Yeah, even in the best case scenario, it could be that taking two deployment actions simultaneously will mean that one of them gets the waystones deployed as soon as they're made, and that the other location's waystones get 'delayed' until the first location's done or mostly done. Like, Mathilde could spend the time from that action on getting the relevant authorities and contributing parties on the same page, so that they can eventually get it done without her needing to follow up on it.
I don't know about any hard numbers on how many waystones a month, but the workflow will have to be split up anyway: One section requires a Runesmith, another requires the Jade Order specifically, one needs any one Wind enchanter, one (currently) needs an Archmage-level enchanter, and another requires a Qhaysh enchanter. Even if theoretically you could have the extremely good Archmage-level enchanter also do the simple Wind enchantment from the orbital mechanism or the simple Qhaysh enchantment, it'd be a waste of their efforts.
The current bottleneck is the storage, which took grey lord's half a year of research to reverse engineer, but which sarvoi seems to understand. So let's say worst case scenario being like ten per turn. Can't say what would best case scenario be. But it's got potential to go up sharply as the barrier of entry drops.
I mean, the towns will definitely be the first priority given the density of people, convenient placement and how they're more easily defended, but there's zero reason not to cover the rest of Sylvania by branching out from those. There's only 18 towns in Sylvania that are big enough to show up on the map - if we include the Council of Manhorak's assorted bog/marsh/swamp territories, that's 22 places worthy of priority.
While we can't really guess as to how many Archmages they have overall, I think we can assume that when deploying in Laurelorn, the various heads of the Houses and/or Marrisith will tell however many they have to put asides their differences and work together to iterate the enchantment. Houses Tindomiel, Echtelion and Thyriolan working together would hopefully surpass that initial barrier of entry together more quickly than they would alone.
There's a scarcity of waystones and a lot of places that need them. Covering the towns in Sylvania, then covering the towns in Kislev, then covering etc, before going back and completing the coverage seems better than absolutely draining all the dhar from Sylvania before starting on other places.
For sure. I mostly mean that we have confirmation that Sarvoi, a mostly normal if very bright elf can not only replicate the enchantment, but also streamline it. He was noted to be jotting down a list of improvements while the first waystone was put together. So its probably not limited to Grey Lords anymore, and from there, well, idk. As you said, too soon to make math predictions. We will know when we invest the action.
Honestly yeah now that we've seen ballpark math for the scale of what's needed for even the best case areas (80% existing coverage for laurelorn) I'm way more inclined toward this than I was in the past.
I still think putting it on the edge of Drakwald bordering Laurelorn/Shadensumpf would be a great symbolic move, basicly representing the whole mutually beneficial/enlightened self interest aspect of the project.
Completely untrue. Not only the treaty is actually wrtten down so people can remember it but Elves did remind Nordland just about every generation what was in that treaty and had it enforced, it's just Nordland was delibratly enforcing less than what treaty asked for just so they could keep creeping in.
Again another completely untrue statement. There has been only one treaty since the start that Nordland was working around by moving slowly and not enforcing the border. Elves kept reminding the borders to Nordland but could not enforce it themselves because Nordland was perfectly fine with starting a war with Eonir over it if they did.
They checked the plaques and the Empire isn't meant to be here, so they're going to hit us with earthquakes until we die.
No chance whatsoever im pretty sure.
All of this argument is over 'a fair amount' of symbolic importance? Seems like a really small issue on the bigger picture.
I'm not blaming you for not reading my mind, I'm blaming you for critising me, for something you read into my post.
You know I'm reminded of when we met Cadaeth for the first time.
This feels like the same ego saving measure rather than admit that a human discovered something that they'd never found out.
No one in the Empire even know the Lizardmen are more than beastmen living in the ruins of a greater civilization they destroyed, so Mathilde isn't going to make the first move. And given how insular they are, it's unlikely the Slaans will accept to work with warmbloods even if they noticed what we did. Unlike Ulthuan they're not hooked up in the final destination of the the network's energy.
On the contrary, it seems pretty big. It's not like delaying the deployment to Kislev by 6 months will hurt it much, while not doing it in Laurelorn first would sting their pride.
More to point there is Forest of Shadows right there if they want to keep logging. They are just being lazy by going to Laurelorn forest instead of FoS since latter has gribblies in it so mugging Eonir is eaiser.
Trying to get the Cult of Ulric to be less Teutogen-supremacist and less patriarchal isn't exactly a negative thing.
There was also the bonus point of some trees having lodes of precious metals right underneath so granted, its not really as lucrative, but i still think Nordland really deserves the L on this one.
