They try to seek a balance between the two, instead of prioritizing one or the other.
So it is fair to say that Belegar is currently the most radical Dwarf King in the Karaz Ankor.
I am just imagining a bunch of Battle Mages rejoicing at the chance to go completely nuts on targets who 100% deserve it and are in an environment that really can't be made much worse than it already is.
It can be made much much worse. Especially for all the mortals who are technically Roswita's subjects now.
Mathilde: "bitch if you have mercy on them when you didn't on abelhelm i will find a way to ascend to godhood just so i can kick you in the dick"
Sigmar might very well have had mercy on Abelheim's soul. Not his body though.
That's actually not really true of colour magic.
It is if it mixes.
Meh, it's Sylvania. It's like nuking Chernobyl.
Spreading large amounts of old bad stuff that had been sealed away in the past?
I'll be the first one to admit the many screw ups of Sigmar and his Empire, but Mathilde's disdain is not really about those perfectly rational reasons, but rather about a priest failing to channel a healing spell at one particular point in time. It is fundamentally irrational.
You act like the priest was some kind of spellcaster that could fail due to his own magical prowess and situational luck, as opposed to being the conduit of a mighty god that doesn't make mistakes. This would be heresy to Sigmatites. I rest my case.
A loophole: It is open season on Sylvania so long as there is a single vampire in the empire !!!
Sylvania is now Battle-Wizard training ground 2 !
I weep for Sylvanians.
That the trauma which left Mathilde with a grudge against the premier protective god of humanity in what might be the single worst event in her life hasn't had any real impact on her is absolutely a bad thing.
It is the cause if her, in my opinion, largest concrete and not really excusable fuck-up. Specifically, when she tried converting the Watch to Ranald because she couldn't stand the status quo.
"May Ranald watch over you, my child."
Is this an official title we have now, or is it just our Patriarch being tongue in cheek?
Dragomas took being a Journeyman to its ultimate extent and wandered into the Dark Lands. Many years after he was considered dead, he returned with a non-aggression pact from the Emperor of Cathay carved into a jade tablet. He was retroactively promoted to Lord Magister to grant him the authority to have negotiated it
He became Lord Magister without having to prove loyalty and reliability over a non-aggression pact with a nation that is nowhere close and probably didn't have any plans to ever attack the Empire? Curious.
Dragomas squints down at the book,
What actually is this book? Alkharad's study plan?
You steal two rings and a torc from his nightstand,
What kind of embarrassment to all Vampiredom even
has a nightstand. This fool will probably die first.
put Alkharad's skull next to that of the Singing King
I like to imagine that they have a way to communicate even in this state. One is a Necrarch Professor, the other a Strigoi Singer. Together they solve ...eternal boredom.
You spread the news to the skeptical local wizardry
Does this include Panoramia?
Judging by the hard, calcified layer around each one, they'd continue containing the warpstone long after the rest of the body decayed, even if the rest of the innards had been liquefied and consumed by the rest of the We.
They evolved a mutation that prevents a prime mutagen from mutating them further. Lucky critters.
The Ducklings did zero sharing of how they spent the last few months. Will that be a part of the social update or did they get a pass this time?
[ ] Loremaster: Expert on Forest Spiders
[ ] Loremaster: Expert on weaving
[ ] Loremaster: Expert on beekeeping
I hate all three of these. What the We need is someone unbiased with inaccurate preconceptions and is instead an expert on something relevant to
them. Like moral philosophy, or economics, or anthropology, or Skaven.
Now that I know that there would have been sub-choices, I really wish what options Verena or Esmerelda would have provided.
But we have to work with what we got.
Weaving doesn't really help the We at all. It only risks the value of the silk prematurely spreading even more than it already will due to most of our councillor colleagues being members of other royal houses.
Comparing the We to common bees is like comparing humans to meerkats. Completely useless. (Yes I know this isn't the case from a Doylist perspective because BoneyM doesn't do trap options, but it should be. So I'm not gonna vote for an option that enshrines this into permanent lore over a beekeeper having a crit.)
At least the Spider expert can talk with them about their own bodies and biology and is less likely to be weirded out by their appearance.
The Doppelganger you cloak yourself in when you don't have a specific Orc to base it on is a strange,
Does Doppelganger need a target in line of sight to become like a specific orc? Because if it can be done by memory, why not choose a random orc she meets while scouting?
normally six, but Duckling Club is locked in
Will this be every turn? Or will not voting for it in the future mean not attending?
[ ] Roswita, as she tries to wrap her head around the influx of Battle Wizards.
When would this happen time wise? Because it feels like there would not be much opportunity for it before the six months of the update are over.
