Vast mineral wealth, apparently.
It's also apparently very strong in Aqshy so monsters and reagents related to that can be found there.
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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Vast mineral wealth, apparently.
It's also apparently very strong in Aqshy so monsters and reagents related to that can be found there.
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Well it depends on what map you use but by my reading the Dark lands are bigger than Ulthuan and Arnheim added together (the other Asur overseas possessions don't add a meaningful amount) and much bigger than the claimed land of Naggaroth. Every source except Total War has Clar Karond as the southern most extent of claimed Druchii territory.
It's also worth remembering map projections. The Dark Lands will be a lot bigger than they appear relative to Naggaroth on a rectangular map.
That's not at the impression you get from the books about them though.
I could buy that for the Asur maybe, never thje Druchi, their main cultural influences are the god of bloody murder and the Chaos God of Excess, any explanation that starts with 'the chaos Cultist of Slaanseh exercised restraint for millennia' has a major issue.
Well, it depends on the edition. I personally prefer the version where the Cult of Slaanesh is suppressed as it is in human lands, and the Pleasure Cults are the devotees of the other Cythari. Morathi, in this analysis would flirt with Slaneesh, but never actually betray her husband, Khaine.
Theres the good old Xianxia excuse of "you are beneath my notice so now I shall kill you with the weakest option possible" or "you are beneath my notice, minion, do it for me"
Regardless of what the pleasure cults in general are Morathi definitely serves Slaansh.
The Dwarfs do progress technologically at least so their decline isn't so much inbuilt. They've just got too many enemies.
Eh... compared to Elves and Dwarfs sure but compared to orcs or Skaven?
Nope. Humanity doesn't replenish that quickly.
That said human heroes can get to crazy heights, almost as much as ones from the other races. And then there's massive outliers like Nagash that really place humanity on the world map.
Turn 23 - 2481 - Did You Really Have To Ask?
[*] ELF: Extradite him to Ulthuan.
[*] SKAVEN: Keep him...
- [*] primarily as a source to learn Queekish.
[*] CELLS: Use your authority to get the most skilled Dwarven stoneworkers working on a dungeon just for you.
[*] Plan Proving Wizardry
- [*] PROJECT: Burning Shadows
- [*] PROJECT: Cartographer
[*] Tower of Dawn and Dusk
[*] [LIBRARY] Completionist
-[*] Extensive Bretonnian Skaven
-[*] Extensive Bretonnian Linguistics
-[*] Extensive Empire/Bretonnian/Dwarven Anatomy
-[*] Extensive College Hysh
[*] [DWARF] No Purchase
[*] [COLLEGE] No Purchase
[*] [PURCHASE] Dwarven revolver - 125 GP
[*] SKAVEN: Keep him...
- [*] primarily as a source to learn Queekish.
[*] CELLS: Use your authority to get the most skilled Dwarven stoneworkers working on a dungeon just for you.
[*] Plan Proving Wizardry
- [*] PROJECT: Burning Shadows
- [*] PROJECT: Cartographer
[*] Tower of Dawn and Dusk
[*] [LIBRARY] Completionist
-[*] Extensive Bretonnian Skaven
-[*] Extensive Bretonnian Linguistics
-[*] Extensive Empire/Bretonnian/Dwarven Anatomy
-[*] Extensive College Hysh
[*] [DWARF] No Purchase
[*] [COLLEGE] No Purchase
[*] [PURCHASE] Dwarven revolver - 125 GP
What you've taken to thinking of as your White Tower after its limestone exterior was entirely the creation of Dwarves, but though Dwarves supply the stone and the muscle, the design of your Grey Tower is entirely the work of the Grey College. Algard supplies the fundamentals, having researched the matter thoroughly in the creation of his own towers, and to build on that you are forced to subject yourself to the Celestials.
The College itself stands surprisingly close to the Imperial Palace and the Great Temple of Sigmar, but nobody notices it, protected as it is by an enormously overdone enchantment. The insistent mental suggestion that what you're seeking lies in any other direction bounces off a mind trained to wrestle with ambiguities and misdirection, and the magic gets more and more agitated as it realizes that you're not being dissuaded from looking directly at the sixteen slender towers it protects, and it starts tweaking fate more and more to try to obstruct you. A couple have a screaming argument right in front of you, which you ignore. A cart has a wheel fall off in just the right place, until you take three steps to the left. A sudden mist materializes, doing nothing to block your Magesight. A painter carrying a precariously large bucket of whitewash totters towards you, until your glare overrides the set of coincidences that had set him on a collision course with you and he carefully avoids you, and inadvertently avoids the loose cobble that had been firmly attached to the ground a moment ago. Finally, the bottom-left quarter of the square black door swings open and a peeved doorkeeper bustles over to ask your business before the enchantment starts getting drastic. You make no attempt to hide your pleased smirk, knowing the doorkeeper would have been just as smug if you had actually approached the door and triggered the prognostication charms that would have told him your business in advance.
