Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

[Parabola]

One of the reasons for that is Mathilde's nearly unbroken habit of being the biggest Wizard in whatever endeavour she is involved in.
Only Wizard in Stirland.
Only (surviving) Wizard on the Sylvania campaign.
Magister amongst journeymen on the K8Ps campaign.
Loremaster for the ducklings.
Lord Magister on the Dum expedition.
Project lead on the Waystone Project.

There has never been a time when Mathilde was under the authority of another wizard, or in competition with a wizard while under anyone's authority.

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*Only wizard in Stirland's government. I feel like that's a pretty important distinction given that we did eventually find out that there was a Grey College operation of unknown scale working in Stirland to help dismantle some of Alberich's pre-Warp nonsense:

[ ] Stirlander
A middle-aged woman with a work history as long as it is classified, fresh from a recently-concluded long-term project somewhere in your home province. She boasts significantly more experience with spycraft and espionage than you do, but she's likely to have her own ideas about how things should be run, and you're a little put out that there was apparently a Grey College operation happening in Stirland that you never heard a whisper about.

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She considers that. "The last Haupt-Anderssen sought help where he oughtn't've, though he botched it in the end. His help let them get their claws in deep. Been working towards dismantling it. Got enough information that having to run was worth it, and soon enough there'll be pyres aplenty in Thalheim."

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[BurnNote]

One of the reasons for that is Mathilde's nearly unbroken habit of being the biggest Wizard in whatever endeavour she is involved in.
Only Wizard in Stirland.
Only (surviving) Wizard on the Sylvania campaign.
Magister amongst journeymen on the K8Ps campaign.
Loremaster for the ducklings.
Lord Magister on the Dum expedition.
Project lead on the Waystone Project.

There has never been a time when Mathilde was under the authority of another wizard, or in competition with a wizard while under anyone's authority.

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The population of wizards is also pretty small, at least for journeyman and up. About 150 of your own wind? Anyone who does that inside their own wind will quickly get a reputation. That won't stop it, but it makes things much, much harder. The Greys are bound to take that stuff very seriously, so it would happen even less there.

To a lesser degree, that still applies between colleges, because that's still not a huge group. But for Mathilde specifically, the fact that she's a Grey matters. That's the last group you'd want to fuck with.

But in all, I don't think outright falsehood doesn't happen much in wizard circles. Squabbling about degrees probably does, but it would still happen less to and with the Greys.

But yes, the fact that there's never been another wizard with authority around matters. They might have tried with Hexensohn of she wasn't so notably busy at the time, and also if it wasn't an embarrassment they wouldn't like more eyes on.

Really, Mathilde is the one who comes the closest to having done it on screen, but even in that case it was deliberately being better than someone.

 

[pucflek]

It's not a niche with a huge amount of competition. Runesmithing can do most things you'd want a magical weapon to do, and the Empire has a strong cultural bias towards Dwarf-made weapons, so there's not a lot of demand for College-enchanted weaponry.

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I get your point by I refuse to put my boy short and I hope mathilde does not either.

Niche with small amount of interest encapsulates every wonder in history that got enough oratory support.


For far enough goals:
And speaking of those. Max works damn hard and there is nothing that says he doesn't go to what Slavic maximum requires and he doesn't make a sword that turns every enemy head in vicinity to gold. Which would satisfy lot of conditions on irl Slavic legends.

 

[pucflek]

In case it's not clear I will make solo post. I think max is cool for his Individual contributions. He is just not a rallying symbol. Just normal guy being the best smith possible but nothing special next half century.

 

[MiracleGrow]

For the next Supreme Patriarch/Matriarch duel that Mathilde watches. Let's put this as a add in.

-[z] If Alric wins a duel, immediately challenge him.

But I'd imagine Boney would give us the option if it came to that in the background rolls.

 

[Natch]

For the next Supreme Patriarch/Matriarch duel that Mathilde watches. Let's put this as a add in.

-[z] If Alric wins a duel, immediately challenge him.

But I'd imagine Boney would give us the option if it came to that in the background rolls.

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Considering Alric's last attempt lasted about five seconds after Dragomas literally shouted him down, it's unlikely he has what it takes without resorting to foul play. Unless we hear of Mira having a mysterious accident, we can probably rely on her watching him like a hawk.

...it just occurred, Boney mentioned an upcoming scene with eight Patriarchs/Matriarchs. I doubt it'll happen, but it'd be a really funny omake if Alric and Mira both showed up and missed the gigaflex due to arguing over who was supposed to attend.

 

[French Cowboy]

For the next Supreme Patriarch/Matriarch duel that Mathilde watches. Let's put this as a add in.

-[z] If Alric wins a duel, immediately challenge him.

But I'd imagine Boney would give us the option if it came to that in the background rolls.

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Only if we beat Egrimm to the punch.

He has decades of anger to work through and would likely kill Alric given the chance, even if it didn't stick.

 

[Altom]

I wonder how good of a smith Max is at this point? If we wanted a really good base sword to put enchantments on would he be the best contact for us to go for?

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Assuming you're talking about steel instead of something exotic like gromril or ithilmar, I can't think of anyone better for making a sword that's both a pretty good sword and very compatible with College enchantments.

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I don't know what materials we would use I assume that our apprentice would be better at picking materials. Actually that seems like a really cool learning project to assign her if we want her to improve her enchantment skills.

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Hmm... Eike does use a mundane greatsword right now. Perhaps they can cooperate on crafting her a better one once she graduates?

 

[silentorphan]

Only (surviving) Wizard on the Sylvania campaign.

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There were a couple of Amethyst Battle Wizards with Hexensohn. They quit the campaign after he kicked it, but I always assumed they survived to take his body back to...well, wherever they took it to.

 

[Deathbybunnies]

Assuming you're talking about steel instead of something exotic like gromril or ithilmar, I can't think of anyone better for making a sword that's both a pretty good sword and very compatible with College enchantments.

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I'm glad things are going well for him. I guess if we ever need something metal enchanted he's on our rolodex, but that's not going to be any part of Mathilde's personal panoply.