Chaos - A solid circle with curved horns at the top.
Dragonewt - A Triangle with a line drawn across it about two thirds of the
way up.
Moon - a circle with a vertical line down the middle.
Some come in several forms. The normal Earth rune is hollow, but there's a malevolent earth as well, which is a solid square. The Moon rune comes in several forms, hollow on one side, filled on the other, representing phases of the moon.
On 26 November 2013 12:50, Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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