Within the cobbled courtyard of the Celestial College you're no less disruptive to their little games, and with a mental exercise you were taught when you were eleven you hold firmly in your mind the thought that you have no idea where you're going, and just as a Perpetual appears around a corner with an arched eyebrow and directions on his tongue, you sweep right past him and continue on your way. Hubert had been quite informative, knowing better than to side against his dear teacher, and following his directions you make your way to the quarters of Magister Kereveld, who had sparred with young Hubert during his apprenticeship and seemed to have his head screwed on straighter than most. According to apprentice rumour, he had disdained using the stars to tell the future and instead used them to tell true north, and signed on to a flotilla to Lustria to seek his fortune. He instead found a continent filled with unfriendly reptiles, and after tearing a star from the sky to bludgeon a sea serpent and coming off second-best in a magical duel with some sort of magical frog, he had turned right back around, returned to Altdorf, and resolved never to leave his home continent again.
You find the wizard right where Hubert told you he would be, and you allow him the satisfaction of having expected your arrival and you allow him the customary fifteen minutes to talk your ear off about his topic of choice, which turns out to be the debated existence of a tenth planet, and how calculus factors into the debate. Due to reading you did to properly describe the Matrix, you find yourself surprisingly able to follow his argument, and being able to engage with the topic dear to his heart instead of merely smiling and nodding earns you enough goodwill that when his time is over, he does not hesitate to turn over control of the discussion. Just as you'd hoped, Kereveld is practical enough to understand weather in general, not just weather as it pertains to his magic, and with an unspoken exchange of the ephemeral currency of the Colleges, he's able to sketch out the basics of how to attract a certain type of weather without involving or attracting Azyr, the wind of magic most closely attuned to weather in general.
With a list of helpful titles in hand, you make your way to the least protected of the Celestial College's libraries, which by an agreement almost as old as the Colleges would lend out its works to Magisters in good standing of any College. You find the titles in question, then stare at them intently thinking surreptitious thoughts; two servants and an apprentice all collide at the doorway as the magics of the Celestial College hastily tries to throw a coincidence in the path of your imagined plans, and you smirk your way past the three of them with the books you have every right to borrow in hand. With a little time, a lot of mathematics, no small amount of expensive materials, a few beams of wood imported from Araby, and a failed power stone that only attracts instead of emitting Ulgu, your tower takes shape. Every morning when the sun rises above the mountains, instead of burning away in its merciless light, the morning mist flees to your Grey Tower to be absorbed; since the absorption is metaphorical rather than literal, this leaves a great deal of condensation and the ever-practical Dwarves rig up gutters and tubing to collect it, and you're now able to start each morning with a refreshing drink of morning dew.
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Though a pair of under-robe shoulder holsters had some popularity amongst the Grey College, ever since you began learning the greatsword you've favoured practical snug tailoring secured with belts instead of the loose and billowy robes that would allow easy access to a hidden arsenal, though your accurate and conveniently slim Marksdwarf's pistol does find a home within an inner pocket. Some pistoliers favour a one-on-each-hip arrangement of holsters, while those that fight with a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other prefer both pistols on one side, as only their off-hand would need access to them. That Branulhune takes only a thought to draw clinches the argument in favour of the former, as you could unload a revolver with your dominant hand and then summon Branulhune to it and draw the second revolver with your offhand during combat, and the overall effect is pleasingly symmetrical.
While you're considering your growing collection of belts, holsters and scabbards, you finally give in to practicality and remove the back scabbard that you've worn for about a decade and entrust Branulhune to the Rune of the Unknown. With a revolver on each hip you're no less visibly armed, and an enemy that doesn't know you've a greatsword on hand is that much more easily dispatched. And you don't have to worry about getting it caught while clambering into gyrocopter seats.
Speaking of which...
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Your Mockery of Death could hold for at least a week, so the two days it will take for him to be transported to Altdorf is no trouble at all, and you can't help but smile at the idea of the Naggarothi Elf being punched out in Clan Moulder's territory and coming to in the custody of his Ulthuani kin. You sling him into the gyrocarriage and set off once more, having grown accustomed enough to gyrocopter travel that you're able to concentrate on your reading while en route.
