Why on Earth would we have two hours?
Binding a not-really-Daemon would be enough for the Karaz Ankor, yeah.
Frankly, Mathilde could learn a thing or to from him.
I'm not here to read torture advocacy.
Yeah, anything further would be satisfying our own curiosity. Which we can do on our own time (flying dreadnought second-expedition).
I noticed that as well. I think it's mostly down to good tactics on the part of the Kvellige. The band were probably all capable warriors, who were doing a planned hit-and-run specifically against Morghur. Morghur is powerful, but he can only kill people so fast. And once reinforcements came and Morghur's aura came online, the riders disengaged as soon as they could. Casualties were low because the riders came in with a clear plan to keep the battle as short as possible– and that plan seems to have gone off pretty well.
I don't want to get surprised by Black Orcs 2.0, this time it's beastmen, and its possible that their divine ally was responsible, in which case it might be fine, since dwarven allies are held to much lower standards than dwarves.
It's not really secrets at this point, it's just stuff we don't know the specifics of. Any secret-keeping really lost any purpose when we crested that ridge and saw Morghur.
Oh, for sure. But Borek knows exactly as much about the Grey College as we've told him.
Morghur has two mutation effects we've been concerned about. The 'inflicts mutations in melee' one does seem shackled in some way.
That's admittedly very pithy, but apparitions neither emit Dhar nor are... well, a beastman/chaos demigod.
Borek literally just refused to communicate with us, then passed by the beastmen completely unharmed. If whatever they were doing wasn't grudgeworthy, then why did Borek say
They just walked passed the beastmen, they could communicate with us, and what possible interpretation of the above exists that doesn't mean they've fallen?
The fact that he begs the ancestors for forgiveness, and also hasn't been here for 200 years, and also if we assume that whatever dwarves are sad about is unforgivable to the Karaz Ankor we would no longer have a Karaz Ankor
If the gold college showed us Cor Dum in their basement when we asked about apparitions, I'd be screaming to immediately run to Dragomas to level their entire college and I'd be shocked if he didn't immediately go all hands on deck for it.
There is a pretty big leap between "something the dwarves are sad about" and a Karak with a reputation to being up to nasty shit is being protected by Morghur + his army of beastmen and is refusing to communicate.
The "wait for a day" option has removed some of the more hopeful possibilities re. the chaos/dhar taint being removed, so that was very useful imo - and is good info to bring back! Might not have been the optimal choice but looking back from this point, I'm confident that it was better than leaving immediately.
We've been told that their nasty reputation is due to a difference in naming scheme and the dwarves wanting to assume the worst of them.
Apparitions are creatures of Chaos. Their blood is a rainbow of all magic Winds in a way that somehow isn't either Dhar or Qhaysh.
Mathilde: "Well reasoned, Sir Joerg."
