It should perhaps be noted that while the high elves are very powerful and knowledgable, their arrogance far outstrips their ability. They are not nearly as good as they think they are.
Just because they look down on Mathilde doesn't mean they are actually smarter than her. Note that the Asur have been fighting greenskins for something like ten thousand years and never worked out the trick to screwing with a Waaagh field.
Runesmith specifically? Difficult. We already have top quality runic equipment.
We could commission runic items for other people. Upgrade the other seven reclamation blades to Rune Fang equivalents. Supply a bunch of anti-Dhar belts to the Colleges. Something like that.
Or we could try to push them into progressing. Have them investigate what runes can be usefully put on a gyrocopter or steam tank. Getting one of the best Runelords to go all in on runes for engineering would be a powerful precedent.
—maybe get ahold of Saurian if the Slaan show an interest in our stuff or we get really lucky in Naggarythe, and we might go digging around in Nehekara at some point. Not exactly sure what Albionese is though, and we probably want to steer clear of Deamonic, but otherwise it should be fun. I really like the idea of Mathilde as a mistress of arcane languages, even if we didn't go for the linguist trait.
