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RHUNRIKKI STROLLAR (Warhammer Fantasy Golden Age Dwarf Runelord Quest)

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I'm not going to weigh in on the logic of either side's arguments, but I will ask that everyone read over what they write and really consider if the words they used are polite and won't be inflammatory intentionally or not. You cant account for people's tolerances perfectly but at least try to say your piece without saying things that can be easily construed as overly dismissive of the other side of the argument, thank you.

Please endeavour to be cordial. :^)
 
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If.. it's by order:

Speed, Preservation, Might, Cleaving, Sanctuary, Vision, Light, Fire, Concealment, Spellbreaking, Warding, Courage and Stone

Then probably go for Speed? It's like having a guideline of steps to follow?
 
soulcake said:
Wanrag or strolled, bar or khazen
Wanrag or nai tiwak, bar Rhun bin Tiwaz
Wanrag or gandaz skarizril, bar nai Lhune
Wanrag or gandaz skarizril, bar nu mhornaz
Wanrag ungor an brynen, wanrak or adgotet.

Roughly translates to.

Wherein I have left, yet I remain.
Where I have not rested, yet my mark s'upon the bed.
Where I may gaze at the stars but see not the moon.
Where there can be light yet ought to be dark.
Where the land shines only when I do.
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Right there. Speed you could render as Strollen, because that's means walking or journeying. Preservation as bar, as remaining also makes sense. I one hundred percent agree with RageQuit. Speed is first, so we may as well try it based on the idea that Thungni builds UP from the most obvious reading first.
 
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If nothing else, we don't have a great many facts to go on, so we need to work with what we have. Thungni left Karaz-Kazak-Rhun behind. There are thirteen runes in that list. Speed is the first. Karstah noted that Karaz-Kazak-Rhun was mentioned as the final word on the fourteenth line of the fourteenth stanza of each of these Rhun's chants. Thungni, as a person apparently likes to build on prior lessons, digging deeper with each reading.

This makes me feel like its unlikely there's necessarily a trick question, especially after last experience with the riddle. So, we look at what we have on hand and build from there. We take the first step, Strollen, Speed.
 
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soulcake said:
Speed, Preservation, Might, Cleaving, Sanctuary, Vision, Light, Fire, Concealment, Spellbreaking, Warding, Courage and Stone.

A list that, upon first glance, seemed to have no other commonalities besides the relative age of these Runes, but not to a Runesmith. They all ringed familiar to her almost immediately, but she didn't realize why until she finally started examining the associated chants for each and every one of them.

All of them reference the hammer of Thungni, always in its proper form, and always the final word of the fourteenth line of the fourteenth stanza.

Such commonalities were a way of easing the memorization of the chant, exact striking patterns across Runes traditionally using the same line, or referenced the older form if it meant the chant itself flowed better. A simple but useful bit of memorization and association that Thungni used to teach His first students that had calcified into its own tradition. That in and of itself could simply be a quirk of a simple memorization method, but their position in addition to the work she did to get to this point made it abundantly clear that it was no coincidence.

Karaz-Kazak-Rhun. The Enduring War Rune, the Hammer of Thungni.
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Well, Speed comes first in the translated-to-runes version of the poem. That's what I'd walk down.
 
[X] [Path:] Rune of Speed.

The reasoning has been sound so far to show that Speed is the first order of business.
 
[X] [Path:] Rune of Speed.

The theory about following order of runes in the poem makes the most sense to me. And on the off chance the theory about rune choice merely deciding the nature of the test is true, Snorri's pretty fast for a Dwarf, I think.
 
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