You've walked past the Ulthuan Embassy a time or two in the past. Built for Teclis, Yrtle and Finreir to call home during the Great War Against Chaos, it was built in an attempt to ape the style of Lothern by architects that had never been further than Marienburg, which so amused and delighted Teclis that he wove sorcery into it that has resisted the attempts of every Ulthuani ambassador since to tear it down. The Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan are, while united, possibly even touchier about how independent they may or may not be from the Phoenix King than Elector Counts are about the Emperor, and the Ambassadorship rotates on a regular basis based on whichever Kingdom needs their ego soothed. Currently it flies the flag of the moonlit raven, the flag of Nagarythe, the haunted land ravaged once by daemons and ever since by strife. Malekith was once Prince of Nagarythe, and when his civil war to seize the Phoenix Crown failed, he didn't just take his people with him, he tore the fortress-cities of Nagarythe from the isle of Ulthuan and sailed them to the land that would become known as Naggaroth. Those Nagarythians more loyal to the Phoenix King of Ulthuan than the Prince of Nagarythe inherited a half-drowned, half-ruined land of ghosts and blood and ashes, and ever since have sworn vengeance upon their treacherous kin. You almost feel bad for your captive.
To be a Grey Magister is to be in the service of the Empire, whatever else you might be doing, and that gets you in the door. Your cargo, carried in a wheelbarrow you borrowed from a cabbage merchant, gets you a meeting with the Ambassador himself, who introduces himself only as Daroir. He is dressed in the colourful silks of a typical Elven politician, but protrusions and the clinks when he moves indicates it is worn over armour and probably weapons. He offers you refreshments in stilted but otherwise perfect Reikspiel, and though he has the manner of a politician, the actions are robotic and his gaze never strays far from the face of your cargo. "Tell us," he asks as he sips daintily from a crystal glass, "how one of our shameful brothers has entered into your captivity."
Under other circumstances you might be more circuitous, but to Nagarythe, there is only one historical enemy of Ulthuan that matters. "The Karaz Ankor is reclaiming Karak Eight Peaks, and have recently wiped out Clan Moulder's presence underneath it. This Naggarothi was their guest."
"I trust," he says after some thought, "that in saying that, you are not using a humorous inaccuracy when you mean he was enslaved by them."
"He was found unrestrained in comfortable quarters, with silken sheets and valuable trophies and Lustrian gold. I do not know why he was there, but it was some sort of partnership between Skaven and Druchii."
"He has not been questioned?" Only an acceleration in his emotionless words indicates his anticipation.
"He has not been allowed to regain consciousness since he was captured. When he is awoken, no time for him will have passed since he was in the Moulder warren."
"A generous gift, from an unexpected quarter." Daroir smiles in anticipation. "It is a rare gambit of Teclis that does not bear fruit. I am glad to see the blossoming of this flower." He lifts a hand to his long, snow-white hair, and though you could swear it was unadorned, he plucks a tiny black raven carved from onyx from his locks and holds it out to you. "If you have the inclination and time to spare between now and when the world ends, seek Lothern and present this to any of the Sea Guard. For ninety-nine days you may call Nagarythe your home, and shall shed blood alongside us to defend it. Our Arhain are not as sought as Saphery's Sariour, but you of the grey of eight may be able to appreciate them."
He bids you farewell and good hunting, and the door closes behind you with the faintest click. You don't hear screams as you walk from the Embassy, but you know that they will come.
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Three sapphires twinkle in the crown atop the head of the King as he calls the Council to order once more. "Karagril," he says, "is the last cannon we needed in our parapet. Water, silver, and proof that the Expedition wasn't a fluke." Though there's not as much fire in his voice as you're used to hearing, the steel conviction in it remains unchanged. "All our enemies are at each other's throats. We remain besieged, but in the same way every Hold is; an island of Dawi and Dawri in an ocean of foes. We will abide." His eyes flick to Dreng. "Dreng. To fortify needs not be said, but also probe the other Karags. We were fortunate that only Moulder tried to intervene against us when we marched on Karagril, but the other Karags are now aware we have the ability to project force against them, so we need not hold back. I want to know exactly what dwells in and under each peak." Dreng bangs his fist against his chest in a salute. "Gotri, how goes the shipyard?"
"If it went any better, you'd start seeing river monitors with rotor blades," he says with a smug grin. "Whoever takes over will need to tweak it, of course. Like fitting a suit of chainmail. But I give it three days tops between arrival and laying down the first hull."
"Good. Turn your eyes downwards. I know gyrocopters are your vocation, but we've got one above-ground killing field that I itch for enemies to throw themselves against, and three underground fronts I'm much less happy with. Bring forth the wrath of Morgrim and shore up the Underways."
