Anything we've learned about her personal traits/habits?
Reserved, bookish and private.
CK2 Translation(note, do NOT assume this is how the quest handles it):
-Reserved - Shy -Diplomacy
-Bookish - Scholar +Learning
-Private - Paranoid -Diplomacy +Intrigue
So...loosely speaking, she's not too different from Abelhelm. Minus 30 years of seasoning. Not a people person and it shows.
Still, whatever the intent, that's likely one for the Weber Book of Grudges.
Thats stupid really. Getting into a feud with an Elector Countess, who despite her evident prejudice against magic users, at least gives you a letter of recommendation is petty, futile and self destructive.
Note she didn't
have to. A normal Elector has decent odds of firing you and ordering you out of the city on the same day if they had the same prejudice. They are fully within their rights to do so.
This is correct. As long as you abide by the Articles of Imperial Magic, without solid evidence of your wrongdoing they cannot touch you without getting in a world of shit. 'All eight Colleges threatening to declare war on Stirland' levels of shit. 'The Emperor himself asking what the fuck is going on over there' levels of shit. If there is one thing that the Colleges will move heaven and earth to prevent, it's the precedent that members of the College in good standing can be victimized by Witch Hunters. Besides that, Magisters legally have all the rights and protections of nobility, and as a Journeywoman you are under the protection of your Master - besides which, you actually are a noble.
I cannot emphasize it enough: THIS IS NOT 40K. It takes more than someone pointing and shouting 'heresy' to be murdered by the Witch Hunters.
Here is the legal status between the Witch Hunters (aka the Templars of Sigmar) and members of the Colleges of Magic:
14. All Magisters are required to render such aid as is deemed necessary to the Holy Orders of the Templars of Sigmar, should said Templars provide satisfactory proof that the servant of malignancy they face is beyond their capacity to capture or destroy without magical means.
You aren't their prey. You're their backup.
Also worth keeping in mind that the Deal is literally the main(and in some cases, only) reason the Colleges work for the Empire. Its important.
Granted, we DO have solid evidence. Might want to get the Liber Mortis to an alternate hidey hole than Wurtbad and counting on obscurity alone.
I'll be adding enchantment options to the next turn, and will likely add something to the threadmark then after I nail down how it's all going to work.
IIRC you mentioned before that our starting level of enchantment was only good for imbuing Petty Magics. So I had assumed with the upgrade we can make basic magic weapons and armor...but based on the description what we tested it with was closer to Shadowcloak.
I assume we're getting something more freeform?
As long as it works within Ulgu themes of course, and presumably stuff that's just copying a spell we know is far easier than improvising(at least until high end enchantments where the spells are literally impossible to cast outside of ritual and you have to wing it for a largely unique enchantment)
There is something stopping them: they have to not only admit but also prove that they can't triumph without magic every time. It's a neatly worded clause - they can't call you in without taking a heavy blow to their own ego, and it means those most opposed to magic are the ones that never end up working alongside wizards.
Makes sense. Also this illustrates more clearly WHY Abelhelm trusted us more after we joined him on the tomb raiding, I presume? We came to help despite not being required to.
That said, it makes a lot of sense, because if you're going up against necromancers and cultists that had gotten beyond reanimating the cat, you either bring an army and be willing to pay oceans of blood, be dead sneaky, assassinate them and hope you can murder your way out of the horde or you bring some wizards.
I'm not sure what the average Witch Hunter is even going to do to a ghost or even a minor daemon. Magic weapons don't come standard, and neither do warpriests.
You can take it as granted that the reward would be of comparable value to the ring, but the entire point of the mystery box option is that it is a mystery. Perhaps they'll make you a new magical artifact, perhaps they'll owe you an enormous favour to be called in at a later date, perhaps it will negate some favour that the Grey College owed the Bright and you'll get something from them instead. If the option is chosen I'll generate a handful of possible options and roll for it on the spot.
Cool, and looking over the item descriptions...I think the role is well occupied by our gun(s) as it is. We'll be fine. Editing to return it to the rightful owners.
There's not really a good way to drop the information that you have a shrine to what may very well be Khorne on your hands, and it's likely to end in them insisting quite strenuously that you tell them the location so they can burn it to the ground and salt the earth it stands on. The safe option is to brick it up and pretend you never saw it; if you want to get something out of it, either smelt down the icon and take your chances or sic Ranald on it and watch the fireworks. That said, being in Stirland is about as safe as you can be from a malevolent ocean deity without being up a mountain.
Well...Piety is one of the stats we hadn't raised lately
Pray hard?
So just to sound out the idea, how does the general thread population feel about use offering our services to the new intrigue adviser. At the very least it reaffirms how loyal we are to Stirland and our willingness to help, plus if he does accept then we can more easily keep our ear to the ground in regards to what the countess is doing and maybe even open up the possibility of getting past her fear of magic so that we can make her into a proper ally.
I think if they need us they have plenty of ways to contact us, via Wilhelmina and the EIC if nothing else. Considering that Julia's network is appreciated, the new intrigue adviser doesn't trust magic, but our reputation made us...respected enough that he's willing to take out network over just fine.
So we just focus on our own stuff, and make ourselves available if the Call comes. No need to pine around Wurtbad, we can do that after we make Magister.
No, seriously, WHY would you worship a forbidden ocean deity in a place that distinctly lacks an ocean? It seems like a lot of risk with absolutely no reward.
It is entirely possible that the previous owner was a river pirate. In which case Stromfels is indeed in his domain, even if not a very strong one.
What do we know about the Witch Hunter who replaced us? Like general attitude, province of origin, Hat sizes and the weapons he carries around.
By name and accent, a northern Ostlander; combined with Abelhelm's taste in brandy you suspect that's where his children were holed up. He's equally suspicious of damn near everyone and seems to be really jumpy to suddenly find himself on the front line of the whole Sylvania business. He favours a falchion.
Hmm...well he has good tastes in weapons.
No, they can't. They're finding a way that the spell meshes with you and your understanding of magic, so they're completely personal. If you took an apprentice and taught them your view of magic and prevented them from developing any of their own, then it's possible, but far from guaranteed, that they could learn your Masteries... but wouldn't be able to manifest any of their own.
Also I imagin most of the colleges would consider doing something like that a little abusive of the apprentice. Magic being intensely personal is a thing after all, and forcibly molding apprentices that way stunts their growth.
Actually shooting and killing the Magister you're duelling would not go over well, but in principal it's completely okay and encouraged. The Grey College is very practical.
I think they'd probably have more to say about the big freaking sword myself
A good dwarf made revolver is after all, very Grey Order.
