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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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ninjafish said:
oh yeah, guys another thing that needs to be high up on the "To-do" list, once the expedition over.

Gaining control of our Arcane marks.

We are dwarf and a grandmaster, our control of our craft needs to be much less shoddy!

We must impress Grandpa Kragg!
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...Provably a bit late for that. If he's not already impressed I doubt even getting control of our Arcane Marks will help.
 
Redshirt Army said:
No, the answer is "definitely not", because Rite of Way uses the Ulgu present in the transition from solid to different solid/liquid/gap to decide where to put the mini Skywalks. So for something like a relatively small gap/puddle it can bridge that gap, but the surface of a larger water body doesn't have that kind of transition present so the spell won't have an anchor.
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I wonder if the spell could be improved to make use of the "boundary" between water and air, to allow crossing of larger bodies of water? Motion and waves aside, that seems consistent enough you could get it with one well-made addition.

Or maybe not! I'm not a wizard.

zup said:
They would roll to learn and cast it. And then natural 100s to some exceptional mastery that makes Mathilde look bad in comparison.
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I would be delighted if this happened, as Mathilde would still get a decent amount of the credit for an even better spell. I wonder if this is common - someone invents a spell, one or more people learn it and codify relatively simple masteries for it, and it's a bit of back and forth before the College has a spell that isn't easily improved upon by the more common insights/perspectives of magic?

The MMAPP had a master spellmaker do this and got it down to the point where there's not much more you can do with it - it's a fairly simple concept after all - and the Matrix was a complicated tangle that was made by taking a pre-existing spell in a different paradigm (Dhar, ew) and so might not have been easily improved in such a way.
 
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Gah. On edge waiting for the update.

We do have the Seed and Boon of Hysh, for if stuff goes bad/wrong. If Iron Wolves suddenly attack, or if the ascent (or is it descent? I think it's ascent) goes bad. Or if something happens while we're away watching the Windfall (like one of the previous things, i.e. Iron Wolves or climbing accident.)
 
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Deathbybunnies said:
I wonder if the spell could be improved to make use of the "boundary" between water and air, to allow crossing of larger bodies of water?
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That boundary is very similar to the boundary between stone and air of a normal road, so you're back to the same issue of that addition either not triggering when crossing a lake or constantly triggering when it doesn't need to when crossing solid ground.
 
Redshirt Army said:
That boundary is very similar to the boundary between stone and air of a normal road, so you're back to the same issue of that addition either not triggering when crossing a lake or constantly triggering when it doesn't need to when crossing solid ground.
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Yes, being able to recognise it as a liquid and not a solid would be the important point.
 
The spell probably can be adjusted to trigger over water, but it would likely be a significant enough modification to count as a new spell.
 
Byzantine said:
The spell probably can be adjusted to trigger over water, but it would likely be a significant enough modification to count as a new spell.
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One spell for exclusive use over open water, one that's the existing RoW for rough terrain?

Okay, now to name the other one... WoR as the acronym to be cute, with the first word being water?
 
Sir Joerg von Zavstra, Preceptor of the Knights of Taal's Fury, commands the Magnus.
Mystic: Even among Knights dedicated to Him, Joerg is extremely knowledgeable of the mysteries of Taal.
Quiet: Unless the topic is beasts or battle, Joerg rarely has much to say.
 
EVA-Saiyajin said:
Sir Joerg von Zavstra, Preceptor of the Knights of Taal's Fury, commands the Magnus.
Mystic: Even among Knights dedicated to Him, Joerg is extremely knowledgeable of the mysteries of Taal.
Quiet: Unless the topic is beasts or battle, Joerg rarely has much to say.
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That's been there for a while. We haven't socialed him, so I think it came up during the Vlag planning.
 
@BoneyM, do the Battle Wizards that have learned Penumbral Pendulum and Pit of Shades know about the Shadow Realm or are those spells learnable without knowing of its existence similar to Substance of Shadow?
 
So, I'm surprised no one has jumped on the significance of this comment chain.

Andres110 said:
@BoneyM if a noble develops magic, are they still a noble and may they keep their land/inherit? I have some vague notion that the answer is "no" from what I remember reading but Mathilde's knighthood and fief instead suggest "yes".
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BoneyM said:
In theory there's nothing that outright prevents it, but in practice many noble families will disinherit or even completely disown family members with magic, or have them either attempt to suppress their magic or study it in secret. This final category is commonly known as 'Magickers' and is extremely illegal, but hard to crack down on.
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NexusEye said:
Has Hubert been disinherited?
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BoneyM said:
No.
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holy shit. Middenland going to be a political and legal shitstrom when Hubert's dad dies.

it's one thing for an unusual count to give an unusual Wizard a cactus farm in the sticks for a unique reward. that's just a once-off oddity of history.

but a Wizard inheriting not just land, but good land, titles and Deeds (Waiting for word of Boney on that) in arguably the second most important province?

that's present a lot of conservatives will not be happy with.
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
So, I'm surprised no one has jumped on the significance of this comment chain.






holy shit. Middenland going to be a political and legal shitstrom when Hubert's dad dies.

it's one thing for an unusual count to give an unusual Wizard a cactus farm in the sticks for a unique reward. that's just a once-off oddity of history.

but a Wizard inheriting not just land, but good land, titles and Deeds (Waiting for word of Boney on that) in arguably the second most important province?

that's present a lot of conservatives will not be happy with.
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A lot of that would depend on if he's first in line, if he's second in line or lower he may end up with a little fief like us and only a very small backlash.
 
Question @BoneyM, are we rolling for our first casting of Rite of Way? Like with rolling for first usage of Melkoth's Mystifying Miasma? Or is it different because we've cast Rite of Way before, and we are not casting it in combat conditions -- but instead in more controlled (or at least less hectic than in-the-middle-of-battle) circumstances?
 
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