I'm interested in developing a second waystone design, but probably only after or concurrently with another round of deployment—there's still Troll Country and the Kalti Delta in Kislev, and Mordheim and Stirland in the Empire as default options, and it doesn't seem like we've hit anything near a bottleneck in terms of deployment ability.
I don't see the point in deploying the dual-transmission waystone again. We've already put it in places where people will see it. The likes of Boris, the Elector Counts, ect will handle deploying it further on their own. But it's very inefficient to place it everywhere. The vast majority of places where it will be deployed won't need the riverine transmission component.
Cheap in terms of time spent, I didn't think to specify.
Nowhere did I say we shouldn't use the same storage mechanism for the "expensive" Waystone variants.
Not everywhere should have leylines? There are going to be long stretches of river without them. If everywhere had convenient leylines, or we could create leylines trivially, there'd be no point in the riverine component at all?
Ulthuan not being able to take our Waystone designs and checking out of the Project removes most of our influence to get Nexus secrets etc. out of them down the line.
I'm pretty sure if Ulthuan was reverse-engineering runes in a meanhgul sense the Karaz Ankor would declare war on them, so that seems unlikely.
Expensive is not typically used to refer to time, but I figured that is what you were talking about. The reason I brought up the storage is that it's pretty much the only thing you can cut out of our current waystone to get an easier leyline waystone. The other changes that don't involve the actual waystone itself are pretty much negligible. And as I said, it is boring to make non golden age storage waystones.
No there are not. Because as I have pointed out multiple times before, civilization is at its strongest near the rivers. Rivers are some of the least likely places to
need waystones. And in those places that need waystones, redundancy is always better. Because waystones only have a range of ten or so kilometers with tributaries. You are inevitably going to have overlap if want to cleanse tainted land beyond rivers. And as I said, dual transmission waystones makes it a lot easier to spread purely land-based around in trouble areas. Rather than needing to link up other waystones to get to that area. You can just connect them in from the dual transmission waystone.
You should note that Mathilde only went for the riverine transmission method once it had been determined that they needed to negotiate with either Ulthuan and Naggaroth to use it. And neither options were seen as particularly likely to succeed. That's why we researched the riverine option. It was seen as much more likely to succeed than asking Ulthuan or Naggaroth.
Ulthuan can already build waystones on its own. Eltharion also negotiated for access to the designs of the products of the Projects. They certainly know how to build a reverse-engineered storage. They know how to make the Stone Flower. because Barak Varr is getting their Stone Flowers and storages from Ulthuan. They can make a waystone all on their own. They certainly know how to make magic runes. This would be leveraging us doing work for them to get Finubar's court to see Mathilde more positively.
The Karaz Ankor did. You might have heard of the conflict, it's called the War of Vengeance. Also Ulthuan rules the waves lmfao. What is the Karaz Ankor going to do? Sack Marienburg? Also note
@DragonParadox's statement about
Tale of Metal. Archmages also worked with Dwarves to make runic projects. Ulthuan had no incentive to not study runes after Caradryel the Peacemaker abandoned the Old World. And they
had one during the War of the Beard. As you can see they studied runes and produced the Pendant of Vengeance (which destroys Anvils of Vengeance) and the Cloak of Beards (which deactivates runes) with that knowledge.
