I find quite curious not only that 80% of the named Magic Grimoires in Warhammer are focused on Dark or Chaos Magic, but that the safest ones to study, own, and arguably use (besides being the least gruesome of the bunch) are the treaties of necromancy like the Liber Mortis or the books of Nagash.
The thing is, all of the "good" magic doesn't get passed about in dodgy grimoires, it just gets shared and written in academic papers and maybe regular books. What would a "good" grimoire even look like - instead of curses hidden in its pages, would it randomly bless the reader? Better to just openly tell them how to do it, and decide if they want or need it.
It'd be heavily filigreed in needlessly expensive materials, written in Eltharin, and have anecdotes of the accomplishments of the author and/or their forebears in utilizing the knowledge within.
There was a very very long period of time where "good" magic didn't get shared and written in academic papers and maybe regular books, it was subject to the exact same treatment the necromancers and chaos sorcerers were. A handful of research notes written by Fozzrik would probably functionally count as a grimoire for instance.
Fear the short people. They always go for your shins. Or the groin, but only when they want to make it really hurt.
There's a difference between Runelore and other tech. It's okay if people get other tech through means other than theft from the Dawi. But the Cult of Thungi actively and lethally tries to prevent the spread of knowledge of Thungi style Runes beyond just the concerns of honor and intellectual property. Or at least that's how I understood it.
Much the same as they do to this day; very, very carefully. The thing to remember, though, is that there's also the Hedgewise, who don't use the same mono-wind method of casting, but rather share a reagent-focused methodology with the Ungol Hag Witches.
I think that's the sort of question where the answer is "go ask a Hedge wizard".
Good Magic gets passed around in non-dodgy Grimoires. They're all hand-written and hard cover, with personal illustrations and stuff, and probably full enough of magic to look suitably impressive. They're just not 'this kills you or drives you insane'-style cursed, so it's more 'the tools of wizards are charmingly strange' than 'Watch where you step; the Thesaurus Daemonica likes to chew on ankles'.
Well, green magic had the druidic tradition, so at least one of them pulled it off. I hear astrology is popular in Cathay, as well. Beyond that... I don't know if Boney has stated that there had been any other mono-wind traditions. Closest you'd get would probably be human mages apprenticing to bored dragons that were attuned to specific winds.
In the Empire, the biggest magical traditions before Teclis and the Colleges were the Hedgewise, who were more akin to Ungol Hag Witches than the wizards of today in how their spells worked. A lot of focus on reagents (to the point the Hedgewise need the spell's reagents to cast at all), spells mostly geared towards protecting a community, magical brews and the like.
Wait just a damn minute!Ah, I see they had to edit out all the horny bits.
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Well, I was more thinking that The Liber Dämmerlichtwriter wouldn't include, say, a Compleat Queekish-Reikspiel Dictionary, but perhaps this, too.Ah, I see they had to edit out all the horny bits.
Other way around; the hags need them, the Hedgewise are just going to miscast without them.
