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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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BoneyM said:
impossible thin
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Impossibly?

The promotion is really real.
Elder Hluodwica has probably experienced the prejudice of Stirlanders many times, first hand and as a community leader. Understandable that she'd want to probe a former Stirland peasant... also when you consider we'd seemingly snubbed one specific Karak community leader ignored her for nigh on a decade.
 
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BoneyM said:
Lady Magister Weber
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/external squeeing

"I might be able to get Dwarven ones, but I'd be on the hook for them - that's an uncomfortable position when I'd usually be a continent away from the factory. But I've got an in or two with the Imperial Gunnery School. If we tie it into non-compete contracts I should be able to get Nuln's techniques out of them, and I doubt we'll be able to exceed the requirements of both Stirland and the Undumgi."
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So build human and get Dwarf upgrades?

Master Baker Hluodwica, Elder of the Karak Eight Peaks Halflings and High Priestess of Esmerelda
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Surprisingly confrontational. I half feel she is trying to give 'her' wizard's new girlfriend the shotgun treatment. Nice to know K8P does have another intrigue specialist though.

Panoramia
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Wholesome and practical.
 
SuperSonicSound said:
@BoneyM

Does going as far north as we are going and exposing our windsight to the extreme magical environment of the far north count as exercising our windsight for the purposes of a campaign arc end?

I'll have to admit some of my desire to push on the pall of darkness action is entirely related to that.
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Depends what happens.

xilios2000 said:
Panoramia not going on the expedition:

@BoneyM Afraid of love interests dropping dead becoming a running theme are you?

(Note: this is a joke, but besides that though was whether or not Panoramia joined the expedition decided by diceroll?)
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Entirely based on character. I didn't know if she was coming or not until I wrote out her reaching that decision.
 
BoneyM said:
"It is a portion of the Aethyr that has been cut off from the rest, which happens more often than you might think," says Lady Magister Grey.
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Hmm...
BoneyM said:
"It is a metaphor, fed by Ulgu until it grew fat enough to visit," says Bursar Wilhelmina von Bucht.
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Hmmmm...
BoneyM said:
"It is part of the Grey Vaults, the threshold of Morr's Realm," says Porter Reiner Starke.
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HMMMMMMM...

BoneyM said:
He looks at you, and the belief in his eyes isn't the shining rigid belief of the Kasmir you knew, but just as dulled and battered as his armour. "I've spoken to Morrites, but they can't or won't tell me much. I don't know if Abelhelm is sequestered within Morr's realm or if he's by Sigmar's side."
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Hang in there, Kasmir.

We're about to do what your priest friends couldn't.
 
Stirland - Halfling bit was fascinating. Though, I don't remember Mathilde ever suffering from any prejudice or even caution against them, even in the early days.

Anyway, I will be voting for paying a karak azul runesmith to come with us.
 
Well, then. We have someone to come home to. Lets come home to her.

OneirosTheWriter said:
Did we ever resolve the Waystones matter?
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I expect Belegar's waiting for the conservatives to feck off before opening a working partnership with elves.

Horium said:
Stirland - Halfling bit was fascinating. Though, I don't remember Mathilde ever suffering from any prejudice or even caution against them, even in the early days.
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We see this through Mathilde's eyes. Unconscious is beyond hard to notice.

Not saying that she does have an unconscious bias, just that we, the readers, would not be able to tell.
 
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God, the Panoramia scene was super sweet and honest and I loved every word of it.

BoneyM said:
Part of the upholstery of the chair springs to life, throwing itself onto your robes and forming the ornamental trimmings that indicate a Wizard Lord of the Empire to those who know the patterns.
[...]
"Magister-" She looks again, and corrects herself. "Lady Magister Weber. Are you enjoying the meal?"
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Hluodwica is astonishingly perceptive, astonishingly well-educated, or both.
 
Some thoughts/questions on the magical revelations in the update:

I wonder if mortal souls partially reside in or traverse that same liminal space between the Aethyr and the material world.

Given what we know about vampires' souls being severed from the Aethyr, I wonder if in some ways part of the process of making them is a microcosmic version of making a demiplane.

Given what we know about Apparitions, I wonder if they live in this liminal space, and whether learning about it might help with research in that direction.

I wonder if Ranald's Coin might be more powerful 'closer' to the Aethyr.

I mentioned this above, but I wonder if there could be some synergies between what Gunnars could teach us about this kind of thing and what the Grey College knows. We shouldn't look at this as a substitute, but as a complement, given that we have word of QM that the obligations are trivial.

Generally, I'm getting the impression that there are two main ways to develop as a wizard from this point. Learning secret lore, like about apparitions, or demiplanes, (or Gazul's Lore it Arcane Khazalid), or getting unique life experiences that are reflected in traits.

I am wondering whether it would be worth hiring one of the Lord Magisters to teach us about the liminal space in a future turn. Possibly more than one - although after we've learned Gazul's Lore and anything else we can get our hands on:
 
Horium said:
Stirland - Halfling bit was fascinating. Though, I don't remember Mathilde ever suffering from any prejudice or even caution against them, even in the early days.
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I wager that if she had had such tendencies that the College would have done its best to remove or mitigate them.

I'm sure she didn't have any though, and actively worked on not having them if she had, considering one of those prejudices nearly got her burned on a pyre.
 
SuperSonicSound said:
The sword style as has been mentioned wont be finished in a single action, but I can see the value in trying.
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It's mainly because we aren't just developing a style, we're mastering different techniques. Next is Guard Bypass and I'd like to see the look on a khornate who tries to block our attack, only to get sword in the face. If we get more than one technique, that's great but even one can mean the difference in a fight.
 
BoneyM said:
"So! That Panoramia, hm? Quite a girl."

You're happy to seize the change in topic. "I quite think so."

"Our kind only very rarely produce Wizards, even more so than yours, and while we're happy not to have the fire and death and wild animals, we could use a few more Panoramias. Only has to spend the day in a field and she knows it like her family has been farming it for three generations."
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Oh Abel. Where Dawi have Mathildes, the halflings have Panoramias.

In 500 years this is going to make some weird cultures.
BoneyM said:
"I'm attracted to clever and interesting," you say with a shrug. "And I guess dangerous, a bit. Beyond that, it's all just..." You wave a hand. "Details, and logistics."

She considers that. "I'm not dangerous."

"Have you seen the thorn thing you do?"
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Sweet jiminy We-legs, she has been so drenched in Ghyran that she doesn't realise that perforating living beings with thorns is dangerous to them.

... I love it!

BeepSmile said:
Right, so. We have someone to come home to. Lets come home to her.
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No matter the cost.
 
NuclearConsensus said:
I wager that if she had had such tendencies that the College would have done its best to remove or mitigate them.

I'm sure she didn't have any though, and actively worked on not having them if she had, considering one of those prejudices nearly got her burned on a pyre.
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If she had such tendencies they wound up in the drain when the same people put her on a pyre over the same fears
 
I never stopped to consider the implication of magesight in roleplay. Theres an entire box of kinky stuff about winds and wizards to open and Im not touching it.
And where Dhar fits in all this.
 
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