They get the idea of a book exchange, Mathilde was part of one during the Expedition.
What? We're talking about something we're basically already doing, just larger. A building with a big pile of Mathilde's books in it, and she allows visitors. Nobody's talking about sharing dwarven secrets, just an aggregation of stuff that's commercially available but dispersed.
We aren't quite asking that though? We want to create a massive library collating books from all corners of the Old World. That does not require sharing trade secrets, infact we know that Dwarfs keep trade secrets by passing them on through word-of-mouth.
Of course this won't be a binary all-or-nothing deal. Libraries can have multiple levels of access. It's not a deal breaker if there's gonna be a dwarf-only section. Hell, there's probably a Magister-level section too for the advanced topics and magics that would blow up apprentices who attempt the stuff in it.
If a dwarf has written a book about something they have already committed to sharing it. You don't write a book if you don't want people to read it. (Unless your nagash which really pisses me off. Why write a book and then make traps it in. What a psychopath.)
Don't forget the Cathy, Ind, or Nippon! We are on the best route to that part of the world and I bet that we can put out a bounty for those books just like we can put out a bounty on dragon bones. Get those spice merchants hauling books too!
Just the Max, Johann, Duckling, and Qrech actions. No EIC, Serenity, or Penthouse, nor our other three Personal actions.
'An IRL year of at least a turn every three days' is not what I think anybody would call realistic.
A three-part turn with a 30-part interlude.
It's actually just meh.
... it took me a solid second to get that.
It would be easier to just kill Malekith, honestly. Stack Assassin traits and skills, steal the secrets of the Eshin clan and train ourselves in their skills.
I made a post a long while back on the difference between affecting a setting, and "fixing" a setting. And for me; things like "redeem the Skaven race" and "kill the Hirned Rat" fall into the latter category. It's such a drastic shift on such a fundamental level for the setting that seeing it happen by any method over any span of time is distasteful. It's not about scale or power creep for me, but a narrative and thematic direction that I just can't get behind.
Compared to killing the Horned Rat, it is vastly simpler. Stick him with our sword till he is dead. Actually managing that is going to be absurdly hard. But we don't know where to even start with killing a God.
It hurts my enjoyment of the quest knowing that there's a possibility of trying to break the setting over our knee in our unmitigated hubris. It is not a realistic or achievable goal in the setting, and merely considering it strikes at my suspension of disbelief and the quest's verisimilitude. Now I expect Boney to be a better QM than to allow this without extreme preparation on the order of decades and centuries of concerted effort, pouring our every action and our entire life into the task to the exclusion of all else, only to find that it may indeed be impossible.
Depends. I'm not sure if Boney wants us to get into the nitty gritty of library administration but its like so in my head:
Eh, it does not break mine. After all, the Warhammer Setting is full of people who did the sort of Grand Deeds you speak of, which involved breaking the setting in an entirely new way.
