This may seem like a strange question but why exactly do people think its a good idea to add gromril chain mail to that religious commission or anything else at this time? You'd be handing them something that can only be repaired by santa dwarf or an ancestor god. That seems like something that shouldn't be done until other rune masters could service those things.
It also seems like kind of a company store policy of deploying something too awesome to use... and the other choice is go bother an ancestor god for maintenance. This just seems to fly against the idea of maximum usefulness of actions thing MC has going.
Because that isn't the context in play.
Once we finish 2b, we'll have created a method other runesmiths can use, which means our apprentices and anyone else we do trades with. Further, the step after Runesmiths is Metalsmiths and once we do that maintenance is basically a non-issue. And, in general, maintenance is not something we really have to worry about much in this quest.
Ah, sorry, just deleted that post due to wanting to re-elaborate on it.
We don't have Weapon!Mgrungni; only the regular Grungni.
Personally, I'd think something like Grungni (because it's for His Cult), Stone (due to its connection to Dawi and what the Cult of Grungni does), and a third Rune that's morale based, such as Stoicism or Determination, or a more mundane, combat-ish one like Cleaving (which IIRC was first placed on pickaxes).
Something like MCurrents + Cleaving + Might could be neat, hit hard and bite deep. Plus it'd work really well out of combat as well.
I've always thought the rune of penetration could be really good on a prying tool like a pickaxe. Smiting/penetration/grungni? Eh, maybe not - I don't immediately see it producing a combo. Definitely think something involving penetration would be the way to go though
My question is: What does a High Priest of Grungni DO with their pickaxe? And as such, how would we help 'em out with how to use said pickaxe?
To mosey myself into this conversation a Head Priest of Grungni is I guess kinda like an architect-miner-priest-legal adjudicator. I would absolutely expect that when a new major mineshaft is opened the Head Priest of Grungni, or at least
a Priest if its a less important mineshaft, is there to strike the ritual first strike. Same for a hold, or other delving for inhabitation.
For runes on such a hypothetical thing I think Ancestor Rune of Grungni, Rune of Cleaving, Rune of Might. I don't think any of the weapon master runes we have on hand quite capture what I'm going for here, which is the idea of a traditional and ritual piece which is still useful as a tool and thus a weapon since dwarves treat the concept of tool and weapon as very similar. So I asked myself what does a representative of Grungni need? They need a link back to Grungni with the ancestor rune, and the ancestor rune invokes his more crafterly side when the ancestor rune is used on a pickaxe since Grungni uses a hammer in his war aspect. Therefore it should improve craft of mining.
Cleaving is put on because of its history with mining. It is put on pickaxes and has been for an age, and that is because it cleaves through, pierces, hard surfaces like rock. Or armor, as when it is put on an axe. So Grungni and Cleaving together is the craft of mining to bite deep into rock and stone.
Might is to make the user strong. Strong enough to drive it into even the hardest stone or armor. So, the craft of mining is made to bite deep into even the hardest stone.
