I think we have? Hosting this was part of the Queen's initiative to break isolationism and develop positive diplomatic cred with other nations. It's not tangible, but positive rep is definitely a thing.
Physical goodies matter, it matters a lot! They definitely achieved their diplomatic goals, but in theory the purpose of the Waystone Project was about repairing the Network. They are certainly expecting to be at the top of the list to get stuff due to being the host. If they aren't at the top and they aren't
right up, they are going to start being
very upset.
No we wouldn't Please don't post misinformation like this when we specifically picked dual Transmission with rivers to avoid that. And Drakenhoff has a river and is a good place to test river transmission method.
I responded to this earlier.
It really doesn't feel like much of a triumphal occasion if it only partly works because everything around it is broke. The riverine leyline component of the waystone is not the main leyline it is supposed to use. It is supposed to be a backup.
I absolutely could have been more clear with my initial statement though.
Yes, but then we wouldn't even get to say the leyline keyphrase until we got around to erecting Waystones in Sylvania, rather than being able to do it for the ceremony. Though obviously the keyphrase wouldn't be said in front of an audience, but I'm pretty sure that is said at the waystone already connected to the network, rather than at the waystone being added.
What your quotes do indicate is that a river can carry a nexus' worth of Dhar down a single artificial pipeline. That alone is probably enough to make having an overflow from the Kislev network worth it.
A Waystone would be exploded by a Storm of Magic in your model if upstream Waystones were sending vast amounts of magic downstream because they were within the Storm as well. If there are mechanisms to prevent this, it would apply to a Waystone acting as an overflow for the Kislevite network as well. It would channel what it could, acting to drain off any excess in the Kislev system over time that the Widow couldn't process.
Nothing in this comment even remotely addresses my point. Which is that a
waystone would not feasible work as a drainage function. A river being able to funnel the dhar is not a waystone ferrying the magic.
The amount of a magic a waystone will be able to drain is practically meaningless on a national scale. Ideally we're going to build hundreds of waystones in Kislev. It might even be over a thousand waystones in Kislev. Your proposal will not help. It's meaningless.
How does a waystone work? It absorbs energy from the surroundings. Then the energy is moved into the storage. Then the energy is orbited around dhar (which may or may not have been created by the waystone). It then puts that into the leyline. Waystones also serve as points on the leylines. They keep the leylines carved.
We have literally argued for pages about how much storage a waystone has. The storage method we chose and the one the elves chose can keep energy in the waystone for centuries.
There are two ways to resolve Boney saying you need a nexus to handle vast amounts of energies while waystones can handle Storms of Magic. One, that the energy collected from hundreds of waystones is more than what a waystone will absorb during a storm of magic. That seems fairly obvious. Two, the waystone uses the storage to spread out the distribution of energy so the leylines don't get clogged. This also seems fairly obvious. The High Elves would not have designed a waystone to put more energy in the leyline than the leylines would handle.
Hell, Boney stated that storage wasn't the bottleneck with storms of magic. That implies that waystones either cannot absorb enough energies to overwhelm the leylines or they cannot put energy in the leyline fast enough to do that. It is probably both. They would not have built with storages that can last centuries without being connected to the network and expect the waystone to just dump it in all at once the milisecond it was reconnected.
Edit: I removed the last part after someone recommended I not. Just please address
my points. Not what my points are not.
Boney, the storage category talks about being able to more readily absorb storms of magic and the like. Does that mean a more expensive storage option will let the waystone deal with environmental contamination like the Dhar background in Sylvania or Praag more rapidly?
No, for massive levels of existing magic levels the storage isn't the bottleneck. It would mean they'd have a greater immediate effect, though.
