too.

The forest spirits are part of the forest itself, like the Dreaming Wood of a forest is part of its forest. So being part forest-spirit would still count, I'd think.

Regardless, the point still applies: Cadaeth's soul is part forest-spirit, making her soul part-forest. But her soul is not part-Ghyran, and finding a forest without lots of ghyran being part of it is nigh-impossible. And a forest with a patron deity to that forest specifically gives anyone with a soul-attuned connection to that deity a unique perspective on and connection to that forest, too. Aksel's connection is through divinity; Totcher's connection is through Ghyran (arcane), and Cadaeth's is through being part forest-spirit, which is part of the soul of the forest (though the semantics of "soul" in that instance can be tricky, perhaps).
 
So here's an thought... we can totally get Eike to magic 7 by the time she finishes her apprenticeship:
  1. Base 3 Magic
  2. Advanced Materials +1 Magic
  3. 3 Lesser magics (Since she has MMAP she doesn't need to learn all the standard ones) +1 Magic
  4. All 8 Relatively Simple Spells +1 Magic
  5. Turn her a Drycha Staff +1 Magic
Why is magic 7 so important? Because that is how much you need to use FC spells safely. If we pull this off we can teach her Knightbringer as a parting gift or for that matter things like Substance to Shadow, Illusion or Dread Aspect. Would that make her the most hilariously over-prepared journeywoman in the history of the Colleges? Yes it would, that is the point.

Since I know some people are going to balk at the staff, the only other ways to pull this off are either not reliable (Familiar) or would take too long (learning all the Moderately Complicated spells) and there is no actual rule that says a Journeywoman can't have a staff, Panoramia did for instance.
 
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Cadaeth: The Lorax
Aksel: Tree Priest
Totcher: Knows Tree Kung Fu

Cadaeth could tell you what flavor of fertilizer trees like. Aksel could tell you about tree sins, the sins trees can commit (spreading extremely combustible oils around to encourage wildfires, etc). Totcher could tell you about how to harness a tree's internal Qi to overcome wounds or shoot a tree powered laser beam.
 
I think there's a possibility we might actually be vulnerable to Daemon checking now, what with the Apparition?

Which would be mildly funny, in a 'let's escape to Nagarythe ahead of the news' kind of way.
 
Zaealix said:
We must Orb Flex, orbviously.
But also Pan's tree flex is also high priority.
I like the sound of the swordplay…
But we've been grumping about those sheets for far too long.

So one slot left and I don't have any clear winners.
Any takers?
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I'd argue for one of the two book binge options, so either

[ ] Reading on Nehekhara
or
[ ] Karak Vlag books

Like, Mathilde is characterized as a major book nerd and she got so many new books on interesting topics. I think it would be fitting, if she takes an action to read some of them
 
chocolote12 said:
I think there's a possibility we might actually be vulnerable to Daemon checking now, what with the Apparition?
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No has been asked bunch of times and answer is she is not vulnerable in anyway.

Apparations don't even react to banish deamon spells* even if Mathilde's soul was not shielding the apparation so nothing will happen.

*If they did everybody would have run to the Whites to save them.
 
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