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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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BeepSmile said:
On each plaque that has each name of each tower, on the fourth letter, there should be a tiny, tiny X inscribed, 0.25 mm deep and say... 2 mm across.

But should Mathilde do it with her shadow chisel when she looks at the plaques before they're put up, or should she lie to a dwarf to get them do it?
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Lie? No. Just say it's a religious obligation. Which would be technically true. The best kind of true.
 
Given that these rooms are intended to serve a specific purpose re; controlling magical energies and that we know that said magical energies interact with divine energies somehow, I very much doubt that trying to sneak a holy symbol in would have good results.

Either the dwarfs making it don't know it'd be holy and can't account for how it effects the environment they're trying to create, or the dwarfs know it's holy and other issues can start cropping their heads up as a result of that.
 
me.me.here said:
Given that these rooms are intended to serve a specific purpose re; controlling magical energies and that we know that said magical energies interact with divine energies somehow, I very much doubt that trying to sneak a holy symbol in would have good results.

Either the dwarfs making it don't know it'd be holy and can't account for how it effects the environment they're trying to create, or the dwarfs know it's holy and other issues can start cropping their heads up as a result of that.
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Boo boo with your logic.


But yeah I think you are right about that and putting the symbol of Randal would be a bad idea.
 
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me.me.here said:
Given that these rooms are intended to serve a specific purpose re; controlling magical energies and that we know that said magical energies interact with divine energies somehow, I very much doubt that trying to sneak a holy symbol in would have good results.

Either the dwarfs making it don't know it'd be holy and can't account for how it effects the environment they're trying to create, or the dwarfs know it's holy and other issues can start cropping their heads up as a result of that.
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Divine energy is under the control of - or possibly just is - the god, though. Ranald's energies aren't going to mess with the wizards unless he thinks it'd be a good thing, in which case it probably is.
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
I see

so the type of tower will be known as Mathilde's Aethyric Training Halls for Intensive Learning (Dawi Enhanced)

while the individual towers will each have a name is so

Mystifying Maze (Ulgu)
Artificial Alcove (Chamon)
Timeless Tomb (Shyish)
Horizon Hall (Azyr)
Inspirational Inglenook (Aqshy)
Luminescent Lens (Hysh)
Druidic Domain (Ghyran)
Earthen Enclosure (Ghur)

maximum amount of MATHILDE*tm!
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I can't help but feel that slapping our name on them three times would be the Watsonian reason why we don't get any College favor.

Deathbybunnies said:
Divine energy is under the control of - or possibly just is - the god, though. Ranald's energies aren't going to mess with the wizards unless he thinks it'd be a good thing, in which case it probably is.
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Or humorous. He'd certainly also do it if he thought it would be funny.
 
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Altdorf Magisterial Chronicle
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    • Article:
    In a surprise move, Loremaster Magister Dame Mathilde Weber announced the commission of the Mystical Aptitude Training Halls of Intensive Laborious Dwarven Elucidation for the wellbeing and betterment of all righteous, law abiding wizards. The means by which she is funding this ambitious new venture is unknown, but speculation is rife due to the well known Vow of Poverty gray wizards undertake. Whatever the logistics of the matter may be, this author hopes it's nothing nefarious. When asked, Supreme Patriarch Dragomas had little to say other than "It's all good."

    In any case, planned to the meticulous standards of a grumbling dwarven grandmaster, the Mystifying Maze, Artificial Alcove, Timeless Tomb, Horizon Hall, Inspirational Inglenook, Luminescent Lens, Druidic Domain, and Earthen Enclosure mark the beginning of a new wave of campus construction in Altdorf...
    Source: Page 4 of the Altdorf Magisterial Chronicle


    Three wizards meet inside an office. One flips through paperwork, one pretends not to be reading over his shoulder, and one fidgets in his seat at the desk.

    Algard raises an eyebrow. "Are you sure you taught your student the meaning of subtlety?" he asks, taking two papers off of his desk and offering them to his guests.

    "I could've sworn I did," mutters Regimand. "Maybe this illuminating desk report of yours refers to another enterprising young wizard?"

