Oh okay. That's an argument I remember, I think the term Ancestor Rune threw me off, It just made me think "Where the hell is the source of this other tier of rune?"
What about obsession? plots and illusions fall under Ulgu, a spell that introduces a desire to see an enemy fall by any means should work, we can already work with minds via Mindhole.
@BoneyM it's actually from Realms of Sorcery, page 206.
Frowned upon by dwarves and humans, accepted by elves and halflings.
Ghur isn't just animals, it's the hunting of animals, and the spear is one of the oldest and most common hunting weapons since prehistoric times.
They aren't interfertile.
The only thing jade wizards can do is guarantee conception if a child is already biologically possible, at least with a spell. If cross-species breeding is possible with ghyran I imagine it's in the realm of rituals.
I'm not sure what you're discussing, so I can't really argue for or against it. But, generally speaking, the purpose isn't to scare orcs; you can't scare orcs, that's not what they do. The purpose would be to get them to fight somebody that isn't us until they die, at which point they either win, and kill the other people who aren't us, or die, and then we will have killed them.
They could probably sense the magic cast on them, and they get a will save after a month.
I'm arguing against sending the dragon at the orcs of Kara, because it seems just as likely to provoke the orcs of Karak Drahz into coming more aggressively into K8P as anything else. That's all.
We can't do that, because it's a wizard. I was talking the other way around entirely.
My first reaction was 'I want to befriend this thing'. But expressing a desire to be friends with something isn't much of a plan. We can't know more about peaceful options unless we research it, and it otherwise gets rather stale. This discussion might give you the impression that the thread has jumped straight to violence, but I feel that it is on the tail end of a lot more peaceful discussion.
The orcs of Karak Drazh can't *reach* it. Their leader gaining the burning desire to murder the dragon is unlikely to translate into any meaningful changes, and we would need to infiltrate a mountain packed full of hostile greenskins in order to learn the leader's name, which we can do with night prowler but which represents AP we could use on anything else. It's not a good idea.
The problem with talking is that the dragon needs to be awake - and an awoken dragon is all but impossible to kill.
Well, it would probably result in an overland invasion of k8p from Karak Drazh and a target-rich environment for shadow tower field testing. Still, I'm not sure it's that good - we are in no position to capitalise on it.
This is not a vampire quest, sadly.
There's the Night Goblins, if they count.
They probably do. They are a bit worse, though - I think they have both higher willpower and more security measures for leaders due to paranoia. Still, they should be quite hexable.
I'd much rather diplomance the dragon than fight it, but we can't afford to assume that that'll be an option. It might have Grudges against it, or be on record as a domineering asshole, or just wake up with a massive hangover and decide to cure it by eating some dwarves. We need to be prepared for the worst case scenario, as being unprepared for it is likely to end in outright disaster.
Yeah, I'm not expected Belebro to go kumbayah. But I think it's plausible for him to make fortifying against the dragon Dreng and Gotri's task, since our doom fortress frees up fixed fortifications that can be shifted to the underground front or used in an anti-air capacity, and tell us either to go solve the spooky bullshit that nobody has a goddamn clue about or to learn the language of our enemy so we can read their mail.
