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Wouldn't a magic rich environment be needed to do research into pocket dimensions? I figure if we wanted to study Algard's enchantments I guess we would need to be able to create a rich ulgu environment.
We already know how to create those (and have access to one); accumulating Ulgu is literally what our Tower of Dawn and Dusk does, and anybody who is trained outside the colleges (rare, but it can happen) has to do so in a similar environment for their chosen wind.
 
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Malekith periodically dumps entire Shade clans into Nagarythe, promising them a bounty per Nagarythian head and ownership of any lands they manage to take and hold.
Looks over at Nagarythe

The bounty's like, value-neutral because of how the Shadow Warriors will likely come after you in retribution, but setting people to try to take and hold cursed land that has shifted hands ever since the Sundering? That... sounds like a good way to get rid of people Malekith doesn't like or thinks are getting uppity. Is there some sort of hidden benefit or are the Druchii really that bad at history and thinking they're special and different from everyone else?
 
Wouldn't a magic rich environment be needed to do research into pocket dimensions? I figure if we wanted to study Algard's enchantments I guess we would need to be able to create a rich ulgu environment.

It takes more than just the right laboratory set-up to be able to replicate and then leapfrog any given magical feat. Algard has achieved what he has achieved because he has spent very many years studying the nature of the Grey College and other dimensional oddities and attempting to replicate it. It is the product of a lifetime of obsessive dedication to the field of magical architecture. Mathilde has no novel insight or new piece of the puzzle that will allow her to catch up to him and then leave him in the dust in a month or two of effort, so step one to outdoing him would be to spend a lifetime obsessively dedicated to the field of magical architecture.

Looks over at Nagarythe

The bounty's like, value-neutral because of how the Shadow Warriors will likely come after you in retribution, but setting people to try to take and hold cursed land that has shifted hands ever since the Sundering? That... sounds like a good way to get rid of people Malekith doesn't like or thinks are getting uppity. Is there some sort of hidden benefit or are the Druchii really that bad at history and thinking they're special and different from everyone else?

There's not really a lot of room to say 'no' when Malekith pulls up in a Black Ark and says 'get in loser, we're going conquering'.
 
It takes more than just the right laboratory set-up to be able to replicate and then leapfrog any given magical feat. Algard has achieved what he has achieved because he has spent very many years studying the nature of the Grey College and other dimensional oddities and attempting to replicate it. It is the product of a lifetime of obsessive dedication to the field of magical architecture. Mathilde has no novel insight or new piece of the puzzle that will allow her to catch up to him and then leave him in the dust in a month or two of effort, so step one to outdoing him would be to spend a lifetime obsessively dedicated to the field of magical architecture.


Is there anyone in WH history who got further than Algard who might have left a book lying around that would manage to get us even more suspicious side eye with an extra helping of personal annoyance at being outdone without even getting consulted before we publish?


Asking for a friend, who is definitely not Ranald being carried by Tzeentch in an oversized trenchcoat.
 
Is there anyone in WH history who got further than Algard who might have left a book lying around that would manage to get us even more suspicious side eye with an extra helping of personal annoyance at being outdone without even getting consulted before we publish?


Asking for a friend, who is definitely not Ranald being carried by Tzeentch in an oversized trenchcoat.
... Maybe the Slaan? But that's probably on some stone slab right next to "how to kill the moon (the bad one)"
 
Is there anyone in WH history who got further than Algard who might have left a book lying around that would manage to get us even more suspicious side eye with an extra helping of personal annoyance at being outdone without even getting consulted before we publish?


Asking for a friend, who is definitely not Ranald being carried by Tzeentch in an oversized trenchcoat.
Well, in the realm of magic architecture, the stand-out is Fozzrik, he of the flight-school-memes.

Algard has his book, so it either wasn't helpful or it's what propelled him on his path.
 
Is there anyone in WH history who got further than Algard who might have left a book lying around that would manage to get us even more suspicious side eye with an extra helping of personal annoyance at being outdone without even getting consulted before we publish?


Asking for a friend, who is definitely not Ranald being carried by Tzeentch in an oversized trenchcoat.

Fozzrik, Khatep, Tepec-Inzi, Be'lakor, M'kar.
 
Fozzrik, Khatep, Tepec-Inzi, Be'lakor, M'kar.
If anyone's curious, that's, in order, the creator of a flying autonomous castle, the oldest Liche-Priest of Nehekhara, a Slann Mage-Priest, the first Daemon Prince, and a mad mage that created a portable gateway to the Realm of Chaos (called the Portalglyph)

Algard's certainly in good company in his field.
 
If anyone's curious, that's, in order, the creator of a flying autonomous castle, the oldest Liche-Priest of Nehekhara, a Slann Mage-Priest, the first Daemon Prince, and a mad mage that created a portable gateway to the Realm of Chaos (called the Portalglyph)

Algard's certainly in good company in his field.
How dare you sir! Fozzik also created the folding Fortress! Give the man his due acclaim!
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He did actually leave a book behind iirc, only reason I know bout it is cause its talked about in the Blood in the Badlands campaign im currently running for a bunch of my buds.

Edit Edit: After re-consulting the book, it flat out says its in the Grey College's vault, so... Mathilde could very easily go take a peaksie at it.
 
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The answer is yes. Mal does in fact think that he are special.

Everyone else gets forced along for the ride.

10k years+ of failing has yet to make him realize he isnt.
I mean... Malekith kind of is special. He's one of the most skilled and powerful magic users alive, is a ridiculously good fighter in general, has survived travelling through the realm of Chaos, and a ton of other things. That he keeps getting stopped isn't down to him not being extremely capable, it's down to the other side having its own bullshit hero units.
 
The answer is yes. Mal does in fact think that he are special.

Everyone else gets forced along for the ride.

10k years+ of failing has yet to make him realize he isnt.
Problem is he managed to fail for thousands of years and is still alive. If you dropped that dude into some of the most dangerous parts of the setting, he will crawl out of it with the worst of his damage is being somewhat miffed over the ordeal. Throw that dude into a impervious prison and he will pop out of one of the cracks like its some looney tunes shit.

I admit my view of him strays from canon with what I said here. I adore the idea of him being actually pretty good at everything. But his true skill set is being able to get cornered by an entire army and escape by throwing down a bomb at his feet and team rocketing himself back to his black ark. Just impossible to actually pin the guy down cause he always has some baffling escape plans.
 
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I mean... Malekith kind of is special. He's one of the most skilled and powerful magic users alive, is a ridiculously good fighter in general, has survived travelling through the realm of Chaos, and a ton of other things. That he keeps getting stopped isn't down to him not being extremely capable, it's down to the other side having its own bullshit hero units.
Most of the other sides' bullshit hero units don't have 10k years of experience and all of his hax bullshit, with the Slann being the one obvious exception that also tend to outdo him casually when they convince themselves to try. He's special in that he's survived in spite of setting up a deliberately self sabotaging Purge state without even having the fallback of Skaven birthrates(as far as we know anyway), but without a worthwhile support system he's seemingly accomplished about dick all of note in most of those many many years.


I mean he caused a lot of death and destruction, but even humans regularly manage that.
 
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