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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Ericwinter said:
So what you're saying is that basically fascinations with any natural phenomenon are just a sign that you might be a mage, and predilections for a particular Wind take far more testing to discover? That's about the only reason I can think of for a fascination with storms to hint anything important about Mathilde with your explanation. It was just her being attracted to the Winds and their natural interactions in general, rather than a particular one.
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The Winds are in anything and everything and Mathilde liking storms probably just means that she liked storms.
 
Ericwinter said:
So what you're saying is that basically fascinations with any natural phenomenon are just a sign that you might be a mage, and predilections for a particular Wind take far more testing to discover? That's about the only reason I can think of for a fascination with storms to hint anything important about Mathilde with your explanation. It was just her being attracted to the Winds and their natural interactions in general, rather than a particular one.
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More like...she has an extraordinarily keen Windsight now, but she had really good magesight from the start.
Everyone's magic talent manifests differently, but for kid Mathilde, just imagine how the surge of Winds that accompany any energetic natural phenomenon tastes like, since her Windsight manifests as taste-based synestheasia.

Of course she's fascinated.
It has a flavor
 
Pretty sure the Mathilde fascination with storms tying her to Ulgu is based on this:
Realms of Sorcery said:
It is most affected by the mortal winds that blow across the earth, and it rears into mighty clouds beneath the influence of storms or gales, which is when Grey magic is at its strongest.
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Emphasis mine. Grey magic is strongest, not at dawn or dusk, but during periods of high mundane wind.
 
Yep. Of all the Winds of Magic, Ulgu is the most attuned to the classical element of Air.

That said, as far as I understand in Warhammer magic talents don't generally come with a "flavor" of one of the Winds - in fact, it takes special training and effort for beginning mages to learn how to draw on only one of the Winds.

There are rare exceptions (like the Azyr Patriarch), but most talents the colleges pick up could do equally well in any of the Eight Winds, with most arrivals being sorted by practical and political reasons as opposed to magical ones.
 
Redshirt Army said:
That said, as far as I understand in Warhammer magic talents don't generally come with a "flavor" of one of the Winds - in fact, it takes special training and effort for beginning mages to learn how to draw on only one of the Winds.
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I mean, as you said, there's definitely exceptions. Balthazar Gelt is one, as far as I'm aware.

Still, it's entirely possible the only reason she went into Ulgu is because Regimand is the one who picked her up.
 
Mopman43 said:
I mean, as you said, there's definitely exceptions. Balthazar Gelt is one, as far as I'm aware.

Still, it's entirely possible the only reason she went into Ulgu is because Regimand is the one who picked her up.
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Definitly. I also imagine the Grey order has priority on any young children without a strong natural leaning, since they don't recruit older for reasons of loyalty.

That her first magic act was enchanting is also (weak) evidence that Mathilde's natural inclinations are weak, whatever they may be. Or that she should get on with it and finally learn some rune magic. (On that note, if she wants to properly rival Nagash, she clearly needs to ...acquire dwarfen rune lore as the basis of her new tradition, and then mix in the knowledge about a divine traditon.)
 
Omegahugger said:
Remember, the -mancy family of magic is actually divination.

Nekoromancy is divining romantic prospect through cats. It is a vital skill for any shipper.
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But if it's divined using cats, wouldn't Ranald be able to influence what you read from it? Does this make Ranald the god of shipping?
 
Omegahugger said:
Remember, the -mancy family of magic is actually divination.

Nekoromancy is divining romantic prospect through cats. It is a vital skill for any shipper.
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The use of -mancy as generic magic suffix is fifty years old. At this point you might as well try telling Tolkien that dwarves is the wrong plural and it should be dwarfs. If you want a specific divination suffix, you could try pulling -spicy from haruspicy (entrail-reading) and its etymological relatives like auspices (auspicious).
 
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