If you're talking about the neighing-horse toy gift, I don't think that was it at all. My read was Heidi foresaw someone would think Mandred was magical and had spontaneously enchanted it himself, while the Rune of Ulgu would be enough to show it was actually crafted by her favourite
Meanwhile.
I'm quite confident she does. I'm rather less confident that her priorities there are identical to what Mathilde's would be. I'm actually not super into this option personally, but let's not act like Mathilde being able to influence the next Emperor (probably; technically he would still need to be elected, I think) would be superfluous because surely Heidi our 100% trustworthy friend will instill exactly the values and beliefs that we would. I like Heidi. But that's just a bit much.
This, however, I broadly agree with. Waystones are still the +++ option to beat IMO. Some of these offers do look quite interesting in their own right (being in charge of Skaven Intrigue Stuff for Wissenland, doing Kislev stuff for Ranald in particular) and I'd be fairly happy with those, but Waystones are still going to get my vote out of every possibility we've seen so far.
I mean. An "Orc Bait Fortress" can be defined as "a fortress that orcs can reach"; there's really no magic required to get orcs to come attack you. You just need to look like a good fight. Also, I'm generally strongly opposed to going Empire Builder in the Border Princes, because that's the mediocre indefensible land that nobody important really wants to occupy since they've got better things to point any spare military power at. If people want to build a fiefdom then there are many, many places inside the Empire that are yet to be developed thanks to all the enemies living there, and Roswita's already offered us our pick out of pretty much all the ones she has available to offer. Which I'm not that into either tbh, but at least it's more worthwhile than building castles in the sand out in the Border Princes IMO.
Don't forget to set up the fortress so that it teleports to concentrations of Waaagh! energy within or near the territory that Mathilde will be taking over.
Ah, but how many of those involve securing the most vulnerable part of the canal's waterway against Marienburg being stupid?
Locally. As in, in Karaz Ankor, where a waystone has not been brought online in... ever. There has never, ever been a reclaimed Hold that actually had a waystone for Eonir to notice it.
I'd argue giving the Empire more protection from any Waaaghs along with securing trade routes is worth far more than taking some random area of land in the empire and making it more productive.
Roswita is still the rightful Elector of Stirland, and doesn't want to give up Sylvania in perpetuity. I don't think that was a dig at Mathilde, but that the position is inherently temporary, until Sylvania gets its shit together.Is it bad that I'm disappointed Roswita didn't offer us a heritable Markgraf title? I mean, we probably weren't going to have kids anyway, but still
Actually, that's kind of what I meant; Heidi's probably already been shaping Mandred's views quite a bit, and she has much more influence over him than Mathilde could. In the face of that, I think any additions or tweaks Mathilde could make would be relatively minor. Though admittedly, my opinion is probably a bit biased, considering I'm not interested in this option at all.
if she could she probably would but what's she's doing is already something no wizard has ever received. Better not to push too far and have the cult of sigmar and any idiots kick up a fuss.Is it bad that I'm disappointed Roswita didn't offer us a heritable Markgraf title? I mean, we probably weren't going to have kids anyway, but still. If you want our help, you gotta shell out, Roswita
she did.Is it bad that I'm disappointed Roswita didn't offer us a heritable Markgraf title? I mean, we probably weren't going to have kids anyway, but still. If you want our help, you gotta shell out, Roswita
(I imagine if we want an heir at some point, we'd probably adopt a young apprentice as a sort of two birds with one stone deal)
No, it's if we don't take it.
Fair enough. I seem to have been remembering the order of that conversation wrong.
One of the particular features of a Markgraf title historically was that it sometimes was deliberately non-hereditary because it wasn't a stable specific domain that fit the inheritance rules. An Edgelord frequently had a secondary job of poaching whatever extra territory he could from the neighbors beyond the frontier, expanding the overlord's reach, and when the Edgelord dies some of that territory gets reconsidered for whether to hold it, abandon it, split it up into several titles, and/or declare some of it less-edgy now. I don't know if this is what Boney has in mind, but it seems a thing to do inIs it bad that I'm disappointed Roswita didn't offer us a heritable Markgraf title? I mean, we probably weren't going to have kids anyway, but still. If you want our help, you gotta shell out, Roswita
But she's also supposed to be tutoring him! Unless Wolf can do that too? 🤔
Isn't this a fallacy? You're saying vampires are necromancers because they are making more necromancers - vampires.
No, this happened AFTER Vlag.
I mean, Wolf's technically a part of us, can talk if necessary, and likes kids more than Mathilde with a fair experience in raising them. It makes a fair amount of sense.
I think the argument here is that vampires are necromancers because they are making more undead - vampires.
