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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Valmond said:
I would hope that Heidi is smart enough to keep the kids feet on the ground (and Mathilde will definitely try to do that if we pick it), and Ranald is generally not in favour of arrogent and conceited rulers.
Point of bodyguard position is not just making sure Mandred becomes and emperor, but also making sure he will be a good one.
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I hope Heidi will keep Mandred relatively grounded too, and I certainly expect her to try, but sometimes that sort of thing's simply not possible. In fact, sometimes efforts to shape a child's outlook and personality can have exactly the opposite of the intended effect simply due to sheer rebelliousness (it's a cliche for a reason).
 
I feel like waystone project is the least time sensitive of our options. We can do it 50 years later and nothing would significantly change. It is definitely interesting, but I'd prefer for any other option to win.
 
Resonant said:
Mandred becoming Emperor is not the point, Imperial stability is. We see how disunited the provinces currently are and it would become even worse if the Imperial Succession is unclear. Beyond that, mentoring Mandred as a potential Emperor candidate and instilling proper morals/values should always be considered important.
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The succession is only likely to be a problem if Leopold dies in the relatively near future, and honestly? In that situation, I'd take one of the Elector Counts (someone proven, with experience) over someone who could grow up to be practically anything.
Resonant said:
And he's still going to become Reikland's Elector Count at a minimum, leading the most powerful province in the Empire. Missing this opportunity would mean leaving it up to chance for him to grow into an incompetent, unscrupulous, or simply average leader.
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It wouldn't be leaving it up to chance, it'd be leaving it up to other people (Heidi and Leopold).
 
Exmorri said:
Dragomas can turn into a Cathayan dragon: "like an elongated lizard with a moustache, or, yes, like a scaled ferret, and despite its lack of wings it floats through the air with the ease of an eel through the water." Which I find strongly suggestive but not explicitly stated.
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I'm aware he can turn into a Cathayan dragon. I mentioned that in my earlier post.

Is that because he learned the spell in Cathay, or is it his personal take on the spell owing to the fact that he saw/interacted with Cathayan dragons on his Journey?

Mathilde didn't plan a single one of her masteries, they're just developments in the ways she interacts with those spells. Dragomas having a mastery that let him turn into a CD owing to his having experience with them doesn't seem extreme.
 
NSMS said:
I hope Heidi will keep Mandred relatively grounded too, and I certainly expect her to try, but sometimes that sort of thing's simply not possible. In fact, sometimes efforts to shape a child's outlook and personality can have exactly the opposite of the intended effect simply due to sheer rebelliousness (it's a cliche for a reason).
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Yes, and that reason is that most writers are unoriginal and lazy. :V
Heidi is not going to teach her child through lecturing or trying to force him into doing things, she's way smarter than that.
 
Children are complicated, its not as simple as 'put good teachings in, get good Emperor out'.

Worse, its not even remotely a skill Mathilde has. She's taught someone once, and that was an established Magister that she was teaching in her primary skill of Windsight.

Teaching a child a wide variety of things is extremely outside of her wheelhouse.

She might just not be any good at it. Especially when the foremost trait that is required for teaching children is patience- and, well.

BoneyM said:
You were there for his first birthday, which was almost a couple of years ago, which makes him almost three, which means he's... still fairly helpless, you're pretty sure. Ridiculous. Wolf was fully grown and capable of killing a man by the age of two.
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:V
 
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picklepikkl said:
...was it under a Van Hal, though? I thought the Haupt-Anderssons were still kicking in canon.

Look, I'm not saying I'm against it, I'm just saying that if we do it, go the whole nine yards and call it the Scholomance.
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Under a von Templehof, which is almost as yikes.

SpaceSloth said:
Wasn't he the one that blew up during the siege of Drakenhof ?
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The people who try to live in the district where it happened would argue that 'blew up' is something of an understatement.
 
Valmond said:
Yes, and that reason is that most writers are unoriginal and lazy. :V
Heidi is not going to teach her child through lecturing or trying to force him into doing things, she's way smarter than that.
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Smart =/= knows how to raise a child. And it's a cliche that happens in real life.
 
NSMS said:
he'd be better than any of the currently existing Electors.
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According to Heidi the current EC aren't that exceptional, like the Grand Duke Feuerbach of Talabecland is the primary contender for just being the Grand Duke Feuerbach of Talabecland , not for being an exceptional EC.

And I really think Mandred would be better than him considering some of the things happening in Talabencland (like some of their merchants trading with Vampires, or what he did when Abel was EC about not touching the northern trade border thing).
 
[x] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[x] Count of Sylvania
[x] Spymaster of Wissenland
[x] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
[x] Border Princess of the Howling River
 
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