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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[X] Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.

[X] Plan Get Stuck In
 
[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[X] Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.

[X] Plan Get Stuck In
 
Rungni Khazadson said:
I was not expecting Asarnil to be this friendly, usually elves from caledor are seen by the other elves from Ulthuan as pompous arsehole's. I guess Asarnil is the exception as he has been away from Ulthuan for quite some time, well done on the update.
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The funny part is...Caledorians probably treat other elves like most elves treat humans :p
They're still enormously condescending.

But humans, especially humans with confidence issues, are more likely to take it.
 
[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[X] Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.

[X] Plan Get Stuck In
 
[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.

[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[X] Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.

[X] Plan Get Stuck In
-[X] Bound Spells: Though the corrosive Dhar made them high-maintenance, the design of the bound spells in the castle's infiltrators has fascinating possibilities. The memories had faded but you've managed to refresh them. Try to adapt it for use with Ulgu.
--[X] Ranald's blessing
-[X] Attach yourself to a specific regiment so you can spend some time in the thick of things.
 
[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[X] Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.

[X] Plan Get Stuck In
 
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Whoever we're hiring (I prefer Jack and it looks like the voting is going that way), we really should spend an action this turn working with them - to help them get used to working for us, ease them into the new role, and cement their loyalty to us. The watch really isn't very unified/loyal/cohesive right now, and there's no telling how much trouble they'll give to a new leader who's publicly Nobody Of Note if from their perspective we just dump him on them with little explanation.
 
Guile said:
At great expense, and then trying to ship this new commodity across the world to a bunch of people who consider us savages contributing nothing of value.
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Hrmmm

BoneyM said:
The cost of three copies is nominal, and for the selling, there'll be a first edition to see if it sells and a second edition to meet the perceived demand and a third edition only if there's still an untapped market. There's a chance of it being non-profitable but it's not going to clean you out.

The printing press has been around for a while but has only spread into the Empire recently, and so far it's more of a novelty than a societal game-changer, though it's definitely been a big part of life in Altdorf's academia. Vanity publishing is a thing in Tilea, not so much in the Empire.
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I may be reading this wrong, but it doesn't look like "at great expense" is completely accurate.
 
Guile said:
At great expense, and then trying to ship this new commodity across the world to a bunch of people who consider us savages contributing nothing of value.
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Or it could be appreciated by the supporters of Asarnil, might tangentially increase elf awareness of Stirland and its undead troubles, ect. Besides, exporting to Ulthuan can be seen as a prestige thing. It's about as economically motivated as being a patron of the arts, i.e, not at all, but it gets our name across and remembered.
 
LoganBert34 said:
Or it could be appreciated by the supporters of Asarnil, might tangentially increase elf awareness of Stirland and its undead troubles, ect. Besides, exporting to Ulthuan can be seen as a prestige thing. It's about as economically motivated as being a patron of the arts, i.e, not at all, but it gets our name across and remembered.
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Elves definitely don't care about Stirland's undead troubles, they 100% don't give a shit.

Does Asarnil still have supporters back home though? I know nothing about him, I was just assuming someone exiled 150 years ago would be on the country's shit list.
 
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[X] Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.

[X] Plan Get Stuck In
 
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
 
Guile said:
Elves definitely don't care about Stirland's undead troubles, they 100% don't give a shit.

Does Asarnil still have supporters back home though? I know nothing about him, I was just assuming someone exiled 150 years ago would be on the country's shit list.
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No risk no reward, and really, the reward seems good, and at worst, nothing would come of it.
 
Guile said:
Elves definitely don't care about Stirland's undead troubles, they 100% don't give a shit.
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I mean, they might. It's important to remember that the Elves take protecting the rest of the world from evil very seriously.

If they read the book and get the impression that they could do a lot to help the Empire stand strong against Evil by helping out there without losing too many Elven lives compared to other potential fronts then they might actually show up, and it has the benefit of being potentially true honestly. Fighting Necromancy of the scale where humans of our power level can probably win with humans of our power level helping seems like a pretty safe battle for them, and I bet you that their mages could do a lot to mess with the Dhar suffusing the lands.

So it's definitely possible, if pretty darn unlikely.

