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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Rafin said:
Hmm. Who else could be given an Elector seat to balance that out? A worldly one would require conquest and I remember that the Taalites and Rhyans didn't want one. Is the same true for Morrites and Verenans? I guess the Ulricans could get a second one? Maybe Nordland related as to not just give the Ar-Ulric two votes?
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A sufficiently successful border princess* or Governer of Swamp town*

someone that recreated one of the lost provinces. (including Vampireland... as long as they are willing to 'forget' about the Markgraf is not an inheritable title.)

whoever brings Marienburg back into the fold

a duke that is willing to jump ship with the whole dukedom**.


* emphasizes on sufficiently.

** not likely to happen, but a duke willing and able to do so would get a shines for it.


storryeater said:
Are we... are we becoming Sauron? We may actually be getting closer and closer to being Sauron as time goes on, actually.
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well, people arent voting for use having two towers...


Redshirt Army said:
Asarnil called her Ma-thil, which in Eltharin means "silver savage". Since we're a skilled swordswoman from the Queen of the Silver Depths (aka Karak Eight Peaks), Mathilde accepted the moniker.
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I'm pretty sure that Ma-thil is just the closest Eltharin name to Mathilde, and has nothing to do with her skills in Sword, which if you remember is at best 'quaint' to him. it's just that Mathy actually likes it a bit.

lets not look to deep into everything the super elf says. that how you get disappointed.
 
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Jyn Ryvia said:
I'm pretty sure that Ma-thil is just the closest Eltharin name to Mathilde, and has nothing to do with her skills in Sword, which if you remember is at best 'quaint' to him. it's just that Mathy actually likes it a bit.

lets not look to deep into everything the super elf says. that how you get disappointed.
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I believe Redshirt is describing reasons why Mathilde likes the title, and therefore why she accepts it. He's not saying that Asarnil said those things about her skills.
 
Rafin said:
Who has the right to do such things by the way? How did that Fat Emperor manage to give an Elector position to the Moot?
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That sort of thing is what lead to the Time of Three Emperors, and nobody's very keen on an encore. So in modern times any changes to the Electors set down by Magnus the Pious goes to a vote by the current Electors. It's not actually mandatory, but if an Emperor can't get at least half the Electors to vote aye, then he's got little chance of being able to enforce it.
 
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along the several hundred chapters I lost track of where the Lemarchand's Box containing a demonic snake is and who has it. what happened to it?
 
Figured it was one of the things Mathilde brought over when she moved into the penthouse.

It did spend some time in the underground palace being seen to by the local priest of Ranald, but I would be surprised if it hasn't been moved over.

Probably shoved into a corner of the vault.
 
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Rafin said:
Two Chaos Gods would be wholly inadequate at manipulating anything like a parliament. One Chaos God could only really do a supercharged version of bribery and corruption. Only Tzeentch would have a chance of more serious shenanigans and if you don't give the Commons too much power then that danger shouldn't be to great.

On the other hand, I am currently listening about the French revolution on the "Revolutions" podcast and ho boy was that a mess. Let's just say that if an Emperor says that everyone should freely and without censorship discuss the problems they have and then elect representatives to some kind of legislative body there's a good chance that all four aspects of Ranald are going to have such a field day that you might mistake him for a Chaos God.
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I dunno, Nurgle could maybe come in clinch in real populism hours. People forget that he does not represent only illness, he also represents morbid apathy, and claims to hold universal love.
 
BoneyM said:
Tucked away in Mathilde's vault with a very large drip tray underneath it.
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Apocryphal, but still- waste not want not.
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So, since the Karaz Ankor consider Mathilde a dwarf, or at least her soul as dwarven, does that mean it'll start levying grudges on her behalf if something wrongs her?

Edit: Karaz Ankle, thanks autocorrupt.
 
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henkalv said:
So, since the Karaz Ankor consider Mathilde a dwarf, or at least her soul as dwarven, does that mean it'll start levying grudges on her behalf if something wrongs her?

Edit: Karaz Ankle, thanks autocorrupt.
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Not of their own accord. The way the system works is that a Dwarf who is wronged and cannot right matters themselves escalates it to their Clan's leadership, and if the Clan decides it's a valid Grudge they resolve it if they can and escalate it further to their King if they can't, and from there if it can't be resolved in the immediate term it gets entered into the Karak's Book of Grudges. Mathilde could interface with this by either claiming Clanless status and petitioning Belegar directly or by claiming to be head of Clan Weber and escalating it to Belegar as her Clan's King.

Guilds and Cults can also play the same role as Clans in this process. Dwarven society has an inbuilt assumption that being a Dwarf of the Karaz Ankor means being a member of at least one of those.
 
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