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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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BoneyM said:
Elector Countess Roswita Van Hal
Armament: Falchion, boarding axe

> She fired you. You've learned why and don't like it but do understand it. She's the daughter of the man you... cared for. She's doing the best she can. It's complicated.
< So that's why Magnus the Pious thought it was the worth the risk. No wonder Da spoke so highly of her.

Diplomacy: 16
Martial: 19
Stewardship: 10
Intrigue: 14
Learning: 11
Piety: 9

Affinity for Wizards: Despite her lingering phobia, Roswita has proven unusually good at managing Battle Wizards.
Hyper-Focused: Roswita's sole goal is the extermination of necromancers and vampires in Sylvania.
Magic Phobia: Despite knowing better, Roswita has a niggling fear that the presence of a Wizard is an enormous and constant danger.
Marine: Roswita has been tutored in the combat style of the Barak Varr Marines.
Proud: Roswita does her utmost to act in a manner befitting an Elector Countess at all times.
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Huh. Well, it seems she's doing well. And she appears to have gained another point of Martial.
 
DragonParadox said:
It's really not, the Skaven are a global power (perhaps the only trully global power besides the High Elves), the Empire are a regional power. It would not even be a contest.
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To echo what others have said. While the Skaven can project power on a global level they cannot consentrate it well enougth to treat the Empire as anything less than a peer opponent.
DragonParadox said:
Both the Empire and the Patriarch or Matriarch of the Grey College would have to agree yes.
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As far as I am awhere there has never been any canon information on this. Do you have a citation for this?
 
NavySeel said:
I can't quote it right now, but take a look at Roswita's traits.
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BoneyM said:
Affinity for Wizards: Despite her lingering phobia, Roswita has proven unusually good at managing Battle Wizards.
Hyper-Focused: Roswita's sole goal is the extermination of necromancers and vampires in Sylvania.
Magic Phobia: Despite knowing better, Roswita has a niggling fear that the presence of a Wizard is an enormous and constant danger.
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That is super neat.
 
Wasn't it a semi-popular fan theory that The Conspiracy of Silence is totally the result of a skaven scheme?

Like, if the empire mobilized against them, it wouldn't actually unite the skaven, they'd just fight them in the same way they do the brets and tileans, and the reason the skaven got the conspiracy enshrined is so that they can basically focus on everyone else more?
 
Lupercal said:
To echo what others have said. While the Skaven can project power on a global level they cannot consentrate it well enougth to treat the Empire as anything less than a peer opponent.

As far as I am awhere there has never been any canon information on this. Do you have a citation for this?
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We have a citation from the GM that the Grey Order would murder an emperor if they proved a danger to the Empire, Given the consequences of fighting the Skaven I would say that count. Granted all this is inference.
 
I think that's perfectly understandable, fear helps with managing Battle Wizards. They are the exact kind of Wizard that you should be afraid of. So now she has an example of regular, useful Wizard, and the kind she learned to fear. So she knows to value them, but the eternal fear means she never underestimates what they can do with a miscast. The burned out ruins of one quarter of a town is a potent reminder.

So it turns out that someone phobic of magic is the perfect shepherd for a bunch of Battle Wizards, as long as they can actually appreciate why the magic needs to be used, and what for.
 
Woo, new sneak peeks!
I dont think anyone has mentioned the char sheet bit:

BoneyM said:
Accumulated trophies, mementos and oddities:
Flensed skull of the 'Singing King', a Strigoi Vampire that ruled over an army of ghouls encountered during the Purge of the Haunted Hills, slain by you, Kasmir, and Abelhelm.
Flensed skull of Alkharad, a Necrarch Vampire who was operating a necromancer college in Teufelheim and trying to assassinate Elector Countess Roswita Van Hal.
Flensed skull of a Bretonnian Blood Dragon, one of the dozens who infested Tempelhof before a tidal wave of Battle Wizards arrived.
Gargoyle head taken from the wreckage of Castle Drakenhof.
Bosspole of the Broken Toof Tribe
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Woo, gift from roswita presumably!
And here's the full dram. personae changes, incl. exact stat boosts for one of the characters new traits:
https://www.diffchecker.com/OQU1KNPi
BoneyM said:
Princess Edda Grimbrow, Steward of Karak Eight Peaks

> Princess Edda is a formidable expert in the field of organizing Dwarves, but though she can get on fine with humans, when she manages them her eye for minor details becomes a weakness as she tries and fails to account for every possibility.
< You're very helpful, very good at your job, and a little bit frightening. She doesn't understand you, but as you're a wizard she never expected to. She likes you.

Adult: Having passed the age of 30, this Dwarf is considered an adult and ready to begin studying their trade in earnest.
Ambitious: Edda has her sights set on becoming a Queen.
Clan Grimbrow: This Dwarf is of the Royal Clan of Karak Izor.
Dawicentric: Despite trying, Edda has found herself completely unable to understand humans well enough to account for them in the systems she administrates.
Organized: Edda is extremely efficient at establishing, controlling, and keeping track of large projects.
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"Traditionalist" Evolved into "Dawicentric"

BoneyM said:
Elector Countess Roswita Van Hal
Armament: Falchion, boarding axe

> She fired you. You've learned why and don't like it but do understand it. She's the daughter of the man you... cared for. She's doing the best she can. It's complicated.
< So that's why Magnus the Pious thought it was the worth the risk. No wonder Da spoke so highly of her.

Diplomacy: 16
Martial: 19
Stewardship: 10
Intrigue: 14
Learning: 11
Piety: 9

Affinity for Wizards: Despite her lingering phobia, Roswita has proven unusually good at managing Battle Wizards.
Hyper-Focused: Roswita's sole goal is the extermination of necromancers and vampires in Sylvania.
Magic Phobia: Despite knowing better, Roswita has a niggling fear that the presence of a Wizard is an enormous and constant danger.
Marine: Roswita has been tutored in the combat style of the Barak Varr Marines.
Proud: Roswita does her utmost to act in a manner befitting an Elector Countess at all times.
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*very* interesting. Affinity for wizards is both very thematically interesting for her, its a good trait, +1 diplo, +1 Martial, AND +1 Learning. Makes sense for 'having both natural skill for--and experience at--managing walking WMDs'. Also more movement on her phobia
 
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LightLan said:
Damn :( this will hurt.
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No one is perfect. And no one goes throughout this world making a difference, alone.

Failure is sad, in that it lead here to these circumstances - but having identified the shape of the problem we can build a thing, an advisory council or such, to help mitigate it.

It think it's a worthwhile endevor to do so.

She tried and failed. Do you know what that means? It means she recognises there is a problem and we have a window in which to help

Edit: also, she is Stewardship advisor, but this is more along a Diplomatic Advisor lines, with stewardship leaning. I think, considering his role and traits, it would be a a very good idea to get Prince Kazrik involved as part of the action.
 
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Hey guys...depending on how this works out and is recieved we could put a Webers Magical Doom tower on Barak Varr and that...that wins the Boarder Princes. I mean. Am I missi g something critical there?
 
Artemis1992 said:
That't really weird.
I don't really get how these traits play together.
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Hmm, she's constantly paranoid at the risks, though aware of her biases, so she actually puts a lot of time and effort into managing the Battle Wizards properly so that everything runs smoothly
Like the manager of a nuclear powerplant having a healthy appreciation for the danger of what they're overseeing daily
 
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