Guile said:
Does Asarnil still have supporters back home though? I know nothing about him, I was just assuming someone exiled 150 years ago would be on the country's shit list.
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It is important to note that Asarnil got exiled for essentially singelhandidly stopping an invasion from their Archnemesis against orders, I cannot believe that that was a popular move on Finubar's behalf. He's got to have people who like what he did there a lot, plus he's one of the few dudes left with a wide-awake dragon, so yeah, he's sort of a big deal.
 
Rungni Khazadson said:
I was not expecting Asarnil to be this friendly, usually elves from caledor are seen by the other elves from Ulthuan as pompous arsehole's. I guess Asarnil is the exception as he has been away from Ulthuan for quite some time, well done on the update.
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Perhaps the universe has smiled on us and someone else is tired of dick-elves as well.

(Probably not, but I'm still going to hope.)
Guile said:
Elves definitely don't care about Stirland's undead troubles, they 100% don't give a shit.

Does Asarnil still have supporters back home though? I know nothing about him, I was just assuming someone exiled 150 years ago would be on the country's shit list.
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Given that he was exiled for saving Caledor-- admittedly, disobeying direct orders in the process and it's more complicated in context and all that-- I would assume they, at least, like him.
 
Guile said:
Does Asarnil still have supporters back home though? I know nothing about him, I was just assuming someone exiled 150 years ago would be on the country's shit list.
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Considering he pretty much saved his homeland of Caledor the last time Elf-satan came calling, I'd assume so.
After the Battle of Finuval Plain, Asarnil had been ordered to link up with the High Elven forces marching from the Kingdom of Lothern. Once the Dragon Princes arrived, the combined forces of Lothern and Caledor was able to destroy the last major Dark Elven invasion force still left within Ulthuan. But before Asarnil could fly to the Phoenix King's aid, word came that Caledor itself was under attack. Under the command of Asarnil, an entire flight of Dragonriders sped back through the skies to protect their homeland. In a brilliant assault, the Dragonriders of Caledor swept the Dark Elves to the sea, and Caledor was saved from conquest.

Triumphant, Asarnil headed back towards the rendezvous with the Phoenix King, confident that great rewards and honour awaited him upon his arrival. On hearing that his orders had been disobeyed, Phoenix King Finubar became enraged. If his troops had come under attack without the support of the Dragon Princes, they would have faced total destruction. When Asarnil and his fellow Dragonriders arrived at the Phoenix King's camp, no parade awaited them. Instead, Asarnil was summoned before the Phoenix King to account for his actions. Enraged that the Phoenix King would accuse him for saving his homeland from destruction, Asarnil declined and swore that he was no longer a subject of the crown of Ulthuan. The response from Finubar the Seafarer was quick and harsh. Asarnil would be stripped of his title and lands and banished from Ulthuan, unless he would face the Phoenix King's justice and accept the punishments.

Proudful to the last, Asarnil declined. Asarnil was now a Prince without a domain, a Lord in exile. He gathered his weapons and armour, mounted Deathfang, and left the blessed island of Ulthuan behind.
I also think you may be underestimating how interesting this book would be from an elven perspective. It's written in their language about the exploits of an elven hero. Few are going to care that it was written by human hands.

You just watch Guile, this book is going to be the Elven Wizard Chic.
 
[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.

[X] Plan Get Stuck In
 
[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[X] Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.

[X] Plan Get Stuck In
 
Kairos123 said:
I also think you may be underestimating how interesting this book would be from an elven perspective. It's written in their language about the exploits of an elven hero. Few are going to care that it was written by human hands.
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Oh hell yes, it's like the only kind of human literature they might be interested in at all. The protagonist is an elf being awesome everywhere.
Kairos123 said:
You just watch Guile, this book is going to be the Elven Wizard Chic.
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Wait till Mathilde trying to buy new reference books finds the printers fully occupied churning out knockoffs of "Journeys of The Dragon Prince"
 
Kairos123 said:
I also think you may be underestimating how interesting this book would be from an elven perspective. It's written in their language about the exploits of an elven hero. Few are going to care that it was written by human hands.

You just watch Guile, this book is going to be the Elven Wizard Chic.
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Granted, stories about an elven hero crapping on humans for 150 years has potential.

But he's doing it at the behest of humans too, selling himself and his dragon like a 2-bit Altdorfian streetwalker, and presumably the nation of elves already has a few thousand years of elvish exploits recorded.
 
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