We have had some new ideas though:This reminds me, but did we ever actually report the AV thing? I'm sure he's heard of it, if the Runesmith's actually told anybody, but did Belegar get informed that it was, in fact, one of Mathilde's "undeployable" superweapons? I think that just leaves the Liber Mortis for what she actually had in mind at the time, now.
And BoneyM replied by quoting himself:Mega-project: Ancestral Wrath.
Requirements – Many, many power stones or a similarly potent energy source. A direct connection to the god of an order aligned afterlife. A priest in good standing of said god. A functional knowledge of non-living animate constructs.
Plan – Convince Gazul to let some vengeful Dwarfs temporarily return to the world of the living. Provide earth elemental/metal construct/ulgu shadow-mist bodies for them to inhabit.
Result – Religious schisms, cultural upheavals, political condemnations, an army of Vengeful IntelligentUndeadConstructs loyal to the Karaz Ankor and ALL THE CREDIT!
Side benefit – Prototype for pulling the same thing with Morr.
The Sally Port of Gazul, lost, and now every Dwarf fallen far from the protection of Gazul's priests is defenceless.
So it's probably feasible.
Personally, I think probably is not just powered by the waystones, it probably uses them somehow to project it's effect at a distance and detect the Dwarf fallen. Which means we might be able to hook our own version up to the waystone network and gain the same ability to project power at a distance by piggybacking off the already installed capacity. That's a maybe, admittedly.