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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Deathbybunnies said:
The Orbs of Sorcery are a big deal, but this can't be the first time ever someone's come up with something big enough they want to show it off to all the P/Matriarchs. I wonder if there's an established place for such presentations, or if it's rare enough to just be ad-hoc?
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I think there's no place for specifically presentations of shiny stuff, but there's one for general important multi-College meetings. Eight seats, eight Magisters, eight Orbs.

Boney said:
The Obsidian Hall is mostly used for the octennial duels to decide the Supreme Patriarch, but it is also sometimes used as a meeting place for potentially fraught meetings between the Orders. It is technically neutral ground so it's less of a display of power than if the Supreme Patriarch demanded everyone congregate at the grounds of their College, but it is still the centrepiece of the enchantment that floods Altdorf with the Wind of the current Supreme Patriarch, so it still allows the rightful leader of the Colleges to exert control if necessary. In the middle of the glossy black building is a battered and plain round table ringed with eight seats.
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Of course, people need an actual reason and announcement before assembling at the Hall, so firstly we will likely go to Algard and/or Dragomas to get their WTF reaction and arrange actual demonstration for everybody interested.
 
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Personally I'm also tickled at how our coworkers in the Waystone Project will see this - they know how busy we've been. The Orbs, the book, and creating a liminal realm aren't her big project - they're her hobby project on the side.
 
Andres said:
We're Lady Magister. We've achieved enough trust that we've graduated beyond the daemon ball.
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Boney said:
"Oh, and Lady Magister?"

You turn, and are barely able to catch the glowing orb and its payload of Hysh as it hurtles towards you, and frown at its scrutiny and subsequent inactivity. "Why couldn't you just hand it to me?"

"I could say it's so you let your guard down, but honestly it's because if it does its work on someone sitting right across from me, it messes with my paperwork enchantments."
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Its basically a tradition between them at this point. Mathilde is gonna pull one out of her robe next time she goes to his office.
 
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Ah man if it wasn't a huge security issue then setting up a temporary liminal realm in the Obsidian Hall would make the Morb + AV presentation so cool.
 
Codex said:
You're telling me Johann has body hair? This is important information. His attractiveness just went up by a minimum of 10%!

Now the question is how the hell does golden body hair look/feel like... gold flakes? Much to think about.
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I deliberately leave a lot of minor details like that up to the reader, and there's a lot of cultural biases tied up in what one would imagine an alchemically perfected body to look like, but I think a Germanic-esque people like the Empire would lean in the direction of large and properly insulated, rather than the young, lean, hairless look favoured by artistic sensibilities that have been heavily influenced by Greco-Roman statuary.
 
Boney said:
I deliberately leave a lot of minor details like that up to the reader, and there's a lot of cultural biases tied up in what one would imagine an alchemically perfected body to look like, but I think a Germanic-esque people like the Empire would lean in the direction of large and properly insulated, rather than the young, lean, hairless look favoured by artistic sensibilities that have been heavily influenced by Greco-Roman statuary.
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There's probably also an element of competing Dwarven and Elven influence, with the Empire's longstanding relationship with the KA leaving them generally pro facial hair
 
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This might have been previously answered but if it isn't this might be a social/WEB-MAT action. But I distinctly remember (and went to double check) that when talking about nexuses that there is a possible one on the sorcerer islands and we could check with Cython if it exists?

I didn't see it on the turn or social actions for this latest turn so wanted to ask if it would be useful/possible to do so.
 
hugo239111 said:
@Boney

This might have been previously answered but if it isn't this might be a social/WEB-MAT action. But I distinctly remember (and went to double check) that when talking about nexuses that there is a possible one on the sorcerer islands and we could check with Cython if it exists?

I didn't see it on the turn or social actions for this latest turn so wanted to ask if it would be useful/possible to do so.
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The way that would make the most sense would be as part of:
[ ] Attempt to bring a non-Order magical tradition into the Waystone Project (Arabyan Magicians)
 
If it's just checking before going to investigate the nexus instead of recruiting, wouldn't it be part of a mapping action?
 
