looking into Araybian apparition binding
To be pedantic, AFAIK the Colleges' official understanding of what the Arabyans do with djinn is "we don't understand what the fuck the Arabyans are doing with djinn, but they
claim it's not daemonology...?" The concept of "non-daemon aethyric entity" is most closely matched by "apparition" out of what the Colleges
do know about, but the djinn don't appear to match any known apparitions and there's no other precedent for the concept of "regionally-specific apparitions." It's also unknown if they match observed behavior for known apparitions when unbound, e.g. pursuing practitioners of certain specific Winds if they catch their scent in the Aethyr.
Anyway, on to vote-relevant stuff.
[X] Plan: Plan Simple Research
Honestly, this is looking incredibly good to me. It's 1/4 of the charter of the Hochland College so we're well shy of the example Danger Zone for charter broadness, and it sidesteps all of the nit-picking over "what kind of research EXACTLY does this charter cover?" A KISS charter sounds fantastic right about now.
Because I'm stubborn, I'm also going to make a couple new versions of my own plan inspired by this and some other later arguments, even though last I checked I was literally the only person voting for my original plan.
[X] Plan Simple Elven Research and a Gyro
-[X] Branch College
--[X] Headquarters: Tor Lithanel
--[X] Charter: Research (All)
--[X] Colleges (all)
-[X] Karak Kadrin Engineers Guild: A gyrocarriage.
-[X] Karak Eight Peaks: To the degree it safely and sustainably can, let K8P gather, preserve, and disseminate knowledge to all goodly folk. Let the tool of this boon be a library and all the books that might be gathered to it, watched over by those of any race who would swear and be accepted as librarians.
I still very much want a branch in Tor Lithanel, partly because I just, like, want something NEW to read about and we've read a whole lot about Karag Nar already. And I enjoyed it! But I'm ready for something different. It also just feels like more of a unique and new opportunity in general, and I'd rather pursue that aggressively than hang back out of wariness. Which honestly feels like a more IC attitude for Mathilde? Though "yeah but Mathilde loves dwarves" is a valid IC take too, to be fair.
[X] Plan Simple Elven Research, a Dwarf College, and a Gyro
-[X] Branch College
--[X] Headquarters: Tor Lithanel
--[X] Charter: Research (All)
--[X] Colleges (all)
-[X] Branch College
--[X] Headquarters: Karag Nar
--[X] Charter: Library (in conjunction with the Great Library of Karak Eight Peaks, focusing on the magical section of the Great Library), Education (teaching wizards how to work with the Dawi before they actually work with the Dawi, long term goal of improving cooperation and coordination between the Colleges and the Dawi), and Research (combining/studying College magic and dwarven artifice and runesmithing)
--[X] Colleges (all)
-[X] Karak Kadrin Engineers Guild: A gyrocarriage.
-[X] Karak Eight Peaks: To the degree it safely and sustainably can, let K8P gather, preserve, and disseminate knowledge to all goodly folk. Let the tool of this boon be a library and all the books that might be gathered to it, watched over by those of any race who would swear and be accepted as librarians.
Same as above, and a second Great Deed on creating a Dwarfy College of Dwarf Stuff with Dwarves in Karag Nar. It does have three foci, but they're all fairly specific subsets of those foci and they should all more-or-less be compatible with each other in terms of theme and focus. So I don't think that's too broad.
