Wow, I really like the idea of MPurification as our anvil protection. We don't have normal amplification and understanding it is going to be I think 3 actions. It's a C4 odd/talisman rune so it's like 4 - (4-6) - 1 = 3AP. Becomes 2 input with traits to understand, then 2 more to get the normal rune. So like 4 AP total.
Compressing Amplifier is 1 ap because it's C5 and odd + talisman specialty is 6 total. Then making the normals is 2 ap. 3 total. Literally easier for us to compress and convert MAmplifier than MAmplification. So lets do that instead because it's just better lol. Something like MPurification + amplifier + ? to take the magic out of Snorri and throw it back into the item.
The important question is what we want to do with the magic in the item, because only a wazzock would just let it pile up. Determining that would help establish what the third rune should be. Thungni would make sense, it would help ensure the magic empowers Runework that much more effectively.
Yeah, and one issue is that Purification dumps the magic as heat so there needs to be rune that converts heat back into magic for it to be useful in the forging. Otherwise it's just good for keeping Snorri from exploding again.
It depends on either the 2 runes in the MPurification artifact, or it depends on the rest of Snorri's artifact set.
It could be the case that the MPurification artifact, with the proper runes, would have the ability or option to either radiate heat or to channel
all the energy into Mhorni or Zharrgal or into whatever Snorri is crafting at the time.
Or it could be the case that the other artifacts Snorri has -- mostly thinking of Zharrgal here -- would pick up the ability to make use of the radiated heat of the MPurification item.
It could also just be the case that the MPurification item purifies the magic energy; you then have that purified energy to work with, which can be channeled into the Ash Storm, into Mhorni, or into Zharrgal, or into whatever item you're crafting. And the extra heat is just extra heat.
i.e. It could be the case that you don't have to do anything with the extra heat and turn the heat back into magical energy because, well, the rest of MPurification is already doing all the job. Or the rest of the World-That-Was combo is doing its job.
Buuuut, if you wanted to, or if you needed to, then...
Perhaps a second hammer? Or a funestaff? One that, rather than functioning like Zharrgal which uses energy to heat up metal and do the MConduction rune... This hammer would use some derivation of MForgeflame?
This hammer or runestaff would have a set of runes that go "and this draws in heat and channels it to do Thungni's and Smednir's work."
... Alternatively, we go to the Structural Ruins for this.
The Arcane Fulcrum is a
place, right. We could build a workshop over it. We could put these fire-transforming or energy-channeling ruins into the structure.
Not sure what we'd want to put over the Arcane Fulcrum though. Super runesmith-workshop? Akazit-stuff? Super-forging stuff? Or a "super-charge-up the Dragon Gronti" battery charger or something?
Or maybe... hmmm... Hmmm... Actually, that last one just gave me an idea.
Mhorni was made because of the interactions of the Arcane Fulcrum, together with the crafting we were doing.
What if we could create some kind of structure with a "Create a new Elemental whenever the Winds of Magic blow strongly enough" rune-combo on it?
Oh, that could be
sweet!
(*Updated*)[ ] [Difficult] The Movement of Things Pt. 5b:
[Cost: (14 -11) = 3 actions] Master of the Odd and Mind for Constructs will proc. Examining...the Construct, has given you ideas. It is not a Gronti, not truly, but it acts like one and is arguably even more versatile. It makes you wonder if perhaps there is a way to create Gronti of a similar shape and function.
We
do have the Movement 5b tech tree to go down the research tree through.
A facility for creating more Elementals, or binding Elementals to Gronti, or binding Elementals to artifacts or items or to places or something.
Akazit, Movement 5b, Odd Wyrm's Blood, Siphoning, Windsight... so many things that could potentially converge in a long enough run... If we get Akazit and Elemental research and Wyrmblood and Windsight going, we might have the basis for an entire runic research university going.
That is, if we advance some of that research enough, I suspect that we might blow open a big enough field of magical and runic research, that we might be able to just point Khazagar at it and let the runesmiths go wild with researching it.
I'm not just enthused about the idea of discovering some new runes or knowledge and making something neat. I'm excited about the possibility that Snorri might break open an entire new field of research for runes; that that plus access to the Arcane Fulcrum, would give runesmiths so many things to investigate, that future runesmiths would have a ready-made source of a natural resource (and mystery and wonder) to poke at; and thanks to Snorri, they would have some of the tools to be able to
usefully poke at it in a way that would let them achieve results.
And then if you have that -- if you have the people, if you have a convenient natural (supernatural?) phenomena, and if you have just enough tools and knowledge to let people explore and discover it on their own but not so much tools and knowledge that you already know all the answers -- then you've created the conditions for something priceless and amazing; the ability to just let runesmiths go wild researching stuff, and coming up with new advances all the time.
... Ironically, I think Vragni's lot might even be more applicable towards researching this odd stuff.
Because of the fact that Vragni is all about doing many things and discovering many new things, rather than Snorri's approach of making so much stuff.
The idea that we might give validity and weight to Vragni's methods is amusing. If it happened it would be funny. Snorri would not only have given good argument that
his methods were good and useful for the Karaz Ankor; he also would have given good argument that Vragni's method was good too.
And it wouldn't be Vragni that would have done this. "Here, I proved the validity of your own philosophy for you."
