I awaken.
Rune Metal Pt. 1b should have had -4 right?
Also is the one wrong as well?
The combined total to runes of Valaya is +4, (two +2s) but the results here say +6.
These are the respective items from turn 33.
[ ] The Rune Metal Pt. 5: [Cost: (12 -1) =11 actions] Student of the Odd and Soul of the Earth will proc. You've done it. Adamant is now, slowly, being made from your forge! It is an achievement of your lifetime by the reckoning of most dwarfs, but yet the glittering white, purer than the freshest snow on the most isolated Mountaintop, stays in your mind. There is more still.
- [ ] Brotherhood Expertise: [Cost 10 favour from Brotherhood of Dron] Gain 1d2 progress. Can be taken multiple times and without actions. Call upon the expertise of the Brotherhood to aid in your research.
[ ] The Rune Metal Pt. 1b: [Cost: 8 actions] Student of the Odd and Soul of the Earth will proc. Grungni is the only dwarf in recorded history to have the skill and talent to make Gromril into a fine chain. While lesser than plate, Gromril Chainmaille can at the very least, make a dwarf even more difficult to kill for comparatively less cost, and there are of course other uses for chains of such size. Of course there is also the prestige in such an achievement.
- [ ] Brotherhood Expertise: [Cost 10 favour from Brotherhood of Dron] Gain 1 progress. Can be taken multiple times and without actions. Call upon the expertise of the Brotherhood to aid in your research.
[ ] Understand Valaya's Runes: [Cost: (12 -2) =10 actions] Student of the Odd will proc. On the basket that bears her Master Rune, Valaya or perhaps some other Runesmith put down two other Runes. You can make a guess as to their purpose, but aren't too sure. One bears a similarity to the Rune of Load-bearing, the other the Rune of Healing.
And the gains are added cumulatively to that.
Is it just me, or has soulcake been hinting at something over the last few updates?
Whatever could you mean?
It might be that removing all the winds is one way to get the result and making a strongly Chammon-aligned once-living material is another.
/shrug :^)
Apparently Snorri makes toys at a significantly faster rate than the Northern Holds combined makes new dwarves.
Wonder if this remains true if you count all of the Karaz Ankor...
It's a question of outreach and range for the North. Toys take up space that more necessary supplies otherwise would, and there are not enough foundlings to take up that supply in the first place. Now if you had an independent delivery mechanism of sorts to offer such toys to all Dwarf Children, not just the foundlings, but the girls and boys too, over the Far North...
If they are already doing that we might want to start moving on the Grimnir golem soon.
Grimnir the Slayer is not a solidified concept yet. The priests wear the crest because there isn't the context to it behind Grimnir donning it as he marched north for his ultimate sacrifice like in canon just yet, not that I think it stops them when that context is added. Basically, the Cult of Grimnir grumbling furiously about
something right now if that isn't clear.
Also, I know this might be pretty radical, but are we rich enough to pay an elven alchemist-archmage to come and teach us directly using a translation rune? @soulcake, could we do a write in 'trade' for this? Even if we have to pay in runecraft it would be worth it...
To monetarily pay an elven teacher? Sure, the novelty of it alone might entice the most radical of them. Trading Runes is a no-go*.
Well Snori is a member of the House of Runelords so we can just ask the GM. @soulcake how much do we know about the Great Vortex and the elves saving the world?
There's an element of Dwarfen arrogance at play here. Who would you believe more, that some weird guys from across the sea managed to save the world or through the literal greatest sacrifice of your Warrior Diety. They're realistic enough to know that its probably both but their pride both as Dwarfs and in Grimnir tells them things are skewed in their favour.
80 years ain't that long for Elves or Dawi, and when the nature of that contact is primarily mercantile well...
... so yeah they understand academically, but they
don't really understand the weight of it.
So just to clarify on the nature of your relations so far because there's been some discussion about it, there are no instances of a Runesmith, even a Journeyman, trading actual Runework to elves. Because unlike the Brana no one with the potential authority (IE a Runelord) is willing to begin such a thing, and if they do they'll be called into account by the House. Not so much for censure at least initially, but to
prove the elves are worthy, and woe betide that Runelord if the Body disagrees with their assessment. You were going to have to do the same had Thungni not saved your ass by retroactively saying it's cool, and even then there were people who were grumbling about your minor bout of impudence. The timescales both races work on are
long, not Lizardman long, but pretty long. 80 years ain't nothing, but it ain't
something. Theoretically, the amulet Grimnir gave Caledor could count as evidence, but there's an argument to be had about whether it was for Caledor specifically or his people in general, and Grimnir didn't clarify before heading north so it's not like they can ask him. His retainers and personal companions, even Morgrim if you can reach him
could say something. Thungni at the very least, is not speaking on the matter, though no one's actually gone and asked him.
The Case is
there, but the question is about who's willing to risk the political fallout fighting for it, and canonically that was Snorri Whitebeard.
Grimnir got the ball rolling with Caledor, but its Snorri Whitebeard's friendship with Malekith is what greatly sped along that particular relationship, and before that happened, I imagine that, while not hostile, the Dwarfs are still weary of any outsiders. Not enough that they won't trade with them if they prove willing, but stuff like Runecraft is, despite your use of it, still a big step in terms of the relationship between both peoples. So yeah, no Runecraft.
@soulcake can we add Karstah and Nain following an increasingly confusing chain of "Oh you just missed him, I heard he was going to ____" as they try and deliver the axes to the bounty board?
Yeah I can do that.
*technically only sort of a no-go, cuz of what was just said about the whole are they worthy of it.
EDIT: Forgot Grimnir for a second, that does change things, but you're all sort of at a "will they won't they" type of situation.
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