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Weekly Discussion: Realmstone

After last week's bestial brawl with the Beasts of the Mortal Realms, this week we find ourselves over a deposit of

Realmstone

Realmstone is a concentration of the raw magic of a realm and as such there is a unique realmstone for every Realm and the Eightpoints. The magic contained in each piece of individual Realmstone varies wildly with the only constant being how it empowers all magic and spells by the person using it. There have been plenty of powerful artifacts made out of realmstone as well. All of these properties lead to realmstone being a highly sought after commodity in the Mortal Realms. Many battles have been fought in conflicts across the Mortal Realms for this vital resource with all sides using it for their own advantage. More recently realmstone has appeared from dispelling Endless Spells providing a fresh new supply of this unstable resource.

https://ageofsigmar.lexicanum.com/wiki/Realmstone#Chaos

Posted Feb 7, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

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rhubarbbaron•

What is interesting about realmstone to me at least is the potential for skaven nonsense. I know they usually are all about that warpstone but imagine loading a warp lighting cannon with shyish’s realmstone!

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Serpentking5•

Bold of you to assume they aren't just different flavors of warpstone

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rhubarbbaron•

Just that meme of the two astronauts

Wait it’s all just warpstone

Always was...

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GerbilpapaHigh Despot•

Warpstone is basically just realmstone soup though

In the old worlds (I think End Times?) it confirmed that the winds of magic tapped into chaos.

It's also why the allpoints being a realm of chaos is so interesting to me

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Serpentking5•

I think that the Warp/Magic is just that... with Chaos being 'the darkside' of course.

It's why they want the realms, to twist it to thier natures

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DreadnautilusDestruction•

Warpstone is Dhar solidifed into a physical form. Realmstone is the same for the other Winds of Magic.

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Adolmaea•

Hello everyone. Question there. Realmstone supposedly leads to bad luck or have same similar effects (according to rulebook, if I remember correctly). Is there any proof of it, or this is mostly symbolic? Example - Lumineth. While Realmstone itself wasn't a reason for Spirefall, Lumineth overreliance on this resource lead them to become obsessed with surpassing their peers by any means nessesary. Which, in turn, lead to Spirefall. Another example is Nagash, using immense amount of Realmstone for Necroquake. But skavens happened, and Nagash plan got ruined. Again. Could it mean, that no good things or positive results can be achieved while using Realmstone?

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sageking14High Castellan•

Much of the architecture in Azyrheim and Sigmaron is made using Celestrium and many Free Cities use Realmstone in the creation of defenses and important facilities.

These buildings have stood for centuries without any inherent problems.

While it is true that magic in the Realms is incredibly volatile, if handled well it usually won't end in anything catastrophic on a city-wide level. However, there is that slim chance that Realmstone will randomly explode. But that's how all magic works in the Mortal Realms. Minor spells can become suipercharged, casting combat spells can create an Endless Spell, a massive magical upheaval can turn billions of mundane items into artefacts (i.e. the Necroquake turning every blade ever made by the Direbrands into an anti-Chaos weapon}

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PaulBrigham•

Maybe, but the Great Black Pyramid was built over aeons, so it was around for a long while before Nagash fell foul of the "curse" of cursestone. It may be that any Azyrite/Free City overuse could still have unforseen consequences in the distant future.

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sageking14High Castellan•

If what happened to the Great Black Pyramid counts as part of this "curse", than from a narrative point of view we're doomed... as GW could use a vaguely ruled curse like that to do whatever they feel like doing with Realmstone.

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PaulBrigham•

I think that’s the idea! I imagine it’s a “back-pocket” narrative threat, as it was Valius Maliti who pioneered the use of realmstone in Free City construction, and we have knowledge of his motives.

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PaulBrigham•

According to Malign Sorcery, p.10 - "Despite the many differences between its types, there is one eerie similarity with all realmstone: those who tamper with it find that some manner of disaster lurks close behind. The strange scourge of catastrophe and ruin follows in the wake of all who rely heavily on realmstone; hence the substance has earned the sobriquet of cursestone. Despite the whispered tales of sorcerers that have become deranged killers or developed disturbing mutations, or became addicted to the substance and then seduced into the service of the Dark Gods, there are always some willing to take the risk to obtain such power."

I think good and positive things can be achieved through it's use, but overreliance/overuse is where the problems inevitably come into play.

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ProvokedTree•

there is one eerie similarity with all realmstone: those who tamper with it find that some manner of disaster lurks close behind.

[Skyports nervously]

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DreadnautilusDestruction•

Aether-gold isn't Realmstone.

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ProvokedTree•

Yea, I forgot Chamonite was a thing (an almost identical thing, but a different thing none the less) and remembered shortly after posting, but I figured the joke was still fine since if anyone was going to try and hoard all of the kinds of Realmstone it is most likely going to be the Kharadron Overlords.

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Adolmaea•

Thank You very much! Now I'm wondering, does it apply only to users, or to those, who extract it as well. I mean, both groups using it, either directly or for profit.

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GreySeerCriak•

It kind of ties back to how Dwarfs thought of magic in the Old World; all magic is unpredictable and can never be fully controlled. So now even in a physical substance it’s a hard to fully grasp it’s capabilities and consequences.

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Arh-TolthLexicanum Scholar•

No, there is just a lot of superstition surrounding realmstone. It really is just magic in physical form.

The spirefall happened because aetherquartz drove the aelf to seeking more and more enlightenment and stronger magical powers.

Nagash getting defeated by skaven is just his character.

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Serpentking5•

He should be used to it by now

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Dice_Sagas•

Has there ever been any references to realmstone being used for alchemy? Combining them?

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PaulBrigham•

Yeah, particularly Chamonite. Malign Sorcery p. 12 - "The realmstone of Chamon is most commonly known as Chamonite, but amongst its other titles are wyrdgold and changestone. The substance is like quicksilver, so that no matter how it is cut or stretched, each separate piece morphs back into a globular shape. Soft and malleable, the metallic realmstone is a source of near-limitless alchemical power for those with the skills to manipulate it."

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