Like, I get that shoddy and man-made are the same word in Khazalid, but... the Fully Operational Battle Mountain wouldn't be out of place in the sort of stuff the War of the Beard cooked up. As far as anybody watching can tell, it literally swivels the heavens around to blot out the sun, and then baths people in the flames of dwarven hell. Kragg the Grimm called it a Masterwork. This is, or is coming up on, the nigh-mythical good enough. To steal a phrase, this is the sort of thing that dwarves can compliment without needing to silently append 'for this fallen and degraded era of the dwarven people'.
In so much as the ancestor gods approve of anything newfangled, Battle Mountains are probably at the top of the list.
It's pretty tempting to pick up some Clear Sky items, but given the relatively small area they clear up it'd probably be more efficient to try and get a permanent enchantment attached to/ near the death beam, I just worry that the celestial juice wouldn't play nice with the tower as a whole.
I suppose if we get the item version we really only have to pop a hole in the cloud coverage to locate the sun and then another to get the tower angle correct for a sky swap.
I think the issue is more that most of the mountain is above the clouds, so the weather is in the way of all the shadowy death fire.
@BoneyM Does the ease of representing its complex structures through a hologram, and the incredible popularity that an entire new Lesser spell added to the curriculum brings, revitalize the efforts of adapting the Matrix?
Come to think of it, a lot of the internal structures of most spells might be more adequately explained with an enchanted holographic visual than with the written word (though not all, of course).
The ability to just make images of whatever you're thinking about as a lesser magic is going to see some amazing utility, yes. Battlefields, school rooms, schematics, even as a visual aid for intense conversations.
Roswita, Friend To All Wizards is fun, but the Belegar snippet was pretty goddamn brutal. A 40 year old artisan taking what I assume is a lifelong Slayer oath because he's not a great warrior...
Someone was asking how we fix Belegar. I don't think we can. This is just how it is on this bitch of an earth in the twilight of the Karaz Ankor.
I think we might actually be pretty close to an answer, sort of. Nothing concrete, but the thing about the twilight of the Karaz Ankor is that, like Kragg said, there used to be eight proper holds, and now there are nine. There used to not be battle mountains, and now battle mountains are a thing. Glory isn't quite it, but it might be close; not the sort of glory where you take out a hundred trolls before they get you, but the sort where you take out ten trolls and then live to do it again.
