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From: Greybeard <Greybeard_at_nochet.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 09:32:32 GMT

Whilst it is fun to talk of monomythical runes, and then talk of how differing cultures view them, let's develop the idea that to some cultures this is an irrelevance. I know the game is called RuneQuest, but I think Glorantha has grown from being obsessive about runes. So to some people runes may simply be symbols, or may not be used at all. It is far more culturally rewarding for us as world makers to have other ways of explaining the world than just runes.

So, Uz probably only use runes because of their exposure to GL and Theyalan culture which has a strong tradition of runes, but which have many differing theories as to wehat they mean, as sandy suggested. Not sure if I really wanted the Kralori to be very rune oriented, but given that the Jrusteli monomyth is a lot of fun for us as refs/meglomaniacs, then let's go with it.

I mean, lets not start saying how the timinits use runes! - --
Greybeard