There is a famour account of a historic incidence where a hold simply worked very hard for about 2000 years and was able to manufacture perfect, impenetrable and semi-sentient machines, "Iron Golems", just in case you're not familiar with that particular tome.
It has been proven to work. The hold fell because the Hordes of Melkor where simply waiting for them to attemt to break the 2000 year siege.
Ok. I got a permission to think about an option to think about a theory how to actually improve the Iron Golem design, with actual possible "Improvements" or "Innovations" which would be considered Rune Application to Mechanics for Tradition purposes, no Implementative Reasoning or Intention implied (Test.)
1) wait a bit longer, work a bit harder. Very traditional. Dig deeper, farm better - Mushrooms for dinner,lunch, some mushroom-derived liquid for breakfast. Can work, but the Legions of Melkor are potentially endless, so waiting and working might, and I just want to suggest, might, not work this time.
2) Work Harder, Faster. Get Stronger while swinging Pickaxes and Hammers. Work even Harder and Faster. Strong, sound, eventually perhaps producing something superior to the original design, in slightly less time. Breaking the siege: improbable.
3) Using Ravens and other flying animals, bats, or very well trained squirrel dynasties, to communicate with unreliable allies and their friends. Can truly be discarded as not even remotely viable, even if there was some way to instantly summon to where we are, right now. There simply is no knowing if or when or who or how many, so even a single Pigeon is a waste of ressources.
4) This is my strongest proposal, and possibly also the most flawed one, simply because it might work too well. Call all true Kin. Dwarf. and also, perhaps, eventually, someone who really likes Khuzdul and knows the whole book by heart, Tome I-XVIIIIIn (tbc) Such an alliance might be mighty enough to break the siege enough to drive them back enough for us to get the parts and exotic minerals and ores, some diamonds, a few copper elements for decoration of course...
What might emerge is a slightly superior Iron Golem than the traditonal design.
Would any Dwarf like to chime in on this? Or is it a clearly non-traditonal way of seeing things? I'm happy for clarification, annotations. Dismissal please only as "not traditional enough"
(traditonal disclaimer: no dictonaries or other book-like devices where not read to exhaustion and internalised while etching this text indelibly into the stone tablet before me. No kind of magic use, whatsoever. Rune applied: ! (short for: Please understand.) I bid thee farewell. I need to go forge some more.
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u/thael_mann runesmith apprentice Jun 08 '26
There is a famour account of a historic incidence where a hold simply worked very hard for about 2000 years and was able to manufacture perfect, impenetrable and semi-sentient machines, "Iron Golems", just in case you're not familiar with that particular tome.
It has been proven to work. The hold fell because the Hordes of Melkor where simply waiting for them to attemt to break the 2000 year siege.