No they didn´t lol. The Waystone assembled leans on it heavily, but we could have just as easily slapped a much less complicated waystone from other parts. We didn´t sure, but that doesn´t mean that other people didn´t contribute just as much, and that in future, someone won´t decide to slap those simpler waystones together to see what sticks.
Laurelorn proposed the Project. Laurelorn hosted the Project. Laurelorn created the majority of the components we used for this waystone. Mathilde comes close, but only really because Laurelorn got her to do it.
What are the contributions of the other members that match this? Did you read the part of the quote you didn't bold? It specifically talks about how Laurelorn was critical to it.
Glad we agree.
So let me be clear.
I don't think Kislev is a good site for the first waystone, but also I think your reasons for thinking that are stupid.
Praag isn't in Troll Country. It's in the Eastern Oblast. You saying that it is fine to put in Praag, while saying that Troll Country isn't fine, makes me think you want to put it in Praag.
Laurelorn does have a problem with the lornalim, namely the precious metals under them. Not that big of a problem now that most of Nordland's settlements are... not there anymore, but there are still a few left near the coast, and they probably won't have covered all the formerly 'lost' areas yet; and either way, they'd probably appreciate ones that don't need precious metals for historical reasons. Dreaming Wood tributaries could work quite well there.
Also, what Laurelorn did was important, but they certainly didn't do all the work, or even most of it. They did design 3/5 of the components of the current Waystone design, but that's only because we deliberately went with a 'highest possible quality' design, which is closest to the Elven paradigm, as seen by how we used the only three Elf-designed components; if we want a more specialized one (for just leylines, or for just rivers, or even just the most spammable design possible) we would need a lot less of them. Overall, they've made 3 out of the 15 unique components designed, and 1 out of the 3 new Tributary designs. Not counting all the work mappind the Leylines, or locating the Athel Yenlui Nexus, etc. Significant, sure, but I'd argue the Colleges have done about as much together.
Yeah they'd like them. But not
in place of waystones. They aren't enough to assuage their pride.
In retrospect, you're right. I was being rather dismissive of the Collegiate Storage contributions, counting them together. Though just to point out, they also designed the Runes. That's five components. Their tributary design also convinced Ulthuan to share the leyline. I doubt Eltharion would have been able to justify to Finubar giving the ylvathoi the codes and not bring home... anything. I guess Boney was counting the cheap/moderate/expensive when they said 'short on deliverables.' But beyond that, saving us
at least three or four actions is more than anyone else. On top of being the reason the Project exists
and hosting it. Athel Yenlui is nice for the Empire to know about, but it doesn't affect anyone else and they told us that it existed in the first place.
While they've been short on deliverables, there's been at least three or four things that would have been an action to investigate if the Elves weren't there to just outright tell you what the deal was with it.
Yeah. Lmao at the foundation being beyond the means of Imperial Wizards. If they really leant into it, they could probably crack it.
I never said the foundation was beyond the means of Imperial Wizards. That would be rather silly for me to say given that there is a foundation variant that the Light Wizards made. I'm not sure why you brought up reverse-engineering.
We know Maidens are capable of multi-wind casting without excessive Dhar fuckery, and hypothetically maybe this means they can do the "basic" high magic needed for the capstone. If capstone is the bottleneck for Waystone production (I think storage did succeed in getting somewhat improved?) they might be able to help there?
The Fay Enchantress can't do high magic. If she can't the Damsels certainly can't. The capstone isn't a significant bottleneck, at least compared to the storage. At any given time Laurelorn has 20 enchanters who are willing and able to make it. That's much quicker than the storage. It still requires archmages to produce and it will for a
long time.
And yet, where we deploy it will be up for a vote anyways. Perhaps this is because you're overblowing how the eonir, who already got what they wanted from the project, would react.
I can't be the only person who remembers caedeth lamenting how personal profit was prioritized over saving the world when talking about their old-style tributaries. What's more important to their values? Hell, what's more important to their geo-politics? Having new waystones faster, or having the international prestige of putting the mission first when they didn't have to and closer ties to a foreign polity?
The answer seems pretty obvious to me! But we don't have to speculate on that because we will be told what the implications of each choice are when it's time for us to make the choice.
Somehow I don't think it will be "the eonir, who can forcefully dictate this issue but aren't, will flip out if you pick anything but this".
Boney just got done saying, and I quote, that
just because something is an option it doesn't mean there will never be negative consequences for it.
It's not geopolitics that is the problem. It's their pride. They've put a
lot into this. Not respecting that is snubbing them. And no they can't force the matter, but they can definitely express their displeasure in many ways. I am not saying that they will dissolve the project over this. It is an unforced error though.
