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Ah, so Skavenblight very likely is part of the network then. I had been wondering, what with all the warpstone, blight, and shenanigans that surround it.

Now that we know Skavenblight is probably being fed, part of me really wants to see just how much is feeding Skavenblight.
It makes sense too, because they should have starved themselves off long ago being in such a static location as that. It also neatly explains their seemingly endless source of warpstone, similar to those warpstones around the river trolls that got expunged when we reactivated the K8P network.
 
It makes sense too, because they should have starved themselves off long ago being in such a static location as that. It also neatly explains their seemingly endless source of warpstone, similar to those warpstones around the river trolls that got expunged when we reactivated the K8P network.

Especially if it turns out that warpstone is a Dhar powerstone, as Mathilde theorised some time back. They can just keep growing more of it.
 
The Liber Mortis, necromancy is general. Leaving aside insanity of doing so the best way to fight Skaven is with their own dead.
The Liber Mortis specifically has notes on how to best fight with undead; how to best fight against Skaven; and how to best fight Skaven with undead.

Mathilde gets a +10 to command rolls in that matchup due to having read the book. She is literally better at leading Undead and/or Skaven factions than she is humans, Dawi or Wizards.
 
let not invoke a Hellwar, even if we can play the Skaven number system against themself and make them commit to action from misunderstanding which number they are on
 
Would it be possible to research how to create Nexuses on our own? IIRC we haven't studied Nexuses yet so we don't know how difficult they are to create. Though this may be a problematic case of scope creep for the Waystone Project.

The amount of trouble that magical energies can cause if you fumble them does not scale linearly. That's why you might get hand cramps if you mess up a simple spell but can explode if you mess up Battle Magic. The amount of energies involved in a nexus would mess up an entire province in really exotic ways if things go wrong.

also, I guess Eike doesn't qualify for this due to being a wizard? How old is she now anyway?

16, and yeah, she has an Arcane Mark so that chamber would be extremely dangerous for her. A Wizard without an Arcane Mark could go in if they didn't cast any spells for a while.
 
Especially if it turns out that warpstone is a Dhar powerstone, as Mathilde theorised some time back. They can just keep growing more of it.
Powerstones only come in one size and the only known way of changing that size is expanding them by feeding them primordial Winds. Unless Dhar powerstone mechanics are fundamentally different than Wind powerstone mechanics (which is admittedly possible) then warpstone isn't a Dhar powerstone since it can come in sizes from dust to giant rocks.
 
Studying nexuses on our own is still, I think, a reasonable preliminary step to trying to get the secrets out of ulthuan, and even though we won't learn how to do it to an acceptable degree of safety on that basis alone it doesn't mean we won't learn NOTHING.
 
The amount of trouble that magical energies can cause if you fumble them does not scale linearly. That's why you might get hand cramps if you mess up a simple spell but can explode if you mess up Battle Magic. The amount of energies involved in a nexus would mess up an entire province in really exotic ways if things go wrong.
Can we experiment with Nexus in places that is already too bad, like Skavenblight or Morgheim? I mean, I doubt that some will be angry is we make this lands worser.
 
Powerstones only come in one size and the only known way of changing that size is expanding them by feeding them primordial Winds. Unless Dhar powerstone mechanics are fundamentally different than Wind powerstone mechanics (which is admittedly possible) then warpstone isn't a Dhar powerstone since it can come in sizes from dust to giant rocks.

Mechanically it works exactly like a Dhar powerstone when it comes to casting so I'd say it's a pretty fair bet.
 
and every heartbeat spent within it is a chance for magical energies to carve a merciless path through the soul of a Dwarf or a Wizard, leaving a statue or a tragically literal lunatic in its wake
Laughing at the idea of some archmages and runelords sprinting out of the room as the rune activates.
Within the cities of the Empire, such beings are generally known as 'teenagers'.
Another common weakness of the elder races, they don't spend much time in this larval stage of development.
"Matorca," he hazards, inadvertently taking a position in an incredibly petty political dispute older than he is,
First that elf promotes Johan now this. These old guys really have no political savy :V:V:V
 
Would it be possible to research how to create Nexuses on our own? IIRC we haven't studied Nexuses yet so we don't know how difficult they are to create. Though this may be a problematic case of scope creep for the Waystone Project.
IIRC, that has been brought up and pretty much ruled out, as a failed attempt would result in a very very big boom, and there's no place that'd we'd be able to try it safely.
 
Can we experiment with Nexus in places that is already too bad, like Skavenblight or Morgheim? I mean, I doubt that some will be angry is we make this lands worser.
It's not just "the land itself will get worse" that is a concern here but things along the lines of "everyone in the immediate area, including the experiments by necessity, Explodes" that are of concern
 
Can we experiment with Nexus in places that is already too bad, like Skavenblight or Morgheim? I mean, I doubt that some will be angry is we make this lands worser.

Even if you could secure the cooperation of the inhabitants of those places, which seems like a big problem to be just skimming right past but okay, Tilea and Karak Eight Peaks respectively would have objections they'd like to raise with taking those already really troublesome areas and seeing how much worse they can get.
 
Question, if Skavenblight is a nexus and the magical energy is likely how it remains...like it is, then wouldn't cutting it off or diverting the magical energy strike a crippling blow and result in their capital withering on the vine?
 
Question, if Skavenblight is a nexus and the magical energy is likely how it remains...like it is, then wouldn't cutting it off or diverting the magical energy strike a crippling blow and result in their capital withering on the vine?

Eventually yeah, but it would also cause a wave of rats to madly attack everyone in the immediate sense. Remember there are more Skaven on the planet than there is anything else (except maybe Chaos Warriors in the Deep Wastes) and most of them are fighting each other. Turning off the tap to their capital might well change that.
 
Genocide is undoubtedly bad though I think nuking Skaven blight would collapse the Skaven so utterly it would be worth it but it would be basically impossible so yeah. (The Skaven would object to us doing so for one)
 
Genocide is always wrong. Destroying the Under-Empire, yes. Killing Skaven for being Skaven, no.
Yes.

We had a whole separate thread to discuss Skaven genocide and how it interacts with Rule 2.
IIRC you *can* do immense mass killing on SV quests, but you need to write it respectfully and not get too hyped about it. I don't think you can explicitly do genocide though.

Edit: Turns out the rules do allow you to do genocide. You just can't have any fun doing it.
 
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Question, if Skavenblight is a nexus and the magical energy is likely how it remains...like it is, then wouldn't cutting it off or diverting the magical energy strike a crippling blow and result in their capital withering on the vine?
In theory, possibly yes. In practice, that seems like an excellent way to provoke the Under-Empire into retaliating and possibly breaking the Conspiracy of Silence. Their portion of the network is tiny, even cutting off a few Waystones would hit them hard and potentially instigate a response.
 
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