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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Like, not only we will be "printing money" with Morb-making, but fact that it's technically "metaphysically impossible" to create Morbs, ensures that Mathilde will have complete monopoly on it.
 
Valmond said:
This is, literally, by law and tradition, my to do list, and i am getting it done.
- Thorgrim, while pointing at Book of Grudges.
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Thorgrim Quest's action list is entirely composed of a list of grudges. Each grudge successfully struck out grants various bonuses, such as better regional or global morale, more political capital, reclaimed resources and artifacts...
 
Derpmind said:
Thorgrim Quest's action list is entirely composed of a list of grudges. Each grudge successfully struck out grants various bonuses, such as better regional or global morale, more political capital, reclaimed resources and artifacts...
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After reading this, I was inspired to make a meme about Thorgrim Negaverse:

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Gavin Prince said:
On the books, it remains possible that the Morb reward will be "metric fuckton of college favor" at which point we may as well purchase the remaining Winds books out of pocket using that, for lack of much else to do with that currency at the moment beyond hiring minions. Which frees up the book-purchase vote to go to something that can only be bought with actual money.
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Nurgle said:
I want a flying ship, just for prestige and because it's a flying ship. Sure it be useful expeditions and travel . But again a flying ship, that's awesome.
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Honestly I been coming around to the flying ship idea. Mathilde got enough contacts in the Dwarfs and Laurelorn that can enhance a college effort even further.

I think its ten years from now for Thunder Barges to start making a appearance?
 
Adrian XXIV said:
Like, not only we will be "printing money" with Morb-making, but fact that it's technically "metaphysically impossible" to create Morbs, ensures that Mathilde will have complete monopoly on it.
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That's really not how it works. You don't patent magic. The opposite--you develop or discover something new and you codify and share it.

Mathilde won't have a monopoly on orb production (at least not beyond the immediate future), she'll instead get massive credit for inventing Orb production methods, which the Colleges will scramble to adapt to methods they can recreate themselves.

The additional credit for making a huge, paradigm-shifting breakthrough on the Colleges' understanding of the Winds will cement Mathilde's status as a leading academic/innovator for the Colleges. But she won't be getting paid for it (with money, at least).
 
pucflek said:
We've already got a gyrocopter, so i'm currently not very sold on flying ship.
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Yes, but a college led Airship powered by MORBS would be fucking sick as hell.

Imagine me doing a really cool skateboard trick to punctuate my words.

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Natch said:
We're now measuring Mathilde's impact on dwarves in 'fractions of a Sigmar', but I think we're a ways off from measuring her impact on wizards in 'fractions of a Magnus'.
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Considering she's just about to unroll stuff that nobody but Teclis has done before I'd say she's getting in that ballpark...

...or at least in the ballpark of % of Teclis or Volans contribution.

Mathilde has less uber-big ticket stuff with the Colleges but between being top tier in all topics of theoretical research, top tier in practical magical research (aka crafting spells), top tier in donations, top tier in fieldwork, top tier in diplomacy - she was just lacking a truly wow project that'd put her at the peak of the greats: and well AV is that.

SaltyWaffles said:
Mathilde won't have a monopoly on orb production (at least not beyond the immediate future), she'll instead get massive credit for inventing Orb production methods, which the Colleges will scramble to adapt to methods they can recreate themselves.
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On the flip side if it was that easy to get AV others would have done it.

I don't think recreating the Orb making properties (or the pocket dimension creation) is going to be that easy. AV will remain ridiculously valuable in the near and possibly mid future.
 
pucflek said:
We've already got a gyrocopter, so i'm currently not very sold on flying ship.
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Agreed. Way more cool things we could do, like commission an enchanted Hochland Long Rifle that is silent and emits no light (bonus points if it's a dwarf-designed rifle), or get some enchanted gear for Eike (a Seed of Regrowth for her seems prudent, and a good investment), or get the Favor Exchange set up between the Colleges and Runesmiths Guild(s).
 
Zero Gravitas said:
On the flip side if it was that easy to get AV others would have done it.

