I find the implication that Teclis set up the Colleges with competition, secrecy, and less than stellar cooperation already in mind. I mean he literally placed the Grey College in a hidden dimension that at the very least the first Grey Patriarch must have known about, but his otherwise colored personal Human students specifically weren't told. And he did similar things for some but not all other Colleges. So the first exclusive secrets that didn't come from older traditions were handed out by Teclis to people that used to sit side by side at his feet.
Alternatively maybe he was so absent minded and ignorant about politics that he simply set this stuff up and told people things in passing that had to then be further discovered by the students themselves. I.e. that the first Grey Patriarch literally had no clue where his base of operations even is until he started tentatively scratching at the walls.
On to the subject of doing research in this dimension, I'd recommend not just bringing AV here without first discussing it with the experts. We have no idea how concentrated amounts of free flowing Winds react to being in a realm of nearly pure Ulgu and lots of Dhar is the first thing that comes to mind.
Also, this realm, its implications and its possibilities are bound to have been explored to some extent by literally every Grey LM before us.
@BoneyM Is there an action equivalent to taking a class or private tutoring that gets us up to speed on the already known information and research results of the Ulgu membrane? Something that, after we take it, allows you to more freely answer OOC questions on what definitely is possible, what isn't possible as far as our LM colleagues know and what is in the 'try and find out' category?
Algard did though.
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 it is sharing Dwarven secrets which is generally considered a Bad Idea. It's possible that she's referring to some other artificial plane.
She is a fellow Magister of the Grey College. Alluding to secrets isn't much of a risk here.
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.
A fitting duty would be Dwarf liaison, with more requests of facilitation and expertise coming our way.
@BoneyM Given how the College Favor market works, has Mathilde ever been part of it through mail asking for introductions and such off screen? Or did she ever get low priority requests for basic info on Dawi stuff that she could and did answer without much thought and without you bothering to mention it on screen?
No wonder Branulhune is so perfectly suited to Mathilde. When Kragg decides to base a sword on something to show everyone How It Ought To Be Done, he does not mess around.
@BoneyM Where was Branulhune while we went into the In Between?
I wonder, if the Grey College isn't underneath the Imperial Mint what is? Is that where Algard's paperwork dimension leads to, not out of reality but back into it?
It's interesting that Algard's pocket dimension works just fine even though his office is itself inside the dimension in question. Does that mean that such an office would be impossible to set up in the material realm or does it mean that space and location are really wonky here and that you can loop around and double up space both towards it and within it?
Thane is one notch below Lord, which is one notch below King.
What kind of title is Lord outside of Runelords? What does it mean from a pure Karaz Ankor politics standpoint?
And that once again concludes my pre-chapter commentary.
