Hi!
Wouldn't that depend on the form of the entity possessing the rune? I would suspect that while a human would not get great magic from the man rune, an animal or plant or monster would (the power to turn into a human (or humanoid), control a human, etc.). Similarly a human would get unusual magic from the beast, plant, dragonewt, etc., rune. And wouldn't all hsunchen (assuming they have runes) have both the beast and man runes, thus enabling them to switch between forms?
Thanks,
David.
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> ttrotsky2 wrote:
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> > Actually, I'm interested in the other rune. I was under the
> > impression that the Beast rune (and form runes in general) provided
> > very little magic, which apparently isn't the case here. Have I
> > misunderstood something somewhere? (Which would be a good thing if I
> > have, incidentally).
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> Everything has a Form rune but they are rarely
> a source of magic powers other than the form itself. For
> example, all men have the Man rune (,) but it simply means
> that they are men (and not gods, discorporate beings, animals,
> or plants).
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> HQ2 p120.
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> ie the form rune the hero has provides very little magic. That doesn't
> prevent beast magic, plant magic or any other sort of magic in general.
> For example a hero worshiping a bear deity will have access to the
> magics of doing bear like stuff, like fishing for trout, climbing up
> trees (if brown bear), kicking down trees (if grizzly), hibernating etc.
> Likewise the Spirit Worshipper described on p112 has the beast rune
> charm of Antler fighting.
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> --Peter Metcalfe
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