Well, the kislev vortex might have the ancient widow slurping magic out of the world to empower herself. And it's entirely possible that wizards and runesmiths have different answers to whether their work consumes magic instead of just temporarily shifting it to a different state. With the way runecraft is described as stripping the winds of their personality before putting them to work, it feels entirely possible they go on to convert them from magic to more mundane energy types in the aftermath.
Iirc that was when morathi stepped onto the island of the dead... That's like a door to door salesman instead of a call...
Eight waystones crammed into the same area definitely don't have the same draw as two waystones directly next to where all the magic spews into the world.
The asking of this in-universe is what causes the Waystone to project to fall apart, no wizard-dad carrots needed.
What! Rune of Eternity is what powers every Karaks Protection of Valaya without which Dwarves would be turning to stone in short order.
No one knows what dark words were exchanged to drive the Runelord Thorek to such a rage that he murdered a Grey Lord in the heart of Laurelorn and began the second war of the beard, but it must have been a grave argument indeed.
Oh, fair. Had forgotten that that is where it gets mentioned and nowhere else.
AFAICT she wasn't on the Isle of the Dead. I think she was in Cothique? Not 100% sure, but don't think it was ever mentioned that she was near the actual Vortex.
No, the Runes of Valaya power the protections. The Rune of Eternity allows the High King to monitor the power, gives him updates on stuff and has some kind of command function for projects, but doesn't directly power anything big (and I'm unsure whether it can even turn off the Runes of Valaya though it can definitely do so for other things).
Assuming that each Karak Waystone is equal, and that there are no diminshing returns for putting eight ones close together, it's a little more than half. There are only seven active Karak Waystones besides K8P, including Vlag and Dum.
Said Second War of the Beard ended in an armistice when the secret of what those words were was learned by the Queen of Laurelorn, but this was quickly followed by civil wars in both polities when the secret was somehow revealed to the Kings and Queen of the Dwarves, and the heads of the Eonir houses.
Nah, Mathilde would be the one who ends up dead, as literally everyone else in on the project simultaneously decides to beat her to death for some incredibly bad pun based on it.
Only Vlag and Dum.
My read of that quote is that Eike's going to be putting in roughly the same amount of work, no matter how many actions we give her. It's just a matter of how much focus and emphasis there is towards any particular subject matter(s). It's not wrong to be focused.
Eike actions are for her to learn something from what Mathilde's doing, not for her to copy everything 1:1. I imagine Eike can easily finish off her Fitness skill from the process (which is currently at 2/3), and maybe start learning both the Empire Greatswords' style and the Dwarves' Order of Guardians style, both of which Mathilde has been trained in - maybe she can reach Basic Greatsword proficiency.
