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Lego Miester
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Lego Miester

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Just some brainstorming...

1) What ever happened to Tolna's boot?

2) Why does Zamorak smite us for stealing his wine if he never stops by to drink any of it?

3) If magic is enhanced by not understanding how it's "supposed to" work (like the wandering ga'al and Kennith), seemingly running off Wil E Coyote's law of gravity, then are children actually grandmaster wizards, and all those nuts in beards spending years studying it the true fools?

4) Where would this leave the Poop Theory Of Magic? Kailithnir said :
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5) Are our player characters the most dense people in the universe (oh gee, where'd all the hungry people go from the pig farm, and where did all these barrels of mystery meat come from?) or just obfuscating stupidity for the sake of a reward?

6) What the heck were the Tower of Life guys tapping into that allowed them to fuse creatures together? All this new lore about anima and such and they haven't been brought up.

7) Where the heck is Clarence's foot? Headcanon Haven, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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31-Jul-2017 02:49:53

Padomenes

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From what I can gather most settlements during the Third Age or god wars were all encampments maybe, there were no concrete towns or cities unless you're talking about places like Prif or Menaphos which survived. Those were pretty isolated from the fighting.

Avarrocka was an encampment that started at the outskirts of West or Central Senntisten and slowly expanded to cover up the middle/western portions of the city/rest of the battlefield it was located on. It didn't become a city until the 4th age sometime for example.

What if this was true for many cities during the god wars? As the Origins of Gielinor video says at the end, "Cities were built on battlefields" when the edicts were placed/the war ended.

Most to all people living in the 3rd age would probably have been raised to know how to fight in a war, from the age of a child/toddler to up possibly? Hence the combatants in the god wars are/were 5x 'stronger' than the other troops on Gielinor possibly. To be born into the period of a war that lasts 3 thousands years, and only be counted as basically 1 tiny grain in it?

31-Jul-2017 03:15:54 - Last edited on 31-Jul-2017 03:22:04 by Padomenes

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No idea, but there were also Zarosian graves in the Varrock crypt when the Romeo and Juliet quest was still a part of the game...
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05-Aug-2017 15:22:20

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Considering the Zarosian Empire didn't stretch to there during its existence, I'd guess that the grave belongs to one of the Zarosian God Wars survivors from Ghorrock or one of their descendants (like the ones that ended up in Varrock as is described in the Zaros Book of the Gods).

05-Aug-2017 20:57:42

Ancient Drew

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Marine Doge said :
I feel like undead lore is pretty undiscussed, right?
What exactly is a wight, for example - from what we've seen with Akrisae and Linza, it SEEMS to be a process that magically converts a living subject into an undead instead of resurrecting a dead person.
Or how undead souls work, there's that one.
Or what makes an undead able to cast magic - are they runeless, does their necromancer supply them with power, does the necromancer choose which minions get magic or do they just have to have been mages in life, etc. I think that wights have their living souls intact, while basic zombies are just reanimated from the dead and are powered by magic rather than a converted soul. It probably takes soul magic (by which I mean the kind of stuff Nomad and Oreb use) as opposed to normal necromancy to create a wight. Which could mean that the Barrows Brothers and Linza are still alive.

Speaking of which, here's something she says at the end of SE.

Linza: "Yes. I've still joined the ranks of the undead, but now there are no strings controlling me. I am me again. Albeit a paler version than before. It is an odd sensation, being undead. I expected to feel evil, or cold, or in some way sinister. But instead I just feel...dulled. Like everything is an inch away from me. But at least now I *can* feel. I can act. I can be me. Whereas before I was nothing but Sliske's toy."

Here's the difference between a zombie and a wight. Both are bound by magic, and both are controlled by the necromancer. But wights still have souls, which likely powers their magic on their own (Wight Nomad still has the soul magic in him), and when the necromancer dies, the wight still remains and their soul becomes free. Zombies just go back into the dust. Prepare for hell on RuneScape in Naval Cataclysm!

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05-Aug-2017 22:20:31

Marine Doge

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^ So if the wight became free again, what's their lifespan without a necromancer sustaining them? Normal person lifespan so long as they like, eat and maybe sleep, or what? That energy can't come from nowhere after all - if unlimited energy were that easy in Runescape, the elders wouldn't have the problem of dying out and all.
And on the zombie thing, I like to think making a zombie or other basic undead yanks some random soul from the afterlife and stuffs it into a random body - the soul-body mismatch makes a mindless creature that's capable of following simple commands. If it was just a corpse fuelled by magic, I don't think that type of necromancy would be that great of an affront beyond screwing with a body, since no souls are being tampered with. Plus there's the undead soul node in the RuneSpan, and skeletons and stuff have those glowing green cores that I've been thinking of as their random stolen soul. On the other end of the spectrum, undead with their souls still intact and connected to their bodies and all would be intelligent, like Arrav and the Barrows Wights.
Another necromancy question tho:
Do you think demons and vyres could be reanimated with necromancy? Assuming the demon didn't explode into ashes and had a slow death which left the corpse intact, like Thammaron. Both of those races have souls, but they're corrupted and lower-plane in origin, which might make necromancy not possible on them beyond basic reanimation. And if it did work, they wouldn't have the power typical of their race, would they? Mods pls notice me

06-Aug-2017 21:54:30 - Last edited on 06-Aug-2017 22:13:27 by Marine Doge

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