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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Karak Kron, Karaz Kron, something along those lines is great.
I'd still like to just name it "Library of Karak 8 Peaks", but i suspect something in dwarven would get more votes.
 
BoneyM said:
"By which the Magister Patriarch means that collaboration with them may be of use as a pretence for ascertaining their suitability to join one of the Orders of Magic, as required by Article 13," Kurtis says. "Otherwise collaboration with the Hedgewise would make you a party to a breach of Article 3."
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Can probably fit the Eonir mages under the same heading of 'under long term assessment'.
Assuming we don't try to legal-fu them as 'priests of Hoeth' or some such.

"Any species," you say firmly, "as long as they don't act against the Civilized Realms and are willing to swear the proper oaths."

"That could cause trouble down the line," he says thoughtfully, "but I don't see anyone but the Dwarves and humans and Halflings of the Karak being willing to join it any time soon, so it's trouble for whoever wears the crown after me.
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Ha. He thought it would take years or decades to retake all Eight Peaks. We did it in a day.

He thinks it will take a lifetime to get other races as librarians.
Bet we can get an elf and a We inside a decade.
 
On a more serious note, either the 'World Library' or the 'Eternal Library' sound quite good - of the two I'm partial to World Library, as it is simultaneously a name and a statement of intent.

I'll let people more knowledgeable about Khazalid figure out the translations - gotta make it proper dorfy, after all.
 
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DragonParadox said:
Breaking Article Seven is merely illegal and thus only relevant if we are caught, the fact that dwarfs likely can't cast arcane magic and do not even have mage sight is more of a physical impossibility.
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I'd disagree on that one. Mathilde very much cares about the Articles and has not (in her own view) ever broken them. 'Only a problem if you get caught' wouldn't really apply here, I think.
 
Hmm. Everlasting Archive isn't bad at all, but I like the "World Library" idea @Xepheria brought up too. What's a Khazalid word that has a similar implication to "World" - something like "of/for all peoples"? Any thoughts, @BoneyM ?

(And my apologies if you're annoyed at being pinged to provide various translations, I'm willing to cease.)
 
picklepikkl said:
We just finished the actions necessary to begin inserting agents into places. We would have taken our first last turn except that the Okral attack happened and derailed that. I want to take our first this coming turn; at this point, there's nothing standing in our way of doing spy shit with the EIC like we originally wanted to except for not being used to it.
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And honestly, it's about to become directly useful to us in a way it really wasn't when we were staying mostly in K8P.

Think about it- all of a sudden we are going to be going places to look at things, and trying to identify the people we need. My expectation is that instead of showing up blind, we put our intellegence network to work a bit in advance, and get a briefing before we plunge in.

Hochlander as our advance man, basically. I think it'll let us maintain a lot of the Grey mystique to be well-informed, it gives us a story beat where we get to interact with the man on a regular basis ("Hochlander, tell me about where I am going next") and it gives a convenient way for us to call in resources when not in dwarven lands.
 
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Redshirt Army said:
Hmm. Everlasting Archive isn't bad at all, but I like the "World Library" idea @Xepheria brought up too. What's a Khazalid word that has a similar implication to "World" - something like "of/for all peoples"? Any thoughts, @BoneyM ?

(And my apologies if you're annoyed at being pinged to provide various translations, I'm willing to cease.)
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The closest word I'm aware of would be Ankor, meaning 'realm'.
 
BoneyM said:
Not outright offensive, but it is potentially confusing. 'Karak' does mean 'enduring', but modern convention is that 'Karak' as a place means a Dwarfhold.
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Good old Khazalid. Truly the most precise and clear language on the continent. Nothing is ever up to interpretation or has double meanings like in those pesky Elgi languages.

More seriously, is there a less confusing Khazalid way of saying "Enduring Library"? Maybe with different endings?
 
Redshirt Army said:
Hmm. Everlasting Archive isn't bad at all, but I like the "World Library" idea @Xepheria brought up too. What's a Khazalid word that has a similar implication to "World" - something like "of/for all peoples"? Any thoughts, @BoneyM ?
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Khazalid doesn't really have a word that fits well. The closest would be phrases for 'Dwarves and everyone else' and 'mountains and everywhere that isn't mountains'.

Redshirt Army said:
(And my apologies if you're annoyed at being pinged to provide various translations, I'm willing to cease.)
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It's not a problem.

Rafin said:
Good old Khazalid. Truly the most precise and clear language on the continent. Nothing is ever up to interpretation or has double meanings like in those pesky Elgi languages.

More seriously, is there a less confusing Khazalid way of saying "Enduring Library"? Maybe with different endings?
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No. There'll always be ambiguity, that's just how language works. By which I mean that is the way that language engages in a profession, by which I mean it makes declarations, by which I mean it closes an innings of cricket. See what I mean?

Klaus said:
Hmm...Then how would we say "a mountain of books"?
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Karaz Kron.
 
I would vote for Karaz Korn, it sounds suitably dwarfy while having a confusing double meaning which is very much un-dwarfy, what could be more fitting?

Seriously I think we can get a lot of mileage out of focusing on the fact that yet we have dawi on board to protect the collection and the notion of a library that will not be lost would appeal to many. Sure it is a bit of challenge to fate, but fate is an evil bird-faced SoB who could use a punch in the face.
 
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