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Quests like this remind me why I love the Empire.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- United States of America
Well, I figured that the same reason he is extremely afraid of shadows and darkness is why he has such potential. Ulgu likes him, for whatever reason, but he hasn't learned how to deal with the feelings of fear and mistrust that wallowing in Ulgu can bring. It's why he is constantly afraid of shadows and darkness because Ulgu keeps coming towards him and surrounding him when he's near them.
As for how he's alive still without getting down the basics? He's still an apprentice and his Masters do have a keen interest in keeping him alive (given that Ulgu, for some reason, really likes him). So he's not allowed to practice without the supervision of his Master to make sure he doesn't mess up too badly.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Or use Wolf to get the trait.
Imagine being a shepherd on the moors of the Weber estate, shivering in fear late at night after learning from your friend that the Dämmerlichtreiter herself had returned to her manse, and then hearing an echoing horn from over a hill. You turn, and the clouds part to illuminate a being of smoke and shadow riding a horse as black as night, accompanied by the deep baying of a terrible hound, flowing across the hilltops like oil. You're out of your mind with fear as it approaches, too petrified to even breathe, but then it changes course away from you, and slowly fades off into the distance.
Mathilde is happy that she just got to spend time with her dog in her backyard, who is himself very pleased at the midnight walks and barked up an enthusiastic storm the whole way through. Meanwhile Stirland gets to learn that the Dämmerlichtreiter has spooky ghost hounds.
That and you can't actually miscast very badly in the College campuses themselves, if I recall correctly, which reduced the potential for his vulgar pawing at the winds to cause him to explode.
Still, sense is worth far more than power. How old is he supposed to be? Because Grey Wizards almost never accept apprentices they didn't raise from very young ages, so they can be sure that they aren't infiltrators. It'd make a bit more sense if he were still quite small, though that'd raise the question of why Regimand was being so harsh with him.
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Aethyric, so it matches up with the spelling of Aethyric Armour.
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Next time a spell gets made, instead of slapping our own name on it, we slap the name of a long dead Magister on it and take credit for discovering a lost spell from a few hundred years ago! Diversify the gloryhounding! 
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- Upon the back of the Great A'Tuin
Next time a spell gets made, instead of slapping our own name on it, we slap the name of a long dead Magister on it and take credit for discovered a lost spell from a few hundred years ago! Diversify the gloryhounding!
So maybe something like:
Van Hals' Magnificient Minions!
Well, it would certainly get us a lot of attention.
edit: As an aside, I've been reading some old comments and (with the help of a map) I've only just realized that the conflict between Nordland and Middenland was probably started by the wood elves that live up there.
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[X] The Nice & Accurate Cartography of Mathilde Weber
[X] Mathilde's Multidimensional Aethyric Projection
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DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
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reading some old stuff, and i find it kinda funny that the Ambers are one of the orders who adopted the matrix. The matrix that specifically said we needed to know trig to do right. being adopted by the order least likely to know trig.
Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
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- Mother Russia
The matrix doesn't need trig to be cast, or to be developed. In fact, Mathilde fid both before she learned trigonometry. She needed it only to be able to write a paper and formally describe the matrix to others.
And I sincerely doubt that the knowledge of amber-matrix will be disseminated by a scientific article, with a series of master-classes being far more likely.
I imagine the ambers asked a friendly grey to cast the matrix several times while they observe and then went on the development, mayhaps popping afterward for a quick question or two.
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And there is a strong hibernation spell on their list already to borrow from. (The Winter's Long Slumber, creature sleeps until the solstice or equinox after next, biological processes put on hold, cannot be woken prematurely by anyone but the caster.)
Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
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- Mother Russia
Pretty bad, actually. We have been repeatedly told that putting a matrix on Mathilde (or any other spellcaster) is just asking for a miscast when she casts another spell.
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- United States of America
Although the real question is if we can use it on Wolf because when Wolf is a big boy and trained really well, he might be able to growl in a certain way to activate the matrix and unleash Dread Aspect. Because that's what the world needs more of, a wolf with Dread Aspect running on him.
I think the Grey College is going to use the Matrix mainly to put Mindhole spells into non-Wizard informants and agents that can activate on set conditions. It would save a lot of time for a Grey Wizard not to have to visit each one of his minions after they pulled of a heist for him to mindhole them, as an example. And if you are hiring guys for a distraction while you assassinate a cultist, leaving them without memory as soon as they are captured is just extremely useful.