I don't think recreating the Orb making properties (or the pocket dimension creation) is going to be that easy. AV will remain ridiculously valuable in the near and possibly mid future.
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Counterpoint: no sane wizard would naturally think that trying to capture an Apparition and bleed it in a sustained manner without killing it is a worthwhile idea.

Because normally wizards would deal with Apparitions by killing them or binding them, and if the former, then the blood would be turned into more Winds by the use of Winds in combat magic to kill the Apparition. If the latter, no blood. If they send non-mages to kill them, then they won't notice the blood has any worthwhile or interesting properties before it dissipates or transforms into more Winds.

Capturing and containing Apparitions is not going to be easy, and bleeding them sustainably will probably be a well-paying job where ingenious contraptions and brave volunteers come into play, but they'll figure it out. It just won't be the easy, almost industrially-efficient "blood generator in a box" Mathilde has.
 
The best way to create AV would be to create a hole in the fabric of reality somehow, leak the raw stuff of the realm of chaos into the real world, and isolate it as it does so, so it won't automatically transform into winds.

The first two bits are easy. The third bit... Less so, since we don't know what it is that transforms AV into winds. We have ruled out reality itself, however.

Some sort of reinforced liminal realm that repels whatever Old One working might be sufficient, but it would be a long research chain to get to that point.
 
Next Mathilde art commission got her in big ol goofy Circle glasses, which looks pretty good on her! Should be out soon™

Its a outfit swap from another series I like a lot.
 
SaltyWaffles said:
or get some enchanted gear for Eike (a Seed of Regrowth for her seems prudent, and a good investment)
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Seed of Regrowth must not pass into hands of enemy. Putting it on a journeyman that will possibly wander the breadth of the world seems like an error of judgement.

I get the impetus behind protect the apprentice, but this i am not behind.

I like enchanting the gyrocopter or setting up more opportunities for interaction between runesmiths and wizards thought.
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
The best way to create AV would be to create a hole in the fabric of reality somehow, leak the raw stuff of the realm of chaos into the real world, and isolate it as it does so, so it won't automatically transform into winds.
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I think opening a stable portal into the warp/demon realm , no matter the size, is one of those things where the colleges are going to say no and insist rather harshly on that no if one keeps pushing.
 
Alratan said:
I can't see how a wizard runesmith favour exchange can work in economic terms.
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I am sure Mathilde paid a fuckton of gold for her belt and sword. Thats a thing that happened. Kragg also gave us a mountain of the metal after we gave him the seviroscope if i recall correctly.

The wonders of economics amirite.
 
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T_of_A said:
Maybe Belegar paid a fuckton of gold for Mathilde to get her sword, but she certainly didn't pay anything. It's a favour economy, not an a cash economy.

And even if it was, without reputation and access you literally can't buy months of Kragg's time like that.
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Well yes, and you never will. But if you have enough favour with both, you can offer your reputation as a fulcrum that lets the two economies interact.

There's probably going to be fucked up exchange rate, there is no way someone like Kragg or even just a normal conservative runelord would ever buy a trinket from a wizard (or sell one to them) but there may be a way forward. Won't know until you try.
 
Ah, we know how and why the swords came about. The proper reward for Manlings on whom Dawi Kings wish to bestow great material rewards for great martial deeds, is indeed a Gromril sword. That's Precedent.
Boney said:
And to be a Dwarf meant repaying what is owed. Grudges, of course, were repaid in blood and death, but the other side was that those that helped the Karaz Ankor were repaid in ways commensurate with their act. When Sigmar had saved the High King, he had not only been gifted the ancient treasure Ghal-Maraz, but on top of that the best Runesmith of the age was commissioned to create something entirely new to settle the debt. Similarly, when manlings aided the greatest reconquest in millennia, the burden was on him to repay it. And they did so with swords, so swords it had to be.
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And at the higher end, where the Debt so dictates, that sword is to be Runed by the Best Runelord Of The Age.
 
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I would actually like to look into titanium more, because while it can be made into a better waystone . It is also metal that can conduct magic. Magic armor that can be produced would be incredibly valuable.
 
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