- Location
- Earth
Chaos Wastes is a matter of degree without a clear delimiter.
Dwarves hate it all the more because of that.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Dwarves hate it all the more because of that.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
Also, if I recall right, it's literally their money as well. I think they coins made of Warpstone instead of Gold?
It's a matter of degrees, rather than a sharp line between one and the other.
Minimizing time spent offroad is also a factor.
If you asked me that question about humans I wouldn't be able to give you a firm answer. It depends and it varies.
The former.
Try it and find out.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
I'm pretty sure I'm right around Naggarond. Maybe Ghrond. Still 7 hours to go here.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
...What's the other coast callled? About three quarters of the way up?
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Well, take your pick.
Hmm, somewhere in the Broken Lands, or maybe around the Red Desert or the Plain of Spiders?
(Not sure about this map actually, feels pretty old...)
- Location
- Aotearoa
Happy New Year to all! Though 2021 is already (11-hour) old news here in The Future.
Not sure GW ever bothered with a fantasy New Zealand?
Not sure GW ever bothered with a fantasy New Zealand?
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario(occasionally)
Huh, we put out a gold reward for dragonbone that one time.
Do the Colleges put out a college favor reward for exotic magical texts?
Is this a thing we should be impressing on all those merchants who try their luck at heading east? Tell them they can trade any new magical texts they find for enchanted equipment or wizard assistance or something?
Do the Colleges put out a college favor reward for exotic magical texts?
Is this a thing we should be impressing on all those merchants who try their luck at heading east? Tell them they can trade any new magical texts they find for enchanted equipment or wizard assistance or something?
- Location
- Aotearoa
That inevitably leads to swathes (well, dribbles) of deluded/optimistic/deceitful traders arriving at the Colleges carrying distinctly non-magical Cathayan and Ind travel guides and swearing up and down that they purchased them from a Genuine Eastern Mystic. Even if they wanted to be genuine, how could they know?
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
Did they make a Fantasy Australia?
Geographically the Lost Isles of Elithis come closest, location wise, but there's nothing similar culturally and I don't know enough about the wildlife to comment on if there's any similarities nature wise.
- Location
- Spain
Well, you can just learn Cathayan and skim the books before buying them.
That is how we knew that the Magic Scroll from Albion was an elven Customer Complaint Form...
How much luck would Cathayan merchants have getting their hands on the Empire's magical texts? Cathay's would be just as protected.
- Location
- Earth
This is a magical tome, my good sir. Only those with witchsight will understand the contents within, lest ye fall prey to terrible madness of forces beyond your comprehension!
- Location
- Aotearoa
Wiki says they're free of Beastmen, and thus probably free from other great and terrible mutated creatures of horrible death... so nothing like Australia.
Tasoli
Life is for Living
- Location
- Behind the Keyboard.
Happy new years from the border princes(?)
So what I am getting from this is we should go there ourselves if want to get those texts.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
I do actually wonder if we might be able to organize a trade of magical knowledge with Cathay.
The Empire does have a non-agression pact with them, the two nations are far enough away that they can't really use each other's secrets against each other, and with K8P in Dwarven hands the route there isn't tooooo dangerous (still pretty dangerous though.)
There's definitely stuff both sides would be unwilling to part with, but I could potentially see the Empire and Cathay working out an info exchange in regards to, to start with, introductory magic textbooks.
Might be something to talk about with Algard?
The Empire does have a non-agression pact with them, the two nations are far enough away that they can't really use each other's secrets against each other, and with K8P in Dwarven hands the route there isn't tooooo dangerous (still pretty dangerous though.)
There's definitely stuff both sides would be unwilling to part with, but I could potentially see the Empire and Cathay working out an info exchange in regards to, to start with, introductory magic textbooks.
Might be something to talk about with Algard?
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Doubt it. That would require a lot of worldbuilding that would build on itself.
- Location
- Aotearoa
Hrm. On second thought, Imperial High Seas Navy Elves setting up a couple of coastal colonies and declaring to the world "Nope, absolutely no native population here whatsoever" is very much an Australian parallel.
So I've been thinking about how you could square the circle of dwarf honesty and the conclave's dramatic proclamation. I can't really see all those priests lying but maybe one of them could have for the good of the Karaz Ankor. Consider for a moment Kragg the Grimm, priest to Thungi and the most respected dwarf alive. Consider how desperate he was for the recovery of the old holds, how willing he was to work with us. He said that he would rather die then watch Eight Peaks fall again and here we are recovering another Karak.
He will have known how hard it would be for his fellow dwarfs to deal with the fact that a wizard, a human did all that, and most likely he would have known what kind of God Mathilde worshiped, beyond the sanitized version she presented. After all he had delivered on to her some of his own work. He could I think have lied or at least told the truth such as it implied her soul was stolen, not for her sake of course but for the sake of the Karaz Ankor. Kragg the Grimm has already given much, why not this too?
Perhaps not likely, but I think possible.
He will have known how hard it would be for his fellow dwarfs to deal with the fact that a wizard, a human did all that, and most likely he would have known what kind of God Mathilde worshiped, beyond the sanitized version she presented. After all he had delivered on to her some of his own work. He could I think have lied or at least told the truth such as it implied her soul was stolen, not for her sake of course but for the sake of the Karaz Ankor. Kragg the Grimm has already given much, why not this too?
Perhaps not likely, but I think possible.
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King Arthur
The Once and Future King
Depends on how it's handled. Considering we don't speak the language and are busy with some fairly important projects I doubt we'd be assigned to go there, so I could imagine Mattie's involvement being just bringing up the idea, seeing a caravan go through K8P with a diplomat to Cathay on it, then a few months later they return with a few textbooks we only get to look at after it's been translated, it's been triple checked to make sure it's safe, and a few copies have been made.
I'm not exactly particularly hopeful that this happens though, but it'd be nifty.
I'm not exactly particularly hopeful that this happens though, but it'd be nifty.
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- Location
- Aotearoa
Following Boneys point on their perspective, I really didn't think there was anything to square. People talk themselves into truly believing all sorts of untrue things that they want to believe, I see no reason why dwarves would be immune to this failure mode.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Unless there's stuff so bad there even the Beastmen won't live there.
Boney's said not to go to the east on account of there being bare fragments of info on what's actually over there.
'Looks at this conversation.'
'looks at the idea of creating a giant library of all the knowledge in the closest place between the two empires that can be called 'safe''
Uhhhh.... the above conversation might become relevant if the BOOKBOON goes through. (and add Ind and Arrby to it)
maybe not possible (depends on how boney feels about it) but definitely relevant.
especially if we plan to have an active role in it.
(I think it would not break 'I'm not worldbuilding Ind and Cathay' clause because its not going to Cathy, but only adding what elements Boeny feels like to the Libary.)
that said any contacted would require visiting the embassy and well... that would be its own adventure.
AP HELL BECKONS WITH A SIREN SONG
This is the real Tzeentch chaos corruption, just think of it saying 'extra actions are on the table'.
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