The Ducklings have grown into their own niches and have been fulfilling them wonderfully. Mathilde was a great help in helping them settle into those niches but they did the growth themselves and are happy with where they are.
In addition to the brainwashing others have mentioned, they can also threaten the wizard's loved ones to gain his cooperation.Question: what if the thing we create can only be operated by wizards? By definition, that would mean that the Witch Hunters could not operate them without college approval, and that outlawing magic would render it useless, or even better, it would make it easier for wizards to organise but have no use for non wizards.
Or am I missing something here?
They might not drop at all, at least for a while.Although I do wonder how long it will take for silk prices to start to drop due to the more ready access?
It's a potential action as of this most recent turn:Idle musing: has egrimm ever made it down to 8 peaks? We offered to introduce him to cython and that never came up again, and I think he went straight from the expedition to the waystone project with not much in between. I don't think he was involved in the mountain waystone study, either, that was mathilde and thorek because Seekrit.
[ ] EGRIMM: Introduce Egrimm to Cython with hopes of some sort of information exchange (NEW)
...rip my ability to read, I guess 😓
There's likely going to be a split in market where sellers who make the trip to Cathay try to distinguish themselves with "real" silk instead of icky gross spider leavings. Luxury goods are more about bragging rights than practicality, so We-Silk being (relatively) cheap and abundant means it can't actually fill the exact same market niche as Cathayan Silk does, because the point is having something ludicrously expensive to show off.
I'd compare it to the way the gemstone industry does everything in its power to make lab grown stones seem inferior, even though they are identical in every way except acquisition price.
Actually I don't think it will. Mostly because its the dwarfs throwing it onto the market, dwarven made goods are generally seen as the best you can reasonably get, their steel is harder, their guns shoot better, their ale makes you drunk quicker. For the empire dwarfs are producers of wondrous stuff.There's likely going to be a split in market where sellers who make the trip to Cathay try to distinguish themselves with "real" silk instead of icky gross spider leavings. Luxury goods are more about bragging rights than practicality, so We-Silk being (relatively) cheap and abundant means it can't actually fill the exact same market niche as Cathayan Silk does, because the point is having something ludicrously expensive to show off.
I'd compare it to the way the gemstone industry does everything in its power to make lab grown stones seem inferior, even though they are identical in every way except acquisition price.
Actually I don't think it will. Mostly because its the dwarfs throwing it onto the market, dwarven made goods are generally seen as the best you can reasonably get, their steel is harder, their guns shoot better, their ale makes you drunk quicker. For the empire dwarfs are producers of wondrous stuff.
Now you get dwarven silk, which is stab proof... Ain't that something.
And her and the ducklings showing during the reconquest was so impressive that two seperate knightly orders decided they wanted a wizard knightWhen Van Hall made Mathilde a knight they had to check the precedent.
I'm not sure how many Dwarfs are working on it, given the guild embargo.Actually I don't think it will. Mostly because its the dwarfs throwing it onto the market, dwarven made goods are generally seen as the best you can reasonably get, their steel is harder, their guns shoot better, their ale makes you drunk quicker. For the empire dwarfs are producers of wondrous stuff.
Now you get dwarven silk, which is stab proof... Ain't that something.
This is well within lexical standards under the same principle as King of Kings, though?
I mean, who exactly will know the difference? For most of the empire k8ps is a reconquered dwarf hold, how the Internal socio-economic realities shake out to be doesn't concern graf Pappenhausen zu nuln. He just knows his stab proof silk pillow comes from a dwarf hold.I'm not sure how many Dwarfs are working on it, given the guild embargo.
Easy solution. Just weave some spider silk umgi style in front of a guild weaver and loudly lament that no one can Do It Properly or teach you to.*I'm not sure how many Dwarfs are working on it, given the guild embargo.