That would only happen if the entire mountain was nothing but Warpstone, and the explosion would have then taken a chunk of the continent with it.
Hmmm, I disagree - dhar isn't a physical object normally and can flow through solid objects. So between any two sand-sized segments of the mountain there's a tiny amount of dhar. But it doesn't take all that much to create a tiny crack in the rock when it explodes.
I mean, "as it has ever been" was in reference to the Dum, aka Cor-Dum. So it only really counts the time period in which Cor-Dum has been on guard - which starts after Borek left.
Once upon a time, we found a runic axe in one of our raids, and gave it to Kragg. He couldn't identify the runes in it, and was disheartened. He shared, that those may be civilian runes - for which he that used an entirely different dwarven term than normal runes - which are so long lost that he has no idea about how they are supposed to look. But then again, whose might be Chaos Dwarf runes, and studying those would be blasphemy. And he nad no idea which of the options it was.
But it wouldn't work like that, if the rune was active then the Dhar would burn before entering the rock, and if it was activated after a large degree of filtration had already occurred then we would have smaller mountains sorrounded by deeper valleys.
I'm not sure what your logic for it being a big boom is. I'm thinking it might be to do with that amount of warpstone?
Trapped in the Chaos Wastes. Probably. Unless the proponents of 'dimensional shenanigans' turn out to have legs.
Big shrug. It was wielded by King Thangrim Firebeard, so it's probably similar to Belegar's Ironhammer in terms of power and historical value.
So, y'know what's weird?
They way I figure it works is he's born in some tiny village which immediately is destroyed with no survivors left announce his return, and then little baby Morghur crawls off into the forest where he attains the fullness of his power. Or maybe he's always born to a Chaos Cultist or crazy person (quite possibly driven crazy by the presence of Morghur in their body) who does go into the woods.
Problems with that idea:
In quest canon, that seems to be an adaptation of Military Runes to civilian purposes. Kragg was talking about not even knowing what the actual civilian runes looked like.
The most voted for theory vote basically attempts to voice that without going into classified detail.
We can tell them enough - we can tell them that the Karag is actively damaging Chaos and preventing the growth of the Chaos Wastes.
You're not wrong. But keep in mind that Borek belongs to a race who regularly stew over their problems and matters of honor until it breaks them. They then go to seek their Doom by climbing down a troll's throat at the first opportunity.
Depends on if they can trust her word when she says 'Due to guild secrets I can't disclose, I have reason to believe that Karag Dum has not turned to the worship of Chaos. Somehow. Fuck knows. Belegar and Thorgrim could back me up on this, though.'
There are also other signs that we can point to that at least indicate that they haven't turned to Chaos, like the fact that there's actually less Dhar in the area than would be expected of this latitude.
"They view fighting Chaos with Chaos as a lesser evil" is not the same as "They're still loyal to the Karaz Ankor".
Aside from inflicting attrition on Chaos worshippers, that is pure conjecture. We have zero evidence that Karag Dum is inhibiting the Wastes anywhere but directly around itself.
At a guess? Enough to not immediately dismiss Mathilde as nuts, not nearly enough to have non-zero trust for anything Karag Dum says, does or provides.
Many dark sorcerers try to shield themselves from excess dhar. It doesn't make them any less guilty of Abominable Acts (or local equivalent)... and the dhar always catches up to them eventually.
That is what Waystones do. It's a major reason the network was created in the first place.
That's what the subtext is. If they're not loyal to the Karaz Ankor, then we would not expect them to fight Chaos, and we would not expect the Waystone to be sending pure energy. Granted, it could be that they were in collusion with the faction that held Karak Vlag. But the phrase 'lesser evil' implicitly holds the notion that some greater evil, namely Chaos, is being avoided.
Yeah, sorcerors do that. Settlements don't.
