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RHUNRIKKI STROLLAR (Warhammer Fantasy Golden Age Dwarf Runelord Quest)

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Aigloss said:
Ehh i doubt that. Mrune of Purification should cleanse dhar that sustains vampires.
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Vampires don't have to live on DHar, indeed, that's bad for them, they can subsist on the stolen energy of other people's souls well enough, converting the Winds of Magic to dhar and eating that is a poor backup for them.
 
I wonder if a rune of hair manipulation could/should be made.

On one hand it might damage the beard/plait.

On the other hand choking a bray shaman with your beard sounds like something all longbeards would do to teach/flex on the beardlings.
 
Apparently, dwarves that have lost their beards to accidents/war do wear prosthetic beards in later canon times. Hinged beards, that split in the middle to take them off...
 
absolute_combat said:
Turning the von Carsteins into adamant statues. Now that's how you settle a grudge.:V
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I mean. It's an adamant smelter, not an adamant transmuter. Unless the von Carsteins already have bodies made out of gromril, the smelter isn't going to turn them into adamant.

More generally, at least as I understand it the problem with permanently killing vampires isn't that it's impossible to destroy their bodies. It's that completely destroying their bodies just frees them to regenerate from the next most significant piece of themselves, no matter where it is or how insignificant a piece it would normally be. If you totally, completely destroy every piece of their body after you bring them down, it just means that now they can regenerate from a toenail clipping they left in a forest 50 years ago or something. Because vampires are bullshit.
 
Fayhem said:
I mean. It's an adamant smelter, not an adamant transmuter. Unless the von Carsteins already have bodies made out of gromril, the smelter isn't going to turn them into adamant.
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Well, it does something to dragon blood, so might do something interesting to vampires.

They might even survive it, given how hard it is to properly kill a vampire, but they may be changed by the experience. Perhaps even positively.
 
The idea behind putting vampires in the smelter is that the master rune of purification might push something out of their souls, disrupting whatever process they go through when regenerating.
 
Alratan said:
Well, it does something to dragon blood, so might do something interesting to vampires.

They might even survive it, given how hard it is to properly kill a vampire, but they may be changed by the experience. Perhaps even positively.
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Or you might traumatize the vampire into being a pyrophobe
IronFist said:
The idea behind putting vampires in the smelter is that the master rune of purification might push something out of their souls, disrupting whatever process they go through when regenerating.
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Or maybe if RNGesus is feeling bored we could get a new bloodline of vampires. With an affinity for fire/purification and smithing.:thonk:
 
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Talking of vampires, I wonder if dwarves would be interested in the internal, mystical aspects of real world alchemy, that it's about a transformation/purification of the self not just about transforming physical objects.
 
None of the Ancestors had prosthetics, so dwarven mindset will probably lean towards that being somehow weaker than a "natural" body.

And since this is Warhammer with subjective reality, it might even be true somehow. Even if we ignore the failing/weakening of runes, maybe forged limbs has some sort of inherent weakness we don't know about yet.

Or maybe it's to do with forged limbs being "static" compared to the normal dwarf style of getting stronger/tougher as they grow older.

Who knows really.
 
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