Is Runic Magic still about for the Dwarfs?
I assume the dispossessed still do it, but do the Kharadron and Fyrslayers still make use of Rune Crafting and Rune Magic, anvils of doom, etc?
Posted Dec 1, 2020, 7:34 AM UTC
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Kharadron don't use any magic or divine stuff since they solely technology-based (ignoring their magical fuel source), but I'm pretty sure the Fyreslayers do, if hammering ur-gold runes into themselves counts (which I'd say it does); though I'm not super up-to-date on Fyreslayer lore, so someone else could probably give a better answer.
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There is an artefact on Barak-Nar "Aethercharged rune" in Kharadron battletome, so they can use it too. But I don't know how it works in kharadron society
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There's also the Rune of Mark!
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The Rune of Mark is a contract that allows a Kharadron to legally carry out a grudge to it's brutal conclusion. I don't think it is actually inherently magic, in fact it seems to be based on Letters of Marque
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Fyreslayers seem to make use of something not entirely unlike that. Most of their magic, iirc, is the result of them shaping magical Ur-Gold into specific shapes, often followed by them searing those bits of shaped metal into their flesh.
KO meanwhile largely only partake in runic magic if you tilt your head, squint, and shove the whole thing through an industrial revolution. More straight up alchemy and the application of some sort of scientific method to materials straight up made from Grugni breathing too hard. None of the Sky Ports, not even Barak Thryng(noted for being the most traditional and old-fashioned of them all) are explicitly stated to make use of Runic Magic, at least not in the Battletome anyhow. Though it should be noted that Thryng has a lot of alliances with both the Fyreslayers and the Dispossessed, so they probably have more than a little bit of Runic Magic(and Duardin who know how to use it) laying about.
If runic magic is just magic done by crafting magical materials into useful shapes, or regular materials into magical shapes, then both the KO and the Fyreslayers certainly use something that could be referred to as such. If it's something more specific, then I dunno, I'm less up on the lore of the World That Was
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Dispossessed still have the Rune Lord they use
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Fyreslayer society is built totally around runes and runecraft, although in a different way than you might think. I believe in the Old World, dwarfs would trap the winds of magic inside runes and carefully make use of the power. Fyreslayer runes on the other hand are forged from the magical substance Ur-Gold, from which the runes derive their power. When Grimnir died and his essence was scattered across the realms it came to rest in veins of gold and transmuted to something more. Ur-Gold, which contains a fraction of his power. The fyreslayers alone can sense this substance through their connection to Grimnir, and it is the Zharrgrim priests who forge them into powerful runes. These runes are then hammered straight into the skin of fyreslayers so that they might impart Grimnir's power to them.
So as you can see, the fyreslayers' runes have some similarities to normal rune magic, but not really.
All true, but i like to think thats its the same craft with one differance.
Dispossesed trap the winds of magic in their runes while the fyreslayers do the same with Grimnirs power
Yes but I think the fyreslayers runecraft has probably evolved over time from that of their ancestors. Being adapted to the power of Ur-Gold and the fact that they directly impart power to the fyreslayers as they are pressed into their skin.