…I'm assuming Orbs are the same durability as Powerstones then? Which makes sense.
Mathilde sees no reason they would have different material properties.
So does it means that wizards can't cast spells in the 7 Colleges they aren't a part of? Because there wouldn't be any of their Wind present.
Wizards can carry a certain amount of a Wind within them, but yes, there wouldn't have any external Wind to draw upon. It's absolutely an intended part of the design that Wizards would have a massive home field advantage if they had to defend the grounds of their College, including against other types of Wizard.
Something that I can't quite wrap my head around is that the RPG says that any Wizard can draw power from the Waystones to get extra casting dice (or was it a bonus to casting? I can't quite remember and I'm not going over the books to check). Here, only the Jades have the ability to do this. Does this happen in the future when the Colleges figure stuff out, or is this a case of DL canon overwriting canon? I suppose it does make sense that Teclis wouldn't teach most of the Colleges how to draw on the Waystones to enchance their casting.
2e was post Storm of Chaos, when Teclis finally returned to the Empire. I figure he shared the full spectrum of Waystone techniques for the fight against Archaon.
I'm also not sure if the plumber thing is supposed to be taken as a subtle jab at the Elementalists. I understand that the Elementalists talk about the governing four humors theory and I believe human excretion is 100% a part of that, so I assume she's comparing the people shoveling human excrement to the Elementalists. This does bring to mind an image of Mario and Luigi being Elementalists...
I like that it can be taken that way, but what I meant is that building a system that takes advantage of water flowing downhill doesn't make someone a Water Elementalist, so by extension building a system that takes advantage of Dhar being attracted to the Great Vortex doesn't make one a Black Magister.
I mean, if the Eonir are the ones operating the Dhar mechanisms, then wouldn't it technically skirt the Articles? Or would it break the Articles even if we let the Eonir do it because the Colleges would be the ones authorising the use of an object enchanted with a sort of sorcery that "Utilises Dark Magic". The rules can get pretty finnicky here.
One currently unanswered question is the exact legal status of Laurelorn. Nordland considers it to be a part of Nordland, Middenland considers it an enclave. Sooner or later everyone involved is going to have to hammer out a hard answer, but the circumstances of what leads to that are going to be important, and it might be bad if those circumstances are 'can the Colleges legally outsource Abominable Acts to Laurelorn?'
This piques my curiosity. Does Adela count as part of the Pilots' Guild or not? I'm not sure the Guild has any procedures whatsoever for inducting a non-Guild Member to recieve the official training and qualifications to become a Pilot, since this is a bit of an unprecedented situation. I would suspect her to swear many of the same Oaths either way, but I imagine her Guild status would be a tricky bit of legaliese.
Technically as someone who isn't in either the Pilots or Engineers Guilds nor sworn to the defence of a Karak, Adela shouldn't be allowed to learn how to fly a Gyrocopter or Gyrobomber. But as Adela pointed out, Mathilde's aircraft is neither of those things and is instead an entirely civilian craft, and rules for who's allowed to fly those haven't existed in millennia. So Mathilde was able to cram Adela through that loophole amidst an only moderate amount of grumbling.
Incredibly important question. Did Mathilde take the opportunity to yoddle down these halls to test the acoustics? As a Dwarf and a Wizard, it is her duty to check the construction of her library.
She did, though that was earlier tested by the work-songs of the Masons. They like to claim that they can tell if walls are plumb or not by the sound of their songs echoing back at them.
