Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

[Nordlending]

[X] Oswald Oswaldson, newly-minted Chief Bombardier of the Undumgi.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Johann, as both of you reflect on the events both of you went through together over the past year, that began with the hunt for a Clan Skyre gasmask.
[X] Roswita, as she campaigns through Hunger Wood.

 

[Horium]

@BoneyM Is "[] Prince Gotri, as he plans to build an Airfleet worthy its name" a viable option?

 

[10ebbor10]

You consider this, and finally nod in acceptance. Qrech's mindset, you reflect, is almost entirely recognizable, as you understand his loyalty to his Clan and his Empire. But the part that you need to remind yourself of is that though he is loyal to the Under-Empire as a whole, he holds no loyalty towards any Clan but Moulder, and does not see his efforts to undermine other Clans as working against the interests of the Under-Empire. All resources on the Skaven describe them as treacherous, but perhaps it would be more accurate to describe them as having a different conception of what loyalty means, and holding a belief that internal strife strengthens the whole, rather than weakening it.

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So, the Skaven have a good case of Social Darwinism? Not too unexpected.

 

[NukeDaSun]

[X] Oswald Oswaldson, newly-minted Chief Bombardier of the Undumgi.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Johann, as both of you reflect on the events both of you went through together over the past year, that began with the hunt for a Clan Skyre gasmask.
[X] Roswita, as she campaigns through Hunger Wood.

 

[Boney]

Whats the (T) stand for? Tried searching for the explanation but apparently the forum search always ignores brackets.

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As others have guessed, Translated. As a book only goes into the Library section if Mathilde is able to read it, it only matters to others wanting to peruse the books.

@BoneyM Is "[] Prince Gotri, as he plans to build an Airfleet worthy its name" a viable option?

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Sure.

So, the Skaven have a good case of Social Darwinism? Not too unexpected.

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Sort of, but part of it is 'because we're the best, we'll come out on top, and because we're the best, us being in charge is best for the Under-Empire'.

 

[Shard]

[X] Hubert, to go deeper into discussion on Ulrican matters.
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart, leader of the frontier town of Ulrikadrin.

Vote Ulrik #2020

[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.

I like watching canals.

[X] Roswita, as she campaigns through Hunger Wood.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.

I haven't seen much of Kasmir lately.

[X] The Amber College, to see how your donation of Lustrian eggs is going.
[X] Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it.

Might as well.

 

[Alratan]

[X] Johann, as both of you reflect on the events both of you went through together over the past year, that began with the hunt for a Clan Skyre gasmask.

To join the upper echelons of the Order requires that they swear their life to Ulric. Marriage is off the table, and any serious relationship would undermine his leadership position as it would be seen as him not giving his all to Ulric and the Order.

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Interesting. One of the canon disagreements between the Cult of Ulric and the Cult of Sigmar was that the latter forced the former into introducing clerical celibacy. Doctrinally, the Cult of Ulric believes priests should marry (which is consistent with their views on self-sufficiency), but they were forced to accept not doing so.

Priests being celibate in the Old World is a peculiar hang-up of the Cult of Sigmar because Sigmar never married. The other Cults disagree, so have married clergy, save for that of Ulric.

 

[Derpmind]

[X]Elder Hluodwica, High Priestess of Esmerelda and civilian leader of the Eight Peaks Halflings.
[X] Roswita, as she campaigns through Hunger Wood.
[X] Johann, as both of you reflect on the events both of you went through together over the past year, that began with the hunt for a Clan Skyre gasmask.
[X] Oswald Oswaldson, newly-minted Chief Bombardier of the Undumgi
[X] Hubert, to go deeper into discussion on Ulrican matters.
[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.

 

[Khaos]

@BoneyM
What's the situation with Queekish languages? Something like Chinese with an official script and a multitude of closely related languages (with a lot of those close enough to be considered dialect families)?

Is there enough written material and pronunciation correspondence to work out some other vocabulary? I suppose that it's not something alphabetic since that would make it much easier) but even pictogram based languages like Chinese has some phono-semantic compounds that help.

Is there something that could be done with rhyming words? General patterns of semantic/pronunciation shifts?

In other words, are there ways to apply linguistics to get more of our knowledge of Queekish?