Boney said:
Zhufbar was once twinned to Karak Varn, dedicated to smelting and shaping the ore it extracted from the shores and the bed of the Black Water. In the Silver Age it remade itself as the foremost home of Dwarven engineering, harnessing the waterfall that runs through it before plummeting into the River Aver below to power a thousand cunning devices.
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Is the date of the transformation sourced or original?
 
Would we be allowed to map to map the waystone network of Araby? Or Nehekara for the matter? I don't think Mathilde wants to cause an international incident to poke the the shiny rocks
 
Parabola said:
If it's just checking before going to investigate the nexus instead of recruiting, wouldn't it be part of a mapping action?
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Sure, but it doesn't really make sense for the Waystone Project's resources to go towards mapping Araby until after all of the Old World and probably also the Badlands and Nehekhara is mapped.

Andres said:
Is the date of the transformation sourced or original?
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Original, but derived. The line in the 8e Army Book is 'Rebuilt after its near-destruction during the Time of Woes'. Karak Varn fell in -1499 and the major reclamation attempt started in -1190 and failed in -1136. Elsewhere in the book it says 'Zhufbar held only after the lower levels were collapsed. It would take over 300 years to rebuild.' The most straightforward way to read this timeline is to assume that Zhufbar came under assault at the same time as Karak Varn did, succeeded where Varn failed, and the 300 years began immediately. That puts them on track to finish in -1199 and be ready to kick off the Kadrin Redmane Expedition nine years later, but that does leave them with a thousand years of twiddling their thumbs that they could have reimagined themselves in before the Silver Age, which begins in -15.

But the general idea of the Time of Woes isn't that it was individual acts of sieges with an entire millennia of relative peace right there for the taking, it's that the Karaz Ankor was under constant low-level siege to the extent that it essentially only existed on paper and each Dwarfhold was actually an island in a sea of enemies. The inciting incident of the Silver Age was that a Karaz-a-Karak trade convoy needed to be personally guarded by the High King and his retinue, and it still needed rescuing by the then-Prince Sigmar. It wouldn't make any sense for Zhufbar to build itself as an exporter of engineering when there's nobody to export to.

French Cowboy said:
Would we be allowed to map to map the waystone network of Araby? Or Nehekara for the matter? I don't think Mathilde wants to cause an international incident to poke the the shiny rocks
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You'd think that there would be some sort of rule in place along those lines, but all indications are that nobles of the Empire are allowed, if not outright encouraged, to cause all the international incidents they possibly can by messing with the mummies and their stuff at every opportunity.
 
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Boney said:
You'd think that there would be some sort of rule in place along those lines, but all indications are that nobles of the Empire are allowed, if not outright encouraged, to cause all the international incidents they possibly can by messing with the mummies and their stuff at every opportunity.
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Boy, that sounds suspiciously like England and France in regards to Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries. Surely, that must be a coincidence.
 
Boney said:
You'd think that there would be some sort of rule in place along those lines, but all indications are that nobles of the Empire are allowed, if not outright encouraged, to cause all the international incidents they possibly can by messing with the mummies and their stuff at every opportunity.
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The Altdorf Museum: We've derived the perfect method for acquiring new Nehekharan artifacts! Once we have attained a sufficient stockpile, they just make their way right to our door!
 
Boney said:
I deliberately leave a lot of minor details like that up to the reader, and there's a lot of cultural biases tied up in what one would imagine an alchemically perfected body to look like, but I think a Germanic-esque people like the Empire would lean in the direction of large and properly insulated, rather than the young, lean, hairless look favoured by artistic sensibilities that have been heavily influenced by Greco-Roman statuary.
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So Johann is the Golden Bear? 😍
 
Ok on the sorcerer islands, with the Asur involved we probably don't really even need confirmation of its operability. With that being stated considering Cythons presence on the islands and the mention of only the confluence of energies and not the stone itself, it's probably a safe bet the nexus is either extremely well hidden or in the hands of a tough enough nut to crack that even a dragon doesn't want to go nosing around.
 
Khettien said:
Boy, that sounds suspiciously like England and France in regards to Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries. Surely, that must be a coincidence.
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The difference being that hordes of undead Egyptians don't suddenly materialise and invade the offending nation.

If that sort of blowback was common during the height of the European powers, someone, somewhere, would have decided that the odd museum piece maybe wasn't worth losing a city or two every couple of decades, and they should maybe just retire that particular habit.
 
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