I am confused about the rules for recruiting a Master of Words for a warband. To make sure everyone is on the same page I will quote the rule. On pg. 162 of the 2nd ed. rule book under sorcerers 2nd paragraph

" The Master of Words must be of the same race as the Harbringer's god, or an Asar. If the player desires a Master of Words of a different race, the warband must contain a unit of warriors of that race, and the Master of Words counts as their single Character choice."

I think what is confusing me is the word "must". It seems to imply that an Anubi warband must have an Anubi MoW even if the warband has a Tethru unit and would like a Tethru MOW. The second sentence however implies that if said Anubi warband has a Tethru unit, it can use the lone character slot provided by the tethru unit to buy a Tethru MOW but that would be the only Tethru character allowed in the warband.

Is my second assumption the correct one or the first?

Thanks,

William

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Basically I think the second assumption is correct. The first sentence seems to me to be implying that you cannot take a MoW from another race without having a unit from said race. The second is the key sentence. If you want an MoW from a different race you have to have an unit of that race and burn their single character choice.

Also your example is a bit flawed as Anubi cannot have a Tethru MoW due to the we need more magic to fight the Eater of the Dead issue between the Anubi and Tethru. See page 161 for that issue. But if you were to replace either faction name in your example you would be fine.

That is correct you can have Mow's from other God's but only if you have a unit from that God also. And the Mow counts as the one character choice.

Thanks Tony

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Basically it means if you want a Tethru MOW your harbinger has to be Tethru or an Asar that is a harbinger of the same god... If you have Basti and want a Tehru MOW then you have to have a unit of Tethru and that unit will only give you 1 char slot and thats what your MOW will fit in...

Thanks for the replies. That is what I thought but as I said the word must was throwing me off.

Thanks,

William

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The main exception to needing a unit of the same race is as a reinforcement in the campaign system. But that's a special case.

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