Oh, no. It's just the good things that the human mages do that the elven mages get credit for. Any folly a human mage succumbs to is a result of their inborn inferiority, which elves cannot be blamed for.
Well, it's not like magic had ever had horrific consequences to the high elves mages, just ask Caledor Dragontamer ...oh right.
One of the major clans(mors) was reduced to 0 breeders.
The main loss to them should be accounted in terms of lost bases/cities, other than that the bloodshed is horrific but not something their leadership is likely to be all that concerned about.
Technically Mors is a minor clan iirc, they just happen to be the most important minor clan in the grand scheme of things.
... This isn't a question you need to answer, just me thinking aloud basically, but I wonder how long it will take for the Grey's to start infiltrating Skaven society. Spoken Queekish should make it possible, if I understand correctly.
Alas we only have the general spoken Queekish for communication between Clans, not any of the Clan-specific dialects.
They could probably pose as members of one clan interacting with another, as well, and probably work out a way to get the clan dialects with some effort. That's why I'm not surprised nobody has tried any deep infiltration yet, but I do expect it will happen sometime in the future.
Clearly the solution is train a swarm of giants rats to infiltrate and gather information instead. They'd fit right in!
...Fair enough. I guess I was imagining them to rely on magic, an air of mystery, and generally avoiding situations that would reveal them? Maybe I have too much faith in the memetic spy skills of the Grey College then. It just seemed plausible if vampires can get away with living in human society without being discovered for any length of time, and I think Eshin has agents in the Empire?
...what, they couldn't illusion up those?
For comparison, destroying the Colledge of Necromancy got us a Great Deed. So did adding Written Skaven to the Order Knowledge Pool. They're that paranoid.
Yes, if the Skaven ever find out that we added written Queekish to the Empire's knowledge base, we'll get the same treatment that L.M. Grey gets from the Chaos Dwarves.
Maybe the idea that we're really just a front for another, way more subtle Grey Magister?
I mean, it's the next best thing, but I'm not sure it even those precautions stand up to, you know, being housed in an entirely different dimension? Plus whatever other precautions the Greys—who are paranoid enough to conceivably match a divinely backed deception—have added over the last couple hundred years, including an active, decades-long siege. Dwarves are good at fortifying, but they've had less than a decade to work on our towers.
The reverse of the two skaven in a trench coat is a halfling wearing a fur suit.
