Before we continue I would like to clarfy something to escape future misunderstandings. When writting IC I portray an average elven noble, not Teclis or Finubar who are practicaly only elves thinking humans have any potential beyond being meatshields. An elf deems himself superior to all races, though they do not express it before the Dwarfs to evade another conflict, and in such am anner adress them.
That's fair enough; indeed, half the fun is in such role playing, and I can sympathise as my character has tended to be an absolute [expletive]. A cursory glance at how I've been talking with the dwarfs shows that much, though IC my character has more respect for elves, so he phrases 'you insane backstabbing subhumans, get out of my land before you come down with a sudden and deadly case of lance-in-the-gut-itis' rather more politely, especially since there's only an ocean protecting him from them, rather than two mountain ranges and the most powerful nation in the Old World in the case of dwarfs.
So, no offense taken, and please, continue to live up your posts with such IC mannerisms. I/my character is a bit of a human supremacist, and it's nice to see that others can look down on other races as well.
Than we have you whose decision will be made after you study it. The problem is that neither Dwarfs, High Elves or Lizardmen are willing to allow you to study the crown as that would be risking the coruption of those doing the studying.
Isn't the assumption there that each race would cast a block vote? I don't know how the Empire people here intend to run it, but it could well be weighted, e.g. each Empire elector, the Supreme Patriarch of the Colleges of Magic, the cult leaders of various Old World faiths, each Bretonnian Duke, the lords of all major dwarf holds, whatever Slann are able to come, and so forth, all having a vote. Think Council of Constance, not UN. Or, as I say, I could be completely wrong, but the cynic in me doubts that they would get the Crown only to cheerfully let the dwarf alliance outvote them.
Isn't it so that the crown is evil is at the moment pure hearsaying?
I did make an argument that it wasn't evil over on the Round Table... there are a few issues with that argument, though.
1/ How reliable is Alaric the Mad? He thought it was evil - is he in a position to make such a judgement? Do his mental issues and obvious bias make his judgement a poor one?
2/ What is the nature of warpstone? Is it solidified Chaos, or merely solidified Warp-stuff? If the latter, then it need not necessarily be evil.
3/ Can warpstone be used safely? Examples such as the skaven and Nagash are controversial at best. Do Clan Skryre and Nagash's rituals indicate that warpstone can be contained and used, or are they too unreliable, or have their judgement clouded?
4/ Even if warpstone is evil, does that mean it cannot be used? Evil artifacts have been successfully used for a good purpose before. The Sword of Khaine wielded by Aenarion is one example, as is Grand Theogonist Kurt III's use of the Liber Mortis. Does this set a valid precedent?
I came out arguing that, if studied, examined, and contained, there is no intrinsic reason why the Crown could not be used for good, despite the obvious risk. To be honest, though, that was probably just taking up the devil's advocate position for the hell of it. Can the Crown be used safely? You can certainly argue that, and it's not immediately nonsensical.
If the crown can be destroyed...why didn't the dwarfs destroy it in the first place?
Evidently Alaric either thought that he couldn't destroy it, or he wouldn't destroy his own masterwork out of a twisted sense of desire. Be that as it may, the dwarfs as a whole never got it... and as I understand it, all they want is to lock it up and hoard it away, not destroy it.
