On a lighter note, can I say I'm very glad we didn't develop Barbitus' digestive windsight as an apprentice.
"Come now Panpan, that happened to me practically my first week of Journeying."
On a lighter note, can I say I'm very glad we didn't develop Barbitus' digestive windsight as an apprentice.
Three years of reading increasingly-detailed posts about the upsets to Mathilde's increasingly sensitive... Wind processing would have been some particular kind of thing.
What is known is that the Staff-Talisman is fueled by the Rocks, but we don't know what the Staff in of itself does only the combined result. So it could be possible that the Staff itself enhances or channels that Mutation Field across the battlefield, given the vague capabilities of Talismans. As for the Winds, we are quite literally by the Chaos Wastes and are next to a giant Waystone that may be involved in a Giant Rune. This could also be drawing upon the Winds greatly, not just the Staff itself as it only agitates not drawing Winds beyond being a focus for a Caster.
If we make it home, I really want to vote to meet her parents.
As is anything in life, and in fact I acknowledge uncertainty, but it makes sense as to what else would the Staff be doing in the equation. After all, it's {Staff + Stones= Increased Caster Spawndum on Battlefield}, and we know that the Stone is the power source already. Beyond that, I'm also acknowledging the other possible theories that Dum has altered the Giant Rune that ensure the population protection from turning into rock, and we already know that there is a Waystone actively working. Which would draw upon the Winds from the area already saturated in them regardless.
But the riddle!
| Number of years | Radius miles | Purified area (squared miles) |
1 | 1,03 | 3,36 |
2 | 1,07 | 3,59 |
10 | 1,35 | 5,69 |
20 | 1,69 | 8,99 |
100 | 4,46 | 62,39 |
200 | 7,91 | 196,71 |
300 | 11,37 | 406,09 |
1000 | 35,56 | 3973,57 |
2000 | 70,13 | 15450,51 |
Problem is that wastes grow faster than that.
I guarantee you that if we kick the bucket, the next quest will have nothing to do with Mathilde and she will, at best, be a footnote that reads "wast lost on a doomed expedition".
We really can't say that unless the position the new character is in is entirely removed and unrelated to the ongoings of her. As, for example, we could choose to be a Veteran/Mercenary of Stirland that once fought in a battle with her, or alternatively they could also hear this story from someone else.
