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RHUNRIKKI STROLLAR (Warhammer Fantasy Golden Age Dwarf Runelord Quest)

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... ya know what? If someone would be to know the physical principles behind a railgun... it would be an runesmith.
Question is how would we go about such... 'stringless crossbow'?
 
watcheye456 said:
... ya know what? If someone would be to know the physical principles behind a railgun... it would be an runesmith.
Question is how would we go about such... 'stringless crossbow'?
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Probably some sort of strategically placed "rune of force" made to activate whenever we pull the trigger. We might get something to help us along the path if we complete Algrim's crossbow challenge. Since his dad Argalast is famous for mono focusing on runes for ranged weapons.
 
_The_Bomb said:
Do Structural Runes usually run out of Power and have to recharge as a side effect of their increased potency?

Have we tried making all those conduits and arrays out of Adamant instead of Gromril to see what happens?
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1. Not anymore often than other Runes, proportionally speaking.
2. Idk, Its not like you're laying down lines of Adamant/Gromril piping to do this. I guess its worth considering. Gonna go think about it.
 
soulcake said:
1. Not anymore often than other Runes, proportionally speaking.
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Interesting! The reason I asked was because it seemed like particularly powerful effects like Zon-Dum and many of Brynna's other runes have been protracted as burning through their energy quickly.

Since Structural Runes have such potent effects, I figured they might be extremely energy hungry and wondered if that meant they often had to spend awhile charging from the ambient energy. It's very interesting that they don't! That probably means that Ogra's Karak fortifications are just at the extremely potent end of the scale for Structural Runes, like Zon-Dum is for Armor Runes.

soulcake said:
The first found worthy and only discovered in the tattered journals of Kemma Starlocks, was one Ogra Iggunsdottir. And more noticeably, the only candidate that was, currently, housed in a minor hold. Only two years shy of 700, Ogra had a specialty in Static Runes and an extensive history of working on learning the secrets of the Ancestor Runes. The only reason her home of Karak Krum survived was due to a massive Runic array similar to the one on your banner that she had made. Trading its mobility to turn the Karaks surface defences into an unassailable fortification for enemy mages. Forcing a more traditional siege that Krum's defenders would more easily handle. Speaking of tradition, the woman was about as conservative as you got in the North. You frankly didn't expect Kemma to have picked her, but you suppose that she wasn't one to let a difference of ideals stop her choices
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As Ogra concludes her story, you busily digest and extrapolate what you've been given and realize something.

"The Incursion," you begin, looking at a nodding Ogra, "The reason Krum fared as well as it did then?"

" 'Only in direst need and most hopeless circumstance,' a decision that requires the unanimous and unequivocal agreement of the Clan's elders," she confirms.

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After another lengthy opening sequence, Ogra and you finally step into a large natural cavern with a massive, glyph-covered, stone column at the center. Surrounding it are several empty pedestals, while crystals engraved with the Rune of Light and other Runes you don't know light up the entire affair.

"This pillar extends all the way to the surface and is part of the reason why the Diamondback settled where we have alongside the general mineral wealth. You're staring at the most powerful Monolith we've found in our surveying of the region. Not that the Bitterstone and Coalfinger know that particular detail," Ogra explains.

"And those pedestals?"

"Several items were instrumental in securing the Karak, the Monolith ensured their continued function throughout as well as several of the Runic Arrays on the outer defences. The pedestals are little more than a convenient place to put them frankly."
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I'm very excited to dive deeper into all this as Snorri picks up a Power specialization. The idea of putting supercharged defensive runes on our walls to make them indestructible calls to me! And the idea of making a chamber in the local hospital that has such a potent healing effect people inside can regrow limbs! And so, so many other ideas.
 
learns how to make runes that grow with the structure, then make runes that make walls grow and grows tougher. maybe the rune we get from the thugni trial? rune that makes karak defenses get bigger and stronger with age like a true dwarf
 
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