Prince Gotri gives a single nod. "Engineering is engineering. We manufacture Thaggoraki regret in bulk."
"On that subject. Edda, the Weavers?"
"The Weavers Guilds of the Karaz Ankor have released a united statement condemning the use of spider-silk, saying it is the domain of Elves and Goblins," she says flatly.
"They what?!" Princess Edda opens her mouth to repeat herself, but King Belegar holds up a hand. "No, I heard. I..." He clenches a fist. "I expected Dwarves to act with nobler motives than the self-interest of a Marienburg monopolist. Fine. Fine. Go to the Empire. Find every human weaver worth half a damn, or Halfling weaver or Ogre weaver for all I care, and point them in this direction. They're paid copper, I'm offering silver." He sighs, and closes his eyes for a moment; worried looks are exchanged over the meeting table. "Kazrik. Did you find a wright to go with Gotri's shipyard?"
"Yes," he says quickly, and you have to refrain from sighing in relief. "The Barak Varr Shipwrights Guilds is amiably schisming into the Skarrenokri and the Slotchokri. I've sworn us into a partnership with the Slotchokri, and Zhufbar's and Karak Kadrin's Shipwrights Guilds have done the same. The Skarrenokri are retaining the previous Shipwrights Guild's shipyards - can't have a gap in maintaining the Barak Varr Navy, after all - so the Slotchokri are desperately short of working space until they manage to rearrange the Barak Varr port to fit them in. They say they'll start putting boats into the water for us as soon as they arrive as long as they can build maintenance facilities and a dry-dock at Ulrikadrin to tide them over. Once things are set up for them back in Barak Varr, they'll hand over the facilities to us in payment for their use, and we can retain as much of their service as we'd like to at standard Guild rates."
"Can't ask better than that," King Belegar says. "Now we just need steel-"
"Erm," Prince Kazrik says. "I, that is, we- Karak Azul, that is- we've been accumulating steel since... well, since. Never stopped mining and smelting it, even after there was nobody left to trade it to. And when I checked with Father, his exact words were 'give them every ingot we have and if that's not enough I'll tear more from the mountains with my bare hands' and then he went back to chasing after the few hold-outs left in Karagril."
King Belegar pauses at that, and spends some time searching for words. "The generosity of my Brother-King is everything the Karaz Ankor should strive to be," he says hoarsely. "My thanks. To him and to you. Every ingot will become a weapon protecting Karak Azul's link to the world." He takes a deep breath, and collects his thoughts. "Prince Kazrik. How is your Reikspiel?"
"Better," he says. "I've been spending time amongst the Undumgi whenever I can." King Belegar shoots you a glance, and you simply nod. Prince Kazrik had held a ten-minute conversation with you before the meeting, and though his accent was odd he was certainly fluent.
"Very well. Visit Nuln - it's the Empire's Zhufbar. I've got a treasury full of gold and I want a mountain range full of fire support. Tell them this is their only opportunity to become part of that process before I lay down a cannon foundry right here."
"Manling cannons?" Prince Gotri says dubiously.
"Manling cannons," King Belegar confirms. "And manling mortars, for that matter. And any other Morgrim-forsaken device that can achieve some semblance of accuracy. Enough of the Undumgi have artillerist experience to teach the others." He turns to Gunnars. "Speaking of the Ancestors..."
"Done," he confirms simply. "Grungni, Valaya, Smednir. Morgrim already has a shrine in the gyrocopter bay, Grimnir is served by the Hall of Oaths, and Kragg and Thorek each assured me they've seen to Thungni."
"Good. Once Karagril is secured, see to a proper Temple to Grungni there. We'll be pulling silver ore from the mountains north of Death Pass soon."
"And Smednir?"
"Karag Mhonar was once the home of smelting at Eight Peaks, it will be again. Smednir's home is there." Gunnars nods in acceptance. "If there's no further business?" A round of headshakes. "Very well. Go about it."
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If anyone noticed your lack of report, they didn't say anything, and you remain seated as the others file out. King Belegar pulls the papers you gave him out from under a few others, and stares down at them again. "Are you seriously-" he stops himself. "First things first. The spiders?"
"First Loremaster got along with them, but couldn't make it work. Still deciding on a second."
"About what I expected. Damn strange creatures. But if we can ever get that damn silk worked, it'll pay for a thousand Loremasters. And Sylvania?"
