At no point did Mathilde use Dark Magic when she was reading the Liber Mortis.
If we do small amounts, we might be able to keep it secret we broke the articles, but Mathilde would know she broke the articles.
We literally needed to get a dispensation for studying Dhar to save the world. The articles are decent for what they supposed to do but perfect they are not.
I think a no-tolerance policy towards using magic that is characterized by self-destructiveness, taints the world around you, and is guaranteed to turn you into a power-hungry megalomaniac, is actually fairly reasonable.
I mean... there's like... Waystones? That use Dhar?
It still stains and taints the land, that's just generally preferable to an army of zombies.
There might be an exception for Elves, thought the Drucchi don't exactly do anything to suggest that.
I don't follow. What are you trying to say?
The main example for Elf Dhar users are the Drucchi sorceresses, who certainly seem to display the mental effects of Dhar exposure, though with them that might just be cultural.
I... don't understand how this relates to what I said.
I thought you were saying that as a position of "Elves have used Dhar to positive ends".
...and all of that energy hates us with the burning passion of a hundred suns burning longer then five hundred thousand years...
Well, in another notation, that's 6.6 x 10^39 joules, while the power of a supernova, according to google, is 10^44 joules.
I think that theoretically if we had no important projects on our hands and didn't have to worry about the Articles, Tong-casting could be worth it and lead to positive ends, with minimal risk and no Dhar-mindset problems seeing as it's purely relying on the attractant properties of Dhar but not actually wielding it. But those are very big "ifs".
Having dabbled in this sort of thing in my dissolute internet youth, presuming the same distance to earth's moon and all the other not easily checkable numbers line up, the planet gets mass scattered by the event, and if I'm not dropping a decimal point or six somewhere with about 200x overkill.
That's a yotta boom.
First reaction is hell no. Big risk, for both Mathilde and Eike.
I finally found the reaction image I was looking for!In any case, while a hypothetical Witch Hunter reading Mathilde's diary could likely point to several violations of the "no touchy Dhar" rule, I do think that it's an important character beat for Mathilde that she has so far refused to break that rule by her own standards.
Even if we did our Second Secret testing in a perfectly isolated area where nobody would ever track it back to us and our belt burnt away all the Dhar before it could have any magically corruptive effect, that would still be Mathilde deciding that Yes Actually I Can Handle The Dark Magic, It Needed To Be Done, Why Can't They See That.
And from there it's only a short hop to I'll Show Them All.
I honestly think that should be an 'in case of my death' sort of situation, or if Mathilde is very old and wrinkled and Eike has already proved herself. IIRC Boney stated that the way the Van Hals handled it is just about right for the level of danger it represents: you need someone to hold onto it just in case, but its biggest protection is that nobody knows that person has it.