Also, will there ever be options to interact with people technically before stuff from the main turn result updates has actually happened. Or is such timey-wimey stuff too difficult to plan for and write in a quest?
If Egg Layers are as expendable as Hunters, cultivating them is a low-maintenance way of warpstone decontamination.
Do we have it confirmed that only Egg Layers have this warpstone containment mechanism?
[Skill gained: Necromantic Insight]
Would we use Ulgu to manipulate the Dhar or did we essentially learn low level Shyish just by reading a book? If the latter, wouldn't this be dangerous to us even if the normal necromancy-sourced Dhar can't affect us at all due to the belt? This would make us a dual wind caster even if one of the wind is used on the scale of cantrips.
This seems like the best pick - an expect on eusocial arthropods who produce useful goods.
On eusocial animals so unrelated that it would be like comparing Dwarves with Moles.
Sylvania is about to receive the Battle Wizard Storm of Fuckery, and Roswita might just go even further in the opposite direction of her previous leanings. Seeing your most hated enemy be ripped to shreds will give you a stronger appreciation for the blenders.
Until some of those blenders explode in a chain-reaction that shreds and contaminates her newly acquired lands and citizen. Then she witnesses first hand what she had been taught as a kid.
She is Intrigue 40+, I swear to Ranald.
Or she just has a Ranaldian artefact similar to our own. Just imagine how she could have accomplished all of this with a bit of a tip from Ranald, turned to the D.
beekeeper just needs to be told "they're bees that are spiders, a hive that is intelligent, and they make silk instead of honey" and away he goes.
How does this help teaching them in any way?
he is rotting by sponging up Dhar
What do you mean? Is the temple basement contaminated?
and that there's no practical way to use Necromancy on a large scale without suffering from Dhar exposure.
Sure there is. All it requires is doing a bunch of favors to some dwarves, then traveling to wherever Kragg is and asking for a specific rune.
Not all of them actually, Ostermark is a Noble Republic with a head of state and government elected for life.
Where can I find more on this? The wiki is very poor on the subject.
they have door guards who accept entrance fees, they can have best bee friends, and they have 'you should go to this place for more pollen' votes and stuff.
All of this makes bees
less of a hive mind and more like individual citizen of a state where only the divine queen can have children. We Hunters don't bar each others way, are no more friends than your left foot is with your right foot and vote on stuff subconsciously at best.
because it's such an obviously bad idea to have a hereditary Emperor if you're an Elector.
Have you ever looked at the history of the real world Holy Roman Empire? There the Crown stayed in the same dynasty fir multiple generations some times. It also jumped off to other families and then returned to the one(s) that had it more often due to power or whatever. And both the HRE and the Empire are a society that believes that blood and parentage matters when it comes to skill, moral excellence and a right and ability to rule. Else they wouldn't be feudal in the first place. Being the previous emperor's son is a pro, not a con.
Opinions, after Mathilde has spent more time with them.
What is the social update if not spending time with people? Or was the "No." supposed to indicate that a single social meet is not necessarily enough to fill out any new information?
It's literally theories about the Conspiracy, they're all like this by default.
But Ranald is a civilized god, not a paragon. Something being especially dark doesn't leave it out of the range of possibility for him
Well, Ranald as a whole supposedly frowns on killing. So at least there is a good chance that any killing that was involved in this was at least somewhat justified.
Murder of an innocent should never be acceptable to him.
Who says the Empress was innocent? At the very least she was the very pinnacle of the bloated ticks sucking the blood of the populace.
She could be innocent, at least where the conspiracy is concerned.
Not really. That would necessitate that the conspiracy was more than 18 years old and that Abelheim's sources regarding it only had information that out of date.
Do remember the Conspiracy was pointedly interested in Undead, up to and including promised rewards for interesting 'live samples'(!) collected and delivered to them during the Purge.
The Empress smiled knowingly at us when we indicated that luck had us visit Alkharad. Clearly keeping us focused on our job as Spymaster of Stirland to keep an eye on the undead had always been the plan, so as to better mold us into the vampire slayer we are now. It simply was the closest and fastest way to have a Ranaldian wizard perform a Great Deed.
"How do I combat my own biases?" is an extremely fraught question that mostly ends up at "you don't, you just justify them to yourself better." without external help which is kind of contraindicated in regards to Dhar for multiple reasons.
Sorry, but this isn't true. Its like saying that racists can't ever try and stop being so racist. Noticing your own biases is an important part if character growth and introspection. It doesn't always prevent mistakes, but it sure helps notice them after. And with enough training the prevention part also becomes more frequent.
>1150 words. What's wrong with me?