The papers weren't your only preparation; you've brought a canvas bag, and you produce from it a now-familiar grinning skull. "Alkharad of the Necrarchs. He was hounding the Elector Countess with weekly assassination attempts, and was training up an army of apprentices." You pass the skull underhand to King Belegar, who catches it and returns the skull's smile with a grim one of his own. "Only brought back the Vampire's skull, but the apprentices are dead too. None of the other openly-operating Vampires are in the same league."
"Good." He prods one of the fangs of the skull, then passes it back to you. "Great, in fact. The Empire has not been the most consistent source of assistance, but you get no ore from a shaft you never dig. Okay. Now..."
"The Burning Shadows thing?"
"Yes, the Burning Shadows thing!" You've heard King Belegar angry, but you've never heard him bewildered. "You can weaponize a mountain?!"
"Not on a whim, but yes, with time and equipment-"
"Why am I just hearing about this now?!" He smacks the paper with the back of his hand. "Why was that not how you introduced yourself back in Averland?! 'I'm Mathilde Weber, I can kill things with mountains'."
"So, I take it-"
"Yes! I would like very much for you to put a hard time limit of twenty-four hours on every possible overland siege we could face!" He takes a deep breath. "Okay, first, make damn sure it can't happen by accident or by any hand other than your own, and once you've put your own measures in place to ensure that, get Kragg and get him to add some of his own. But once that's done, yes. Bring in as many Zhufokri as you need, take as much gold and make as many promises as it takes." He shakes his head. "Are there any other apocalypse weapons you've been sitting on that you want to share with me?"
You think of the Aethyric Vitae, of the Liber Mortis, of the Second Secret of Dhar. "None ready for deployment," you hedge.
He stares at you, realizes you aren't joking, and shakes his head. "Zhufokri," he says, stands, and leaves.
"Dawi," you say with a sigh, gathering up your skull.
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Mandatory Actions: Pick one from each category.
Journeyman Maximilian de Gaynesford, Gold Wizard
[ ] MAX: Allow him to spend all his time on his metalworking studies.
[ ] MAX: Allow him to spend his time on patrol with the gyrocopters so he can finally get to shoot something from one. (NEW)
[ ] MAX: Learn a skill: specify what from who. You may pay for a trainer.
[ ] MAX: Learn a spell: specify which.
[ ] MAX: Study an artefact: specify which.
[ ] MAX: Educate the We.
[ ] MAX: Write a paper: specify which.
[ ] MAX: Receive dictation: specify which. Must be taken with a 'dictate' action.
Magister Johann, Gold Wizard
[ ] JOHANN: Allow him to spend all his time raiding the Skaven (Choose: Clan Mors, Skryre or Eshin)
[ ] JOHANN: Learn a skill: specify what from who. You may pay for a trainer.
[ ] JOHANN: Learn a spell: specify which.
[ ] JOHANN: Study an artefact: specify which.
[ ] JOHANN: Educate the We.
[ ] JOHANN: Write a paper: specify which.
Wizards of Karak Eight Peaks (NEW)
[ ] DUCK: Work with Panoramia for her to finally get around to investigating the greenskin mushrooms she found.
[ ] DUCK: Work with Panoramia to see if your planned shadow murder tower could also come in handy for the crops in the East Valley.
[ ] DUCK: Help Johann try to raise his new rat-wolf pups. With Wolf, if he's willing.
[ ] DUCK: Johann's investigation into the ratling gun has hit a wall. See if you can help.
[ ] DUCK: Each of your three ducklings can fight in melee. Spar with them, and teach them what you can.
[ ] DUCK: Magical target-shooting is rough on normal targets. Set up a specialized target range for your ducklings, and for any other wizards at Eight Peaks.
[ ] DUCK: Adela's interested in mechanics, see if anyone you can introduce her to would be willing to teach her.
[ ] DUCK: Hubert wants glory. Take him on a sorty against whoever Dreng says it would be most useful to raid.
[ ] DUCK: Gretel's motivated by wealth. Take her on a raid against whoever might have something worth stealing.
The Eastern Imperial Company
Your outstanding debt: 875 gc
Your share of EIC profits: 125 gc / turn
Current Focus of the EIC: Handgun Factory in Blutdorf (Grand Opening in 12 months)
[ ] Have the EIC assist with Princess Edda's search for weavers. (NEW)
[ ] Put policies in place that local news should be collected and sent to you (rumour mill).
[ ] Have the Eight Peaks branch keep a careful eye on the mood and actions of the Undumgi.
[ ] Have the Eight Peaks branch keep a careful eye on the mood and actions of the non-Undumgi civilians of Karag Nar.
[ ] Found an internal investigation division, to investigate possible misconduct.
[ ] Found an auditors division, to make sure the ledgers are in order.
