Going by this, we could in a future turn spend 1 AP learning written Nehekharan and then 1 AP on examining the Prophecies/Ring notes on the same turn we learn to read the language. Or 3 AP to get them all done in one turn, I suppose. Point is, we're a lot closer to studying those than we thought we were.
As ever, I'll be banging the drum to spend a single action going to the Gold College to gain an entire more modern technology base.
I think the 'worst' case scenario is rolling just well enough on codifying Rite of Way that it's doable but just bad enough that it requires a second AP of rewriting some bits and then confirming the changes work by casting the final version. That'd actually mess with basically everyone's preliminary plans.At the risk of being a killjoy I have to say there isn't much point of making plans for next turn when this one is not even halfway done. For all we know the Nuln library wll contain tomes on how the Kurgan altar helps drive Chaos from the world, Zlata will be turned turned into a vampire in Stirland though a hilarious comedy of errors and Rite of Way will go so well as to unveil a whole new category of shadow magic.
I mean we didn't just give them a pile of technology, we gave them blueprints for all of them. I'd be very surprised if they were struggling to get much out of it after, what, 8 years?
Does Mathilde need to be the one to rewrite it? IIRC, her MMAP was useable in theory but difficult for non-Ulgu wizards, but someone else fixed it for her and turned it into the user-friendly MMAPP. If Rite of Way is successfully--if messily--codified, maybe someone else can take a crack at cleaning it up.
All of them worked with warpstone...
No, there were some that did, and some that didn't. And for the ones that did they'll presumably be looking at whether the devices can use something else instead.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Skaven industrial processes are going to be bad jokes in themselves. If GW ever wrote them, going by precedent, they'd be a caricature of the Victorian workhouse with attrition rates in the double digits per month.
The one we looked at was so insane that recreating it without warpstone would be a whole new paradigm to work with. They probably got some things out of it but i doubt we get a industrial revolution or anything like that.
We looked at one example that explicitly was using warpstone. Extrapolating out that single example to an entire techbase, much of which doesn't, would be very silly.
Do we have a statement from Boney about how much wasn't Warpstone-based?
From the update:
Interestingly enough, according to the rules from the supplement Elspeth is from, Light Magic works on her the same way it does on Undead and Daemons. This is mentioned in the same breath as the rules that make her Ethereal for the purposes of resistances, because of how in tune to the Wind of Death she is.We're pretty sure. We know that Apparitions and Daemons are metaphysically distinct:
So it's not just a political reclassification for convenience's sake, there's a real important difference between them. Given that we have the full corpus of College writings on Apparitions (Extensive and Esoteric) I am pretty confident that we have strong reason to believe that all the things we-the-players think are Apparitions are in fact Apparitions and not Daemons, since there's a very easy way for the Colleges to check.
(Also, it wasn't 10,000 pages late. We learned about Apparition-binding on page 6116. That's only 7611 pages ago. Completely different
Well correct me if I'm wrong but isn't her big insane stuff the result of her doing magic with the heart of a dead god or something? I seem to recall that being the case in canon.
That is only her staff, which lets her do this:
Darkwalker is the trait that makes her vulnerable to Light Magic. The fluff says that she is walking on the edge between life and death, which gives her the ethereal trait.
Boney already said daemon banishing spells don't work on apparitions, so I doubt they'd banish Von Draken to the warp either. But maybe nobody has tried!
She had a weird hourglass that may or may not contain the ashes of a dead god.
Article: Death's Timekeeper
This hour glass is an ancient and storied artefact, it is said to contain as its measuring sand the dusty remnants of a dead god of old, and Van Draken has spent much of her unnaturally long life studying its mysteries. With it she has perfected some limited measure of control over time and death itself.
Fair enough, although question. Where did her death dragon come from?
Magical domination, according to 4e Winds of Magic.
