Not a good idea. The rune belt would not protect from actual memetic Chaos corruption
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Not a good idea. The rune belt would not protect from actual memetic Chaos corruption
There's some examples of Tzeentchian plots based around acting based on potential future events.
- Location
- Germany
If the book does activly spread magical chaos-effect, shouldn't it go up in flames the moment we touch it, due to the Belt's Dhar-burning effect?
It's not that the magical book necessarily spreads Dhar, it is that the knowledge within it is inherently corrupting as it deals with matters of the dark gods and the dark truths of Chaos.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Knowledge doesn't work like that, otherwise we'd be in trouble too. More likely, there's just a Dhar-based curse on the knowledge that gives the appearance of the phenomenon you describe.
Knowledge of the Dark Gods (not merely Dhar) does indeed work like that, you don't even have to necessarily read something intentionally, the sight of a Chaotic sculpture, the merest glimpse of a daemon, all these can open one to dark whispers from the warp. Of course those of sufficient will can resist the effect to a degree, but 'reading a chaos grimoire' is way over any resonable line.
- Location
- Norway
Then the belt will protect Mathilde. In Boney's words, 'you can juggle warpstone and hug demons'.
- Location
- Brazil
Fun fact: dwarves aren't dumb, and are in fact aware of the problems their traditions cause.
The belt makes her immune to getting "hoodwinked" into Chaos, IIRC.
She might go crazy in a mundane way, but the belt also stops bullshit like "you looked at this squiggle and now you are damned".
It's Valaya's anti-Chaos rune, not just ant-dhar.
Last edited:
- Location
- Earth
It's less you looked at it and your damned and more an "Eyes are a gateway to the soul kind of thing." So looking at it causes it to reflect in your eyes, in your soul, and by that means grants a foothold to chaos. You're not immediately doomed, but you are exposed to Chaos, and your will, protections and faith are tested. Fail that test, and Chaos gets a foothold on your soul.
You know... I think I'm starting to understand how the anti-Liber Mortis faction feels...
No, it would not, Warpstone is a physical substance that that can be burned away, so are Daemons if they are in hugable form. Knwoelge of chaos cannot be burned away.
Didn't Boney say something about how if we had the belt when we were in sylvania that we would seem to catch fire every now and again as the inherent corruption of the place tries to tempt us to use dhar.
That was ambient Dhar not Chaos iconography.
- Location
- Australia
I know that that's a thing in 40k, but do you have a source that that's a thing in Fantasy?
That is 40k, this is whf
This isn't true in Fantasy, the college straight up teaches a class on being able to spot chaos and various things about it. Fantasy has very little in the way of inherently corrupting sight or knowledge, with the only thing I can think of directly being a Jabberslythe, something so abominable reality hates it.
The Warp and the Dark Gods are the same in both universes as established by countless crossover elements, so unless @BoneyM explicitly tells us he is running things differently I will personally vote and campaign against reading anything directly associated with the worship of the Dark Gods.
40k and whf being the same universe stopped being a thing so long ago Malal was still a thing
Last edited:
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Let's be real, the odds of us actually getting a copy of the Liber Chaotica are as slim as finding the Liber Necris outside of Stirland.
Maybe if we tragically lose another Lord, but I doubt it.
Maybe if we tragically lose another Lord, but I doubt it.
Them being in the same universe is that old, but the warp crossing over happened as recently as the end time novels. The Skaven heard Eldar communications as they were murdering Lustria.
- Location
- Australia
I'm against studying Chaos stuff even if there's no meme effects.
They've started being connected again recently however. They're legit linked again, and the skaven even managed to transdimensionally tunnel their way onto Mars.
Z000
If this is trash, then find me in the dumpster
- Location
- Viet Nam
Knowledge of chaos is exactly as flammable as the knower.
Even were that true I don't want Mathilde going up in flames from reading a Chaos grimoire.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
We are immune to fire, it just makes us look cool.Even were that true I don't want Mathilde going up in flames from reading a Chaos grimoire.