Difference between revisions of "Runes"

Practitioners of [[Runelore]], such as [[Shamans]] and [[Runewardens]], possess the ability to sketch various '''runes''' on themselves, other persons, the ground, [[totem|totems]], [[weapons]] and [[armour]]. In doing so a variety of beneficial or harmful effects may be achieved.   

Legend states that [[Ayar]] Himself once stood upon a branch of the [[Yggdrasil |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 family of [[Tithian]] and [[Phineus]], the [[House]] tutors of the [[Spirit Walkers]] and [[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 these tutors until recent times, when a malevolent spirit attacked them both and stole the protective shards. The [[Yggdrasil |World Tree]] once again began to decay and along with it the various runing abilities within [[Runelore]].  

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

The following is a list of the runes re-etched upon the[[ Yggdrasil]] and currently accessible to users of [[Runelore]]:

 

||'''Runes'''

||'''Affects'''

||Inspires fear

||Heals allies

||Causes sleeping urges

||Attacks mental reserves

||Increases vitality  

||Paralyzes enemies

||Returns enemy’s sight

||Increases the ability of a weapon to connect

||Damages the health of enemies

||Protects from damage

||Calls forth shockwaves

||Dagez

||Heals afflictions at random

||Increases the blunt protection of armour

||Increases the cutting protection of armour

||Raises a stone wall

||Summons a spirit steed

||Calls forth a spout of molten lava

||Increases a weapon’s damage

||Calls down a hailstorm

||Sucks the nourishment from foes

||Returns hearing  

||Besieges enemies with spouts of lava

||Afflicts foes with voyria poison

||Removes the defenses of enemies

||Provides health regeneration

||Beguiles and transfixes enemies

||Dampens vibrations

||Makes a weapon magically faster

||Afflicts enemies with anorexia