Iirc the Slagson nametag contained runes, so it must be possible to write them without blowing stuff up.
As I said, the issue is that it makes them true, not that they always blow up. It's that
all writing is magical and warps the world which makes codifying things really hard as it can't readily be used for 'mere' record keeping. I would not at all assume that the Slagson nametag is non-magical...just that it's magic is the non-explosive variety (specifically, it probably made him mystically part of the group, which likely had a variety of effects).
I think the issue in
Is not that runes are magic or stuff. It is that norse cultivation has very strongly held ideas about words and those carry over to the written word. So writing by norse cultivators involves (accidental) cultivation, which, if not properly managed, leads to exploding.
Or in other words i think the issue isn't norse cultivators writing with runes, it is norse cultivators writing.
This is definitely possible. We'd find out if we learned another language and tried writing in it.
Would kinda explain the different cultivation traditions:
Norse cultivators deeply believe in honor -> their cultivation is Orthstirr/Drengskapr based.
Chinese cultivators deeply believe in selfimprovement -> their cultivation is selfimprovement based
Christians deeply believe in bible-god -> they get bible-god styled miracles.
Christians believe in bible-god is disturbed enough -> their miracle fails.
There's definitely some of this going on, yeah, but it's more complicated than just that. Orthstirr is the equivalent of Qi in a more traditional Xianxia, and is indeed powered by fame and renown (though also by Virtue in the Norse definition...we've gained Drengskapr for things there was only a single witness to), but things other than Orthstirr are relevant to how powerful a Norseman is (just look at Horra).
So, Fyjgla have a evolution/tech tree? Can't wait for the next milestone.
It's probably not until level 7 (that'd fit the pattern of other stats getting stuff at 7 and also that we got stuff from Fylgja at 1 and 4...1, 4, 7 is a good progression), so I suspect it's definitely be quite a ways off (we are 112 successes away from that, and are likely to invest the 31 to get Hugr to 7 and the 104 to get Hamr to 7 first...at 247 successes away it'll be a while).
The snake fyjgla theory seems more and more likely, especially if it's battle version gets poison.
This does seem pretty plausible, yeah. Horra sending his fylgja out to murder his enemies children in the cradle does seem like the sort of thing he'd do. It might also be something else entirely, of course.
Though, I still don't like the idea of bringing ours into the fight....
We don't have to. And, indeed, unless we go Shield-Owl probably will not.
