You are basically plopped into the fantasy world: In any empire city that isn’t currently falling apart (lol) with clothes that fit the setting. Your only knowledge from the previous world is warhammer lore you knew. You can basically be the advisor from the games in terms of knowledge if you’ve read enough: Who do you support? What stories and lore do you tell and to who? —Explanation: I am currently writing a campaign setting for and I am trying to collect cool in-lore stories/rumors/legends my players can stumble upon, but going through wikis is not as interesting as hearing tidbits or stories people find memorable. I’d love to incorporate your favorite in-lore story as a rumor yelled at the players by a raving lunatic on the street! Or even as a tablet found in an ancient ruin. Stories and lore from any and all races.
Hypothetical: If you were moved to ToW with only your lore of the world retained, who do you advise?
RoleplayingMy goal would be to teach the Bretionians about the virtues of Democracy.
Marienburg. Catch the trade fluctuations as events unfold and live in rich happiness.
I'm going to Nehekhara to be Settras strongest advisor
I hear the Moot calling me! I'll go settle in with the halflings, thank you very much!
SAME
Try not getting burned alive for having non-standard world view and strange knowledge.
Hear me, my Lord. I have learned prophecies of plaques now lost. Hear what is to come, for the Great Plan is threatened.
Insert Breaking Bad Car Screaming Meme here BALTHASAR NO! TURN AROUND! MANNFRED WILL BETRAY YOU!
But Honestly I'd head to the Celestial College. Their whole Schtick is prophesy and divination and if you play your cards right, you should be able to accquire a position where you can advise people about future events without fearing prosecution.
Ah read the post a bit wrong, thought this is just a Warhammer Fantasy isekai haha
Honestly Drahcir the doomsayer would be an interesting npc. Imagine, the players meeting with Gelt and some "madman" climbs up to the window and shouts "Mannfred von Carstein will betray you" before being nabbed by the guards.
It’s kinda 2 questions. So I appreciate your answer anyway. The table top setting I’m writing will just be regular WFRP, just with additions that the books don’t have lore wise (as I’m unsure if WFRP is kept up with the times)
Insert Breaking Bad Car Screaming Meme here BALTHASAR NO! TURN AROUND! MANNFRED WILL BETRAY YOU!
But Honestly I'd head to the Celestial College. Their whole Schtick is prophesy and divination and if you play your cards right, you should be able to accquire a position where you can advise people about future events without fearing prosecution.
Some rumours which might arise from previous games I've played in:
"Sir Konrad Ausenberg of Nuln has a strange tale of his enoblement. While out on family business, he found himself in an isolated shepherd's hut sheltering with a watchman, toll keeper and a student lost from the University of Nuln. From out of the mists came - and he swears this is true - giant rats, walking like men or dwarves, and speaking. At least half a dozen who set upon the companions, seeking some strange rock the student had found. Not just beastmen, but chaos altered who had banded together into a society!
A society which has great emnity for the races of Man, Elf, Dwarf and Halfling and was using some supply of stolen gold to bribe influential figures into conspiracy against the Empress!
Hear how he danced with the Empress, how his companions lost an eye, a hand and their mind! I was but his loyal retainer, but buy me another drink and I'll tell you the whole story..."
"My cousin worked below stairs in one of them big Altdorf 'ouses. She 'ad sticky fingers and wound up sent to be 'anged. She fetched up in a cell with some drunken tattooed dwarf, an' some odd lookin' furrin sailor. They managed to escape - some dwarves got a 'ell of a arm on them. They ended up hitchin' headin' for the Border Princes, to lay low, but found this crashed coach fulla dead nobs - including one who was the dead spit of my cousin. Bein' a sneaky little cove, she reckon'd she could pose as this dead nob, long enuff to get some inheritance any road. Dunno what 'appened to her - likely met a sticky end..."
You could also borrow from the famous saga of Fat Gregor aka James Wallis Ruined my Life - from Critical Miss.
If I were plunged into the Old World, my life would likely be fairly short - a stranger raving at the gates of the university about germ theory, hand washing, the Cathay ambassador being a faceless Tzeetchian fiend, the crimes of Leos Liebowitz, the insane idea of a vast rat conspiracy, scaled beastmen from Lustria, some cursed Doomstones...
At best I'd retire to the moot as a nervous, paranoid sawbones with a taste for pies, a horror of rats and a strange preoccupation with asking the Imperial militias to wear less intricately patterned uniforms (to aid miniature painters.)
At worst, dying a beggar ranting about the forbidden powers, copyright infringement and beseeching the Great Golden Daemon of Nottin'ham to save me, while searching for Genevive Dieudonne or Felix and Gotrek to keep me safe, before being burned as a witch for my dark knowledges.
I'd be dead the moment I ended up there with whatever valuables stripped from me especially when I explain to the Witchhunter exactly how Chaos works (he's lighting the pyre as I do)
Okay let's be honest, if I was thrown into the world of Warhammer Fantasy I wouldn't be an adviser for Karl Franz or whoever, living the good life, I'd be dead in a ditch somewhere (if I'm lucky). Assuming you don't get stabbed in a mugging or devoured by a monster, my knowledge of outside the setting lore would definitely get me burned at the stake as a heretic if I ever shared it.
I like chaos stories, about the corruption of its champions, like Van Horstman, Helbrass, and Archaon. That would speed-run a trip to the pyre lol
Nuln, with today's chemistry black powder and repeater single use ammo would make me a king of inventors and a hero of the Empire. PS: get an estate outside of the city fast to avoid the smog toxicity.