Scarloc wandered the Old World for a few decades, but I believe that was close to 200 years ago. They could sense that Morghur was in the Forest of Arden and went to fight him there, so they at least keep an eye on other Forests close to them. Can't say they know about Morghur, but he's been coming back quicker and quicker over the last few centuries, so they're probably wondering where he is.
That's actually quite sad.
Well, you can read Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism.
I'm still curious about how this model (fails to) deal with Golems and elementalists since IIRC Mathilde has noted that between Bok and the elementalists the College model clearly has some fairly significant holes.
I don't think "battle magic" has much to do with the college model. It's a category of spells that can be described as "might randomly blow up if cast." it doesn't try to categorize anything else. It definitely doesn't try to categorize anything the dwarfs do.
That reminds me... Is it known that Morghur had a thing against the Asrai and Ariel? Because now I'm wondering if that's a potential in with them to examine the Athel Loren network: Pointing out that we brought up useful information that's relevant to them.
Bretonnia would know Morghur is obsessed with Athel Loren.
If I remember correctly, the Asur mages in Marienbourg use water elementals to keep their canals clean. It would mean that they have an understanding of magic that reconcile Wind-magic and elementalism but Teclis didn't want to teach it to the Colleges for reasons.
Could be the trolls or the Dragon Ogres also.
I don't see how? AFAIK, Morghur only interacts with the Elves by trying to destroy Athel Loren/Ariel/the Oak of Ages for vaguely defined reasons.
Eh, could be, but I find it unlikely. Albion had minimal contact with Lustria, and none at all after the Gates collapsed AFAIK.
Or that Teclis himself didn't understand it. Or that the Asur as a whole don't understand it, even if they can use it. Or that those are non-canon to the quest. Or that they're spirits, similar to Dryads or the spirits Hags can control, which aren't incompatible with Teclisean theory IIRC.
Well, i guess we can now give an answer to the question of "what the fuck is going on with dum?!" Just if we actually do it is another question.
Those are possibilities, but we know the Asurs could create elementals in the past because of Bok's existence. They lost way less knowledge than the dwarfs because they had the extremely basic intelligence to actually write it down instead of trusting their magic to oral tradition. It's fairly reasonable to assume their magical theory encompasses elementals.
I actually really like this solution to the question. We know magic channelled through big Gods can do weird stuff divergent from the Winds, and with the revelations about Morghur and speculation about the nature of warp entities in general, golems and elementals being empowered spirits seems to fit.
Here's a quote backing that up:
Damn Eshin, I was just going to say apparation was not explained in the Teclisian model and there might be a connection.
Yeah, "teclesian model" implies he sat down and tried to model how magic works.
Skaven are probably minor because she will find out anyway if we are in a dwarf hold. (Which we are often). Also the waystone project, that her grandma's trading company is our personal spy ring.
