Xilentxium
Existential Crisis Management
- Location
- Temperate Regions
That just means they're still around...watching...waiting
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
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TaliesinSkye
Occasional Editor
- Location
- Northeast Ohio, United States
Warhammer Fantasy seems to frequently disregard food logistics. There are enormous Skaven populations with no apparent agriculture. To not starve they would need vast swaths of land under obvious, impossible to conceal cultivation that just aren't there. Then there are the orcs and beastmen, whose hordes simply couldn't be supported by forage but exist anyway.
Unless a species can eat rocks or something they need agriculture and everything that goes along with it to exceed the low population densities hunting and gathering can support, but the setting just kind of ignores that as boring because it wants the civilized races to feel like they're besieged on all sides by countless uncivilized monsters.
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- Location
- Norway
There is. It's the open-mouthed, screaming/shocked face icon in the reactions.
The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
So, I haven't seen it mentioned at all in my readthrough of the thread, but I think there's a very important detail buried in the midst of this update. Bolded for emphasis.
So, yeah.
Thorgrim knows that we know about the Dwarven Waystones now.
The dwarves of Karak Vlag know not just what we did, but also how we did it. Unlike Borek, they themselves may or may not have enough to be able to put the necessary information together, but this is all part of the story they're telling the High King, who very much does.
So, yeah.
Thorgrim knows that we know about the Dwarven Waystones now.
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- Pronouns
- He/They
I'm now picturing a fencer dicing carrots with a rapier.
- Location
- Utrecht
Thorgrim knows has been mentioned,
but I haven't seen the possibility of someone from the 20k dwarfs of Vlag figuring something out. It will be very interesting to see.
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- Pronouns
- He/They
Ultimately the excuse tends to be "Magic" - specifically:
Ghur for Beastmen - Endless vigour even in the face of starvation.
Waaagh for Orcs - Stabbing each other is food, right?
Warpstone for the Skaven - Irradiated food is just so much more nutritious!
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Belegar would have launched the expedition anyways. The losses would have been accrued piecemeal over years and decades in a smaller force but they would have almost certainly totalled as much as the entire expedition.
Well either that or Belegar would have simply failed and then the Karaz Ankor would be running out of power.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
same principle as vampires. They'll be back, but you showed em what for so we can strike off whatever they did this time around.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Define "official god of the empire." Cause, straight from the Collection of Important Information threadmark:
Like, no, his representatives don't have Electoral votes, but neither do the Shallyans or Taalites. He's legal to publicly worship.
Suppressed and frowned upon by polite society, yeah. But he's definitely a real god that the Empire really recognizes and tolerates worshiping.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
In this context: the empire and its official cults are not responsible for ranalds actions the same way their not responsible for anything the Lady or the Widow could have done. even if a sizable portion of their civilians worship him. see the list of gods and cults endorsed and resonated by the empire in official capability? Ranalds not there.
Even Further Beyond
- Location
- Oklahoma
Mathilde is best friends with the God of sneakiness and deceit, wielder of the wind of skullduggery and ambiguity, and prefers to solve issues via assassination.
Dwarves value reliability, honesty, being straightforward, and generally dealing with problems head on.
By all rights she and they should only interact in the matter and anti-matter sense.
Instead, well.
-Rides to every corner of the Old World in order to recruit more for the Expedition-
-Causes Und-Uzgar to be taken with no casualties-
-Kills enemy heroes at the Battle of the East Gate-
-'Scouts' Karag Lhune, and in doing so destroys their artillery, their traps, their Warboss, and causes the entire tribe to descend into more infighting than usual-
-All that bullshit at Karag Nar-
-Makes the plan to prevent reinforcements from the Caldera-
-Counters the enemy Shaman, and in doing so robs the entire horde of their Waaagh, winning the battle-
Mathilde: This is a Dawongr that has surpassed a Dawongr- a Super-Dawongr if you will.
-Translates Queekish-
-Use of AV to recharge Anvils of Doom-
-Assists in Karag Dum expedition, recruiting two knightly orders, many wizards, and Asarnil-
(Ranald: And entirely selflessly, too!)Mathilde: To Go-
-Rescue At Skull River, wherein she personally saves the lives of over 300 Dawi craftsmen, including their guildmaster-
(Ranald: At great personal risk for every single one!)
Mathilde: Even Further Beyond!
Dwarves value reliability, honesty, being straightforward, and generally dealing with problems head on.
By all rights she and they should only interact in the matter and anti-matter sense.
Instead, well.
