Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
He's basically Mathilde but with daemons instead of necromancy, Hysh instead of Ulgu, and his Omegahugger equivalent actually won a vote.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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NexusEye
Aspiring God
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The wiki article on van Horstmann, should cover most of it.
- Location
- Earth
Canonically Horstmann infiltrated the Light Collage, destroyed many of their Tomes over the years and once discovered managed to flee into the Chaos Wastes with some dragon. All because some other Light College Magisters killed a relative of his.
- Location
- France
In canon he's a famous traitor. He joins the Light College, he's an absolute genius so he grows mighty and his career goes very far, and then he backstabs everyone using the secret Chaos powers he's been hiding because it turns out he was a Tzeench-worshipper all along!
He's crazy powerful, as befits someone who gets his own novels.
The details are IMO a little stupid, so forget about them. In any case, BoneyM has said that in this quest he might actually be a loyal and powerful spellcaster without any secret Chaos-worshipping going on, just to troll us.
Number 2. An Anvil is useless if you haven't also been taught how to use it and make the Runes for it. None have been made since Karag Dron fell, both because a volcano is required and because everyone that knew how has died.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
@BoneyM , I've been a bit confused about how Anvils of Doom work. Based on your portrayals, I tend to imagine them as big anvil-shaped hunks of metal with shallow indentations into which plates can be slotted or otherwise fixed into place. The runes are on the plates, so that they can be removed for recharging, maintenance, or replacement. This is because when we talk about, say, recharging an Anvil rune with elixir vitae, we don't talk about having to move this giant anvil into our recharging chamber.
Does that sound right?
Does that sound right?
- Location
- Utrecht
Let me find the post where i predicted engrimm van horstmann...
Edit: 1st August 2020
Edit: 1st August 2020
Go for a light wizard.
We get Magister Van Horstmann.
Thread explodes in paranoia
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I think you have the anvil, and the runesmith just takes out a piece of metal shaped into a rune, puts it on top of the anvil, and strikes it with their hammer, releasing the energy inside.
That's what someone looking from the outside sees. The runes are completely separate objects to the anvil.
Yes, here's a picture I found of the model I've been basing it off. Thorek there is holding the rune on the anvil in a pair of tongs and about to whack it, while his assistant gets another ready.
(other versions of the model have the Runelord physically standing atop a wheeled Anvil and presumably rolling around the place and shooting magical bolts out of his eyes or something, which, uh, yeah)
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- Location
- Sweden
And then the final revelation: there never was a Karag Dum.
Or was that Karak Vlag?I can never get these disappearing/re-appearing holds straight.
Karag Dum was the friends Mathilde made along the way to Karag Dum, obviously
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Hm. I figured there was some way to directly attach the runes to the anvil, but I see where you're coming from.
I figure there is, maybe some sort of magnetic-esque latch-on effect, but being sufficiently skilled means you don't need to waste time locking it in place and can metaphorically shoot from the hip and cycle runes in and out quickly.
consequences
Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
Pictured, Tzeentch standing over a table of infinite dimensions. On it, face down, are portraits of every single sapient being on Mundus(and likely beyond).
He looks at the field, considering. He then closes his eyes and other mystical senses, spins around nine times clockwise, and grabs a random portrait. He spins nine times counter clockwise grabbing a second portrait, eyes still closed.
He opens his eyes, and gazes upon the portaits: "Together! Mwahahahaha!"
Some decades later, the Hortzmann-Weber children are asking about how their parents got together.
"Oh I don't know, it must have just been fate I guess."
"Mwahahaha!"
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Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
Begone unholy Slaneeshy daemon!
So what I take from this is that either the 'Pack Ice' is permanently frozen to the point where you are rely on having thousand ton steam-wagons roll over it, or said steam-wagons are somehow amphibious.
Red is the Skull Road, the trade route from Kislev to Cathay. Blue is the two Expedition routes, the original on the left and the current on the right. Purplish-brown is a pretty huge cliff - the Western Steppes are at a higher elevation than Zorn Uzkul, which is itself at a higher elevation than the Dark Lands and the Old World.
Given Dwarfs, I would not be surprised by the latter.
Well at least the Journeymanlings can spend their Boons on runic bling more easily now. 'Apprentice' is very much a relative term with Runesmiths.
Ranald is screwing with us.
My greatest regret is that we don't get to learn about all these people.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
I mean given the likely patron for Von Horstmann, i'd say Tzeentch is screwing with us.
You know one of the things that felt the most forced about canon Horstman was the 'evil all along' part. I mean come on no one noticed he was covered head to toe in Chaos tattoos from the start? So maybe this version of him is Chaos-curious let's say and that is why he wants a journey to the Wastes. Perhaps we can direct him towards a less destructive trickster god.
- Location
- France
We've already met some of them. Choirmaster Stephen using space-warping to effectively teleport upwards while walking away after giving us that ant-plague item.
And Alric has come up in the quest, but IIRC we didn't see him on screen yet.
I blame the fact that Boney seems to have gotten wise and rolled these separately. How can we get boxcars if there's only one roll at a time?
- Location
- Czech Republic
My greatest hope for this expedition is that Horstman will join The August Order of the Ducklings.
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
- Location
- the Philippines
From OOC knowledge, Kant is the one who discovered Horstmann's Chaos activites, and Elrisse is his Master.
I think he is a bit old for that. He is Mathilde's peer in a lot of ways.
- Location
- Czech Republic
He could be newly promoted magister.
I'll put that down to historical revisionism IC.
Better for the colleges to believe he was bad from the start and slipped through undetected than the most devout and pious College have someone fall to Chaos.