I could be mistaken about it, but afaik, we have somewhat successfully reconstructed vulgar Latin despite it being a spoken language only with most sources being classical Latin and related languages.

 

[Neshuakadal]

A trip into the formerly Skaven territories confirms that ambient Dhar can trigger the transformation, but only at levels equivalent to recent Battle Magic use.

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This is quite terrifying for me. Months after they were all driven out dhar from their weapons is still hanging around in equivalent levels to recent battle magic use. How much was the ambient dhar exposure during the conflict? Pretty scary.

 

[BeepSmile]

Come onnnn! Pick the We! Don't you wanna see what's up with our Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spooders!?

They're gifts!

 

[Horium]

Updated vote, with Prince Gotri option included

[X] Prince Gotri, as he plans to build an Airfleet worthy its name.
[X] Oswald Oswaldson, newly-minted Chief Bombardier of the Undumgi.
[X] Adela, to see where she's at in deciding her future.
[X] Hubert, to go deeper into discussion on Ulrican matters.
[X] Johann, as both of you reflect on the events both of you went through together over the past year, that began with the hunt for a Clan Skyre gasmask.
[X] Wilhelmina, to see how she's going when she's not a terrifying financial juggernaut.
[X] Karak Hirn, to satisfy your curiousity about Prince Ulthar.

 

[Legionman]

[X] Roswita, as she campaigns through Hunger Wood.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Wilhelmina, to see how she's going when she's not a terrifying financial juggernaut.
[X] Julia, See what she has gotten up to as Stirland's most experienced spy master.

 

[veekie]

Interesting. One of the canon disagreements between the Cult of Ulric and the Cult of Sigmar was that the latter forced the former into introducing clerical celibacy. Doctrinally, the Cult of Ulric believes priests should marry (which is consistent with their views on self-sufficiency), but they were forced to accept not doing so.

Priests being celibate in the Old World is a peculiar hang-up of the Cult of Sigmar because Sigmar never married. The other Cults disagree, so have married clergy, save for that of Ulric.

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I think its specifically this order, in that they are sworn to Ulric's cause alone, as basically the Ulrican cult Greatsword equivalents.

I'm pretty sure they aren't actually bound to celibacy, just from having any competing oaths. So lovers and children yes, wives no.

 

[LightLan]

This is quite terrifying for me. Months after they were all driven out dhar from their weapons is still hanging around in equivalent levels to recent battle magic use. How much was the ambient dhar exposure during the conflict? Pretty scary.

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As the update where we voted for the turn plan showed:
Enough to spontaneously reanimate their dead as Undead.

Which is damn fucking terrifying.
Mathilde would be capable of serving as a light source due to her Belt burning all that Dhar frightening.

 

[Abhorsen]

[X] Julia, See what she has gotten up to as Stirland's most experienced spy master.
[X] Roswita, as she campaigns through Hunger Wood.
[X] The We, to check on how they're settling in to the new arrangement.
[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.
[X] Hubert, to go deeper into discussion on Ulrican matters.

 

[Cerroneth]

[X] Adela, to see where she's at in deciding her future.
[X] Hubert, to go deeper into discussion on Ulrican matters.

[X] Soizic, military leader of the Undumgi.

[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.

[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Wilhelmina, to see how she's going when she's not a terrifying financial juggernaut.

[X] The Amber College, to see how your donation of Lustrian eggs is going.

 

[vsh]

[x] Oswald Oswaldson, newly-minted Chief Bombardier of the Undumgi.

 

[Boney]

Interesting. One of the canon disagreements between the Cult of Ulric and the Cult of Sigmar was that the latter forced the former into introducing clerical celibacy. Doctrinally, the Cult of Ulric believes priests should marry (which is consistent with their views on self-sufficiency), but they were forced to accept not doing so.

Priests being celibate in the Old World is a peculiar hang-up of the Cult of Sigmar because Sigmar never married. The other Cults disagree, so have married clergy, save for that of Ulric.

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Being a Priest is inherently social, which means that those that gravitate towards the Priesthood have certain opinions about how far one should take Ulrican self-sufficiency. The more martial often take it even further. It's not quite celibacy, since it's not about sex itself.

