Re: Three Runes

From: L C <lightcastle_at_NLJziNaqTKVSH7NCTiVtLeGH4mGc01emQ6TjrQkLafhmnVUXBggQQVfiOVNat5VH>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:03:47 -0500

 Indeed. It did strike me that if Dara Happan society can have it split by class Fire/Earth, that the 4 castes in Western society almost beg for being 4 runes.
(Once again lending one to a question of can you change runes? Do the Rokari see a farmer born with a mastery rune as a misplaced noble? Does Loskalm have rituals to move you from one rune to the other when you change roles? Or is the presence of "runes" as part of yourself an Orlanthi thing and therefore irrelevant?)

LC

Trotsky wrote:
>
> It may also depend what you mean by "dominant". I wouldn't expect the
> Law rune to be as common in Makioni society as Air and Earth are in
> Heortling society. It's probably the most common rune, but that doesn't
> necessarily mean it's near-universal. It's probably more common among
> wizards than the among other three castes, for one thing.
>
> Ideally, I suppose, farmers would have Earth, warriors Death, wizards
> Law, and nobles Mastery... but I doubt it works that well in practice.
>