So if no other Covenant Sanctum other than the Seat of the Primus has a DK runeforge, and DK runeforges are a product of the Lich King, and the Lich King uses items made by Zovaal but extracted from the Runecarver.
I think at this point they’re yelling in our ear that the Primus is the Runecarver and the missing fingers on the statue was a miscommunication that will be hand waved away via “Ah but the Primus is the master of fleshcrafting! He gave himself a pinky!”
It says nothing about the Runecarver or the Primus, only that Runeforging originated in Maldraxxus, which we already knew.
Nope, we’ve been told “necromancy” comes from Maldraxxus, not runeforging.
The existence of a Lich-King-Death-Knight compatible runeforge in the private sanctum of the Primus actually tells us something new: that the runeforging the Primus taught and the runeforging the Lich King taught are the same.
Why would the primus be the runecarver? they have stated multiple times that the primus have several apprentices etc.
Aside from that Rune carver seems more like a guy that just adds runes or empowers weapon less than forging them, see legendaries etc.
As far as I’m aware, the only Faction we’ve seen explicitly use Runes is Maldraxxus tbh.
There’s like, a thousand threads on these forums and other social media discussing this, it’s the foremost theory on the matter
He’s missing, and other than some weird bug in Spires of Ascension, it does not appear Eternal Ones can die.
Plus, for Zovaal, an Eternal One, to be so impressed with the “best” runeblade extracted from the Runecarver, and the plans for the Helm of Domination that can control the undead (i.e. could serve as a failsafe in case all the Houses united against the Primus), it makes sense.
Depends what you call runes: Venthyr swords all have runic symbols, Bastion’s weapons all have some weird pattern that glows on the buildings, Ardenweald forges also have some sort of fancy script that could be runes, etc.
But yes, the idea of “runeforging” does appear to be uniquely tied to Maldraxxus, however we haven’t, to my knowledge, been told that. We’ve only been told that necromancy comes from Maldraxxus.
It also makes sense that oranges are orange but that doesnt make it true, it is just the way that we view them given our ability to see the color orange.
other than that, to use art as an example, people can draw a picture and others can copy it.
??? That’s a terrible metaphor because we use the name of the fruit to describe the color lmao
Anywho if you disagree with the (extremely common) theory that’s your prerogative my dude, have fun
Eh the art one is fine, as it is kinda close to how wow uses smithing stuff with “Style” there are different styles depending on which user you ask etc.
Huh? Doesn’t this fly in the face of the whole drama about the forsworn becoming that way due to Devos freaking out over the runes on Frostmourne? If it’s Maldraxxi in origin, then she shouldn’t have jumped to the conclusion that it came from the Maw.
The issue with the runes Davis saw on Frostmourne was those runes were quite literally of the Maw, not that they were just runes themselves.
I mean, if we look at the Shadowmoon Clan, their runes are used both for normal, good shamanism (when white) and void magic + dark shamanism + necromancy (when purple).
Same set of runes for two purposes, two powers, and she said that they contained “the power of the Maw”.
And the blue glow effect of Frostmourne is different from the green glow effect of the Blade of the Primus.
How does this disprove that they’re the same dude?
It’s fairly obvious that the Primus and Runecarver are the same person. Really the only issue people have with it from what I’ve seen is that it’s “too obvious”.
The fingers point doesn’t matter given that the original concept art had them with the same number of fingers, and also the Jailer uses some of his power to reshape the forms of people he captures to repurpose them.
Zoom into the mask of the Runecarver and the Jailer as well, they’re identical.
Interestingly, by the concept art the Runecarver might indeed have meant to have only four fingers:
Honestly this is great news for me. Popping into Acherus to scribble mean emojis on my sword isn’t that big of a burden. But it’s just out of the way enough that I’ll put off doing it.
And then, since my DK is my alt, I’ll hop on and completely space on doing it until I’m wondering why I’m getting my rear handed to me in 2s.
Runecarver = Rune imbuer, Primus = Forger. there is a huge difference.
He was called the Runesmith or just the Blacksmith during alpha and beta lol
that doesnt change what he does nor does it change that he is just “A runesmith” not “The runesmith”