Don't say it. We don't need every noble in the the empire to start buying up dragon bones.I think Mathilde has sown the seeds for another uprising in Wizard Chic: Grey Wizard Edition, with this. Truly, we are a victim of our own success.
Or is it the fat metal, and the Dwarfs just say otherwise?
If the Sea of Claws was comparatively that unsafe, Marienburg would be completely unimportant, as the Empire would never do trade through it anyway. As is, the Sea of Claws must be as safe as land travel, or at least only unsafe enough that the speed increase is worth the risk. Otherwise people wouldn't bother trading there, but they do.
Huh. What is Mathilde's shadow then? It certainly seems to be capable of independent action.
For example, Ikit Claw has been alive for like 800 years.
Take the control shadow action and find out.
Part of her soul, apparently. At least, according to the Gazul priest.
Gromril defies your outdated beauty standards.Or is it the fat metal, and the Dwarfs just say otherwise?
Won't bypass that by the Marienburg - Varr route. There are plenty of dangers it does bypass though: Sartosa pirates; other pirates who might not be as famous but will still kill you and take your stuff; Druchii off the Estalian and Brettonian coasts; weather at sea, storms and calms both; rocks and; sea monsters.
Generic 40K term for life extension stuff.
You know, thinking about it I'm rather relieved we never really got into Deep Intrigue. Undercover work, treachery, blackmail… are not things I think the voting consensus would have handled well.
Which sort of undercuts the idea that traveling through the river system and out at Barak Varr to get to Tilea or Estalia or Bretonnia would be safer or faster than going from Marienburg, and following the coast.
I think the silk must be Belegar's version of AV: incredibly valuable but never quite coming to fruition.
It also distracts from our more subtle and arguably more impact-full accomplishments.
We might want to check what their current state of progress is sometime. Really feel that it should have come up in a council meeting. Then again all the "help" we are getting is a huge AP sink for him.
Well its a room in a tower, and presumably maaaaaagic
Don't go anywhere in Mallus, its too dangerous.
Its case by case sensitive. Such a sweeping generalisation generally isn't helpful, but as far as I can see, overland in the Old World...generally pretty safe along as you are not in an area like Sylvania.
Travelling on well patrolled rivers and canals that all the polities they pass through consider to be vital thoroughfares is a different prospect to taking an overland route over mountain passes, through forests, deserts and moors.
Wait, rewarding a Clanless collective by making them into a new Clan was something completely unprecedented? And King Belegar just did it without much discussion? I thought it was based on old and long unused precedence or something. But in that case what he did is probably more radical and noteworthy to Dwarfdom than any of the Umgi Wizard games he plays.
Like Dawi-Zharr for instance. No one but Mathilde can fire it on them and I'm not even sure that Gazul is okay with Mathilde just firing it on them either.
Nonsense. Gromril is enduring and respects proper dwarven traditions.
I happen to remember a couple of bits in one of the ToL books that at least a pair of normal Skaven (the ones in charge of interaction with Nagash) manage to survive at least one or two centuries.
You can fix ships a lot more reliably than you can fix caravans. Ship's Carpenter was a job for a reason. Caravans have pretty much all the same needs as a ship, but it's much more expensive to carry the extra people and materials.Well its a room in a tower, and presumably maaaaaagic
Don't go anywhere in Mallus, its too dangerous.
Regardless land vs sea is just far too selective on a case by case basis to make generalities.
I think the TLDR is if you're going anywhere off the beaten tracks, you need to have something going for you. Even if its just a big, extremely well-armed convoy, its still gotta be more (probably a lot more) than normal. This applies to land or sea.
Its case by case sensitive. Such a sweeping generalisation generally isn't helpful, but as far as I can see, overland in the Old World...generally pretty safe along as you are not in an area like Sylvania.
Same for sea travel cept for the sea of claws.
Rivers are better than both, they're faster and generally have fewer gribbles in them save for places like Sylvania again. Even then its still a better option generally hence things like the stir river patrol.
Leave those areas which are "civilised" though things instantly become more dangerous, until you reach areas like the badlands. Here sea or land travel you're kinda ****ed and what is "safer" matters much less than what is practical.
In my opinion, land travel through the bad lands is probably the safer way to reach cathay or Ind for example. Ships are all or nothing and can't be reliably fixed en route. Caravans can and if you lose them then like the viceroy your odds or survival are much better than bobbing around holding onto wreckage.
Of course this will likely change as ships themselves become more advanced. If they can be made faster, mount more fire power etc. I can see people like Marianberg or Tilia putting together trade armadas. Just massive concentrations of force centred around cargo ships that sail to the east and bring back vast hauls.
Just not really practical at the moment.
I disagree that river travel is all that much safer than land travel. Sure, the rivers are patrolled, but so are the roads and the seas. It's not like you can't get river bandits or monster either. Rivers also trap you a lot more effectively. You can't just leave the route you're taking if someone or something comes after you, it's fight it off or die.
