> Sorry, I was not being clear...I was conflating the city with its
> patron wyter, god, demon, etc. Then again, I think of the two as
> inectricably tied together, and I assume that the supernatural has an
> effect on the character of the mundane. So that a city with a patron
> being with the storm rune will tend to have a character that is is
> appropriately tempestuous. Maybe that is a bad assumption.
No, that seems about right to me. In a certain sense, a city does not have runes - but it does have a guardian being of some kind (wyter, etc.) and that *does* have runes. And the personality of the guardian being will both reflect, and, to an extent, influence, the personality of the city. Pavis is perhaps the best-known example, but there has always been mention of other city gods, a concept extended to smaller guardian beings (and smaller settlements) in HQ.
While I haven't specifically given them runes, this was the principle I used when describing the guardian essences of the cities chosen for long-form write-ups in LotW2 and 3 (Segurane, Leplain, Northpoint, and Easval).
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