Unless it's like, -100 C there, I think it's safe to say there's something magicky involved. I don't think there's any natural process that would form that much ice that quickly at temperatures that exist on earth.
Well in that case, fair enough. If there's no method to actually have it punch above the energy density of gunpowder, then yeah it's a dead end.
[Laughs nervously at the possibility of time dilation being involved.]
It's might have something to do with the water composition? I don't know what is in the water of the frozen sea, but I know that sugar saturated water freezes faster then salt water which freezes faster then fresh water.
My sort of headcanon is this is a direct consequence of the fire magics involved. They dont just create heat, they accumulate it, drawing from nearby. Thus they melt the ice, but make it freakishly cold in the surroundings flash-icing them back to a solid surface.
Isn't there like a whole college full of them?There is a substance that's of much higher energy density than blackpowder and isn't Warpstone. The only question is where are we going to find a plentiful supply of incompetent Light Wizards.
Hey now, Egrimm has been perfectly helpful. Not a hint of exploding thus far, nothing suspicious in the slightest!
Hey now, they're not all incompetent. Some of them are really good at secretly betraying their College in favor of Chaos.
After that burn, they turned to Aqshy instead.
There is actually some physics to the water freezing faster after being heated. It is know as the Mpemba effect.
If we wish an answer to this question, we probably should drop a social on the Ice Witch. Good chance it's related to Malus' pre-Old Ones state.
What if it's not the fire magic doing the heat moving but their corrupted Runes? From what we overheard between Thorek and Kragg a lot of Rune magic seems to function not by directly altering things but transferring things from one place to another.
Depends on if Gunpowder has fewer issues in regard to consistent quality and storage capacity. Though I suppose the side effects of what could go wrong is way worse comparatively regardless.
Hard to live something down if you're no longer living
Hard to live something down if you're no longer living
I'd vote to not bring him back either, given his luck he'd probably come back as a Bloated Corpse.I'd ping Omegahugger but I get the feeling this is one of the few people they wouldn't advocate for bringing back.
Welp, that's another paper we can add to the pile. Thank Ranald we don't pay Max per paper or we might actually have to worry about money.
That would be helpful in answering wether the ax we found way back when is norscan dwarf work or chaos dwarf work.
