What does all of this have to do with what I asked? Are you denying that that the breadth and influence I described the Cult of Verena having is wrong? I never said "We will own the cult of Verena." I said, "This is an idea of what the Cult of Verena is."
And I'm saying
that's irrelevant. Spaghetti post or not, that doesn't change the fact I said you were misrepresenting the opportunity they offer us. They could have the means to make human high magic users and it wouldn't be relevant if we had no way of accessing it.
Tilea, Estalia, Bretonnia, Ulthuan, Karaz Ankor, Magic, The Empire, The Cults and various other sources of knowledge that we have absolutely no access to. When you have to ask yourself what a centuries old divine cult with a fanatical obsession to preserving knowledge can offer us in terms of books, you've lost me. You're comparing this organisation which is spread throughout the old world to the Karaz Ankor which is a single polity and the EIC which is just a trading company based in and around Stirland. They have the contacts to get the books we can't and they have been developing these contacts for thousands of years. We may match or surpass them in books taken from the Dwarven Empire and maybe the college (doubtful), but in everything else they have better sources than ours.
What. We already have access to the Karaz Ankor, the Empire, and magic
far better than the Cult of Verena. Like why would you remotely assume they have access to magical texts the Colleges don't? You ignored my fundamental premise was that the Cult's reach only potentially opens up Tilea and Estalia and Barak Varr's markets almost certainly open up those already. And you are only weakening your argument boasting about the Verenan archives compared
to the fucking Dwarfs. These are the people who have written testimony of their ancient gods openly on record, who can chronicle their history to the time long before the Cult of Verena existed where Estalia and Tilea were elven colonies.
As for why I'm equating the EIC+Barak Varr to the Cult it's because Barak Varr is the economic lynchpin of the Old World- probably more so than Marienburg. I don't even know why you think the Verenans are who we should see about Ulthuan, they might have some sources for it, but we can probably make arrangements for Asur literature
when we inevitably go to Ulthuan.
It's beyond baffling why you think their repositories of knowledge eclipse the Dwarfs and only further weakens your argument.
Yes, hiring someone to rob knowledge from the cult that venerates knowledge and has a greater influence in the empire than us is definitely a great idea. What possible use could gaining favor in such an organisation have? I'll tell you. They can offer us favor that we can exchange for permanent bonuses to certain rolls. They are a powerful political entity that having a good reputation with will help with our career and any future politics.
And what do we need to do for all of this? Spend an action or two to let them copy books from our rather extensive library.
I am not trying to hype up the cult. You are the one who's completely downplaying it.
What are they going to do? No seriously lay it out for me. The Brettonians are problematic because they're impetuous enough to make it a matter of foreign policy affecting the Empire considering we're robbing their aristocratic ruling class. And I'm telling you while you are too busy fantasizing about Verenan favor, that favor takes effort to generate and we have far better means of generating favor. Furthermore-
I'm talking about robbing Verenans outside the Empire. If a foreign sect of their cult is angry at us, they're going to have an incredibly difficult time making trouble for us in the Empire. To say nothing of their difficulties in actually identifying we're the ones who stole it. The Cult of Verena in the Empire is not going to make our lives any harder than the Cults of Sigmar or Ulric are- especially if we only start shit outside the Empire.
Dude, I'm not the one saying 'The Dwarfs are only one nation- they can't possibly have a knowledge base comparable to this organization- pay no heed to the 3,000 year awaited reclamation we're part of and all the clans that still identify and have records of being from Lost Holds after literal millennia'. We are serving the institution who's major problem is their institutional memory is too long and too all encompassing and you're talking hotshit about Verena?
Edit: I'm done arguing this, I've been warned about marginal behavior and this is just getting me worked up- I doubt I'll change your mind and mine is pretty made up so agree to disagree.
