I meant it as a tongue in cheek observation rather than anything else but I've deleted the posts.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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I meant it as a tongue in cheek observation rather than anything else but I've deleted the posts.
- Location
- Great Khanate of Scotland
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- She/Her
"So what's being fed on by a vampire like?"
"Well, it's a lot like being drunk."
"That doesn't sound so bad."
"Ask a glass of water."
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
"Okay glass of water, what's it like being drunk?"
"If you're talking to me, you probably already know."
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
"Okay glass of water, what's it like being drunk?"
........
"Well, I asked, the glass of water didn't seem to have any complaints."
- Location
- Actually pretty lost
It's the ongoing vote! Of course people are going to keep discussing it!
Come back and complain if they're still bringing it up next turn.
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OK, so 'Mammoth' apparently originates from an ancient language of indigenous siberians as 'Menant', meaning Earth-Horn as the horns would often be the most prominent thing left when they were uncovered. However, this wouldn't be the case in WHF so it would make sense if they had a different name. What I'm getting at is there is no reason mammoths in the WHF world wouldn't be called Bearephants.
K von Carstein
Likes to go for a walk
- Location
- Belgium
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- He
It's strange, I've rarely been so invested in the result of a vote in this quest😏 The only comparable moment is when we had to choose what to do concerning Morghur.😅
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I don't think most norscans will have seen and elephant to use that as word root. Most likely the word in native norscan would be some simple word sound like bear or bird, you know something you can shout to someone who is about to get stomped during a hunt. That then forms the root of their word for elephant should they seen one. An elephant would be the 'furless two tusked mammoth' not the other way around. Also since we are talking about what the equivalent to the English word would be, I think that would be Reikshpiel and the Imperials had more Norscan than Tilean and other southern influences so their word for elephant would derive from mammoth too
Well, it depends. If the empire faced elephants during the Crusades they may have picked up the Classical or even Arabyan word for them.
I think old Reikshpiel will have gotten the Norscan import of the word long before then. There might be a neologism along the lines of the Arabyan word, but I doubt it. Animal names are not really prone to become neologisms.
Well, it probably depends on which Old Reikspeil dialects we're talking about here. The Old Reikspeil dialects spoken in the north of the Empire may be different to those in the South, and modern Reikspeil may well be influenced by some of these more than others.
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
Well, might as well help that along if so is the case.
- Location
- Manchester, UK
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- He/They
That'd be one "Voting Closed, writing begun" and one post with the update.
This is from shortly before the expedition. The K8Ps expedition, that is, and it's even more fitting for that one.
It only mostly applies to the recent stint. Yes to gods, casting spells and snatching of tools. Maybe on the transforming of tools, depending on how you see Vlag, but I'd say there's a good case. Mostly no on the armies, because there weren't any battles while Mathilde was in charge. (If you like technicalities, which I assume you do, then Mathilde did guide the expedition into a battle by doing the Vlag thing.)
Panoramia changed a lot. Which is a good thing, or else their relationship would be super creepy (though I'm also certain it wouldn't have come to be). It's still a bit weird how Mathilde is clearly the older partner when they're pretty much the same age (Mathilde is 36, I don't know if Panoramia ever got an concrete age given. But they where on their journey during the same timespan, and Panormia probably started relatively young as well.)
It helps that there's areas where Mathilde is completely out of her depths, and Panoramia has way more experience.
Man, Maximilian really was a little shit. I'm honestly a little glad he never got any social actions until he started pulling his head out of his ass.
The first proposal was "When in doubt, act smug", got corrected to "Act smug", and then completely tabled because you don't use a motto for fundamentals like breathing or eating or smugging.
"Relatively safe" takes on a different meaning when you know that at this point Mathilde can't swim.
Very much true. But current Belegar would look at these words with some bitterness as well.
Kazador is clearly the wisest, most insightful and pious dwarf there is. He subconsciously knew that Mathilde was actually a dwarf all along.
You can tell, because he also married a high priestess of Valaya who didn't know that yet either.
That really puts into perspective how long Azul was cut off. It's seriously fucking badass that they not only survived, but thrived. Perhaps a model for how the Karaz Ankor would look if things hadn't gone quite as badly.
Just after the expedition concluded. I'm surprised it's been on her mind for so long.
Huh, we gave the eggs to the College, and but they ended up at the zoo anyway. Though it's not a huge surprise, and probably more about where we got favor from.
Stone is an excellent insulator of magic, and Regimand is reading a book. This kind of shows why the Grey College could take on an artifact of the god of deception. What kind of mentality do you need to constantly be double checking your own thoughts?
Incidentally, I suspect this is why they can do undercover work in a world where mindfuckery exists. That sort of thinking is probably the nearest thing to resistance you can get.
--Mathilde, seven years ago
I love how Anton went from bumbling incompetent to being someone who'd be very scary if he wasn't so very nice.
Since the end of the current expedition is coming up, and there'll probably be another trait vote, here's a neat one from post first expedition:
Because stacking the dispell bonus ever higher is a worthy goal in life.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Karak Azul is my exhibit A for why it's the Ankor-wide depression that is responsible for the birth-rate issue.
By all rights, Karak Azul should be a miserable runt of a hold barely holding on in a tiny corner of what they once held. None of the advantages of the wider Karaz Ankor were theirs- no trade with humans or other Karaks, no capacity for mutual aid with either of those. No advanced engineering whatsoever, not a single gunpowder weapon in the entire Karak. Just them, and all the greenskins in the surrounding mountains.
Kazador is cheery. Kazador has 20 kids. Kazador has put the fear of Grimnir in the surrounding greenskins so much that he has to chase them if he wants to get some fighting in.
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- Manchester, UK
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- He/They
Here's hoping that Karak Azul manages to spread its cheer, rather than being drained in the wider Ankor's culture of loss.
Black Crag delenda est.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Oh, if anything is going to be draining them, it's Gorfang Rotgut.
Granted, his canon sneak-attack on the hold doesn't necessarily have to happen, and the fact that all of Kazador's kids are now in other holds would certainly soften the potential blow, but the secret passages he used still exist. He is still fairly canny himself.
It'd be nice to be able to retake Drazh, but I honestly don't know if we could rustle up the forces to manage it.
Azul, and the Norscan dwarfs.
Which is honestly somewhat concerning, since those got destroyed shortly after reconnecting when they overextended to help the rest of the Karaz Ankor. And that could very well have happened if Waagh Birdmuncha didn't run face first into a towerfull of hellfire.
I'd imagine their isolation actually worked for them to some degree - it's one thing to hear about this or that hold being lost, and it's another thing to live it. They were effectively ensconced within a bubble in which only the state of their own hold was relevant to their lives, and so life went on and things didn't seem so bad as they did to the Karaz Ankor.
I'd love to make it a concrete long-term goal. We've done some really cool stuff with defensive super weapons, so I wonder what we'd be able to manage if we started preparing something offensive a few years in advance. That, and put every Tilean and Estalian mercenary we can find to the task.