Well, presumably we could tell him, in much the same way we enticed Thorek to want to work with us on the matter - it was useful to him. Like I said though, it's a long shot. It's also possible there's military uses to AV that would be more obvious to Hatalath than to us, in which case we may wish to avoid risks and never bring it up.
I am using it a simile, like brave like a Lion, clever as a Fox, or in this case hooked like addict. Because Mathilde being able to create some of the most powerful items the colleges have is huge and potential profitable to Mathilde in political, financial and reputation.
We actually do not know if it is codifying or not. But with a Randal coin anything is possible. Right now Algard is the greatest living expert the colleges have and really the only known available option for Mathilde to not have to spend a lifetime doing research.
Why do you want training in Liminal Realms? We don't really need it for anything we're doing.
Like most things Mathilde learns it does not have to be about what is useful but also about is interesting. Also the two known examples are the towers that "randomly " disappears and the floating castle in the badlands. I want Mathilde to one day create her own floating castle.
Okay, but why does that require giving the first set away for free?
I'm not invested in it all that much, but I will admit it wouldn't be out of character for Mathilde. Drycha caught her slightly off guard by hiding in a liminal space, and if it wasn't for the Forest itself absolutely, utterly despising her and inflicting her with a -20 penalty, equivalent to an MMM, then she could have done some serious damage.
Donating for college favor better wording and reputation. When we had the rooms built it increased Mathilde's reputation among the colleges and has helped with experiments and train battle mages who would have died otherwise. These may very well break the college reputation similar to the dwarf reputation was.
Sure it'd be neat to know but not really worth using up all the college favour we'd get from the Orbs of Sorcery to maybe get. And a floating castle isn't really worth that much when so much of what Mathilde has is firmly attached to Karak 8 Peaks and Belegar - her towers, the library, everyone she knows that lives there...
Thorgrm hasn't even said that there was even a problem in the first place.
There's nothing in the Thorgrim section that indicates anything.
I meant "we" in the out-of-character sense, but probably should have been clearer.
That's what I thought, but I know I sometimes miss things and people like Codex and Pickle exist with nigh-encyclopedic knowledge of the DL canon.
Ah, you were talking about AV as a whole. I thought you were talking about just the creation of Orbs of Sorcery. Still don't think it'll open up favour, but that's mostly because I'm pretty sure the Eonir have their own source.
If it was codified, Mathilde wouldn't need Algard to learn it, it'd just be in the spellbook. It's not, so it's not codified. And in fact, in-quest other Wizards never codify spells, because it would be an unreasonable demand on Boney's time to simulate that in the background.
Well, we know it's been draining for longer than Thorgrim was King. We also know that K8P alone being readded to the system fixed the problem. Either the fall of Dum and Vlag in the 2300s caused the system to tip into a death spiral, or it's been a very long death spiral since Silver Pinnacle fell in -326. It depends partially on if every Karak provides the same amount of power, and draws the same amount or not.
Far as I know he isn't even married, which is pretty unusual for the ruler of the Karaz Ankor.
The mention of Akriksson dying of wounds he should have recovered from suggests to me that it started with Dum and Vlag going away.
It's certainly possible, but it's also possible that them going away was net neutral. They were no longer sending power, but they no longer needed power either.
We know the power supply was below what was necessary to power the other Great Works, we don't know if it was below what was necessary for the Runes of Valaya before Vlag and Dum.
The fact that Thorgrim reacted to their return by using the surplus energy to activate a great work seems to clearly indicate their reconnection was a net positive - and the fact Vlag had any dwarves left at all strongly suggests that its Karak-Rune of Valaya held up even while it was gone (Dum is less so, as Cor-Dum may actually be capable of protecting them in place of Valaya).
