Re: Descriptions of the Runes

From: Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:50:49 +0000


Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi All,
> Even though my current Glorantha gaming is limited to King of Dragon Pass when the mood strikes me, I still derive great pleasure from reading the setting material.
> One area which I’ve become curious about lately is the actual shape of the runes. When reading books with a screen reader, the runes are simply announced as letters, “(G, D, etc.) which is kind of useless for actually understanding how they look to a sighted person. :)
> So I’m wondering if anybody is up to describing some of them? Does such a description already exist somewhere?
> Thanks much for any input,
> Zack.
>

Well, let's do the common ones:

Darkness - a solid circle
Water - two wavy lines
Fire - a dot inside a circle (the RW astrological symbol for 'sun') Earth - a square
Air - a spiral

Life/Fertility - two triangles joined point-to-point (this is meant to represent a cup)
Death - a sword (much the same shape as a plain Latin cross, as used ton RW tombstones)
Motion/Change - A triskelion (that is, three curves joined at the centre) Stasis - The top half of a circle, with a line across the base Harmony - three vertical lines (representing the strings on a harp) Disorder - two semicircles 'pulling' in opposite directions Truth - a Y (representing a torch bracket) Illusion - three spots in a triangle (so, the gaps between the branches of a Y)

Man - a humanoid stick figure
Beast - a triangle with lines running from the corners to the centre (representing a dragon's eye)
Plant - a stylised picture of a tree
Spirit - a diamond shape with two lines projecting from the bottom Magic - one half of a Spirit rune, with a vertical line replacing the other half
Mastery - three vertical lines with a horizontal one at the base (representing a crown, I think)
Infinity - a lemniscate (the RW mathematical symbol for infinity)

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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