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Hmm.

As hilarious as the Suddenly Cats bits was, I'm looking in there and going.

"Holy shit, Mathilde invented a spell that could be relatively easily simplified into Lesser Magic, only functionally needing one editing pass to reach that point"

People invent new bits of Color Magic all the time, Lesser Magic tends to usually be the product of decades of work, and then decades more simplifying it until the concepts can be expressed by any Wind of Magic. No fucking wonder it was worth 10 College Reputation to be the original designer, she functionally added a solid new tool to the arsenal of the Colleges of Magic.

Also, will admit, it's hilarious that we went from -1 to +15 College Favor just like that.
In a world of chalk and slate, we basically creates 3d presentation, design aid, mapping and teaching aid.

Which all 8 school can use.
 
Why take it?
-Theres a huge piece of Warpstone up there. Its literally a bomb waiting to go off if not disposed of.
--Yes, the trolls are security for it, but I don't think anyone would say with a straight face that the Skaven won't go for it the moment they aren't distracted with trying to kill each other.
--Warpstone mutated trolls can vary wildly. Apply enough warpstone and just abut anything unpleasant WILL happen eventually. Now its pretty unlikely that it'd produce a smart troll, but we've seen enough unlikely things in Eight Peaks that I would not completely rule out a smart troll leader emerging.

-Its strategically important to control of the Citadel, because theres no way to supply the Citadel except overland, where literally everyone can see how much is going in. We need it, or at least its Underway, secure if we're to consider the Under-Citadel possible to retake. The alternative is Under-Karagril and we already established that taking THAT is strategically unsustainable.

-The 'good' thing about Trolls taking the peak is that basically all the loot in the vaults are likely still in there. Its very unlikely to find any of the vaults, much less breach them without magic.
Another reason you didn't mention, Warpstone and Gromril tend to come in the same meteorites, so there's a decent chance of a nice amount of Gromril at the peak too.
 
Yeah. For the life of me, I cannot figure out what in the hell the High Elves gain from giving Marienburg a monopoly on all of Ulthuan's trade to the Old World.

The High Elves have all the leverage, and yet they basically give up lucrative trade and soft power/influence with all of the Old World in exchange for...nothing at all. Fucking what.

They don't though? The High Elves trade with Bretonnia, Tliea, and Estalia just fine. There are apparently elven merchants in Altdorf. It's just that Marienberg is the gateway to the Empire, and most of their trade flows through there. The elven naval superiority probably means it makes sense for them to sell at ports and let the overland distribution networks be run by humans. Marienberg holds the mouth of the Reik, anyway, so has had a natural monopoly on entry to the rivers that are the backbone of intra-Imperial trade. When the canal opens, that changes, and the Barak Varr merchant clans will control a rival, but it hasn't yet.

Yeah, Ungrim Ironfist current Slayer King is either wearing a Runed Dragonscale cloak or has one as a Banner IIRC.

They have no idea whatsoever how to make a new one.

In 684 IC the dwarves still know how to put runes on dragon scales, bu it may have been lost since.
5. The Wood Elves of Athel Loren

These guys are here for completion, short of walking into the woods with the Protector coin on and hoping we find enough important beastmen to kill before they start shooting at us I have no clue how to even begin approaching them.

There's also the elven Kingdom of Eonir in the Laurelorn Forest, where most elves in the Empire apparently come from. They're mid way between High Elves and standard wood elves, if they exist in this continuity
 
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Rreading what Boney< said, I don't think that not using Protector cost us ny favour. The dwarves just don't give favour for assassinations in usual circumstances.
I don't see how one folows the other, it's pretty much the oposite.
Yes Dwarves don't give favour for assasination in usual circusntances, but Using Protector is the kind of very unusual cirscunstace that should cause then to give favor for assasination. Ergo not using the Protector cost us a lot of favor.
This fells more like moving the goalposts to try and justify not using the protector that time with the baseless assumtion that it wouldn't have helped anyway, since the original argument of the time that we wouldn't need the protetor to get favor for assasinations just proved itself objectively false.
 
I don't see how one folows the other, it's pretty much the oposite.
Yes Dwarves don't give favour for assasination in usual circusntances, but Using Protector is the kind of very unusual cirscunstace that should cause then to give favor for assasination. Ergo not using the Protector cost us a lot of favor.
This fells more like moving the goalposts to try and justify not using the protector that time with the baseless assumtion that it wouldn't have helped anyway, since the original argument of the time that we wouldn't need the protetor to get favor for assasinations just proved itself objectively false.

Actually the arguments of the time were leave it on the prowler that effect will be useful for infiltration purposes. There were some arguments that using the protector wouldn't matter for favour gain but that was the minority of the arguments at the time. The major ones were "We get to use the coin on a different setting the next turn if we keep it on prowler" and "Prowler is more important to keep us alive." As it turns out the prowler effect stopped working once the Greenskins fragmented heavily in civil war but the other argument was still valid.

