I'm sure there's some magical weapon that has a total distance limit rather than an arc, and that's why I said most
We did though? Under Drakenhof at least.
Huh, completely forgot. Explains these rolls.
Man, both Boney and the playerbase keep forgetting Johann was in Drakenhof.
As seen here:
A reminder that Johann is so stealthy, he even evaded Boney's attention.
Didn't the same thing happened with Egrimm when we explored the Ghyran-spewing Nexus
This logic would be sound if Waystones created leylines as part of connection to one another, but unfortunately that is not how it works -- leylines were created by the Old Ones, and have been repurposed to serve the needs of the Waystone Network. As such, "beachhead" riverine leylines that have hybrid transmission are an astonishingly cool idea, but only have a limited use case: this would work in places where leylines are present but where Waystone density is so low that it would take a long chain of new Waystones to link up with the existing Network. As far as I know, the only places that suit this description are Sylvania and remote northern Kislev:
The problem is that these are places that are heavily corrupted and maybe dumping all of that bad juju into the local river mouths is suboptimal -- certainly Mathilde made that point when talking to Tzar Boris. I still think a cheaper more-mass-producible Waystone is worth doing, but after we start a production run of the current Waystone model and see where the bottlenecks are. Before that point, we're just theorizing about what the most important things to optimize are.
Four actions is extreme, to say the least. People will just be exhausted by the amount of Druchii. It might even spark a delay in the Elfcation. It isn't necessary either. I think Mathilde is pretty well prepared for this. Kupfer lived in the cities, he isn't the best source on the Shade clans that Malekith dumps in Nagarythe. And I doubt we can get much out of the other characters about them. I'm open to the Druchii deal though.
Our current waystone can be placed in areas without water, it just won't drop magic into rivers unless it is placed on one. I think that's a waste of effort.
My understanding is that you connect the Waystone to the leyline with command phrases, and you can't connect two arbitrary Waystones with a command phrase if there's no leyline between them. This is one reason why Waystone distribution is fairly geometrically regular, because the Old Ones, fetishists for tidy mathematics that they were, set up leylines in cardinal and intercardinal directions. I gather that stuff got messed up when the world shifted around between then and now, but we still primarily see them set up that way.
My understanding was that leylines only work because of their connection to the Great Vortex. Two arbitrary Waystones can't connect to each other in isolation, but if one is connected to the network of leylines that lead back to the Great Vortex, the second can be connected to the first so long as they're close enough together.
There is an actual benefit to setting up in cardinal directions, its not just inherited. It makes leylines easier to form and maintain. As seen with the belthani tributaries not having to send magic as deep underground by being directly cardinal with the waystone.
That's not my understanding of leylines. Frol what I understand leylines just are, independently of waystones. But waystones are necessary to send magic through them to the Vortex.
There were leylines around before the Asur began dotting the world with waystones. The Asur used waystones to direct them to drain magic into the Great Vortex and add onto those leylines.
