I'll look at a Runes page on the website with Images and use descriptions like these as the alternate text.
Neil
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Nick Eden <nick_at_pheasnt.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> A few others:
>
> 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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