Runes

See also: Primitive Language, Elven Spearhead, Song of the Spheres

## Runewriter

A device for writing/creating Runes. See Runewriter

## Drumkit

A legendary set of runic items - see Drumkit

## Legend 24 - The First Rune

(From Onwen's cupboard notes)

The story of the First Rune has always been sung, but the why of Runes has been a mystery to all. Know that the Runes are the language of the Arcane, and that this.....(scroll torn here)

Onwen NOTES (On the back)

The great spells used runes yet were linked to magic.... need to follow up

## The First Rune

(From Research (Week 2))

In ancient days when life was but a new thought disturbing the waters, there was formed a simple design, and it was given form by the will of the world and it was the First Rune. Once formed it stayed in magical stasis which separated it from all other forms of marking yet to be made...

For Runes are markings that are out of time and thus the passage of that decaying dimension has no affect on it for they exist outside of it......The First Rune floated and left all in its wake different...and the other Runes were formed to echo the power of the arcane and the timeless record of the ways...and that which is not spoken of reached down and plucked the Rune from where only he could venture and placed it upon his gauntlets and from timelessness to time he came and tears were made... and by the mark of its Rune enhanced by ritual untold he transformed to any life and moved about the strands of .... and in the beginning the paradox of life was recorded by the First Rune which stands unalterable in sharpest contrast with its calling for it is recorded that that symbol was the Rune of "Change"

## Extract from Legend 1 - Dwarf Goblin Wars - The Mirthril Gauntlet

Discovering that his mount was amongst those taken, the Mithril Knight charged directly to the mouth of the Maze and there worked the magic runes on his gauntlet till out of the Arcane Plain came 5 giant stone like warriors

## Extract from Legend 3: Vendor

Then drawing a Runewriter as if from mid-air he wrote upon the three and began to play upon them with his hands.

## Extract from Legend 4 - The Stone Ring

The figure nodded its head and took out a jeweled pen that glowed with blue magic, the kind that story tellers call Runewriters, and on the ring a rune it made that flared at first and then disappeared, along with the figure and the stone offered by the boy.

## Sorleaf

(From Day 14-20 – The first week in Northlake)

**An Elven Legend (As Being Studied By A College Student)**

Just before the Twilight of Change when the days of Chaos came quickly upon the world, there was a half formed Elf called Sorleaf. What manner of disruption spawned his birthright is not recorded but it was astounding in its time. Little did they know that his misfortune was but a precursor of the horrors to follow the Twilight.

The young Sorleaf was a wonderful storyteller and his ability to pick up hidden meanings from the rumors that abound a traveled society was to give him the kind of respect in his profession that his lack of stature could not command from the elegant and snobish 'higher' councils.

Being raised by the Ladies of the nearby temple, he naturally drifted into the church services where he was really never more than a novice in priestly skills, his main interest being elsewhere...much to his own doom.

The stories around Runes was his passion and one day he was struck with the possibility of using a crystal to enhance his skills if the right runes could be found and made to charge the crystal. He followed a lead from an ancient bird song that brought him to a haunted cave, and there he was confronted by a creature: "so horrible that time doomed it to stand apart from it, and so vile that light would not touch it..." or so the story he told went. Somehow this creature instead of falling upon him and having his soul, engaged in the honored tradition of a Riddle Contest for which Sorleaf was not to be bested at. For two days the contest went on each with the riddles of a lifetime and more to put to the other...Sorleaf would never speak of his winning riddle, which was always out of character for him, but he emerged from the hidden place behind a colorful misty waterfall with a crystal rune...With it he could see the distant towns that framed the rumors he heard. He also began to research further into the arcana of runes, using the crystal to open up new ways of reaching back to unlock the mystery of the Runes. Facet after facet he explored caring little for his own health or nourishment, till all that was left to explorewas the one plain plane without a Rune upon it. This he knew he was not to activate but in his hungered insanity he could not resist the call and summon it he did...the disappearance of Sorleaf was noted in the chronicles of his day, with a simple note: 'reports have reached us that little Sorleaf is gone, to where only he may know.'