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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Magic might be magic but it still follows rules, dhar in contact with magic turns that magic into dhar. You would need to insulate the dhar from other magic, at which point it's no longer touching the magic and not turning it into dhar.

Sinsystems said:
So if Mathilde was to write a famous spellbook that includes all her unique stuff, some journal entries and all her papers, what would she call it?
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Mathildes Mystical Memorandum of Magical Might.
 
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Tobtorp said:
Magic might be magic but it still follows rules, dhar in contact with magic turns that magic into dhar. You would need to insulate the dhar from other magic, at which point it's no longer touching the magic and not turning it into dhar.
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At which point it would not be able to serve as an orb and probably look strange to mage-sight. I'm sure Kairos for instance would still be able to pull it off, I'm also sure he has more important things to do.
 
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"Yes, that's part of what makes the seafarers to the north a problem," he says, effortlessly switching onto an entirely different topic as he begins to carefully unravel energies from around a shoulder joint. "At the larger scale they have all the ruthlessness typical of the worshippers of the Four, but on the level of individual villages and ships they're very strongly intersupporting, very able to work towards the collective good even at the cost of individual gain. It also might be what makes it possible to chip them away from the influence of the Four, as our cousins in the west seem to be doing through Marienburg. It challenged a great deal of our assumptions when the influx of Norscans were successfully integrated into Nordland instead of proving its downfall, but in the end it gets woven back into the overall tapestry of evil's self-sabotage."

"It's a reminder too rarely heeded," Sarumar chimes in. "Evil whispers that the power is free and it's the jealous that wish you not to take it, and too often those in power simply emphasize how strongly the 'jealous' will crush you if you take, when they need to also be challenging the core premise. The Other Path will cost those who follow it everything, even when that cost isn't being extracted by the arrows of the Ghost Striders."

"Or the teeth of the Wolf," Seilph says playfully. Sarumar just smiles.
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So, rereading this... Any ideas on who or what the 'teeth of the Wolf' refer to? The most obvious read for that is that it's referring to the followers of Ulric and how they're very active in fighting Chaos, but it seems odd for a Grey Lord to refer to them given how isolationist they are. It's also odd that Seilph seems like he's teasing Sarumar.

...Maybe they had something to do with the Flame of Ulric, back when Middenheim was still an elf colony, before the War of the Beard?

Sinsystems said:
So if Mathilde was to write a famous spellbook that includes all her unique stuff, some journal entries and all her papers, what would she call it?
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To give a non-meme answer, Liber Crepusculum sounds neat enough for it.
 
Parabola said:
So, rereading this... Any ideas on who or what the 'teeth of the Wolf' refer to? The most obvious read for that is that it's referring to the followers of Ulric and how they're very active in fighting Chaos, but it seems odd for a Grey Lord to refer to them given how isolationist they are. It's also odd that Seilph seems like he's teasing Sarumar.

...Maybe they had something to do with the Flame of Ulric, back when Middenheim was still an elf colony, before the War of the Beard?
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I think it's more a comment about how the Eonir have adopted the worship of Ulric, so the "teeth of the wolf" are another weapon they can use against chaos.
 
Parabola said:
So, rereading this... Any ideas on who or what the 'teeth of the Wolf' refer to? The most obvious read for that is that it's referring to the followers of Ulric and how they're very active in fighting Chaos, but it seems odd for a Grey Lord to refer to them given how isolationist they are. It's also odd that Seilph seems like he's teasing Sarumar.

...Maybe they had something to do with the Flame of Ulric, back when Middenheim was still an elf colony, before the War of the Beard?
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Much easier answer, the elfs are now partly ulrican and as such the grey lords have probably started at least gaining some interest about what's happening out there.
 
[X] Plan: The Prismatic Wanderer

#GiveQrechASkyTour

I love the idea of a flying ship, I look forward to getting into the details of what exactly it'll involve, and I anticipate the role it may play in the story.

I imagine it'll bring us reknown, have great impact with any diplomatic visits, be useful militarily and logistically in adventures and campaigns, open new narrative doors - and best of all has the potential to let us argue endlessly about convincing this or that party to build airships.

  • Maybe the EIC would buy a small unarmed sky boat to transport news, I think Wilhelmina has griped about not being able to get the dwarves to sell access to to that capability. A small unarmed craft ought to be cheaper/easier, right?
  • Maybe king Brynneroth would partner up to make it work - gyrocopters seem to transport mail within the KaK, but that won't extend across the canals and rivers he now has access to in the Empire. Information isn't just power - it's money!
  • Maybe Laurelorn/The Grey Lords can be goaded into building their own - maybe they don't want to be shown up, maybe they want trade/dilplomatic links less dependant on Empire infrastructure, maybe a House can be guided into tourism (cruises for the tourier - sky boats count as Laurelorn territory, and you're not stepping out of the city), maybe they just want to visit the best library on the continent.
  • Maybe Belegar will see the light and buy the Library a boat to move scribes, books, and shuttle visitors to and from the Colleges or elsewhere... And also remind the world K8P once was an air hub, and prod Thorgrim into making reactivation of the gas forges a priority, if only for pride.
  • Maybe Sky-We! The We might be about to become filthy rich after all, and how else can they (or their split-we) travel and see the world of the karaz-we and the empire-we?
  • Eike likes ships, right?

But maybe all of these may take AP to investigate, and have further costs to be paid, and have dubious value for that investment. But it sure is fun to think and read about, even if we never pick the option.


Joking aside, I do think the airship has a lot to offer other than just a new flavour of transport
  • Qrech has been locked away for so long for understandable security reasons... But we could take him on a sky-tour, no?
  • Eike likes ships and travelling, right? I'm sure she'd love to helm the ship when we're busy. Lay the groundwork for her sky-trade-empire.
  • Those in our social/work circles may take advantage to travel places they wouldn't - like our Library
  • Arrival by wizardly sky ship has great impact! Maximum diplomatic points
  • New social things might be available (use your sky ship to pick up all your friends for your birthday party)
  • Makes things like mapping/exploration easier. Do you really want to try using surveying equipment from a gyrocopter? Good luck with that
  • Really cool lore - what does it take for magical flight anyway? Is it present in the empire but obscure? Is it newish and untested, or are there sufficient risks to make it a non-starter in most cases...
  • We may be prompted with new calls to adventure based on our new abilities
  • The narrative flow of events may take us to different and better places when doing group things if we have better group travel, adventure, and support capabilities. There are no dice rolls for this, and no stats. But outcomes might be better, or better regarded.
Anyway, I look forward to it.
 
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