> I wouldn't try to figure out the cosmology of Glorantha based on the
> Mongoose RQ. The physical runes are a feature of their generic RQ
> release, and not something specifically meant for Glorntha. Rather
> it's a play on the name of the game.
>
> The closest thing on Glorantha I can think of are the blood
crystals,
> and magic items. Rune stones (and bones, and clay amulets) are
> undoubtedly common magical foci on Glorantha, so the look is fairly
> appropriate. I think they will more often be specific deity or
entity
> runes though, and not the great runes as depicted by Mongoose RQ.
Such
> things I'd mostly expect to see associated with sorcerers.
OTOH, they (Mongoose) do appear to have opened up the depiction of magic in Glorantha, albeit clumsily, so that it is possible to depict various magical methods as separate from any over-reaching heavy cosmology as well as from the overly simple RQ2 model.
The various magics are instead depicted as quite separate and free from each other, and that IMO is A Very Good Thing...
Julian Lord
PS Although I remain somewhat unconvinced by the Rune Magic system as written...
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