Clearly provoking the mummies is encouraged because they kill all the orcs and beastmen that are in their way during their march to Altdorf's museum. All for the low price of letting them raze the Altdorf museum!
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
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- My own little world
I see that the Altdorf museum is also of the opinion that Hubris is a cowards word.
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- New Zealand
Obviously the best way to keep the Tomb Kings down is to use them as fuel to power the steam tanks. Burning mummies to power steam engines is a time honored tradition!
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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- Vermont
I'm sure they have a very large collection of khopeshes and spears.I see that the Altdorf museum is also of the opinion that Hubris is a cowards word.
The history of Nehekhara is no more full of Settras than the history of the empire is full of Sigmars.
I'd wager most longer lasting collections hold artifacts ftom kings that can get up like, 200 skeletons maximum and have been failing to cross the badlands for 500 years.
I'd wager most longer lasting collections hold artifacts ftom kings that can get up like, 200 skeletons maximum and have been failing to cross the badlands for 500 years.
I've had a bit of an odd thought. Could Cython be (indirectly) responsible for necromancy? They inhabited the Sorcerer's Isles and attacked and sank Druchii ships. Nagash captured the survivors of a shipwreck and learned dark magic from them. And whilst we don't know how old Cython is, they did of-handedly mention the Horned Rat as if they were around when Tylos fell.
BagFullOfLizards
Some bag, mostly lizards
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Exempting anyone from security measures is just begging to be taken advantage of. An organization as professionally paranoid as the Grey Order isn't going to make that mistake.
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Super affordable. Put the tomb kings down as citizens for accountancy purposes and it's just a fraction of the monthly riot fund.
MiracleGrow
Miracles for only $19.99 [They/Them]
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- DOOR STUCK DOOR STUCK PLEASE I BEG U
Ya know that actually makes sense lmfaooooo
The Sorcerer's Islands are off the west coast of Araby, wrong side of the continent to wash up anywhere near Khemri. It's not technically impossible, but it's enough of a stretch you'd have to blame the sea gods for carrying them that far before getting to whatever actually sank them.
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
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- the Philippines
"Why did you wish for the mummies to invade and raze Altdorf three times?"
"Because that meant they would be passing through all the gribblies in the Badlands six times."
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
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- the Philippines
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
Do you remember the context of that comment? Because the invisi-text kind of blindsided me. If my memory doesn't fool me, I never saw anything in the actual story that made Egrimm seem suspicious to me, beyond the love for coy allusions meant for readers already suspicious of him due to canon.
Given what we were just told, I think Mathilde turning out corrupted would be a heavy blow to Egrimm's psyche. The only decent one with power and all that. Also, they could never trust each other before they both proved to have passed the point of no return.
Not being tempted by money is a luxury of those who already have plenty. This world is not one where power, safety, or even the best and rarest amenities and goods can be bought with cash. Also, as I already said, she does follow the interpretation of the Vow that says "don't do unethical shit to enrich yourself". But that's pretty much it. "Do ethical shit and get paid lavishly doing so" is perfectly fine by her. As is "spend your riches on a good life, pet projects and work related tools and safeguards that give yourself a leg up over pretty much everyone else".
They are not just not indiscriminate. They are in fact quite biased. Biased towards Dwarves to be specific. Her trust in them is quite high by default. She never investigated anyone of her colleagues or any Dwarven war leader during the initial expedition either. Something that's not true about almost any of the named humans she worked with at the time. The only Dwarf I remember her being suspicious of is Borek. And that's after like half a dozen other Dwarves threw shade on him.
Though to be fair, during the Waystone Project she has arguably toned her suspiciousness down quite a bit in general.
Was he already at the manifesto writing stage? My understanding was that he was at the pathway scouting, gun closet key location noting and angry doodling stage at most. I.e. ready, but not the least bit committed.
Do we have any idea what kind of people he supplies his prototypes and practice pieces to? Is there some elite Undumgi task force running around with bespoke de Gaynesford warblades?
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
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Mathilde is generally a lot less suspicious of dwarves because their nature makes them very predisposed towards honesty or straightforwardness. It's not that she trusts them all completely, it's that dwarves dedicate themselves to their vocations very seriously and take honor deadly seriously, so "what you see is what you get" applies to most dwarves of the Karaz Ankor.
This is true but also somewhat missing the point. The whole idea of the Vow of Poverty is to prevent Grey wizards from using their powers to unethically enrich themselves or to be tempted by wealth to commit unethical acts. If you are making enough money to live very comfortably by acting entirely ethically, then you are still abiding by the mentality of the Vow of Poverty because you are earning money exclusively through ethical means.
It's all about removing temptations to do the wrong thing and travel just that bit further down that road of corruption. Early in Mathilde's career, when she was deep in College debt and operating on a tight budget, she still kept her embezzlement to a limited degree that could be argued to be fair compensation for the job she was doing, and as soon as she was no longer in serious financial straits she stopped doing even that.
When she compensated Gotrek's widow using her personal funds, she did so despite the fact that that sum was most of the funds she had...because she values being ethical more than being always wealthy. It's also worth noting that the amount of money Mathilde has in her personal funds is not nearly as much money as she could accumulate if she was interested in accumulating serious amounts of wealth. Wilhelmina had to basically shove a pile of money into Mathilde's face and tell her that it belonged to her and she had to take it.
You'd expect the amount of money you'd need to have a shot at bribing a Lady Magister to be a lot higher than the amount you'd need for a shot at bribing a Journeywoman, but Mathilde still adheres to the principle of the Vow of Poverty such that money doesn't appeal to her nearly as much as things the Colleges want to appeal to wizards. The Vow is "I'd rather be in poverty than be corrupt", and Mathilde has more or less followed that.
BagFullOfLizards
Some bag, mostly lizards
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- A bag
"Don't worry about the greenskins, the mummy gold I stole is luring a Tomb King right into them."
"But now we have undead to deal with!"
"No problem, I leaked word of undefended villages to the Druchii and I have it on good authority that they'll be invading any day now."
"And how are we supposed to take care of them?!"
"Well, I've been backing this Everchosen candidate…"
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- Greece
Dude, no, that's how you get imposters.
Being trusted to be good and honourable and skilled is one thing, being above opsec in a world where your body can be puppeteered or impersonated is quite another. Not even the Emperor should be above the second.
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- Earth
I believe this is the post, and the context is just having recruited Egrimm and how that related to his canon self, and then people making a bunch of diceroll memes about it.
There's no meaningful difference in-story between Egrimm not being suspicious because he hasn't done anything and Egrimm not being suspicious because he's chaos-curious but hasn't done anything yet.
avatar11792
Et Sic Incipit
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- Planet Earth, North America
Why do I get an image of a nega-verse Mathilde doing this, only to end up basically creating her own version of Bloodbowl?
Or Mathilde does these and meets the blood bowl god creating the blood bowl universe.
We've graduated beyond "you willingly fell to chaos". That is no longer a concern. Us unwillingly falling to chaos, however, is not something we have, or should even be able to graduate beyond
"But then we're stuck with Chaos!"
"No, that's the beautiful part. When summertime rolls around, the Norscans simply heatstroke to death."
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
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- At Home
"What if the next Everchosen winds up being a Kurgan, instead?"