> Divine Magic. A rune affinity is something you are. Having the particular rune strongly affects your behavior as you try to personally embody the rune (through your god).
> Spirit Magic. You strike deals with spirits—entities resident in animals, plants, simple objects, and features of the natural world. A spirit is something you have. You need to satisfy your spirits in order for them to work for you. The spirit embodies the rune so that you don't have to.
> Wizardry. You cast highly specific spells learned from the esoteric study of magical texts, manipulating abstract magical forces. A rune spell is something you intellectually know.
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So to put this in a game-y context and assume "everyone has runes" - a Vingan theist is likely to spend hero points improving her Rune Affinity keywords because doing so enables her to do more and better magic. in doing so she comes to emulate her god more completely.
A troll animist doesn't bother increasing her rune affinity keywords because doing so doesn't particularly help; better to increase her Homboboboom Tradition Knowledge ability.
A Seshnelan sorceror also has three runes as part of his make-up but never bothers to increase them as his efforts are better focussed on improving his in-depth knowledge of the Abiding Book (or whatever). In fact, the rune affinities may even be seen as the snares of pagan forces to be resisted at all costs.
Richard C
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