All it takes is one moment of bad luck, one moment of overconfidence, and we can die to even a relatively weak enemy (represented in-quest most likely by a string of terrible rolls). It's not likely, but it absolutely can happen. And don't forget, if Mathilde does get declared a dark magister for whatever reason, it's basically certain any group tasked with hunting her down will include Grey Magisters and people with information on Mathilde's known skills and gear (the seed, Branulhune, etc).
Pedantry: do empire people even know what Branulhune does? All they know iirc is that it is a stronk Dawi sword, and maaaaybe if they interview witnessess that she can summon it.
That's a daft name, seeing as some of its most famous practitioners (including its creator!) most certainly aren't/weren't vampires.
Considering Vampires are imperfect Nagash's, depends on one's definition of a vampire on that one.
I apologize for how confrontational this sounds, but on what grounds do you say that this is the "correct" wording? I'm not fluent, but I did grow up speaking Greek with my relatives. ίσκιος exists as a term for shadow, but I had to look it up. σκιά is in Attic and Koine Greek as well as Modern Greek; ίσκιος is of Byzantine origin. Is there something I am missing?
To be honest, at first I just went with what sounds right (as a fluent but not native Greek speaker). But at least in modern Greek, any and all compound words with the word for shadow in their root use iskio- over skia-. And even in ancient (Attic) Greek ἰσκιερός means "that which has shadow". Using Skia- with the -a ending in a coumpound word also just sounds wrong to a Greek speaker, similar to how mouse is "ποντίκι", but mouse trap is "ποντικοπαγίδα" not ποντικιπαγίδα".
But all this is being said by someone who was a shit student in ancient Greek (which I had to do for 6 years), so if a philologist points out how wrong I am or if Sciomancy (with an 'o') is already an established word, then I gladly concede.
As a Greek, I feel sorry I missed the greek discussion until there was nothing more to really add.
Lets not wake a sleeping demon.
Poking into one of the hard set rule regarding money and power will ends up with us on the receiving end of a knive in the dark from a grey master.
At this moment, we are not lacking either in friends, money, power or prestige.
You can never have too many friends.
I doubt there is any dark magister that can knife us in the dark at this point, unless we roll a 1. Maybe a grey lord magister.
I do agree this will end badly, with Mathilde hunted by the colleges and potentially even burning her bridges with the Dawi, but it won't be an instant game over like the thread is treating it. Black magister Mathilde has the skills to potentially survive and escape Empire persecution. That's not because she is stronger than the Empire, mind you, but rather, because the Empire and Colleges are stretched on so many fronts there is only so much power they can spare for Mathilde if she is not an existential threat, and, while its not a certain win for her that level of power is also not a certain game over.
Even though it is not what I'd ever vote for, I am confident that the quest can continue even if we go full Omegahugger without needing amazing rolls for us to survive, we'll just lose a big part of our friends, connections, money and prestige.
