The Liber Mortis is not one of the 9 Books of Nagash.
It's wiki entry says it's a distilled version of translated versions of all 9.
And, you know, a version without a chunk of Nagash's soul in it.
We... aren't. At least not when it comes to our pay and home as Loremaster.
The Warlord of the Fourth-And-Final Combe was into coin collecting?
Isn't it bone that has somehow been rendered magically inert and useless?
That's crazy. Hell, Abelheim having it was just as crazy. If any battle by the Drakenhofs had been a rout and Mathilde had died alongside Abelheim (or even just participated in a hasty retreat) then it would have fallen into enemy hands. If the Liber Mortis should ever be used in an emergency then it should be given to Algard or Dragomas upon our untimely death. Otherwise the box should be given to Belegar, Gunnars and Kragg with the promise that they open it together and destroy the contents as safely and completely as possible.
One of the other 7 recipients might since have spent DF to have theirs upgraded with Runework. Ruprecht and Titus at least should each have enough DF to get it done. Soizic and Francesco also might have pooled some of theirs for it.
If we really want to give it to her (I don't) then the most elegant way to do it would be upon the complete conquest of Sylvania with the lie that Abelheim just gave us the box and the instructions on how to open it for "safekeeping until his heir has proven herself" or whatever.
Which ones do you mean?
Why not just burn it at that point? Safely within a specifically made and runically reinforced forge of course.
It also actually contains these instructions. And I'm still not sure if the First and Second secrets of Dhar are just the contents of the flavor text of the traits on our character sheet (which would mean that one slip or observation of its use would be enough to give a talented and observative Necromancer everything they need to learn and replicate them) or if they have exact instructions in magibabble that can't be reproduced except with lots and lots of extremely risky experimentation.
I'm pretty sure that's just the headcanon explanation I proposed a while back, it hasn't actually been confirmed or denied by Boney.
Well, I see no reason to not make this canon other than the hope that our next character might successfully raid and loot Mathilde's penthouse.
Unless we end up as an evil faction, I would hope we're smart enough not to piss of the entire Karaz Ankor. I don't even want to know what sort of Grudge they might level for desecrating Mathilde's home, even if she is already dead.Well, I see no reason to not make this canon other than the hope that our next character might successfully raid and loot Mathilde's penthouse.
I'd love playing an evil faction member for a change. Problem is, Warhammer edgyness + SV's rules + BoneyM's attention to detail + general player sensibilities together mean that any such quest would have to be deliberately sanitized to the point where it could easily become very grating.
There is one or two WHF Vampire quests in SV that I saw before but it never captured my imagination so I don't know how it actually works.
Define 'break' and 'poverty'? We could at the very least get them to argue their case in dwarf court. Would be a sight to behold not doubt about it.
"Depending on which version you read"- is that different printings of the 8th edition Empire book, or is the event mentioned elsewhere? The only other place I had ever seen it was the timeline in the 4th edition RPG core book.
ONLY A DWARF WITH A TRULY SHAMEFUL SKRUFF WOULD IGNORE THE SPIRIT OF A LAW OR OATH! SHAME THAT SUCH THINGS ARE MORE COMMON IN THESE DAYS OF DWINDLING. WHY, AS A LAD OF NO MORE THAN 40 WINTERS I REMEMBER MY COUSIN OKRI SWORE TO BREAK NO BREAD WITH BLONDES AND IN MY LIFE I'VE NOT SEEN HIM SAT WITH ANY DAWI WHO IS BLONDE, WAS ONCE BLONDE, HAS BLONDE ANCESTORS, OR HAS ANYTHING RELATED TO BLONDNESS IN THEIR CLAN'S HISTORY.
Article: Talismanic Runes
- Master Rune of Balance - Forged in the embers of a captured book of spells, this rune hungers after the Winds of Magic.
AND MANLINGS MAKE EVERYTHING SHODDY, EVEN OATHS. ONE PART OF THE SPIRIT OF THE VOW OF POVERTY IS THAT YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BECOME RICH, THE OTHER PART IS THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE LOOPHOLES TO GET AROUND THE FIRST PART SO YOU CAN DO YOUR JOB AS PART OF THE GREY ORDER, WITHIN LIMITS. NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE DOING YOU'RE BREAKING AT LEAST PART OF THE VOW'S SPIRIT. BAH!
theres "i feel shame for something that was not necessarily my fault" and then theres "I swore to poverty and yet im probably among the 10 richest people in any mid-size imperial town."
No, Barazuls don't go for loopholes, they simply try to determine if an oath was violated, which stops some dwarves from going slayer. Remember we suggested that we bring in a Barazul to solve Belegar's problem? Boney mentioned that the Barazul could quite easily say "Yup, time to go slayer."
I think at least some of the "loopholes" we've been using don't actually exist within the rules - they're convenient fictions like "Dame Weber's money isn't Journeywoman Weber's money"
Also an entire anime. Spice and Wolf is surprisingly entertaining for an anime about quasimedieval economics. But yeah, there's a huge amount you need to know.
Enough to tolerate battle wizards running around her castle, at least. Plus her and Mathilde are pretty much friends at this point.
In quest, the Liber Mortis includes the distillation of at least one of the Books of Nagash.
As an econ geek, this is easily on of my favorite animes.
