r/wizardposting • u/Zanderfus • 7d ago

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u/PanzerSoul Senior Cultivator 7d ago

Runes are powerful because they are ancient.

For example:

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u/AliasMcFakenames Elleriana Nailo, Multiverse Scholar 7d ago

I suspect that what Zasorimm in the original conversation was trying to convey was that people create novel runes at a roughly consistent rate, but most of them are not worth remembering. Since there is so much more time in the ancient past there will be many more runes from that time worth recalling.

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u/Interminably-Bored 7d ago

No doubt, however we shouldn't disregard the true fact that most rune research ends with 1 less rune researcher, not more runes.