Runes

Practitioners of Runelore, namely members of the Shaman and Runewarden classes, possess the ability to sketch various runes on themselves, other people, the ground, totems, weapons, and armour. By doing so, a variety of desired beneficial or harmful effects can be achieved.

History

Legend states that Ayar Himself once stood upon a branch of the World Tree and etched the original twenty-nine runes of Runelore. Sometime later this branch was cut off, however, and the tree itself began to decay, causing five of the original runes to be lost.

The brothers Tithian and Phineus, House tutors to the Spirit Walkers and the Wardens of the Cerulean Spire respectively, found a way to hold the decay at bay with a seal. The seal was broken in two and held by the tutors until recent times, when a malevolent spirit attacked them both and stole the protective shards. The World Tree once again began to decay, along with it the various runic abilities within Runelore.

Using remnants of a lullaby sung to the brothers when they were children as clues, adventurers discovered a way to reforge the fallen branch and halt the decay of Yggdrasil. Through the collective efforts of Shamans and Runewardens, the names of the runes were painstakingly re-etched upon the tree, restoring power to all of the runes once again, including the five runes previously lost to mortalkind.

Rune List

The following is a list of all the runes currently accessible to users of Runelore:

Rune	Effect	Appearance
Kena	inspires fear	nightmare
Uruz	heals allies	lightning bolt
Fehu	causes sleeping urges	closed eye
Pithakhan	attacks mental reserves	square box
Jera	increases vitality	oak
Inguz	paralyses enemies	stick man
Wunjo	returns an enemy’s sight	open eye
Lagul	increases the ability of a weapon to connect	dirk
Sowulu	damages the health of enemies	nail
Algiz	protects from damage	elk
Isaz	calls forth shockwaves	flurry of lightning bolts
Dagaz	heals afflictions at random	rising sun
Gebu	increases the blunt protection of armour	shield
Gebo	increases the cutting protection of armour	chain
Gular	raises a stone wall
Raido	summons a spirit steed	horse
Thurisaz	calls forth a spout of molten lava	volcano
Lagua	increases a weapon’s damage	large hammer
Hugalaz	calls down a hailstorm	ball of ice
Nauthiz	sucks the nourishment from foes	leech
Mannaz	returns hearing	bell
Othala	besieges enemies with spouts of lava	mountain range
Sleizak	afflicts foes with voyria poison	viper
Tiwaz	removes the defences of enemies	upward-pointing arrow
Berkana	provides health regeneration	lion
Nairat	beguiles and transfixes enemies	butterfly
Eihwaz	dampens vibrations	yew
Laguz	makes a weapon magically faster	long slim blade
Loshre	afflicts enemies with anorexia	apple core