ok, lets see.
That raises the interesting question of whether dragon type is nature or nurture. I'd guess nature myself, which would mean there's no way to get an Ulgu Dragon from a Hysh Dragon Egg.
But my High Magic Archmage Lords keep telling me that they can't rewrite reality. Are you saying they've been lying to me?
Are you sure about that? Personally, I've always imagined her as going hatless, although that could very well be in the same area as the part of me that always imagined Mathilde going around holding a staff despite her explicitly not having one yet.
Mathilde probably has a few dozen secrets in her head, that she does not remember, just like the Skaven thing.
I already linked them to my effortpost! What more do you want from me? I'VE GIVEN JOHANN EVERYTHING I HAVE
I agree with this take. I think it's likely that basically any corner of the Grey College has people doing something extremely shady that might possibly land them in hot water. Like, I said it after Regimand's debriefing:
The Grey College is the frigging disappear-people-in-the-night-or-kill-them-without-trial secret police. It's got dark, buried secrets: they're just related to ongoing or completed operations more than they relate to the nature of magic.
Alchemy's the better example for the golds. It and the leyline things are both pre-elven practices which have survived to the present day and are considered unusually central to the operations of the college. I'm not certain that the grey college really has a direct equivalent there, it's been noted that Teclis only initiated a very few highly trusted members into it and so it probably had less institutional pre-elven knowledge.
I'm not talking about Abel's death, i am talking about the current vote.
No one alive seems to know.
That's a possibility, though given the way dragon bone can be realigned to different winds, I kinda doubt it. The way I understood it was that dragons would slowly absorb and become aligned to one wind over time, probably the earliest years of their life, based on what was prevalent where they lived. Or at least, wherever their egg was kept. Granted, the distinction could be meaningless if that applies before the egg is laid, and most dragons would probably be hatched and raised in the territory of their mother anyways, and so be saturated in the same wind. But, theoretically; Mathilde could probably stick an egg that hasn't been saturated in her Ulgu tower. If I'm correct at least, and we all know how that saying goes.
I think that that might be the secret, actually. Everybody suspects the Grey College is the Judge Dredd Style Secret Police, but there really isn't any evidence of it, or else the Witch Hunters would be frothing at the mouth. If anybody, even the other colleges, knew that we felt that our mandate to protect the Empire extended to assassinating members of the Imperial Family they'd freak out.
I still believe our Skaven-Sorcerer paper barely slid into the Classified-Pile and almost made it into Top Secret.
Certainly that's a possibility, but that would also mean that dragons could change types on their own, over time, by spending enough of it in an area saturated with a different wind. I think it more likely dragons are born with a pre-disposition for a wind, and it is only after their death that their bodies can be realigned from that wind.
If they possess a predisposition, it's likely as a part of their personality. If they experienced a life-altering event, I don't see why their emotional composition couldn't change with the rest of them.
