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The others had drawbacks to offset advantages- the Nordlander would have required a lot of initial investment but would have resulted in a subordinate with a great deal of personal loyalty to Mathilde, the Stirlander would have had little to no personal loyalty to Mathilde and might've taken the EIC in a direction we didn't agree with but would have been exceedingly competent, and the Hochlander was the competent and loyal (to the College and the Empire, if not Mathilde) middle of the road option.
 
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Even though the EIC stuff generally comes in the updates as Mathilde recapping on what he's been doing, it's still a half action at the end of the day, not something we've completely spun off, so presumably that's mainly due to it being a good method to concisely get the information across, and just like other half actions Mathilde is still somewhat hands on on occasion as well. I'd assume she does stuff like personally inspecting the Wargalleys he had built when she was in the area anyway, or quizzing some of the boatmen to see if they're truly on board with the new system.
 
@BoneyM What should be the "official" Warhammer name for the Shadowkeep? I have a list of suggestions:
  • Schattenburg
  • Schatteburg
  • Schattigburg
  • Schattichburg
  • Dämmerburg
  • Schattenturm
  • Schatteturm
  • Schattigturm
  • Schattichturm
  • Dämmerturm
  • Schattenfried
  • Schattenfried
  • Schattigfried
  • Schattichfried
  • Dämmerfried
German doesn't actually have a direct translation for "keep" that is different from castle or tower. The closest they get is using the French word Donjon, or the compound words Hauptturm (main tower) or Wohnturm (home tower). They also have the Bergfried, but that's both a mouth full and not quite the same.

But because Warhammer Reikspiel is not quite correct German and how it sounds to an anglophone ear matters more than linguistic accuracy I gave various not quite correct versions to choose from.

Personally I'm not quite sure yet, but something like Schattigfried has a nice parallel to Sonnigwiese by having the same grammatic weirdness.

I'd make that decision when I had reason to use a Reikspielified name for it, and choose based on the impression I wanted the name to give. Dammer-something if I wanted to draw a link to the Dammerlichtreiter legend, maybe a -fried or a -friedhof if I was using the PoV of someone who was impressed with it, or a -burg for a local who was used to it.
 
Actually, now that you mention it, how many of the ducks all the spies feed are working for Dragomas?
The spell to get animals to talk does just that, it doesn't make them any more intelligent or cooperative. So even if the ducks were fanatically loyal to the cause of the Ambers there's still the challenge of getting accurate intelligence from a duck.

Feel like the ducks would spend most of their talking time either threatening whoever is close or begging for food. Might get something like "nice grey person who feeds us came by", but the ducks being amber spies is probably just a meme.
 
The spell to get animals to talk does just that, it doesn't make them any more intelligent or cooperative. So even if the ducks were fanatically loyal to the cause of the Ambers there's still the challenge of getting accurate intelligence from a duck.

Feel like the ducks would spend most of their talking time either threatening whoever is close or begging for food. Might get something like "nice grey person who feeds us came by", but the ducks being amber spies is probably just a meme.
People often under estimate the intelligence of animals.
And even if most of the info is not very useful, in agregate, it might be, get some crows to collate the data and suddenly you have a wealth of information.
 
Generally I figure if there was that big a hole in the Grey's methods they wouldn't use them. They're well aware that Ghur exists and they're well aware of what it can do.

Whether it be mindholes, a method to ensure nothing actually hears what they're saying, or just not saying anything important around them- I trust that the college built on paranoia has thought of this.

Fuck, maybe the ducks are just really loyal. I want to see the duck vetting process.
 
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People often under estimate the intelligence of animals.
And even if most of the info is not very useful, in agregate, it might be, get some crows to collate the data and suddenly you have a wealth of information.
It's not a bad spell, it's just that the info is probably just going to be stuff that's important to animals. Questions like "how are you/do you need something", "how is the hunting", or "have beastmen/undead/chaos passed by recently" will probably get useable answers, but I doubt they will remember specific humans that haven't attacked them or the contents of conversations. Might get the description of a human who feed them or is nice to them, but that description is going to be filtered through the perception of an animal.

There probably is utility in using trained and more intelligent animals, might even be some ambers are hard at work training up hawks, owls, and crows to be an empire wide information network. It will most likely be aimed at detecting beastheards and greenskins in the empires forests though, since that is what the ambers care about.
 
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You know I wonder if the shroons will be worth any College favor or rep, not the book on them, like the actual physical things you can use to cast magic without reaching for external winds? That sounds like the sort of things a lot of wizards would appreciate since it makes it safer for Journeymen to cast and thus less likely for them to blow up.
 
You know I wonder if the shroons will be worth any College favor or rep, not the book on them, like the actual physical things you can use to cast magic without reaching for external winds? That sounds like the sort of things a lot of wizards would appreciate since it makes it safer for Journeymen to cast and thus less likely for them to blow up.

Probably not, for the simple reason that I doubt Boney will let us literally farm college rep.
 
I'd make that decision when I had reason to use a Reikspielified name for it, and choose based on the impression I wanted the name to give. Dammer-something if I wanted to draw a link to the Dammerlichtreiter legend, maybe a -fried or a -friedhof if I was using the PoV of someone who was impressed with it, or a -burg for a local who was used to it.
Friedhof means graveyard though.

The reason I thought about all that was that the cactus fief doesn't actually have a name currently. It's just "that piece of land near Sonnigwiese".
Next college donation will be a greenhouse where the shrooms can be grown
I don't think you actually need a greenhouse to grow these mushrooms. Greenskin used to grow them underground.
 
I don't think you actually need a greenhouse to grow these mushrooms. Greenskin used to grow them underground.
Well, yes, but if we want the structure to be a part of the college itself, it can't be just a cave. It has to be a structure within the building. Therefore, greenhouses :)

You need greenhouses in order to have rooms that are filed with the right Wind.
The Colleges are already Monowind environments
 
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