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OK, so this is not in the info text quote at the bottom of your post, but this is what your wrote the first time you used it.

So... I dunno how metal = cloth and NOT armor, but there you go. Maybe you just got carried away with the metaphor? Because if that's the case you can learn a lesson now about being a little clearer in your description of a technique when that description can clash with its intended parameters.

Also LOOK at what it's supposed to do by your own words there.

How much "effort" (Not runic cost or whatever, which isn't even high for this technique) did it take her to use this for the effect it can have?

From a full two handed swing sure your right.

A major factor here is she two weapon fighting with what i assume are war axes, trying to exert her full strength on each weapon while fighting with both is liable to be impossible.

Mind you I havent tried it, But the flow of fighting with an axe wouldnt lend well to the standard flow of two weapon fighting.

So your definition of a 'general' combat sense is...

Go really hard in the beginning, get tired quickly.
If they start off slow and steady, they will be able to endure longer

Then why did you let in a mechanic which is the exact opposite to that?

Nevermind that speaking in strictly hand to hand terms, that is really going to depend on the cardio levels of both fighters in comparison to one another.

Factoring in special abilities, this means that all mechanics have to work towards that same general combat sense. Sigil Wardens obviously does not.

Except for the part where you're supposed to tell people what you want out of their system in profile grading, and you didn't, and now you're claiming that you're going to judge someone on the basis of whether or not they did something they were never informed to do.

Sorry, that's your fault. Not Sigil's. Maybe next time instead of assuming someone has read your mind, you should actually use profile grading to grade their profile. You know, that idea where you expect them to get fatigued from using their abilities? You could tell them that, instead of letting them in with a system that has no fatigue element, and then arbitrarily expect them to have one when you never told them to.

This is basically what you're saying: "You should know to have something in your profile without being told to, even though I never indicated that you should, and in fact let you into the tournament without it, but now I'm going to tell you that you should take said thing into account despite never being told that you had to."

Yeah, uh, no. That doesn't make any sense. Not here, not on Pluto, not even in Bizarro World with that a**-ugly Superman lookalike that can't figure out personal pronouns.

Thats...

Actually a very astute observation. I did not consider the reduction in momentum factored in by the fact that each axe was being held in each hand. You know, I wonder if that would also mean because the weight of an axe is focused in its head, would it therefore be harder to start into a heavy motion with just a single hand.

Though I still think with the momentum of an axe would be sizable even if only in one hand.

There's nothing that says a magic rune can't have an effect that doesn't draw on external power.

"Magic" is the operative word. Magic operates.. however we choose to have it operate. Laws of entropy, conservation of energy or mass, etc.. only work on magic until we say they don't.

Because it doesn't exist. It does whatever we want it to. So if the magic runes are never described as having a fatiguing effect on the user, then they don't. If they did, then that would have been described.

Again, issue is really with profile grading. If they needed to make the user fatigued, but weren't described as such, then Sigil should have been told to change their profile, rather than being accepted and then penalized for it later when they never knew that was how it needed to work 'cause nobody told them and they assumed the system was fine as-is.

LOL

"ignoring metal" = cannot pass through metal

You don't say what you mean.

And by your own logic, the fact that Fierach dodged is bullshit. So assuming he can't dodge and he doesn't have significant armor, how exactly does he determine what it hits that would be acceptable? Because it's sizable enough to mess up that general area, which is what you seem to be indicating. You're not saying "it could go here, or here, or there" but "it collapses the lungs (LOL!) then the rest of all this s**t is ********" and so the only defense he would be left with is some supernatural/magical defense of his organs.