To claim otherwise is revisionist. Yes we probably would have got more favour with the coin set to protector.
 
Actually the arguments of the time were leave it on the prowler that effect will be useful for infiltration purposes. There were some arguments that using the protector wouldn't matter for favour gain but that was the minority of the arguments at the time. The major ones were "We get to use the coin on a different setting the next turn if we keep it on prowler" and "Prowler is more important to keep us alive." As it turns out the prowler effect stopped working once the Greenskins fragmented heavily in civil war but the other argument was still valid.

To claim otherwise is revisionist. Yes we probably would have got more favour with the coin set to protector.
Actually we knew the Night Prowler wouldn't have helped that much. While the effect not working was a surprise, I had asked Boney how useful it would be in Karagril beforehand.

His response was along the lines of "It would help you get in and out, but Mathilde is already very good at that."

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It guarantees getting in and out, but that's something Mathilde's extremely capable of doing anyway.
 
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I don't see how one folows the other, it's pretty much the oposite.
Yes Dwarves don't give favour for assasination in usual circusntances, but Using Protector is the kind of very unusual cirscunstace that should cause then to give favor for assasination. Ergo not using the Protector cost us a lot of favor.
This fells more like moving the goalposts to try and justify not using the protector that time with the baseless assumtion that it wouldn't have helped anyway, since the original argument of the time that we wouldn't need the protetor to get favor for assasinations just proved itself objectively false.

BoneyM was explicitly talking about dwarves opinions of assassinations in direct rebuttal to someone saying that us not getting favour meant we should have set the Coin to the Protector:

It's not necessarily about the Protector, just trying and failing to ward off people wondering why you aren't getting Dwarf favour for the assassinations you did.

It seems to be be that dwarves cultural see assassination as something disreputable, so while Mathilde gained favour for them in the extraordinary circumstances of it facilitating the K8P campaign, she doesn't normally. That means that whether we have the Protector applied or not, it's still not something we should expect to get favour for. The would respect killing enemies on a duel in the battlefield, not with a knife in the back in the dark. It's why Ranger tactics in general seem culturally disfavoured.

The Protector would mean that lots of dwarves did something they don't really approve of to help them, but that doesn't change that they don't approve of it.
 
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Personally I think teaching Wolf Praestantia has a lot more benefits than just preping for the skaven translation and we kind of have to do the wolf action regardless when it comes to learning from the skaven. Teaching wolf Praestantia means we can essentially telepresence with his help, being able to be at two places at once in safe environs is pretty useful. Plus once Wolf can speak he's able to learn and act a lot more independently. Who doesn't want Wolf to be able to start growing on his own?
Link of Psyche: The ability to communicate complex thoughts and share mental resources with Wolf. +2 Stewardship, +2 Learning
I also think there's a reasonable chance that Link of Psyche would be upgraded, as it makes sense both narratively and mechanically that it'd get better the more intelligent Wolf is and so we can better help each other. It also means that Wolf becomes his own independent character the greater his intelligence and communication ability, so he should be able to undertake actions on his own.

Is this correct, @BoneyM ?
 
It seems to be be that dwarves cultural see assassination as something disreputable, so Mathilde gained favour for them in the extraordinary circumstances of it facilitating the K8P campaign
I mean, we did get favor for our assassinations during the Expedition, so getting favors for assassinations doesn't seem categorically impossible.
 
In that same quote he also says that he's not addressing the protector.

No he doesn't. He says ' It's not necessarily about the Protector ' That's in response to someone saying that the lack of favour is about the Protector not being active.

He seems to be saying that the reason we didn't get favour isn't necessarily about the Protector, it's about what dwarves think of assassination. With both dwarves and assassinations bolded and underlined.

I mean, we did get favor for our assassinations during the Expedition, so getting favors for assassinations doesn't seem categorically impossible.

It's not. If we launch an assassination campaign as part of a hypothetical successful reclaiming of Karak Drazh, I'm pretty sure we'd get favour. Just taking another peak or 'regular' conflict isn't enough though.
 
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I also think there's a reasonable chance that Link of Psyche would be upgraded, as it makes sense both narratively and mechanically that it'd get better the more intelligent Wolf is and so we can better help each other. It also means that Wolf becomes his own independent character the greater his intelligence and communication ability, so he should be able to undertake actions on his own.

Is this correct, @BoneyM ?

Not sure it's true but it does make logical sense, as Wolf gets more intelligent there's more to draw on so to speak. certainly a mere +2 to a stat doesn't fully reflect the inherent boost that link of psyche grants in the RP. So yea further benefits are probably gated behind Wolf being more skilled.
 
[X] [TOWER] Ongoing

[X] [COLLEGE] No purchase.