[ ] Start hiring handlers who can then start hiring informers and begin to collect non-public information.
[ ] Reach out to Julia to find out if she's interested in being poached or passing on information.
[ ] Reach out to Roswita, and have the EIC start passing on tips about any tax evasion or other naughtiness by the EIC's rivals. (NEW)
Personal Actions: you have four actions you can apply without engaging in overwork.
Current overwork status: [ ] [ ] [ ]
Each box will be filled by one action of overwork, and will take the two turns after that to fade as you recover. The first box incurs no penalty. The second will give a -10 penalty to all actions during the first turn of recovery. The third will give a -20 penalty to all actions on both turns of recovery.
Overwork incurs no penalties on the turns taken, only on the turns recovering from it. You can take as many actions of overwork has you have unfilled boxes.
When you use overwork it fills the left-most empty box, so [/][][] becomes [/][X][], not [X][/][]. All boxes recover in parallel and independent from one another, but second and third apply maluses on your actions during that cooldown period.
Current Task: (NEW)
[*] Build a Tower of Burning Death (automatic, no action cost, favours and money paid by Belegar)
[ ] Build an incredibly paranoid set of measures to ensure only you can fire it (if not taken, only standard levels of paranoia will be applied)
[ ] Investigate the possibility of increasing the damage [straightforward]
[ ] Investigate the possibility of creating a light source to use the mountain at will at night [tricky]
[ ] Investigate the possibility of creating a very bright light source to use the mountain at will [very tricky]
[ ] Investigate the possibility of somehow amplifying the Tower with Dwarven runecraft [???]
[ ] Investigate the possibility of whether it could be fired without you [tricky; if selected and successful, paranoia will be ramped up automatically]
[ ] Build a third tower, capable of deploying a Battle Magic spell [straightforward; if chosen, options will be given]
The We: (pick no more or less than one, only doing so personally costs an action, none cost money)
[ ] Educate the We yourself.
[ ] Seek a new set of open-minded Loremasters from Young Holds to teach the We.
[ ] Hire the Loremaster with knowledge of spiders to teach the We.
[ ] Hire the Loremaster with knowledge of weaving to teach the We.
[ ] Hire an Altdorf professor to teach the We.
[ ] Hire a Priest of Verena to teach the We.
[ ] Hire a Priest of Esmerelda to teach the We.
[ ] Hire a Priest of Taal or Rhya to teach the We.
Skaven prisoner: (NEW)
[ ] Seek to establish an in-depth understanding of the Skaven as an individual.
[ ] Seek to build a lexicon to translate between Khazalid to Queekish.
[ ] Find out all you can about the Skaven at Eight Peaks.
[ ] Find out all you can about the Skaven in general.
Self-Improvement:
[ ] Ask an acquaintance to train you in a skill: specify who and what.
[ ] Attempt to learn a spell from scrolls (specify which, will be harder than studying it at the Grey College)
[ ] Hire a trainer to come to Eight Peaks and teach you: specify what. (costs favours for Dwarf trainers, money for human ones)
[ ] Travel to the Grey College and attend lessons there. (1 College Favour per class; 100gc can be paid instead for non-magical classes)
[ ] Gain enough control of your unruly shadow to still it temporarily.
[ ] Try to see through Pall of Darkness with your improved magical senses.
[ ] Practice shooting while invisible. (applies to Substance of Shadow; will apply to Invisibility)
[ ] Branulhune's ability to disappear and reappear at a thought allows entirely new forms of combat. Try to create them. (NEW)
[ ] Have one of Prince Gotri's pilots teach you to fly a gyrocopter. (NEW)
Karak Eight Peaks, friendly:
[ ] You have set up a Shrine to Ranald. Expand it into a Temple to the Night Prowler - an underlit and disreputable pub for those who value privacy to gather. Guaranteed cloaked stranger in every corner. Costs 100gc.
[ ] You have set up a Shrine to Ranald. Expand it into a Temple to the Gambler - a gambling hall with clean cards, guaranteed unloaded dice, fresh sawdust in the fighting ring, and a lottery every Festag. Costs 100gc.
[ ] You have set up a Shrine to Ranald. Expand it into a Temple to the Deceiver - a pawn shop filled with strange knick-knacks, odd devices, foreign books, and a shopkeep that knows more than they should. Costs 100gc.
[ ] You have set up a Shrine to Ranald. Expand it into a Temple to the Protector - a clean and respectable tavern for Undumgi to visit after they finish their patrols. Costs 100gc.