-Defends her fallen liege alone against impossible odds, then goes on to fulfill her Oaths to him-
-In doing so, causes the destruction of Castle Drakenhoff-
-Joins the Expedition for Karak Eight Peaks-
Mathilde: This is a Dawongr.-In doing so, causes the destruction of Castle Drakenhoff-
-Joins the Expedition for Karak Eight Peaks-
-Rides to every corner of the Old World in order to recruit more for the Expedition-
-Causes Und-Uzgar to be taken with no casualties-
-Kills enemy heroes at the Battle of the East Gate-
-'Scouts' Karag Lhune, and in doing so destroys their artillery, their traps, their Warboss, and causes the entire tribe to descend into more infighting than usual-
-All that bullshit at Karag Nar-
-Makes the plan to prevent reinforcements from the Caldera-
-Counters the enemy Shaman, and in doing so robs the entire horde of their Waaagh, winning the battle-
-Takes on position of Loremaster for King Belegar-
-Facilitates communication with the We-
-Completely maps the Under-Citadel, retrieving a suit of Gromril Plate in the process-
-Kills Alkharad and his entire College of Necromancy-
-Assassinates Warboss of Kara-gril, then most candidates to become next Warboss-
-Builds the Eye of Gazul, in cooperation with many others-
-Takes command when the powder keg that is K8P explodes in glorious fashion-
-Leads K8P into the reclamation of the remaining five peaks with minimal casualties, including negotiating a nonaggression pact with a Dragon, scouting out most of the Karak, taking the last Mors hold-out personally, and assassinating an Emissary of the Council of 13-
-Fires the Eye of Gazul, killing half a million greenskins-
Mathilde: And this is what it means--Facilitates communication with the We-
-Completely maps the Under-Citadel, retrieving a suit of Gromril Plate in the process-
-Kills Alkharad and his entire College of Necromancy-
-Assassinates Warboss of Kara-gril, then most candidates to become next Warboss-
-Builds the Eye of Gazul, in cooperation with many others-
-Takes command when the powder keg that is K8P explodes in glorious fashion-
-Leads K8P into the reclamation of the remaining five peaks with minimal casualties, including negotiating a nonaggression pact with a Dragon, scouting out most of the Karak, taking the last Mors hold-out personally, and assassinating an Emissary of the Council of 13-
-Fires the Eye of Gazul, killing half a million greenskins-
-Translates Queekish-
-Use of AV to recharge Anvils of Doom-
-Assists in Karag Dum expedition, recruiting two knightly orders, many wizards, and Asarnil-
(Ranald: And entirely selflessly, too!)
-Rescue At Skull River, wherein she personally saves the lives of over 300 Dawi craftsmen, including their guildmaster-
(Ranald: At great personal risk for every single one!)
-V L A G-
(Ranald: Ain't she the greatest?)
Mathilde: KISSMYASSTOBAROOOOOOOOOOOOO-(Ranald: Ain't she the greatest?)
-Dawihood Achieved-
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- Location
- USA
How much dwarf favor would it take to give Mathilde's estate a dwarf-made stone wall?
If it's less than 5 favors, I'd support buying that. I know our estate is a cactus that runs just fine without our help, but it's our cactus in the end. I just like the thought of a stone wall better than a wooden bailey.
If it's less than 5 favors, I'd support buying that. I know our estate is a cactus that runs just fine without our help, but it's our cactus in the end. I just like the thought of a stone wall better than a wooden bailey.
- Location
- Utrecht
Now, how do we achieve Greater Dawihood?
- Location
- Spain
Living for 500 years without ever cutting our hair... That way you enter the Living Ancesstor category.
- Location
- Earth
It was 1000 Gold and 2 DF for a fortress for our fief
Which is a bit more than a mere stonewall.
At least it was way back when we got fired by Roswita.
- Location
- Earth
From Turn 16:
Apparently a fortress only takes 4 dwarf rep. I think I'd rather secure defenses for the factory in Blutdorf for Anton, tbh.
I mean we do have a heads-start on that admittedly. Just look at those braids.
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Quest
The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
You have to achieve the power of a god while in the form of a dawi. One might call it Super Dawongr God Super Dawi or Super Dawi Grey* for short.
*Refers to bread/plait color.
@Boney do dwarves have a concept of life-debts? I.e "i shall serve you all my life?"
Guile
Having a really great time right now
They're just so gosh-durned smug, having a pig as president and lording their centuries of accumulated Dwarf Rep over us (or so I like to imagine). But now the shoe's on the other foot, eh, Tobaro!
So, maybe 1/50th of 2% of one of the strongest gods in the setting.
Is hanging around our neck.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
...You know, we picked up about a thousand gold on this trip...It was 1000 Gold and 2 DF for a fortress for our fief
Which is a bit more than a mere stonewall.
At least it was way back when we got fired by Roswita.
- Location
- Actually pretty lost
Oh geeze, I hope not.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
That is one fancy piece of jewelry. Also explains the bullshit memetic power of the Protector now. Telling twenty thousand dwarves all that shit and making them believe it makes a lot more sense when you put it like that.