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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[x] Nagarythe
[x] Research Sabbatical
[x] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[x] Spymaster of Wissenland
[x] Ambassador-at-Large to the Karaz Ankor
 
I always feel that the Waystone Project is way too overhyped because we would need to organize and find patrons for this project and we won't be able to rely on any outside income except our own before we can get an entire organization behind us and get someone else to pay for because while there's a vow of poverty it doesn't mean to let a Grey Wizard be destitute. So the ability to find political patrons instead of just Belegar is important and it would also be something to help the Colleges on the side. Besides Mathilde is just in her thirties so doing a magnum opus before getting all her eggs in order seems too unstable. A wizard can live for a long time so if she can be able to have a stable flow of funds instead of one patron then it is for the better. Besides we might be forced to do mercenary work if we can't be able to fully fun this endeavor.
 
[X] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
I would be quite happy if we keep on Loremastering with the hope that we get more of our existing research done. Plus new anomalies to drown us in new research options.
[X] The Waystone Project
What is, I am sure; an interesting research project. Not the one I'm most enthused to pursue but it might have more tangible benefits to the wider world.
[X] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
The feeling of having done a shoddy incomplete job still remains. More to the point I'm amused by the Dämmerlichtreiter aspect. It seems like it would fit with a research focus on Apparitions. I've speculated previously on taking actions to covertly assist other magisters/journeymen for the purpose of generating an Apparition. Of course, the reality is that this is a high action post that will limit research and we'll probably never get there. At least we'll stop some vampires into the bargain.
[X] Research Sabbatical
I've enjoyed all the research actions I've seen, so I have every reason to believe I'd continue to enjoy that content.

-Spymaster of Wissenland
This one didn't make the cut for me. The Skaven related research options and the prospect of new Skaven artefacts are all very well, but - outside of engineering that doesn't fit Mathilde in the first place - most Skaven magic is a dhar filled waste of time.
 
[x] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[x] The Waystone Project
 
[X] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[X] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
[X] Ranaldian High Priest of Kislev
[X] Border Princess of the Howling River
[X] Research Sabbatical

I don't think there's anything I'd switch to strategically-voting against in the whole line-up. They all sound interesting in one way or another, even the sinecure.
 
[X] Ambassador-at-Large to the Karaz Ankor
[X] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred

These have the most opportunity to dabble in the unique, significant acts of other positions.
 
Something I haven't seen mentioned with regards to Loremaster-At-Large:

Belegar is Probably in Deep Debt

Now, I've been saying that Belegar is rich for a while, and that's true - in the Gold Economy. But in the Favour economy he's really not - he has been spending favour like water, and what means has he had to earn that favour back?

Yes, he'll have gotten some favour from folks moving back into their ancestral homes, but an awful lot of those were part of the expedition to begin with so that's not going to be as much as he needs.

Karak Azul is likely paying off a significant chunk of it - their reconnection is huge - but is that going to be enough?

Sure, if Thorgrim came clean about the Waystones it'd probably all be paid, but that's not going to happen.

Sending Mathilde around as LaL is a way of repaying some of that favour debt, allowing him to strike out some of the Dalaz Kron.

[x] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[x] Spymaster of Wissenland
[x] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
[x] The Waystone Project
[x] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland​
 
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[X] The Waystone Project
[X] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
[X] Border Princess of the Howling River
[X] Ranaldian High Priest of Kislev

Oof this is a tough vote. Thank god for the extra moratorium.
 
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Vote and Reasoning

I did one of these when we had the first options so here we are again I will try to include as much that is objective in this analyses, but at the end of the day his is a personal vote prefaced by the fact that I do not think any of these options are out of character, some are just more in character for who I want Mathilde to be.

[ ] Loremaster Sinecure

Pass, I don't think we should rest on our laurels when there is so much to do. For one thing Belegar might be fine with us doing it but the Grey College is not. Moreover this looks like the sort of thing that would bore the GM at least a little. It would certainly bore me in his place an a bored GM is more likely to introduce sources of eternal conflict we had less of a hand in. I think there is something to be said for a more limited break like half a year to a year, but we are getting that anyway.

