>> The question is what runes would they have in the HQ2.0/God Learner >> scheme of things.
> That is ideal, but perhaps not feasible. I don't have HQ2 yet,
> but I understand that the core rune set is quite limited. And,
> the God Learners and the Vithelan had rather little influence
> on each other.
It matters not whether the God Learners had any influence on the Vithelans. The Romans had very little influence on the development of the Chinese language(s) throughout history yet we can still write down chinese words in the latin alphabet.
The runes are not and never have been limited to describing things only known by the originating culture. They are also used for describing the unknowns and rendering them intelligible in the minds of their users.
Yes, taking the alphabet/language - runes/gods analogy means that there will be some unknowns that are difficult to represent in the standard God Learner runic alphabet. But being difficult is far from being the same thing as unfeasible.
> I wrote [half a rune] as a convenient
> shorthand for a narrower, more limited form of the rune, like
> Yinkin's Cat rune is a limited Beast rune and Heat is a partial
> Fire rune.
The Parloth are going to be mostly two rune deities and you are already determining one of them to be the cosmic order rune? That doesn't strike me as being practical.
>> In which case it's integral to the Pantheon and is not something that >> should be specifically had by each and every deity within that pantheon.
> Why not? Runes are the preferred way to describe the gods,
> and this is the primary difference between gods and antigods.
Because they are redundant. We do not bother describing Orlanth by giving him the theistic rune because we already know he is one. What we are interested in describing is the magic that the gods provide to their worshippers and Cosmic Order doesn't do anything.
>> What's wrong with the Infinity Rune? Vith isn't about teaching Cosmic >> Order but maintaining consciousness with the ineffable.
> Which I think fits "Cosmic Order" better than Infinity.
But there is no Cosmic Order rune. There is an infinity rune. What is wrong with using the Infinity Rune to denote Vith's Transcendent Nature?
--Peter Metcalfe
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