Yep! As Eva mentioned I formulated the proposal concretely though looking back it looks like others were postulating the idea before me. Here's the quote where I formulate it.
Basically, a Golem has a decent amount of support just from our surface level estimation based on these factors: We know that the Master Rune of Awakening requires a Troll Heart for its use, so natively the Greedy Heart as a Troll Heart should have a lot of power with a Master Rune of Awakening. Additionally Snorri outright says in the research option that he thinks he can make really good Runes of Healing and Runes of Fortitude with the Greedy Heart, which makes sense due to its impossible vitality of still beating after being removed from its mortal body and its incredible regenerative properties.
The idea behind this proposal which got labeled Ymir, is outlined in the quote but basically boils down to these thoughts: Trolls are Mighty creatures with great Fortitude and the Master Rune of Awakening requires a Troll Heart. So the hope is that by using a combo of the Master Rune of Awakening, Rune of Might and Rune of Fortitude to create a very powerful synergy on the T5 Golem.
The catch of doing a T5 with the Heart in my mind is that there's legwork we have to do to really support it properly, namely projects are going to have individualized research requirements and T4 and T3 ingredients like Adamant and Silver Wutroth will likely be necessary as supporting ingredients for the Heart as a core. There's quite a few projects like, a super healing banner to give the whole Hold a healing effect like Trolls which I'm particularly fond of though I can't remember who came up with that one, or some kind of perpetual engine for the Hold's industry as
@bird yells proposed.
- The universal bit of leg work we have to do is studying the heart itself, for any project using it. We can't use it in a project until we do that.
For the Golem, there's a couple of steps that would need to be taken before we could create it according to my proposal:
- Since I want to plate it in Adamant we need to be able to produce Adamant reliably. That means finishing Rune Metal part 4 at least, if part 4 gives reliable Adamant manufacture, which seems likely.
- We'd also need to study the Movement of Things research. That should help with understanding and improving upon Golems in general, ala Rune Metal is my hope.
That's the research stuff and we're only almost to the Rune Metal requirement after 90 years since we got the heart.
- Then we have to make infrastructure to support making that amount of Adamant/Make enough Adamant to plate a big ass Golem, probably Ogre or bigger in dimensions. Big enough to comfortably use as a mount for Snorri. This might be mixed with completing Rune Metal part 4, but I'm going to assume no.
- Then we have to get whatever supporting ingredients we think we need. Troll parts are effectively infinite considering where we live, plus Pure Gromril. There might be others, but those are the main ones.
- Then we have to make the Golem itself, which we know is 4 actions. One to take up part one of the request, 3 to actually do part 2. Then because we know how we can put equipment on it, that means a further 2 actions for each piece of equipment we want for it, more Adamant and more ingredients. Going upwards of 8 actions is eminently possible just building the golem and its stuff.
Personally I expect us to take centuries to even get to a point where we've finished the researches and set up and at least another half century to build the bloody thing and its equipment.
