Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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- South Africa
[x] The Waystone Project
[X] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[x] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[X] Spymaster of Wissenland
Adding Markgraf, becuase I don't want tutoring.
[X] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[x] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[X] Spymaster of Wissenland
Adding Markgraf, becuase I don't want tutoring.
Here's a quick and dirty summary of the top four:
Waystones: Trying to get enigmatic, mysterious and sexy elves, smug, mysterious, and sexy wizards and stubborn, mysterious, and sexy dwarfs to work with each other to solve a magical mystery. Since Ulgu is powered by confusion, this is the clear route to ultimate power.
Markgraff: return to Sylvania and finish Abelhiems work by eradicating the Vampire Counts once and for all. May or may not result in us becoming the next Vampire and/or Shadow Count of Sylvania.
Loremaster: Wander the world like Gandalf the Grey helping the Dwarfs solve their problems. Halfling burglar not included.
Bodyguard: Same as loremaster, only with fewer dragons, more politics, and a really shady employer/wine aunt. Basically wizard James Bond.
Edit: Dammit, I'm actually selling myself on the waystone project now.
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- Germany
More potential rats and vampires though, which might not quite match dragons in interest, but is certainly worth something.
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- Finland
That's not actually determined yet.
I do not think that this is actually accurate. Mathilde needed to actively make an effort to reconnect with her roots during the first arc because of how young she was when she needed to flee and she never actually spent much time on it. Then after that first job she spent years in a dwarf-dominated multicultural community and has picked up a deepened distaste for many apsects of the empire. Mathilde is really only superficially a child of Stirland.
The interplay between the people of Sylvania and Mathilde is honestly one of the things that excite me the most about that option. Mathilde is not what they are going to expect from the empires latest attempt at imperialism and she herself will also have to grow to achieve anything in this position. I actually believe that they are quite well suited to each other. This future is going to be some weird found-family nation-building that will probably end with some wacky shit like an independent republic of Sylvania under the protection of the Karaz Ankor.
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[x] The Waystone Project
[x] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[x] Spymaster of Wissenland
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- South Africa
Loremaster still has rat possibilities because the dawi always have rat problems, not as immediate as tutor, because they have had those problems for a long time.
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- Aotearoa
Fortunately(?) we're our own multiclass Wizard/Cleric/Rogue/Fighter*one-person adventuring party, and probably better than 99% of Halfling burglars.Loremaster: Wander the world like Gandalf the Grey helping the Dwarfs solve their problems. Halfling burglar not included.
That's not actually determined yet.
(*Actually the munchkin prestige class Shadowmancer/Luck Priest/Shadow Assassin/Paragon Duellist combo, but the DM has clearly given up trying to keep up with our splatbooks at this point.)
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- US
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Bro, Wizard James Bond sounds bad ass. To be honest, I do quite like this option for implied freedom. There's a lot of fires the need putting out in the Empire, and this option doesn't lock us into spending the next 20 years fighting vampires, or Skaven, but it does get us out there fighting things.
The Stirland option is appealing for the carteblanche given to pursue our goals. That'd be terrifying in most hands, but Mathilde has proven over almost 20 years to be as near to uncorruptle as a human can be. This option would be a ton of fucking work though. Stomping out cults, building trust, shifting religious focus, stomping on idiot nobles; just generally going full Mad Eye Moody on that bitch: "Constant Vigilance!".
The Waystone Project I don't have any strong feelings for. It feels like a total gamble. Either were overreaching and accomplish nothing, or we upend the fabric of the current Warhammer world. It seems like a bit ambitious for a 30 year old *Lady Magister if I'm being honest. I'd think you'd want to improve Matty's diplo first, or make stronger in-roads with the elves before trying something so ambitious.
I don't care about the rest tbh. The Loremaster-at-Large seems like continuing the status quo, which isn't bad, but might as well go the Waystone route and let Belegar get a proper Loremaster versed in Dwarven Law.
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[x] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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- America
Good gods it just keeps going. I'm almost afraid to go to bed.
Oh, I woke up and Tutor is near the lead again. Come people, let us teach a 5 year old how to kill skaven. Auntie Mathy is the best at killing rats yes-yes.
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I see it more as a wider range of problems, unique to each Karak, apart from greenskins and skaven which are probably common to them all. That's only for Loremaster, Waystones would be magic, research, diplomacy, corrupted waystones and lore.
Sylvania has had most of the surface threats and some of the underlying ones removed. Markgraf is sitting on Sylvania so it stays that way. Possibly building it up if we can and looking into deeper threats, but mostly making sure it stays vampire free. Others can do that just as well as we can.
Sylvania is a pretty small area, with a narrow focus, when compared to the Empire or Karaz Ankor.
Fake Edit: Found a better map of the Empire in colour with settlements. Here's one of the Old World that looks slightly different.
I guess in part, I like the Loremaster and Waystone options because they allow for visiting loads of different places far apart from each other. Bodyguard has that, too, but with more politics. Sylvania just seems unnapealing because we're in charge of a fairly small area and with little scope to act outside that area.
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[x] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
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Meganekko
[x] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
God, this is tense.
God, this is tense.
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NavySeel
"I don't know what I'm doing."
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Yes because clearly they're going to let us rope a 5 year old into the conspirac of silence right?
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Just go to sleep the vote wont be closed for a couple of days at least most likely, especially with the amount of people changing their votes constantly as their preferred option shifts up and down the list, it may in fact never settle whilst the vote is open due to that.
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- Argentina
This will just be a matter of luck in the end, unless we find a sudden influx of votes for a single option
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- Australia
I just don't like children haha
[x] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[x] The Waystone Project
[x] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[x] Spymaster of Wissenland
[x] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[x] The Waystone Project
[x] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[x] Spymaster of Wissenland
...actually teaching a 5 year old how to be quiet is probably the most important job in the world.
Source: I'm a dad.
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