We could get attacked any time the beastman get sick of waiting.
We have clues that the dwarves are not serving chaos, that is not the same not being a lost cause.
Because Chaos. Because Chaos Wastes. Because Religion, culture and a lifetime of propaganda.
It's not safe though. Mathilde May have her anti-Dhar belt but we are still in the wastes. Everybody else has to deal with Dhar radiation and that's not counting all the external threats around.
Beastmen charging over an open desert after their leader has clearly decided to leave us alone and when they have other fights, seems unlikely.
The Kurgan split the fronts. This front is currently occupied, so more forces will not be coming here.
You know how people were wondering whether we could in theory become an OP necromancer because of our runes of anti-corruption by Dhar? and Boney hinted darkly that using a rune that invoked an ancestor god (valaya) for nefarious ends could have interesting results. I wonder what the implications are related to that here. A combination of Morghur being bound to Dum using (possibly greatly modified versions of) ancestor runes is a case where the dwarfs of Dum have done something incurring great shame by dwarf standards but haven't actually turned evil.
Yeah, I feel like people are leaning to hard into theories where basically everything is fine except that the longbeards will be grumbling. And the likely cause for that is that that's what all of us (myself very much included) would want to have had happened. There are some data points indicating that this may not be as bad as it first seemed, but it first seemed like we were all about to get killed by a beastman demigod. There's a lot of space for it to be better without being good.
You can't be serious.
1. Mathilde staked her reputation on making an alliance with a colony of maneating spiders because it was the right thing to do, how on Earth is not accusing innocent dwarves of being literal Chaos worshippers any different?
To build on what kingreaper said. Its not even confirmed that the silhoetes we saw in the tree line are actually beastmen. BoneyM was very cagey about giving a clearer answer then "you saw silhoetes that looked like beyond the tree line".
My guess would be the beastmen, with Dum showing up once they've shown enough strength to be worthy of his presence.
Boney said that it would take us a week to make something like a tower of burning shadows, assuming the structure was already present.
Hmmm, if we could get one of their Rune Masters to come with us and be tested in K8P it might even be possible.
Realistically there will never be another expedition to Dum. It is too far and the results of this expedition are nowhere near promising enough to have another launched.
The structure for a Dum tower isn't present though. It's all a moot point anyways because we don't have a crew capable of building one and I don't think it would be possible to get one unless we 100% funded our own expedition with Runelords and Wizard Lords.
