This seriously pisses me off. I used the brain for the reason of that I wanted to and think it was reasonable because of several factors. I explained those factors too, and I'll explain them for the benefit of others here; We have studied the kin of Kholek Suneater and determined that their brains are for control, coordination and higher level things than 'get hot, transfer energy' as soul has described. We have seen what he did in life, and have a basic description of it in death. From these we can make an educated guess. Further this is not the first time Snorri has done something similar; during the creation of Zharrgal Snorri used Adamant on the Rune of Thungni on an educated guess. A better educated one than this for sure, also supported by it being the Rune Metal, but still an educated guess. It was even referenced by another prominent dwarf's "Odd color though" comment following its creation.
An educated guess is not undwarfy. Needing to make one because we made a mistake in not researching it earlier, which I firmly believe we should have in hindsight, is not against dwarf culture or implying it is incorrect; its doing something foolish by its standards because of a mistake. Soul has been clear this is on the Radical end of things and Snorri will be conflicted about doing this, and it is for good reason, but being Radical is not out of dwarf culture, as it is a position within that culture. Is Yorri anti-dwarf because of his absurd radicality? Does his existence disrespect dwarf culture and imply it needs to be corrected? No! It just means he's bloody weird and takes risks his culture finds insane. I think there's damn good reason to have researched the brain, and like others my priorities for researching T5s has gone up considerably. But we didn't give that opportunity enough merit. We've done something dwarves would call foolish to make what we judge as best use of an opportunity that dropped in our laps. And yeah, if someone finds out we did that and calls Snorri a fool on it I'm not going to refute that; it is foolish.
If we take this cloak and hold up foolish mistake proudly and brow beat other characters into the belief that this was not foolish and try to make dwarf culture more flexible about such ingredient malarky then yes, we would be trying to 'correct' the native culture. If instead when the topic comes up, if it ever does, we use it as a chance to reinforce the idea of "research your damned shit so you're not like me" then I think that is acting to try and support a culture by accepting shame and understanding one's faults and past foolishness. E: And on the topic of the narrative I wove in my original proposal post, the context I was coming from there is that of the personal narrative of Snorri. There's reasons within dwarf culture to keep the creation of Skarrenbakraz and the Anvil secret. On a player level getting to explain our mistake to our eldest apprentices would be interesting to me but if we don't get the opportunity, then that's how events unfold.
To just spit all over my logic and imply all of that was baseless mummery or whatever the fuck and using hyperbole and mud slinging on someone's reputation just because your preference lost is rude. Don't do it to people and do not accuse me of this nonsense. Beyond that I don't really care what you do.
