Variations on 'the Gods defended us from Chaos and lead us to this bountiful land', with varying amounts of credit going to various gods depending on local biases.
So none of the Empire cults publicly share an answer to the question of "where did the first Humans (and Elves and Dwarves) come from"? If this is true, it would definitely increase my respect for Mallus Humans compared to real world Humans, who rarely founded any religions that didn't try to have some form of answer to every major question ever.
Need corroboration to publish as fact, need a larger sample size to publish as a cultural myth.
I really like this clean and clear answer. Sorry for having posted more stuff harping on on this topic after you gave it. I hadn't gotten there yet.
the person we are speaking to is a Star Dragon, that means he remembers not only the arrival of Chaos but may be old enough to remember the arrival of the Old Ones
How do we know that? Is the time needed for a newborn Dragon to become a Star Dragon definitely longer than the time that has passed since the arrival of Chaos/the Old Ones?
and you're super special Loremaster's time,
He didn't spend our time. He allowed us to spend our own time if we felt like saving a few historical coins in the name of Human history.
We don't need to explicitly write anything to not do this. Boney mentioned that in case of death, we could specify that the story was recorded in Mathilde's notes she leaves for Grey College.
Yeah, I couldn't follow the thread consistently in the last few days and am currently catching up. I decided to pist a few comments on the way instead of posting one massive one. The drawback is that some of my questions might already be answered.
I find it hilarious people are more focused on making sure
Egrimm van Horstmann doesn't publish before we do than figuring out if he's a cultist. We sure have our priorities straight
He hasn't given any IC indication that he is one. But he has given IC indication that he is a threat to our publishing primacy.
Why Wendred?
Less generously, the thread has history of gaining rewards from publishing things Mathilde has learned, and so despite it being a mere bedtime story (rather than, say, a months-long research project) some people may be expecting that there must be some way to gain College Favor from this
I don't know about others, but I explicitly don't care about the adjacent College Favor. It would make no sense to get currency for hearing a story once. I just want to share this one fairy tale with potential truth value with the rest of the world for IC reasons. As in, it's what I'd do in Mathilde's place. I don't want to publish it as a paper, but only sharing this little one-page story post-humously also doesn't feel quite right. Given full freedom I'd mail a copy to Algard in the hope that he stores it in the archiving room under "Dragon/Ulthuani/Deathfang" while keeping the original conspicuously in our library so that others can stumble on it and go "wtf".
That said, I have accepted BoneyM's judgement. Now I'd like maybe make a personal side project out of it, but I'm worried that plans containing AP towards that won't ever make it through due to low AP-to-CF return rate or not advancing Mathilde's power or competing with all of our other long form research projects.
But like, if some Dragon scholar came to Mathilde and said "I heard you've spoken to two Dragons multiple times and that's so rare for humans that I horde every scrap of info I can. Do you have anything for me?" then I'd be happy, even if it nets us less than half a favor with a random Verena cult branch somewhere in Tilea.
