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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Ericwinter said:
...God, I hope so. Given Av and what it could let us do, that would be a neat trick up our sleeve. Depending on what exactly it is. Mini-pocket dimension inside the pocket-dimension? Really really good illusion? A quantum state of Schrodinger-catness?
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This does seem possible with what we know of ulgu.

Make the state of something murky and ambiguous, both alive and dead until an observer gets too look one way or another....

But if we can then rig that so mathilde is the only observer that matters...
 
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BoneyM said:
You need a damn good reason to be given access to any of them, whatever your rank. The Night of a Thousand Arcane Duels taught a really ugly lesson in why you don't let just anyone have access to those.
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Does the expedition count as a sufficiently good reason? (I'm unsure if you were implying "you don't have a good reason" or if you were strictly only talking about if the rank itself is enough for cataclysm spells.)
 
NexusEye said:
The Glimmering Realm is one of the sacred secrets of the Cult of Gazul. She might be referring to it but unless she somehow knows we've been told of it's nature then even alluding to is sharing Dwarven secrets which is generally considered a Bad Idea. It's possible that she's referring to some other artificial plane.
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Personally, I'm more amused that she said it as if we didn't already know, meaning she probably thought she was imparting some great knowledge on us.
"happens more than you'd know,"
"You would be surprised how much I know, actually."
BoneyM said:
Yes. The next window for that is in the second half of next year.
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So... shortly after we get back from hell?
 
Andres110 said:
Does the expedition count as a sufficiently good reason? (I'm unsure if you were implying "you don't have a good reason" or if you were strictly only talking about if the rank itself is enough for cataclysm spells.)
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No, otherwise anyone could get them just by planning a trip to somewhere they shouldn't.

Wiadi said:
So would the specific formulation for "Magister Lord/Lady" be "Dalzhufokrulaki," or is there a less cumbersome way of specifying?
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It would. Dwarves consider cumbersome to be a very low price to pay for precision.
 
Maybe Mhornriki, to go with how Runelord is Rhunriki? That's apparently an 'unofficial' term according to the Bugman's Brewery forum, but.

EDIT: Or rather, maybe Mhornzhufrikki, I think. Then again, it was Mhornokri rather than Mhornzhufokri so... might just be Mhornriki. Or Mhornrinn maybe.
 
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Ericwinter said:
Personally, I'm more amused that she said it as if we didn't already know, meaning she probably thought she was imparting some great knowledge on us.
"happens more than you'd know,"
"You would be surprised how much I know, actually."

So... shortly after we get back from hell?
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let us not challenge the dude who can turn into a fucking dragon until we have a spell in our roster that is comparable to "I'M A MOTHERFUCKING T-REX DRAGON!"
 
HanEmpire said:
@BoneyM does this job come with any perks? To increase Mathilde's survival chances I mean.
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In actual perks, almost all monetary, oddly enough. No tithe, I think. Also a raise from Belegar as we are now a grandmaster, and Dwarves pay based on what level of mastery one is at. And access to the goddamn shadow realm, which is clearly the best perk. But other than that, I don't think so.
BoneyM said:
For extra nuance, this has two built-in assumptions: that the leader of a guild is merely first among equals rather than a step above Grandmaster, and that the most important pinnacle of craftsmanship is the Dalokrulaz, the things made by Grandmasters, rather than the Dalokrulak, the status of being Grandmaster.
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Would the Eye of Gazul qualify as a Dalokrulaz, even though we made it as a master? Would our staff?

Also, is there a compound word combining being a grand master and being a shadow crafter? I know Mhornokrul was master shadow something, would it be Dalmhornokrulaki for grandmaster shadow something?
 
Well this is a very pleasant surprise.

The title is nice and all, but what extra responsibilities does it come with? If I recall correctly, a Lord Magister is approximately real, proper nobility on the Empire's rank-equivalence chart, right? We are prominent now, and I can't imagine there aren't now some form of political concerns for us.

Regarding politics: college politics is presumably something we're gonna actually have to care about now. We've mostly been a free agent and have looked on the colleges as basically a place to spend and earn favors in the abstract. We probably need to spend some time getting fully up to speed there. Also probably some schmoozing within the college ecosystem. We have 2/3 on Advanced Colleges of Magic, so pushing that up is a priority. Granted, Ulgu and Grey being what it is, we've some more latitude on being aloof and unsocial, but the fact thst we really don't know many people in our own order is all the more stark now.

What role will we be fulfilling in the college hierarchy? We're not a department head, but still, a Lord Magistership cannot come without its own duties to the colleges. We'll probably have to pay more attention to Altdorf and college goings-on.

Also, to what extent is it an issue that we live outside the Empire? Politics again. Plus again our divided loyalties.

I can't help but feel this is another turning point in the quest, another avenue for divided loyalties to get hooks in us, and to get us more closely involved with Imperial politics, whether collegial or not.
 
ninjafish said:
let us not challenge the dude who can turn into a fucking dragon until we have a spell in our roster that is comparable to "I'M A MOTHERFUCKING T-REX DRAGON!"
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Well, yes, I was just mostly making sure I had the timing right. It'd be kinda sad to not even be present for our first round in the rank where it could actually matter, even if we don't plan to do anything with it.
 
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