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<blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 2120274" data-attributes="member: 8944">Following.&nbsp;&nbsp;Many orcs use kega'rin.&nbsp; There are several wielders among your own blackorcs, and a few orcish soldiers that have eschewed more traditional infantry weapons for their ancestral blades.&nbsp; &nbsp;true.&nbsp;&nbsp;Well there would be a noticeable difference in weight - drakespowder is relatively light on a per volume basis.&nbsp; Gold is very heavy - like lead.&nbsp; &nbsp;The chests are piled up like he was getting ready to move them somewhere, and wherever the drakespowder that blew the tower came from, he had to have moved it from there to the tower long before today. &nbsp;&nbsp;You saw the inside the tower...it wasn't all mithral.&nbsp; And it was awfully tall...&nbsp; Good hypothesis about the dysjunction.&nbsp; Perhaps you weren't the targets, just an incidental attack?&nbsp; There were only 2 mages near you, but you saw more in the floors below...&nbsp;&nbsp;The tower is held together (at least in part) by ancient magic.&nbsp; Disjunction alone would not have caused the tower to fall...but in concert with powerful explosives?&nbsp; That might have shaken things up like you saw.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;If every one of the chests before you explodes, it will damage the room, teh floors above and below, and probably at least part of the council chambers...but it won't destroy the entire building.&nbsp;Either that, or he simply assumed that anyone on the tower would die, including his saboteurs? Disjunction doesn't have a very large radius, so there must have been multiple casters...&nbsp;Quite probably, if this was the case, the casters could not have known all that they were doing...with the explosions timed so quickly, Anders must have been counting on his allies to die...or Anders wasn't behind it all.&nbsp; &nbsp;You're right, though - you pretty much screwed the pooch on finding out more for sure.&nbsp; &nbsp;Still, that's what deduction is for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The_Universe, post: 2120274, member: 8944"] Following. Many orcs use kega'rin. There are several wielders among your own blackorcs, and a few orcish soldiers that have eschewed more traditional infantry weapons for their ancestral blades. true. Well there would be a noticeable difference in weight - drakespowder is relatively light on a per volume basis. Gold is very heavy - like lead. The chests are piled up like he was getting ready to move them somewhere, and wherever the drakespowder that blew the tower came from, he had to have moved it from there to the tower long before today. You saw the inside the tower...it wasn't all mithral. And it was awfully tall... Good hypothesis about the dysjunction. Perhaps you weren't the targets, just an incidental attack? There were only 2 mages near you, but you saw more in the floors below... The tower is held together (at least in part) by ancient magic. Disjunction alone would not have caused the tower to fall...but in concert with powerful explosives? That might have shaken things up like you saw. If every one of the chests before you explodes, it will damage the room, teh floors above and below, and probably at least part of the council chambers...but it won't destroy the entire building. Either that, or he simply assumed that anyone on the tower would die, including his saboteurs? Disjunction doesn't have a very large radius, so there must have been multiple casters... Quite probably, if this was the case, the casters could not have known all that they were doing...with the explosions timed so quickly, Anders must have been counting on his allies to die...or Anders wasn't behind it all. You're right, though - you pretty much screwed the pooch on finding out more for sure. Still, that's what deduction is for. [/QUOTE]

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