[ ] King Belegar's divergence from Dwarven cultural norms is starting to show. You're not sure if there's anything you could do to help, but maybe you could try anyway. (NEW)
[ ] Princess Edda seems to be allowing Karag Nar and the Undumgi to take care of itself; check how it's going and intercede in any problems that might be cropping up. (NEW)
Karak Eight Peaks, hostile:
[ ] Investigate and map an area: specify which.
[ ] Raid and disrupt an enemy: specify which.
It may be helpful to consult the maps under the Collection of Important Information threadmark.
Research and Publishing:
[ ] Study an artefact: select which.
[ ] Write a paper: select which.
Once per turn, you can write a paper without spending an action thanks to your Tower of Serenity.
[ ] Dictate papers: select which two, must be taken with Max's 'receive dictation'.
[ ] Write the book on the We (takes two actions, or one if dicated to Max; combines all outstanding papers) (gap in knowledge: means of communication)
[ ] Investigate how the We communicates with... itself?
[ ] Investigate the possibility of using one Wind to directly manipulate another.
[ ] The Second Secret of Dhar teaches how to collapse it upon itself. Practice upon local Dhar taint, and very cautiously see if this works with Warpstone.
[ ] Try to establish a relationship with the Cult of Verena, with the intent of offering them access to your rarer tomes in exchange for copies of some of their own.
Aethyric Vitae (16 gallons):
[ ] Investigate the exact circumstances required to induce a transformation.
[ ] Investigate how living things react to exposure to the Vitae.
[ ] Investigate how the Vitae reacts to Dwarven magic-dampening Runes. (2 Dwarf favours)
[ ] Attempt to interest one of the currently present Runesmiths in the interaction between Runes and Vitae. (Will start at the top and work your way down)
[ ] Call in favours to get a specific Runesmith to examine the interaction between Runes and Vitae with you.
[ ] Investigate how the Vitae reacts to a power stone.
[ ] Investigate how the Vitae reacts to being subjected to power stone creation methods.
[ ] Instead of seeking the secrets of the blood, simply see if it can be weaponized in some way.
Enchantment and Spell Creation:
[ ] Enchant an item with a Relatively Simple or easier spell (specify what and which)
[ ] Attempt to deepen your skill with Enchantment (will be more difficult than studying it at the Grey College)
[ ] Attempt to create a spell (must have been previously said to have been plausible by me, have the post where I did so handy)
Karag Nar Penthouse: each turn, you get ONE free choice in this category. Additional selections cost actions.
[-] Have a tower built atop Karag Nar: -100gc for 1 room, bonus to room's purpose.
[ ] Have additional rooms excavated underneath your Penthouse: -75gc for 3 rooms.
[ ] Have a gyrocopter landing pad set up for your Penthouse. (NEW)
[ ] Your dungeon was built with a reasonable amount of paranoia. Apply an unreasonable amount of paranoia. (NEW)
Setting up rooms for specific purposes will have to wait until new rooms are constructed or excavated. Only one construction or excavation can take place at a time, but you can do one of each.
Building downwards will increase by 1 each time; second set of excavated rooms will be 3 rooms, third will be 4, and so on.
Building upwards can be added upon; towers can be added on to or additional towers can be built. The distinction between the two is entirely cosmetic.
Personal Relations:
[ ] Spend time assisting with a fellow councillor's task: specify who and how.
[ ] Spend time investigating a character without their knowledge: specify who.
[ ] Wolf is fully grown and a Very Good Boy. Train him. (increases his intelligence, he may learn to speak Praestantia)
[ ] Wolf is fully grown and very magical. Deepen your familiar bond. (may unlock a new familiar ability; risks obsession)
Ranald's Coin - specify which face it will be set to
[ ] The Gambler: specify an action this will apply to.
A +20 bonus to up to two dice rolls resulting from a single chosen action.
[ ] The Night Prowler
As long as you are outside of private property and within a town or city, nobody will question your presence and nobody will be able to find you if you do not wish them to.
[ ] The Deceiver: describe how this will be used.
Lies you have developed beforehand will be delivered perfectly. The listener may believe you to be mistaken, but they will never believe that you are lying. Cannot be used to tell truths.
[ ] The Protector
When you act in a way that defends an individual or group from a danger that you did not cause, they will become aware of what you have done and will believe you acted selflessly in doing so.
Ranald's Coin
Vampire skulls
Skaven firearms: jezzail, pistol, bullets, gunpowder.
Skaven throwing star, still dripping venom.
Skaven book on the Anatomy of Chaos Dwarves.
Skaven electric whip, stolen from Clan Moulder.
Skaven vials, stolen from Clan Moulder.
Vampire skulls
Skaven firearms: jezzail, pistol, bullets, gunpowder.
