We might only just be working with the Jade wizard and maybe one or two Magister who can help out while the rest would support the knights and dwarfs.
So obviously, we need to make mathy a god.
Uh, not all that likely.
She'd be a somewhat complex Goddess. There's magic in there, and teaching/nurturing, and the pursuit of knowledge, and surprising her enemies. I'm not sure if that can be summarized under a single unified theme, though.
A Goddess based on her would presumably have a fair amount of her complexity shaved off for stronger/more lasting thematics. From my understanding, WHF deities are greater than mortals in many ways, but also lesser because they're shaped by how their worshipers imagine them, and those worshipers won't see them as a complete person.
In all seriousness, if any aspect of Mathy's legend became a god, its The Dämmerlichtreiter (twilight rider.)
She's perplexing straightforwardness and straightforward perplexingness.Why am I imagining a Gork & Mork inspiration, like the duality of skulddugery and unexpectedness: Math & Ilde... One is goddess of Expected unexpectedness the other of Unexpected Expectedness or something.
I think we could call it a Goddess of Night itself.
Honestly, she's just straight up unconventional warfare. What counts as unconventional depends heavily on what forces she actually has on hand, but you can bet your ass whatever they are will be used in a way they normally wouldn't, and to devastating effect.
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Perhaps we could call it pragmatism. That might also reflect her non-combat feats reasonably well.
... I feel seen. <.<
And lo, when darkness threatens the Goddess Mathilde shall bless us with guile, and hearing her holy battlecry of "SURPRISE!" the forces of darkness shall tremble in fear, and their last thoughts shall be 'oh no, not again'.
Gifts? Mathilde has a tendency to give a lot of surprising help.
No, that's really not true. Drakenhof was extremely conventional. And even K8Ps wasn't any particularly exotic tactics. Rangers to scout and pick of stragglers/messengers. Infrantry to assault enemy positions. The force usage was pretty normal. The speed and information control that made it so successful, but that's pretty conventional as far as unconventional goes.
Pragmatism doesn't really fit her. The Doom Tower or the Dragon Stone are both pretty ridiculous. So is ignoring the demon that tried to eat her for years. Or using a bloody greatsword. Or getting knighted.
It is the natural thread reaction whenever we do something cool, or might be about to do something cool, or are just thinking really hard about a hypothetical cool thing.