[X] [DWARF] No purchase.

[X] [PURCHASE] No purchase.

[X] [LIBRARY] Plan no favour mines
 
Who knows, perhaps the help comes through better if it's for an actual loved one, and not someone you sort of have some feelings for.
I will admit, I have run into a lot of takes in my just campaign(incoherent rant) against Ranald, but "Mathilde didn't care about Abel" is a new one. Usually people just say that her love wasn't neccesarily romantic.

And a kinda concerning take if true, considering that whatever feelings Mathilde had, it was enough to make her radiate killing intent at the sawbones she thought didn't perform to the full of his abilitites.
 
Talking of dwarf favour, is anyone else interested in trying to save up to 25 favour again to get another legendary grade artifact? For example, if there's a variant of the Rune of the Unknown that can be applied to armour, then that could actually make it viable equipment for Mathilde, if it auto fitted to her body, as she could flicker it away to cast a spell and then return it when she didn't need it.

Alternatively, given what we've seen with runesmiths being able to exclude the Winds from metal, perhaps runecraft could duplicate the effect of the base enchantment of the Armor of Tarnus that allows Wizards to cast wearing it. Kragg might see it as a challenge that a manling wizard could forge armour with an effect like that for him to dunk on by doing it better.

We'd probably want to find some more gromril first, unless he inherited the the knowledge of how to add runes to dragonskin from Heganbor, and is holding it back (possibly due to lack of dragonskin)

I will admit, I have run into a lot of takes in my just campaign(incoherent rant) against Ranald, but "Mathilde didn't care about Abel" is a new one. Usually people just say that her love wasn't neccesarily romantic.

And a kinda concerning take if true, considering that whatever feelings Mathilde had, it was enough to make her radiate killing intent at the sawbones she thought didn't perform to the full of his abilitites.

Well, if you spin it as the inherent loyalty owed by a vassal to their feudal superior Ranald might quite be so hot on rewarding that, even though such loyalty could produce that intensity of emotion.
 
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I will admit, I have run into a lot of takes in my just campaign(incoherent rant) against Ranald, but "Mathilde didn't care about Abel" is a new one. Usually people just say that her love wasn't neccesarily romantic.

And a kinda concerning take if true, considering that whatever feelings Mathilde had, it was enough to make her radiate killing intent at the sawbones she thought didn't perform to the full of his abilitites.

Also to draw a gun on Kasmir, contemplate using Dhar and think something like "if greatswords didn't die already I would consider killing them myself".
 
Talking of dwarf favour, is anyone else interested in trying to save up to 25 favour again to get another legendary grade artifact? For example, if there's a variant of the Rune of the Unknown that can be applied to armour, then that could actually make it viable equipment for Mathilde, if it auto fitted to her body, as she could flicker it away to cast a spell and then return it when she didn't need it.

Alternatively, given what we've seen with runesmiths being able to exclude the Winds from metal, perhaps runecraft could duplicate the effect of the base enchantment of the Armor of Tarnus that allows Wizards to cast wearing it. Kragg might see it as a challenge that a manling wizard could forge armour with an effect like that for him to dunk on by doing it better.

Hmm... armor with a rune of sorcery would be worth it if the Winds could be selectively filtered.

Otherwise... well there's the shadow armor which is pretty good at Magic 8.
 
BoneyM was explicitly talking about dwarves opinions of assassinations in direct rebuttal to someone saying that us not getting favour meant we should have set the Coin to the Protector:



It seems to be be that dwarves cultural see assassination as something disreputable, so while Mathilde gained favour for them in the extraordinary circumstances of it facilitating the K8P campaign, she doesn't normally. That means that whether we have the Protector applied or not, it's still not something we should expect to get favour for. The would respect killing enemies on a duel in the battlefield, not with a knife in the back in the dark. It's why Ranger tactics in general seem culturally disfavoured.

The Protector would mean that lots of dwarves did something they don't really approve of to help them, but that doesn't change that they don't approve of it.

Again, you are moving the goalposts and simultaneously ignoring half of that conversation to state you opinion as absolute fact, the thing that brought up that passage was this :

You receive a few back-pats yourself, though all for the one semi-competent Warboss you slew in front of everyone and none for all the much more dangerous ones that died without an appreciative audience.
Blatant hint is blatant.
...Still don't want to waste the Coin on Protector.
It's not necessarily about the Protector, just trying and failing to ward off people wondering why you aren't getting Dwarf favour for the assassinations you did.

It wasn't a batlant hint on the protector, but him trying to explain why we didn't get favour before people inevitably asked about it.
Answer lack of aundience, the thing Protector solves, because the whole favour mechaninc is based around groups being awere af how much they owe us, and the protector makes everyone perfectly aware of how much they owe us isntead of it fading into obscurity.
 
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