Skaven throwing star, still dripping venom.
Skaven book on the Anatomy of Chaos Dwarves.
Skaven electric whip, stolen from Clan Moulder.
Skaven vials, stolen from Clan Moulder.
Waaagh energy and magic witnessed during the Expedition. (REFRESHED)
Your personal understanding of countering Waaagh Magic. (REFRESHED)
The ability of Alkharad to assume a projected form of mist. (FRESH)
The suite of advanced zombie empowerment and control spells used by Alkharad and his disciples. (FRESH)
The Black Orc Warboss' worship of Only Gork, and what you saw of the Rogue Idol ritual. (FADED)
The physiology and venom of the We. (FADED)
The psychology and social structure of the We. (FADED)
Preliminary paper on Aethyric Vitae. (TIMELESS)
Insight on Skaven tactics and strategy, acquired from the Liber Mortis but justified by your current encounters (TIMELESS)
Your personal understanding of countering Waaagh Magic. (REFRESHED)
The ability of Alkharad to assume a projected form of mist. (FRESH)
The suite of advanced zombie empowerment and control spells used by Alkharad and his disciples. (FRESH)
The Black Orc Warboss' worship of Only Gork, and what you saw of the Rogue Idol ritual. (FADED)
The physiology and venom of the We. (FADED)
The psychology and social structure of the We. (FADED)
Preliminary paper on Aethyric Vitae. (TIMELESS)
Insight on Skaven tactics and strategy, acquired from the Liber Mortis but justified by your current encounters (TIMELESS)
- I've rearranged and compressed things a little, hopefully this will be a bit less muddled.
- There will be a four hour moratorium.
- AP do not have intrinsic healing properties. Throwing them at King Belegar and hoping it helps is a long shot, and will probably do nothing.
- New overwork system; my thanks to @Redshirt Army for suggesting this model.
- Projects like this one are expected to take two turns, though you can complete it early if you really want to. If you're not finished or want to add more after the year is complete, you can put forward a report on what you've done and what more you want to achieve and King Belegar will consider whether to grant extra time.
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Morathi certainly bargains with Slaneeshi daemons. I think that whether she ever actually served anyone save herself is left ambiguous, particularly with the changes across editions.
Orcs and skaven almost certainly aren't creations of the Old Ones, so are pretty irrelevant to the comparison of what the Old Ones were optimising for. For humans, they seem to have sacrificed the elves magical ability, the dwarves toughness, both elder races resistance to mutation, and in return made them much more fecund.
- Location
- Brazil
Being able to pop a Conflagration of Doom on demand probably severely cuts the need for battle magic, yeah.
Well I guess that settles if Belegar would like a burning shadow mountain.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
FFS.
Well, Karak Eight Peaks was once home to a Ropemaker Clan, and another one of the spider-silks was supposed to be excellent material for that.
Yeah, let's do this. Screw the Weavers Guilds.
Well I need to go to bed on account of it being 1.30 AM but its totally worth it to wait.
Thats one unhappy Druchii.
I guess it turns out dwarves are VERY happy to learn how to kill things with mountains.
Its as dwarf as possible while involving magic.
Belegar: "I don't know whether to be afraid or be excited."
I reckon the whole intact gift thing is doing him an excite.
Thats one unhappy Druchii.
Belegar is Maximum Hype.
I guess it turns out dwarves are VERY happy to learn how to kill things with mountains.
Its as dwarf as possible while involving magic.
Belegar: "I don't know whether to be afraid or be excited."
On the other hand, they are also incomplete. Plus things like vampires show a good look at what humans could be made into. Think of it. A fast breeding race, which produce .01% mages who then become some sort of immortal being attuned to their wind, or similar.
Strange9
hdellaverson@gmail.com
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
I believe that was Redshirt.
Man, the college shenanigans are so cool. I hopevwe can visit the others at some point.
Chimeraguard
We do deserve to exist.
I know our backlog is heavy enough as it is, but shouldn't this also include the insights we got about Vampires (mist form) and Necromancy (empowering) from our recent trip to Sylvania and spying on Alkharad?
Fixed, thanks.
Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
- Location
- Mother Russia
You know the protagonist is a nerd when she drinks literal Mountain Dew.
We've got quite the excuse to go talk to Edda about the Undumgi here.
Not sure we've got the actions to spend on it right now, since I'm pretty sure the EIC action can't include the full effects of "help another Councillor with their task," but...
Asheram
Not quite altogether
- Location
- Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground
Bwahahahaha! Oh, this gave me a good laugh. I'm in tears now, in fact.