Liminal membrane seems very clearly to be an Ulgu thing because of Ulgu's association with doorways, thresholds, dawn and dusk, and liminal spaces in general. Even if you can create a liminal realm using other winds, literally weaponizing the boundary to attack people is pretty clearly an ulgu thing.
I don't think Runesmith favour is transferable; we can't use it to equip anyone else, especially someone not yet counted as Dawongr in their own right. We can pass down our items as an inheritance, but otherwise she has to earn her own Runes. Which, in fairness, she certainly will given how much she hangs around dwarves with us.
That lense trick has served us very well often.
It's not obvious at all, actually.
We do have that moderate boon from the Runesmith's Guild. Not saying we should use it, I'm all for Eike earning her own Dwarven bling, but I don't think they'd say no if that's what we used it for.
Okay but like...Pendulum is an Ulgu spell, actually. Yes, there's obviously flexibility to the metaphor and you can present an alternative interpretation that holds together just as well, but when presented with that kind of uncertainty I don't think it's unreasonable to favor the interpretation that aligns with observed reality.
100%. Not being sure where your gate is, or when your flight is taking off, etc.
I mean maybe what you're trying to do is point out that there's a missing piece but it feels what you've actually done is instead point at somewhere else where there's a dozen missing pieces and go "don't these seem basically the same?"
Are you absolutely certain that's the only possible reason those spells exist?
There's a parsimonious feeling for why the Sword of Tlanxla works. It's an effect/concept/spell/artifact that's centered around cutting apart and forming divisions within the fundamental energies of the warp. It imposes division on otherwise unitary spectra of churning chaos, dividing the aethyr into eight winds, with uglu being the implement that did it by way of insulating them from each other at every other area of the spectrum.
It's not different things. Ulgu is the "substance" of the division, it is the blade stuck in the wound keeping it divided. Or even if they are different "things", it's aethyr logic, not Standard Model Physics.
I mean...
Shyish being aligned with boundaries in some way doesn't stop Ulgu from being aligned with boundaries more, or any of the Ulgu spells from belonging where they do.
Is that a hard rule or do most Imperial Magisters just associate scythes so heavily with death because of Morr? Cause from what I can tell from the wiki, Shyish is as attracted to battlefields as it is graveyards, which makes sense; sure, time and natural causes ultimately kill more, but war still has a heavy association with death, and lots of it.
To be honest, I've lost track of your argument at this point.
I wonder what a Nehekharan would summon?
Thematics can be stretched, though. You wouldn't normally expect Aqshy (fire and heat and passion) to be associated with swords specifically, but it has Flaming Sword of Rhuin. You wouldn't expect Chamon (logic and reasoning and heavy metals) to be associated with archery of all things, but it has Silver Arrows of Arha.
