Soil is a very good insulator however. So, only the top layer of the soil is scorched. In this case we're going to go deep, and boil the entirety of the soil. That means that the entire microbiome, and all of the good insects and worms and stuff, are going to die.
I see, well then how tricky would it be to fix that? Since while all the living stuff will die there will still be all the essential mineral things. I will admit I don't know much about soil science so I am just spit shooting here.
And they laughed at our vision of hellfire based gardening equipment.
While I am in no way an authority on this subject, I woulld like to point out that Boney has, on several occasions, stated his distaste for simulating the extreme minutia of the world, and this is about the most minute you can get. Unless he turns out to have a secret passiong for soil science, I highly doubt he'll put that much thought into things.
We got a lot of good corpses that can help quicken soil renewal!
Tedious, but not difficult. You'd need to move in seed populations of decomposers, which basically means you dig cartloads of dirt from the eastern valley, mix it with manure, bury it shallowly all over the desolated area and give it a few years or apply Jade wizard to jumpstart the process a bit.
She had to individually scan half a million individuals.
+ Birdmuncha the really zogging big maybe really Zogging big, but I don't think Mathilde knew him on sight aside from his really zogging bigness.
I believe that was specifically regarding anything where canon was contradictory, as his approach has been to use all of it and just ignore the impossible contradictions, rather than picking one answer. Getting nitpicky about areas that cannot hold up to that level of scrutiny is pointless and unhelpful, but I don't believe soil science is one of them.
It's really weird to think the empress is probably going to hear about this before anyone else, including other dwarven kings.
Unless we're outright bothering Boney, they're pretty tolerant of more pedantic forms of thread madness.
No, I was actually referring to things like how he didn't want to bother figuring out the economic fluctuations of a certain Province halfway across the world, and stuff like that, because Mathilde has no particular influence over it, and that would take far too much work. So unless we become particularly interested in the gardening process, and it thus becomes necessary, he'll probably just roll a few dice at best and call it one way or another. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't find a story about soil science particularly interesting to read, let alone write.
I'm not saying don't discuss it, just that I wouldn't expect Boney to actually put much work into any chapters where the Caldera and its fertility become relevant. I certainly don't.
Technically we've not seen his face before. Dunno if the eye showed him to us with or without his mask and gear and with a height comparison, so there's some uncertainty we would have recognized him even if we hadn't had to scan half a million others as well.
Soil science, village layout, my point stands: he has not expressed "distaste" for examining minutiae unless it's butting up against contradictory canon, so there's no need to try to shut down the discussion in the fashion that you were.
... I'm so glad I went to my computer instead of writing this on my phone, because I was about to ask if you had ignored my entire post. I would like to say I'm sorry if it seemed like I was trying to shut down the conversation, since that was my intent. Some of the most interesting conversations on this thread are about things like that, and one can learn a lot by reading them. I just wanted to point out that Boney probably, probably, wouldn't be using too much of it and we should keep our expectations within reason for a writer, not a scientist.
No, I know that Mathilde knows how he looks. I meant that the Dwarf who was to track Birdmuncha would have been watching him when the Eye activated, and could have figured out if Birdmuncha was in a tunnel or safe zone at that time.
That being was described as 'brooding and angry and indecisive'. Both Rat and Sigmar can be angry - but I've never once seen Sigmar described as 'brooding' or 'indecisive'. It's simply not his nature. Not as hammer-wielding barbarian, nor as warrior protector god. On the other hand 'brooding' and 'indecisive' very much describe the Rat.
Honestly people, that's obviously a dwarf god, probably Grimnir.
