2/20/2024 0 Comments Ancient nordic glyphs![]() ![]() Runic magic is often associated with Nordic or otherwise Germanic characters, Fantasy Counterpart Cultures thereof, and beings from Germanic mythology. Runes also tend to be specialized for enhancing or altering the objects they are inscribed upon - you won't be able to shoot fireballs with runes, although you may be able to use them to create a Flaming Sword. ![]() This may be particularly emphasized when regular magic is already depicted as difficult to use and prone to dangerous failures. ![]() Typically, runes are presented as a Boring, but Practical alternative form of magic an individual rune may take a long time to inscribe and create, compared to quicker spellcasting, and they may not produce equally potent effects, but runes will also be portrayed as much safer and more reliable than other magic. It's very common for runes to exist alongside other magic systems. Some works maintain historic runes' simple angular shapes, but others shed this aspect entirely it's not uncommon for "rune" to end up meaning just "magic symbol". In these cases, runes are not usually letters and do not form words or a language - they are rarely placed in groups and never as actual words, with each rune being a magical "statement" in and of itself. Typically, this is explained as working through the rune's specific form resonating with, channeling, shaping, containing, or otherwise interacting with magic in a specific way to produce a desired effect, either by naturally drawing magic in, by generating it itself, or by having a certain amount of magic stored within it at some point. How this works varies from case to case, but the most common form is that you write or engrave a rune on something and that this makes that something magical, or at least better. In modern fiction, runes have become strongly associated with magic, being either something used to write magical spells in or magical in and of themselves. Some purists, however, may insist on reserving the term "rune" exclusively for the ancient Germanic systems. In common use, the term "runes" is often conflated with "hieroglyphics", a term which itself has been conflated with other lexigraph-based forms of writing and then finally appropriated to include systems in cultures other than exclusively Ancient Egypt. They were eventually replaced with the modern Latin alphabet and ultimately were simply another writing system. As wood decays much faster than stone erodes, old runes carved into stone are more likely to survive to the present day. Their origins are not entirely clear, but they generally seem to be a descendant of ancient Italic alphabets, probably either the Latin or Etruscan ones, and ancient symbols already in use, that was modified to be easily carved in wood and stone, giving runes their distinctive angular shapes. In Real Life, runes are the letters of the ancient Germanic alphabets - most famously the ones used by the ancient Norse, but continental and later English tribes used related systems. ![]()
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