07-12-2024, 09:08 PM
Introduction
The purpose of this publication is to provide some further clarification on the multiple ways to interpret Runes that one might be able to use. While particularly useful for Artificers, who often have to study at least enough of the divine language passed down by ancestors to learn how to enchant their weapons and armor, one might want to know more of the runes in general in order to find out about themselves and the world. Most of our history can be interpreted through runes, even if their meaning might be somewhat alien at the end.
As one ought to know, the runes work on the principle that words have power on a literal sense; While they often carry that meaning because of the zeitgeist, runes themselves work on a different basis. It's as if the world itself reads whatever is written in those, and nature interprets it as it wishes to. It is an ongoing theory that the runes themselves are powered by the magi that wrote them as a sort of permanent marking, a direct manifestation of their will in the world that only degrades as much as the material it is made out of will.
Despite that universal agreed upon nature, however, one must be aware of the two schools that conduct it. One of them is the Divine Language, one used since the Divine War - Although inevitably degraded over time, some more complex structures require not only a strong magi but years of study in order to retrieve that lost knowledge. The second one requires years of study to figure out the complex structures for the entirely opposite reason; The Katryovno Runic Protocol is a means of simple, direct instructions that target basic truths of the world and seek to alter it in a precisely controlled manner, utilizing a series of primitive instructions to achieve goals necessary.
In that vein, one could pick whatever choice they would rather; The Divine Language could be considered a high-level alternative, filled with abstractions that make it so that more complex structures can be made more easily, without worrying about the minutiae. The Katryovno Runic Protocol would be a low-level alternative, prioritizing optimization above all and a minimal control that is just otherwise not possible in the older variant.
The purpose of this publication is to provide some further clarification on the multiple ways to interpret Runes that one might be able to use. While particularly useful for Artificers, who often have to study at least enough of the divine language passed down by ancestors to learn how to enchant their weapons and armor, one might want to know more of the runes in general in order to find out about themselves and the world. Most of our history can be interpreted through runes, even if their meaning might be somewhat alien at the end.
As one ought to know, the runes work on the principle that words have power on a literal sense; While they often carry that meaning because of the zeitgeist, runes themselves work on a different basis. It's as if the world itself reads whatever is written in those, and nature interprets it as it wishes to. It is an ongoing theory that the runes themselves are powered by the magi that wrote them as a sort of permanent marking, a direct manifestation of their will in the world that only degrades as much as the material it is made out of will.
Despite that universal agreed upon nature, however, one must be aware of the two schools that conduct it. One of them is the Divine Language, one used since the Divine War - Although inevitably degraded over time, some more complex structures require not only a strong magi but years of study in order to retrieve that lost knowledge. The second one requires years of study to figure out the complex structures for the entirely opposite reason; The Katryovno Runic Protocol is a means of simple, direct instructions that target basic truths of the world and seek to alter it in a precisely controlled manner, utilizing a series of primitive instructions to achieve goals necessary.
In that vein, one could pick whatever choice they would rather; The Divine Language could be considered a high-level alternative, filled with abstractions that make it so that more complex structures can be made more easily, without worrying about the minutiae. The Katryovno Runic Protocol would be a low-level alternative, prioritizing optimization above all and a minimal control that is just otherwise not possible in the older variant.
In due time, new additions are to be made for the treatise. One from Christophore Garijn, a scholar of the runes, and another from Katryovno Dryden.
