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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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as someone that had chickens at different points in their life.
build the Henhouse first, those things shit everywhere and you want somewhere to put them that won't be a small fortune to clean.
Yeah, my parents used to keep chickens years back, and they're not very clean animals.
For me, it's not about the number going up. It's about getting to the point that all our stuff is stuff mathy made herself.
I don't like the fact that dispite being a great enchanter, we only have the robes as something we made.
- Location
- Somewhere on Earth
The- the staff? The one that makes mist-based battle magic reliable for us?
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Yeah, even if I was of a mind to replace Branulhune (which I'm not) something like that is way down the list of possible actions, just from an efficiency standpoint- it'll certainly be much easier to improve many other aspects of Mathilde and her gear than to replace Branulhune.
- Location
- The Air Capital
Branulhune aside, I for one think we would rightfully earn the divine dopeslap for the sheer hubris of thinking we can make something better than the Coin. After all, Matty didn't make that either.
- Location
- Florida
I agree, replacing the cool as hell weapon we put a lot of time and effort to earn as well as crafting an entirely new fighting style for is... petty is honestly the kindest word I have to describe the idea.
Fair.
but outside of the sword, coin, belt and staff (just because the staff of +2comes with the SP job) I still think everything else is free game.
frankly, I don't think the candle or flask are even that good.
Candle is situational and the flash doesn't do anything that's worth the magic down time. And will be down right the wrong choice when we get some offensive BM
but outside of the sword, coin, belt and staff (just because the staff of +2comes with the SP job) I still think everything else is free game.
frankly, I don't think the candle or flask are even that good.
Candle is situational and the flash doesn't do anything that's worth the magic down time. And will be down right the wrong choice when we get some offensive BM
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
you want to try to make a better weapon than Kragg The Fucking Grimm? good luck have fun, i guess
Personally, when it comes to "blade" thematics, one of my ideas I had floating around in case I ever did a far-future!Mathilde omake was that Mathilde might get a personal mastery of Penumbral Pendulum that uses Branulhune and its connection to the liminal space it disappears to, plus Mathilde's long-time association with the weapon, plus the thematic resonance of a sword being used to cut while being a symbol of Ulgu.
The end result would be a Penumbral Pendulum that was *weaker* than the OG version in raw power... but the cutting plane would follow Mathilde's sword slash, as opposed to being a straight vertical line.
Personally, when it comes to "blade" thematics, one of my ideas I had floating around in case I ever did a far-future!Mathilde omake was that Mathilde might get a personal mastery of Penumbral Pendulum that uses Branulhune and its connection to the liminal space it disappears to, plus Mathilde's long-time association with the weapon, plus the thematic resonance of a sword being used to cut while being a symbol of Ulgu.
The end result would be a Penumbral Pendulum that was *weaker* than the OG version in raw power... but the cutting plane would follow Mathilde's sword slash, as opposed to being a straight vertical line.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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- Vermont
I imagine this will be after her trip to Nippon.
consequences
Not A Nice Person At All
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- Jerkville
We could in theory be a more active and deliberate participant in a future God Heist, and thus have more of a say in the form our share of the take takes. Or pouring AV on it may provide a uniquely Mathildeian upgrade path.
Such would be unlikely, but...*waves vaguely at The List*
We are not a great enchanter though. We are a fair one, Kragg is truly great by comparison and the fact that we cannot match him is not some great shame, it is a normal fact of life. I recall once as a joke pointing out that sword and belt make us better than Teclis in those slots and the GM replied with 'yeah, that sort of personal equipment is what dwarfs are best at'. I see no reason to try to outdo our world class sword, certainly not pride alone
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Give me some time and a few hundreds votes and we'll see~
Codex
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Certain Amethyst spells definitely fall into stereotypical depictions of Necromancy in general fictions. Stealing people's life force? Sealing people's souls in objects? Instantly killing someone after a battle of wills? The Battle Magic spells Caress of Laniph and Doom and Darkness both also mentions summoning spirits and ghosts. Amethyst Wizards have an odd tendency to toe the line there, they might not have the traditional corruption and raise dead that Necromancy has, but they have a lot of things adjacent to it.
I imagine there are a lot of justifications for that though. And I assume most people don't know that the Amethyst College can seal people's souls in jars.
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I also think that making a better weapon is a silly idea. But I'd like to eventually make a weaker weapon which can to some extent use all or most techniques we are developing for Branarhune, so that it can be taught to at least one person, who then inherits the runeblade and passes the ulgu blade to their own trainee in turn.
All that would require is sizing up our Shadowblade mastery during enchanting and putting it on a hilt or ring or glove or whatever.
Our trainee would also have to train with a normal greatsword to be able to handle the weight and drag and such, because Shadowblades probably weigh next to nothing, but it still seems like a cool and worthwhile idea to me.
- Location
- Utrecht
Or just codifying our mastery, and just publishing the Quickdraw techniques we learned: going from zero to murder with a shadow knife is a more widely applicable skill within the Grey college.
Wielding a greatsword is rather a rare talent, after all... no need to pidgeonhole our papers too much.
We would still document our sword fighting style, for whoever inherits our sword after we die.
- Location
- Somewhere on Earth
Really Codrin's techniques are probably more suited for the knife than the greatsword. Maybe if we pay him (in favours) to help out with the shadow knife too…
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You know, I wonder what Enoir quest is going to think about this 25 empire favour wizard NPC?
on one hand, she is bring the dwarfs to the table, and has just created two institutions that as far as they know was created to help with the Waystones, and is very smart for a human.
And then on the other hand, they are going to get the nasty surprise of finding out that she invited her good friend pre revealed van Horstmann!
on one hand, she is bring the dwarfs to the table, and has just created two institutions that as far as they know was created to help with the Waystones, and is very smart for a human.
And then on the other hand, they are going to get the nasty surprise of finding out that she invited her good friend pre revealed van Horstmann!
Some elf must have critted their recruitment roll somewhere. Only thing is, they don't know if it's a good crit or a bad crit.
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- Outside the Box
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- She/Her
The way for Mathilde to get a better sword isn't to grind enchanting till we can outclass Kragg. (Spoilers: it won't work.) It's to level up our sword. Warhammer is a setting where weapons level up. Ghal-Maraz, the eponymous warhammer, has explicitly grown in power through the legendary deeds of Sigmar (and others after him.) It's a legendary weapon because legends are told of it. Developing a custom combat style for Branulhune is but one step we can take to improve it.