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- Actually pretty lost
Mathilde's arrogance, and commitment towards appearing unflappable and entirely deserving of said arrogance, are some of my favourite character foibles of hers.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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There is a way to argue against a course of action preferred by others, and it is not this.
It does not. The Winter Wolves are an independent polity, and Mathilde has no authority over them.
Sylvania has never been an Elector, the Fennones did not join Sigmar's Empire and their land was annexed into Stirland by force some time before Vampires, necromancy, and the Black Death transformed it into what it is today. The lost Electors are Drakwald, the land of the Thuringians which was destroyed during the Black Death of the 1100s and divided between Middenland and Nordland, and Solland, the land of the Menogoths which was destroyed by Waaagh Ironclaw in the 1700s and folded into Wissenland.
He's spun a lot of anecdotes of what he considers his glory days. Mathilde knows enough to be able to find it despite its concealment and to have a good idea of how to get in and out of it without being seen, since it's hyper-focused on Chaos Dwarf tactics. There's no specific reason Mathilde has in mind to visit it, just the knowledge that she can.
The reputation of the Grey Order is quite useful at times.
Guile
Having a really great time right now
However, our authority of "I can totally tell your father when we get home, young man" should not be discounted.
Well, to each their own. I like it as a part of her character, but I like it backfiring in preferably harmless ways even more.
Hence, why I hope that particular nickname/title catches on.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Honestly, even if they weren't, we're talking about the son of the guy that said "screw you" to the Ar-Ulric, either he follows us out of his conscience or he doesn't out of the same.
Guile
Having a really great time right now
And in fact, after Dwarves stare at mountains for long enough, Dwarfholds do tend to spring up as if by magicEven so, "she sat and stared at a mountain" isn't exactly the uniquely impressive stuff of song. Dwarves do it all the time.
The similaries are uncanny
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- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
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I imagine it helps if the counterparty has seen you seemingly casually do things like "crush another wizard's miscast in your hand before it has the chance to do any harm." Kinda helps you get away with all sorts of bullshit.
Anyway, especially with the latest clarifications, I don't think the combes will be of high practical value to the expedition. Potential value to the cause of skaven research in general, and definite social value when it comes to bonding with Qrech, but not as good for the next few weeks as a chat with Ruprecht and getting a better sense of what motivates him.
Ah, when the option said Combes we were told about it's specifically referring to the 7th combe rather than the set of them in general? That might mean it's less likely to be productive than I was thinking. I can't recall the specific geography but I believe the 7th combe was the most southerly one held by skaven, is that right?
- Location
- The internet
I was under the impression that Stirland was briefly an elector, same as the short lived Lichtenburg province in what is now the Border Princes
We are not. We are a knight. That said, we are very high status, being one of the most trusted advisors to a Dwarven King. Along with a Lord Magister, and so forth.
NexusEye
Aspiring God
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@BoneyM, would you mind adding this map the the Thread-Canonical Maps section of the Collection of Important Information Threadmark? It seems like useful information and while I found it relatively quickly that was mainly just me being lucky with my search terms.
Southernmost blue route would be the third possible return route to the Old World. Note the interruption - that's because you'd have to figure out how to descend from the Zorn Uzkul plateau into the much lower Badlands when you get there. You could also keep pushing southwards until you reached one of the three southern passes, Karaz-a-Karak's Silver Road, the Border Princes' Mad Dog Pass, or even Karak Eight Peaks' Death Pass.
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- Spain
IIRC once you reach the rank of magister you are considered as part of the Imperial nobility and the lord magister puts you into high nobility...
That was the one Qrech was in command of, but most of them came up in his tales at least a time or two.
Most easterly.
Lichtenburg was founded in the same expansionist push that had Westerland (modern Marienburg) made an Elector, but I don't think it was made one itself. It seem like they were in a grey area of being independent provinces within the Empire that did not have an Electoral vote, a similar status to Sudenburg and Swamp Town today.
11. All Magisters may expect to receive accommodation, benefits, respect, and fair treatment, as would befit any noble of Sigmar's Holy Empire, while in the employ of the Electors of Sigmar's Holy Empire.
They're legally considered nobles, likely to prevent every petty baronet from being able to give them orders that might go against the Articles.
On it.
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So which one we actually end up exploring depends on what landmarks we're able to recognize in order to orient ourselves towards one or something along those lines?
Ah, much more likely to be relevant again than if it was all the way at the "bottom edge" of the plateau. I'm still a bit iffier than I was before the clarifications but overall still seems worth a look to me.
She'll judge the terrain and the defences and play it by ear.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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- Vermont
So you're going with Nordland as one of the 12 founding provinces?
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- Spain
As a devout Ulrican in an order of devout Ulricans... I think we can make a pretty decent guess on what motivates him without needing that conversation, I am not saying that he is dumb or anything but Ulricans tend to be as straightforward as they can get.
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- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Reallllllllllly.
Well then, tell me: Is young Ruprecht here because he seeks glory in the name of Ulric? Or is it to help repay the dwarves for the help they gave his father? Perhaps he wants to prove himself to said father? Or alternatively he wants to separate himself from his fathers shadow and make his own name? Unless he has personal reasons to want to fight chaos?
Does he believe in the expedition to Dum, or does he think it's doomed to fail? And after his latest experience, has his orders failure tempered his expectations, or has Mathilde's unexpected success buoyed his hopes?
He was the lynchpin that stopped his knights from breaking. Is he feeling more confident now that he's proven himself, or is he shaken that things already came so close to the wire so early?
Well? What's your guess?
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- Spain
My first guess, IIRC that was how we convinced the Wolves to join the expedition...
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- Australia
Low nobility.
Accounts say that the Jutones didn't join the Empire under Sigmar and the Endals did, so the Endals should be one of Sigmar's Twelve Tribes and the Jutones shouldn't. But then they say Westerland didn't get a Runefang but Nordland did, and to make it more complicated Westerland has different stories saying it was inhabited by the Endals, the Jutones, or the Was Jutones. Did Jutonsryk fall apart in Sigmar's time? Was it conquered by Sigismund II in the 400s? Did it last into the 900s? Depends who you ask. So let's go with 'yes' with an asterisk.
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- Spain
Quoting Boney
So if a Magister is legally considered nobility a Lord Magister is probably considered high nobility...
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- Earth
The stereotypes can and do apply, but characters in this quest are rarely just that.