SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Slightly (bloody work) late but lets get back to this.
We know there are other lores of magic which aren't high magic or mono wind magic and yet also doesn't make dhar specifically the Lore of Athel Loren now it's possible I'll grant that it's some kind of divine lore based around Ariel and Orion but given the Elven propensity towards divinity I don't think it's particularly likely even so we can set that aside because, In the wild for Dhar to be created requires specific circumstances, simply having lots of the winds of magic alone doesn't generate dhar, even storms of magic for instance don't do this even though the winds of magic would be interacting with wild abandon in crazy amounts. Quick warhammer history lesson, prior to the creation of the Great Vortex in Ulthuan during the time of the great catacylasm where in the warp gates broke down the world filled with magic to the point where daemons manifesting was utterly trivial and yet the world wasn't completely inundated with Dhar despite absurd storms of magic level concentrations literally the world over.
We know that the world wasn't filled with Dhar because if it was humanity simply wouldn't exist now.
This is why I think Ulgu tongs is plausible as a research project on how to get viable wind-wind interactions with out creating Dhar, the world already has naturally occuring interactions with out dhar forming. When Mathilde makes an error with her experimentation and accidentally creates dhar her belt will destroy it stopping damage to the environment and to her soul. Ulgu tongs at a distance stops her soul being damaged and creating micro marks of the wind she's trying to remote manipulate as opposed to what would happen from a person trying to channel two winds.
Lastly it's worth pointing to the miscast that Mathilde ripped from Gretel earlier in the quest. BoneyM confirmed that when Mathilde ripped the miscast from Gretel that was rapidly becoming a dhar melange that over 50% of the magic she pulled from Gretel was still Shyish (though becoming Dhar). That tells me that you can manipilate another wind with a wind with out all of it becoming Dhar. That's the starting point which we're working from, not that All of what you manipulate becomes dhar but 50% or less when manipulating another wind of magic in the literal worst possible circumstances.
Tell me that isn't reason to be optimistic about our chances and that it isn't reason to think the project is absolutely plausible if not potentially likely.
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