Runts

Runts were the coins used for the divination of Icarium's new warrens.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 11 The newest analogue of the Tiles of the Holds and the Deck of Dragons, the Runts functioned in a similar manner to their predecessors. 
==In Reaper's Gale==
While in Letheras, Icarium slipped away from the champion compound and made his way into the city, secretly trailed by Taralack Veed and Senior Assessor. He travelled to the remains of Scale House, which stood over the ruins of an older city where he had long ago created a machine. This was the same machine whose mysterious pieces and patterns had obsessed Rautos Hivanar and Taxilian. The machine sensed Icarium's approach, and its various pieces toppled buildings as they stirred to life throughout the city. Taxilian waited near the door that opened at the machine's nexus, saying, "This, Icarium, is your day." The Jhag disappeared through the open breach that would forge his new beginning―one in which he would regain his sense of self and no longer be exploited. The machine exploded with white liquid fire that obliterated the neighborhood. Taxilian was incinerated, Taralack Veed and Senior Assessor were killed by falling masonry, and Rautos Hivanar's memories were stripped bare before he too was burned by the white fire. Elsewhere in the city, Feather Witch was killed by The Errant.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24
==In Dust of Dreams==
These dead characters "reappeared" as travelers in the Wasteland being pursued by a ghost. The "ghost" was eventually revealed to be the very alive Icarium, with the other dead characters temporarily serving as aspects of himself that he reabsorbed. Before being reabsorbed, Feather Witch (under the name of Breath) had conducted a reading in which she named Icarium's new warrens and her tiles turned to coins mid-throw.
== In The God is Not Willing ==
In the years following the events of The Crippled God, the pantheon was profoundly affected by the emergence of new warrens and gods. Various Dragon Decks manifested a multitude of Houses never before seen, but even adept readers of the Deck found these new warrens to be an awkward fit. Instead, coins known as Runts were used for proper divination of both the new warrens and the old, although even these familiar ones were "twisted" and didn't go where they were "supposed to." These readings were purportedly "a bit wild," and there was said to be a certain degree of time dilation. The creator of these new warrens was worshipped by the name Icari.
The metal of each Runt was important, and in fact even aspected. A Runt could have one kind of metal on one face and another on the opposite face, making its use as currency difficult. It was a known curse to melt, split, hammer, cut, spit on, gamble with, or otherwise mar the coins.
== Known Runts ==
* Air & StoneDust of Dreams, Chapter 10
* Blueiron & Oblivion
* Fire & Water
* Fortune & Misfortune
* Fury & Starwheel
* Knuckles & Skull
* Life & Death
* Light & Dark
* Root & Ice Haunt
* Rule & Ambition
==Notes and references==
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