User blog:TheDustyGoddess/One more Arcane Theory



I've recently seen few posts about these Arcane theories about magic, and this is a matter that I've been wondering for along time myself (and I didn't find any older research about this), so I thought to post it here as well to gain some new views for it and to be able to finish it as well. Of course mages need to know what they are working with to be able to do it well.

This is a theory to explain the roles of specific types of runes in spellcasting. For this I’ve analyzed different spells, their possible effects and their rune costs, and from these figured out the effect and use of a single  rune.



''As a note to readers: This is in no way complete, only beginning for a theory to explain the uses of different runes. ''



  The Runes: 

Air rune: Used for creating pure air energy. Also used to propel other spells through air, which explains need for air runes in other spells as well

Water rune: Used for creating pure water energy

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Earth rune: Used for creating pure earth energy

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Fire rune: Used for creating pure fire energy

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Mind rune: Used in affecting mind of the opponent, as the name suggests, this being either reading it (as in Monster examine spell) or simply affecting it (as in effect of enchanted sapphire bolts and spell Confuse)

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Body rune: Used for affecting one’s body in different ways, like protecting with Disruption shield, making one rest with Dream spell, or affecting it like spells Enfeeble and Weaken

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Chaos rune: Used for giving “chaotic” effects, like disturbing teleport magics with Teleblock spell or messing up the mind of the target with spells like Curse or Vulnerablility

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Death rune: Used for giving the strength for lower level combat spells in Ancient spellbook

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Blood rune: Used for giving the strength for higher level combat spells in Ancient spellbook

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Nature rune: Used for affecting nature around us (as in transmuting spells like superheating or alchemy) or also for binding opponents

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Law rune: Used for opening passage to the Abyssal plane, allowing teleportation through it. The effect of using a single and multiple law runes is still under research.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Cosmic rune: Used for granting items special effects through binding some of the elemental powers into gems (Magical properties of gems should also be researched due to this, as they can be seen being able to get enchanted unlike other objects)

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Astral rune: Astral runes are used in all Lunar spells, making their effect very unclear

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Soul rune: Like a stronger version of mind rune, used to affect the soul of beings which causes much greater effect than mind runes. Mainly used in stronger versions of the spells mind runes are used in, but also to affect the target enough to be able to teleport them.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"BookmanOldStyle","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Feel free to comment and leave some views about this matter here.

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