07-14-2024, 07:44 PM
Runes and Concepts
As Katryovno Dryden has hinted and shown, it is possible to create own runic system from scratch. Indeed, this has happened more than once in history already. How else would we have different runic systems in gehenna, sheng, wylden and other parts of eternia? The basis of them still relies on a basis on the written divine language however.
This brings up an interesting question however, one that was previously answered to me as 'it is based on the divine language' but has evidently been proven slightly wrong with the emergence of the Katryovno Runic Protocol. When is it a rune and when is it a simple writing? Besides, if it was truly always only the divine language, no matter how bastardized our understanding of it is, shouldn't spells done with runecasting have a hint of the divine in them?
This leads me to believe that our understanding of runes and the divine language is closer to what we believe and what meaning we associate with them, similar to a warning sign having the meaning that danger is ahead of us.
The notion of runes being linked to concept magic has been given to me, which this theory supports. This type of magic is based on working with concepts themselves. In the runic sense, this could simply mean that we create a shape, a fire rune for example, and then add further association to this type of concept, until we intersect with our reality to tell it to do what we write into it.
Of course, this is merely a theory and I can be wrong entirely. Is the truest form of the divine language this complex, that we can create multiple different system from it? Or is what we know of simply a case of very abstract magic with the flair of the divine to it?
As Katryovno Dryden has hinted and shown, it is possible to create own runic system from scratch. Indeed, this has happened more than once in history already. How else would we have different runic systems in gehenna, sheng, wylden and other parts of eternia? The basis of them still relies on a basis on the written divine language however.
This brings up an interesting question however, one that was previously answered to me as 'it is based on the divine language' but has evidently been proven slightly wrong with the emergence of the Katryovno Runic Protocol. When is it a rune and when is it a simple writing? Besides, if it was truly always only the divine language, no matter how bastardized our understanding of it is, shouldn't spells done with runecasting have a hint of the divine in them?
This leads me to believe that our understanding of runes and the divine language is closer to what we believe and what meaning we associate with them, similar to a warning sign having the meaning that danger is ahead of us.
The notion of runes being linked to concept magic has been given to me, which this theory supports. This type of magic is based on working with concepts themselves. In the runic sense, this could simply mean that we create a shape, a fire rune for example, and then add further association to this type of concept, until we intersect with our reality to tell it to do what we write into it.
Of course, this is merely a theory and I can be wrong entirely. Is the truest form of the divine language this complex, that we can create multiple different system from it? Or is what we know of simply a case of very abstract magic with the flair of the divine to it?