In five centuries Mathilde is going to be worshipped as a Venerated Soul of the Cult of Sigmar.
Here it is if anyone wanted to look, it's in the second half.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Australia
How was it known to be a son?
Isn't the plan to save up for elfcation?
Surgery was done to try to save at least one life. It wasn't successful.
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- Earth
Remember, Karak Eight Peaks bankrolls a set of book purchases every turn.
Yeah, and the logical place to start is somewhere around Stirland or Sylvania, where conditions for the genesis and survival of 'small' gods (Bylorak, Manhorak/Manhavok) are already proven. She'd have to choose a suitable spirit, of course...
Oh wait, did you ever hear about this one local legend in the Hunter's Hills? They use figurines of her as protective charms against the Undead. A good start! I'm sure you'll do a great job as a deity, dammerwhatever!
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NexusEye
Aspiring God
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- She/Her
On the distinction between spirits and gods, it might be like Japanese kami, the west traditionally translates i as either god or spirit depending on the context but in the original language there is no distinction, there's obviously a difference between some minor kami and Amaterasu, kami of the sun and from whom all Japanese Emperors claimed descent from and thus their divine right to rule, but it was mainly a difference of scale not of kind, there was a gradient of kami from weak to powerful and no threshold beyond which you started treating them in a distinctly different manner from greater or lesser kami, just a gradual shift of how you treated them stretched out along the entire spectrum. That manner of treating spiritual entities may be a more accurate model than the Old World's traditional distinction between spirits and gods, there may be no phase transition, no sudden shift, just a gradual change from small spirit to enormous spirit and the largest ones are labeled gods but where one draws the line is considered arbitrary, like how would consider a few sand grains as not a heap while acknowledging that an enormous pile of sand is clearly a heap but the line of when an amount of sand is enough to qualify as a "heap" is a difficult and ultimately arbitrary philosophical distinction.
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
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Why has Heidi only had one child with Luitpold? Given the dangers present in the world, having only one child to guarantee a line of succession feels...jarring.
Even if the child being the next emperor wasn't a goal, the succession of Reikland is by definition one of the concerns Luitpold faces.
I imagine Heidi is probably pretty cool with just one kid and doesn't want more.
As for succession, there's probably brothers, cousins, etc. of Luitpold who would be behind Mandred in terms of inheriting.
This isn't Crusader Kings, there's no game over screen if the dynasty goes extinct. Consider, as if you have to explain to someone who's never heard of the concept, why a line of succession actually matters, and whether it matters more than all the other things a person can do, making sure to factor in that most of those other things don't involve months of inconvenience and a non-negligible chance of death.
TimEd
Meteor maker
Not quite low rolls, but there's always the hilarious
"Over 50 mirror trap succeeds, under 50 mirror trap fails"
*rolls exactly 50*
edit: it was actually more hilarious than I remembered. It happened after multiple turns of hidden rolls of failure, then the first time the snake succeeds the relevant roll...
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neutronium95
Mad Rocketeer
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- The test site
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- She/Her
The roll wasn't for whether or not it would work, it was whether or not it would kill the snake or just trap it.
One of Luitpold's few canon traits is being overprotective of his family, which can only have gotten worse after losing his first wife and child. And Heidi being Heidi, she's assuredly taken full advantage of this to wrap him around her finger, so any such decisions are almost certainly going to be up to her.