I was having a chat with some members of my group about this when explaining why I didn’t like runes as they are presented. It’s almost like the runes are hard coded into you to give you a personality type. In fact the Sartar book gives negative modifiers for going against the personality type of your runes.
For me a more dramatic way to look at it is as a relationship. Everyone starts with one rune and then as they journey through life begin gaining more runes as they develop more relationships. In this system you’d get your affinity for a certain rune AFTER being initiated. The rune itself is just a representation of an important human thing: death, child birth, war, hate, trade, and so on. Initiation gives you a culturally specific understanding of that specific phenomena. It places it into a mythological context.
Initiating into a new religion would then mean you either drop your old understandings (runes) and develop new ones or your try and create a synergy. If you try and create a synergy then you have to combine the truths of both cultures in a heroquest and if they conflict in any serious way (which they should do for dramatic reasons) then you’ve got your work cut out for you. You’d probably also need to persuade your community of those truths before a heroquest could be attempted in the first place. That alone is the meat for some good stories.
From: L C <lightcastle_at_-1KFkMNwma8MlWElOFBvXTNe1n6Y16suHdHTnsNHqF02EOftYLhdjxZie_ZWXGJCLBW_EWgVGiVTKI0.yahoo.invalid>
Subject: Re: Three Runes
To: WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, 20 December, 2009, 21:57
Richard Crawley wrote:
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> Damned handy if you're, say, an Elz Ast Thief Taker though.
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HAH!
> I'd be inclined to say yes, a
> sorcerer could too but I guess it comes down to "does the narrator
> think this is treating on the theist player characters' toes?"
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I think this gets to the "does everyone have runes" or not thing.
As it is, Theists can use all the common magic (to use the other term)
of the other two systems.
It seems weird not to have it go both ways.
Again, this slides into an HQ2 rules question more than a Glorantha-wide
question in some ways.
However, I do think that "people have runes they are associated with" is
a Glorantha-wide question. Is it viewed that way by everyone?
Is it only viewed as a source of magic by some if it is? Is actively
rejecting your rune-nature and trenscending it considered to be important?
LC
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