Also scene: Mathilde arriving a trifle flushed (from the climb!) for the treehouse housewarming/date with a couple of gift outfits for Panoramia to wear, one practical and made of leather and bark, the other a long dress of a rather more daring cut.
I could see her having a level up ability that speeds up xp gain for allied wizards sharing an army with her and giving a chance of survival for them if they fall in battle.
If only Rat Ogres being really expensive were reflected in the game mechanics instead of just the lore. Seeing Clan Skrye sweep clean through Athel Loren with three armies with Ratling Gun teams, Warplock Jezzails that get stealth on top of their absurd range and damage output, Plagueclaw Catapults that deal magical damage on top of having almost as much range as Greatcannons while being very effective against infantry and single entities alike, as well as a horde of Rat Ogres to ensure that it's not just the hero characters (Assassins, Warlock Engineers, Plaguepriest, etc) that can punch faces in in melee...it's terrifying and very unfair.
Man, Rat Ogres are expensive.
Goddamnencyclopedia salesmen.Haggle-masters
I could maybe see a breeder approaching an appropriate price for the gigantic Rat Ogre Abominations that show up in TWW? Those things are pretty scary. Definitely not with all the extras he demanded though lol.
I mean, yeah. I'm pretty sure a dwarven shield wall could kill near arbitrary numbers of clanrats unless they do something to break up their formation.
There's also probably a disproportionate number of cases in Ulthuan society where the person who nominally has title to a patch of land has had no interest in cultivating or even occupying it for centuries (either because they inherited it or because they just decided to do something else with their lives). So I can easily see legal customs emerging where there's an actual precedent of "if this patch of land you inherited from your parents 700 years ago has literally reverted to old growth forest while you were pursuing your real passion of underwater basket-weaving, then the royal courts may reassign it to someone who actually has some intention of doing something with it, or who can at least be depended upon to make sure that a bad full-Morrslieb night doesn't result in the place becoming a center of a beastman infestation."
You've gotta remember that this was the 1800s. Nearly all 19th century science involving subjects like weather, ecology, and biology was bullshit, because there were a lot of interlocking toxic bullshit ideas that all had to be separately disproved, and then people had to slowly deprogram themselves of the stupid idea and then slowly realize that they should also ignore all the other ideas they'd believed because of the original stupid idea. Or you could just wait for all the tenured professors who were convinced of the old stupid idea to die of old age and shout down anyone of the younger generation who had argued themselves into believing the outmoded idea to get in well with those tenured professors while they were still alive.Wait some manner of expert (several of them from the look of things) actually concluded that the more you farm a place the more it's going to rain? By what mechanism? Human sweat seeding the atmosphere?
Look. Don't judge if you didn't see the rat ogre. We're talking about a Master Mutator Garthiq original! He only makes ten rat ogres a year! Artisanaly mutated from albino giant rats hand raised on a combination of Tilean grapes and the finest sewer-bloated corpses of Altdorf! Each marked by his unmistakable incision scars! We're not just talking about any old rat ogre, we're talking about a collector's item!
It also says 'one of' lol. But presumably, "Enough Rat Ogres to overrun a rival skaven polity and take their breeders".
Rat Mothers don't have to be pregnant constantly, Mors stopped impregnating theirs while they were under siege so they wouldn't have more mouths to feed and they were fine. If you're low on food having the Rat Mothers stop making new babies for a while makes more sense than selling one off. That said that you do have a point that selling off large amounts of Skavenslaves might be more appealing to a Clan in the position of having a food shortage.
I was wondering, how does Karak Kadrin work?
Could their economy possibly be partially subsidized by Slayers? Such as Slayers donating a part of their wealth to thank the Hold and help fund the Slayerdom of poorer Slayers and for Slayers with no family to inherit their stuff (possibly because of the incident that caused their Slayerdom in the first place) the totality of their wealth. Alternatively or additionally they might get donations from the families of those who've gone Slayer to offset the economic costs associated with assisting Slayers and as thanks for assisting their family member in their time of need. Probably not enough to fund an entire Hold off of but it might be significant enough to have a notable effect on their economy.
I assume it's generally not a leisure/fiction library?
Karak Kadrin is a normal Hold for the most part in its day-to-day functions, it just attracts Slayers to congregate there due to having the largest shrine to Grimnir in the Karaz Ankor and being at the threshold for lots of invasions from the Dark Lands, so lots of opportunities for mighty Dooms and witnesses conveniently close by.
It might be that the Library of Mourning excludes fiction for practical reasons, lots of unemployed Elves with lots of time on their hands probably results in a lot of them writing fiction just for fun and others writing fanfics of that fiction and then fanfics of those fanfics and so on and the librarians realized that if they archived all of that they would have to keep expanding the Library to make more room and over the millennia it would become colossal which is a problem in a city where space is at a premium and buying new land would be incredibly expensive.
This is true for intermittent issues, but if they consistently can't maintain the full output of their breeders, that's just wasted capacity.
Sounds like a skill issue, just have a dwarven king bankroll your Library in perpetuity. (Cue the comic.)
Yeah, more efficient to just send out excess rats to go raid somebody. If they get food/cash/treasure, great! If they die, well, less mouths to feed and you'll have a fresh batch ready any day now.
Why are ogres so intent on the Moot?
According to Wikipedia, the first drop hammer was invented in 1840 and was used to work large steel components. I think Zhufbar would be where Barak Varr gets its ship parts, because ironclads need large steel components.
What are "telescopic launch bays"?
Seems that Drakebeard in Khazalid is Angrulok. Maybe. This book also says his queen's name is Alrika instead of Kemma. Page 32 says Kemma is the name of Belegar's wife.
Looks like the daughter dealio's a secret.
This would've been a better explanation for why DPG's Rule of Pride worked the way it did. It still shouldn't have worked that way, but it would've been less bad.
I think this is the equivalent of "strike the earth"?
They know that Halflings make the best food on the continent.
Maybe they retract into the mountain when not in use and unfold to serve as a runway when they need them?
Plentiful crops, lots of skilled chefs
I wonder if they'd have some cheap and easy cannon to represent the slapped together low quality cannons they used during the Reclamation? Or are they above that now that they finished conquering it lol. Maybe eventually they could unlock the heavily armored dwarven paratroopers that got brought up as a possibility early in quest? Could even be an army ability of the engineer dude, he spawns in a unit of ironbreakers by calling in the paratroopers lol.