[X] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks

This is my first pick, well first thing I would be fine with on the list. It is a wide ranging varied job with a chance to interact more with dwarfs, who keep in mind are a lot less likely to be prejudiced than humans especially as we are no dawi ourselves. I think people underestimate the power of the Karaz Ankor to make effective change in the world too compared to the Empire.

Yes there are no more loose dwarfs to throw at an expedition, but the treasury balance of Old Holds is still YES. Dwarfs looking to the future with hope won't just have an interest in recovering holds or the lore of the ancestors, they will have a direct interest in keeping the world ticking, helping the empire, and other order powers, driving back the dark things in it etc... The Karaz Ankor diminished as it is is still a world power, the Empire is not. If you want to enact grand political change you could do worse than choosing his

[X] The Waystone Project

I like research, that cannot be denied, but I like diplomacy too, I would like us to get some use out of xeno-affinity and windherder and you can get both of these here, it synergises with the boons and with the plane to go to Ulthuan, it is just all around a place where many of Mathy's skills would be put to good use to the benefit of all in a challenging and varied experience

[/] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland

I am not voting for this, but I would not entirely dislike it either. I would see it as a bit of narrative regression and I do not really have a lot of faith that it would lead to fun research or loot, but I could be wrong, maybe that legend growing around us will lead to some fun magical interactions, maybe we can finally enshrine the Protector. If nothing else he would hate vampires even more than most exploitative nobles

[ ] Count of Sylvania

As above but less power, less resources and hereditary. Hard pass I am not even sure I want Mathy to have heirs.

[/] Spymaster of Wissenland

This is another one of those eh I would not mind it, Skaven seem to be going backwards. We already made a break from that line to research when we dropped all that stuff on the Gold College. That said maybe we can find the magical dictionary we are missing, maybe we can get skilled enough at illusion to pass for Skaven . Might be fun

[ ] Ambassador-at-Large to the Karaz Ankor

Hard pass. As much as I said the court would be a political quagmire this is worse, since it deliberately plays on our two major allegiances. Don't get me wrong I like the title of the quest, but there is no need to make it more imediate.

[ ] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred

I do not trust Hedi with the power of a fully operational Mathide and I do not think her ambitions are worth the trouble. I also have no attachment to the boy prince and don't think Mathilde does either. That said there are a few things I would like Ranald help with, maybe theurgy,maybe Ranald the magician. Boney has implied that Ranald too has heard of this Nagash fellow and so would be ill inclined to let us play around with his toys, but if he liked us enough... well he too was around in Nehekara apparently.

[/] Governor-General of Swamp Town

In a perfectly spherical void I would vote for this, it has magic dinosaurs and all that cool stuff. Hell maybe we will unearth a fully operational Old One spacecraft. ( :V ) But the world is not a void and Mathilde is not an island. We have no reason to run way from our lives and friends.

[X] Ranaldian High Priest of Kislev

Yep I'm voting for something that has not been investigated. The few things I like about the court position this does better and faster and we do not have to deal with Hedi and her politics. Hell maybe we'll find and Ungol Hag and talk spirit binding.

[X] Border Princess of the Howling River

If we are going to nation build might as well go big. This is a chance to shape the culture of an entire nation to secure the passes and maybe even do some adventuring down in the Land of the Dead. There are a lot of cool things down in the Border Princes and we can set our own hours. That said it is going to be a hell of an action sink to get off the ground, even more than Sylvania because this place is a howling wilderness filled with brigands monsters and cultists as opposed to a recently retaken province of the Empire.

[ ] Nagarythe

I am going to be brief here, we have just had a huge action interlude series. I do not think we would need to chain one more.

[ ] Research Sabbatical

I see this as a lightly more focused and time limited Sinecure, better than that, but not enough to vote for it.
 
[X] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
[X] Border Princess of the Howling River
[X] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[X] The Waystone Project
 
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[x] Loremaster Sinecure
[x] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[x] The Waystone Project
[x] Spymaster of Wissenland
[x] Ambassador-at-Large to the Karaz Ankor
[x] Nagarythe
 
[X] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[X] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
[X] Spymaster of Wissenland
[X] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
 
Hnnng I can already tell I'm going to be salty when Waystone Project wins. Smh why can't people can't put it off for 10 turns to follow such interesting time-sensitive plot hooks before doing it? It'll still be there.

[X] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
[X] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[X] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
 
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