@BoneyM
What's the situation with Queekish languages? Something like Chinese with an official script and a multitude of closely related languages (with a lot of those close enough to be considered dialect families)?

Is there enough written material and pronunciation correspondence to work out some other vocabulary? I suppose that it's not something alphabetic since that would make it much easier) but even pictogram based languages like Chinese has some phono-semantic compounds that help.

Is there something that could be done with rhyming words? General patterns of semantic/pronunciation shifts?

In other words, are there ways to apply linguistics to get more of our knowledge of Queekish?

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Written Queekish is centralized, because only the most important Skaven need to be literate and they either spend time at Skavenblight or do most of their written communicating with those that do, and the Grey Seers enforce a single written dialect as a means of social control. Spoken Queekish is decentralized, because every Skaven is using it and most of those that do don't ever leave where they were born except to go to war, so there'd be Clan dialects and there'd be stronghold-specific subdialects. There'd be no way of learning about spoken dialects from written communications.

'High' Queekish, which many of those in Skavenblight would consider the only true Queekish, is the Skavenblight dialect. 'Low' Queekish is a sort of pidgin language built out of the lowest common linguistic denominators of Queekish.

 

[Zaratustra]

[X] Adela, to see where she's at in deciding her future.
[X] Hubert, to go deeper into discussion on Ulrican matters.
[X] The We, to check on how they're settling in to the new arrangement.
[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.
[X] Karak Hirn, to satisfy your curiousity about Prince Ulthar.
[X] Wilhelmina, to see how she's going when she's not a terrifying financial juggernaut.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Julia, See what she has gotten up to as Stirland's most experienced spy master.
[X] The Amber College, to see how your donation of Lustrian eggs is going.
[X] Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it.

 

[NSMS]

[X] Wilhelmina, to see how she's going when she's not a terrifying financial juggernaut.

Feels like we've been neglecting her.

 

[Valmond]

[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart, leader of the frontier town of Ulrikadrin.
[X] Roswita, as she campaigns through Hunger Wood.
[X] The Amber College, to see how your donation of Lustrian eggs is going.
[X] Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it.

 

[Khaos]

Written Queekish is centralized, because only the most important Skaven need to be literate and they either spend time at Skavenblight or do most of their written communicating with those that do, and the Grey Seers enforce a single written dialect as a means of social control. Spoken Queekish is decentralized, because every Skaven is using it and most of those that do don't ever leave where they were born except to go to war, so there'd be Clan dialects and there'd be stronghold-specific subdialects. There'd be no way of learning about spoken dialects from written communications.

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So basically, HIgh Queekih is Latin, Moulder Queekish is Chinese, Low Queekish is Sanskrit and written Queekish is Egyptian hieroglyphs meaning its own thing with no pronounced equivalent?

 

[NSMS]

Being a Priest is inherently social, which means that those that gravitate towards the Priesthood have certain opinions about how far one should take Ulrican self-sufficiency. The more martial often take it even further. It's not quite celibacy, since it's not about sex itself.



Written Queekish is centralized, because only the most important Skaven need to be literate and they either spend time at Skavenblight or do most of their written communicating with those that do, and the Grey Seers enforce a single written dialect as a means of social control. Spoken Queekish is decentralized, because every Skaven is using it and most of those that do don't ever leave where they were born except to go to war, so there'd be Clan dialects and there'd be stronghold-specific subdialects. There'd be no way of learning about spoken dialects from written communications.

'High' Queekish, which many of those in Skavenblight would consider the only true Queekish, is the Skavenblight dialect. 'Low' Queekish is a sort of pidgin language built out of the lowest common linguistic denominators of Queekish.

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Do we have any idea how well we'd be able to understand the other Queekish dialects from our knowledge of Low Queekish, or is that something we'd have to experience first-hand to find out?

 

[Boney]

So basically, HIgh Queekih is Latin, Moulder Queekish is Chinese, Low Queekish is Sanskrit and written Queekish is Egyptian hieroglyphs meaning its own thing with no pronounced equivalent?

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Closer to this:


Theoretically it's one common language, but the dialects have diverged so far that mutual intelligibility is often lost.

Do we have any idea how well we'd be able to understand the other Queekish dialects from our knowledge of Low Queekish, or is that something we'd have to experience first-hand to find out?

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Next to no chance.