Runes
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How They Work
It is a testament to the ingenuity of the human race that The Enchanter has, in fact, found a way to consciously access the tremendous power that they are bound to.
Blood is highly symbolic, and intensely magical. It is a well-known fact that vampires do not drink blood because of its physical contents, but because of the fact that it has an iron connection with the life-force of the person it belongs to. Vampires drink blood because it allows them to suck out life-force, which, being undead, they need to survive, and blood is used in spells where some of the casters very own life-energy must be used to boost the power of the spell. Enchanters exploit the connection blood has with life, and a sufficiently brave Enchanter can use it to create something most commonly called a rune. A rune is a symbol drawn in blood, and it is used by the Enchanter to form a connection between the conscious mind and the unconscious would of Ætheric control. The shape of the rune drawn denotes what its function is. Designs vary from Enchanter to Enchanter, but the design itself has no real influence upon its function; it is entirely a visual aid. These runes allow Enchanters to create astounding things, re-enforcing objects with magic, changing the shape of matter and even manipulating its position in space. This display of power is above anything even the most practiced magic-user can summon today.
Vulnerability and Activation
Once activated, a rune is basically impossible to destroy without breaking either thing thing it is drawn on or overloading the actual spell. The former is much more feasible, as runes commonly deal with millions of terrathaums' worth of magic anyway.
Known Runes and Functions
- Alpha (Creation) [This rune creates things.]
- Omega (End) [This rune destroys things.]
- Theta (Union) [This rune amalgamates inter-dimensional duplicates]
- Sigma (Legion)[This rune splits up already amalgamated things, like for example the lives of the Enchanter.]
- Gate. [This rune unleashed raw Ætheric magic from it's feild of Enchantment]
- Leech. [This rune absorbs and eats energy from it's immediate area. It often is used to control the Gate rune.]
- Detonation. [This rune was the first ever drawn by Roon. It causes whatever it is drawn on to detonate with explosive force.]
- Well. [This rune creates a pull, a force like gravity that pulls all things toward it.]
- Fuse. [This rune helps two or more runes work in tandem, or affect each other in a specific way.
- Focus. [This rune amplifies and increases the accuracy in which the rune/s it is used in conjunction with can be used.]
- Jump. [This rune is used for hopping dimensions, using it's anchor in the Æther to pull itself between worlds.]
- Form. [This rune controls what shape the Enchanted item possesses]
- Movement. [This rune controls where the Enchanted item exists in space, moving it from point A to point B, and not always going through point C to get there.
- Augmentation. [This rune enhances properties if the material it Enchants. For example creating a strong magnetic feild where there was already a weak one.]
- Integrity. [This rune makes sure the Enchanted thing doesn't break.]
the Alpha and the Omega
The most dangerous runes existing are the Alpha and the Omega.
With the Alpha, an Enchanter or anyone who controls his or her Runes may create anything in any fashion and in any state, provided that the required amount of magic can be accessed to do so. A vast amount of creation would take a vast amount of energy. This rune takes advantage of the fact that Enchantments have a huge power source, and it's limits are not, as of yet, known.
The Omega is the darker of the two, having the power to destroy anything completely, including it's effects on the world. This rune can eradicate the very memory of something from the minds of the world, leaving no indication it ever existed. It can be used in lesser ways, turning areas into Nothing or simply un-making something, breaking down it's very atoms.
The Legion and the Union
Among the most curious of runes, this pair are among the most recent runes created. These were originally created by Roon for the sole purpose of dividing his soul in an attempt to free himself from his 'curse'. He failed, and only succeeded in creating a duplicate from a stray life that had been torn free: that of Rette Konn