    Wilhelmine delicately flips through her copy. "Clearly this must be the work of some other menacingly active terror, hiding in ludicrous details, evidently hoping to misdirect attention." She snorts. "No, I'm afraid not, dear. This one's all yours."

    "Well, even better. Every rag talking about this is one that's not talking about... other matters."

    "Yes, quite."

    "Agreed."

    "So moving on from the topic of my student..."

    "Winning the War Below was the planned topic of our session, I believe."

    "The strategists came up with something new after that debacle?"

    "Ah, yes. Well, I can say with full confidence that your student had nothing to do with Ubersreik."

    "Gods damn it."
     
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    • HanEmpire said:
    Is Ind WHF's Wakanda? They have all the wax they need to create super-charged intellectuals and centres of learning. Is there a secret Universal Sovereign with Ind Space Marines living under a camouflage shield?
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    I mean, there could be for all we know. Canon knowledge about Ind is basically solely in the form of stuff like that candle- rare things that say they're from there and don't really reveal anything more about the place.
     
    Interestingly, based on what we know, apparently the dwarf member of Marienberg's Directorate is the protector of that city's Indie community (and the Cathyan and Nipponese ones).
     
    Honestly Ind is pretty cool. It's got countless deities and spirits, good guy Tiger Beastmen, the magic candles, and just miles of cool stuff.

    Ind is honestly more interesting to me then Cathay is, and Cathay is pretty darn interesting.
     
    ReImagined said:
    "Gods damn it."
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    You know what's really funny? They're going to blame it on the Queekish discovery. After all, what else what else could we have recently done to earn so much Dwarven influence to throw around? It's not like we're supplying them with Daemon Blood to fuel Ancestor Runes or something else ridiculous like that. Right?
    ... okay, I need to go to bed. That's a little more on the nose than I usually sound.
     
    ReImagined said:
    Article:
    In a surprise move, Loremaster Magister Dame Mathilde Weber announced the commission of the Mystical Aptitude Training Halls of Intensive Laborious Dwarven Elucidation for the wellbeing and betterment of all righteous, law abiding wizards. The means by which she is funding this ambitious new venture is unknown, but speculation is rife due to the well known Vow of Poverty gray wizards undertake. Whatever the logistics of the matter may be, this author hopes it's nothing nefarious. When asked, Supreme Patriarch Dragomas had little to say other than "It's all good."

    In any case, planned to the meticulous standards of a grumbling dwarven grandmaster, the Mystifying Maze, Artificial Alcove, Timeless Tomb, Horizon Hall, Inspirational Inglenook, Luminescent Lens, Druidic Domain, and Earthen Enclosure mark the beginning of a new wave of campus construction in Altdorf...
    Source: Page 4 of the Altdorf Magisterial Chronicle


    Three wizards meet inside an office. One flips through paperwork, one pretends not to be reading over his shoulder, and one fidgets in his seat at the desk.

    Algard raises an eyebrow. "Are you sure you taught your student the meaning of subtlety?" he asks, taking two papers off of his desk and offering them to his guests.

    "I could've sworn I did," mutters Regimand. "Maybe this illuminating desk report of yours refers to another enterprising young wizard?"

    Wilhelmine delicately flips through her copy. "Clearly this must be the work of some other menacingly active terror, hiding in ludicrous details, evidently hoping to misdirect attention." She snorts. "No, I'm afraid not, dear. This one's all yours."

    "Well, even better. Every rag talking about this is one that's not talking about... other matters."

    "Yes, quite."

    "Agreed."

    "So moving on from the topic of my student..."

    "Winning the War Below was the planned topic of our session, I believe."

    "The strategists came up with something new after that debacle?"

    "Ah, yes. Well, I can say with full confidence that your student had nothing to do with Ubersreik."

    "Gods damn it."
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    The best way to convince someone you're telling the truth is to first convince them that you're a terrible liar.

    Similarly, the best way to convince someone that you're not up to anything sneaky is to first convince them that you are utterly incapable of subtlety.
     
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