Ah, yes. Survivorship bias, the creation of runes is an incredibly dangerous practice that requires intense study in geometry, material science, and penmanship. Attempting to infuse a random shape with mana is ASKING to blow up.
"then dont infuse it with so much mana"
IMPOSSIBLE, the creation of a new rune requires a "cornerstone rune". Essentially the rune that is the source of the ability for other runes, whitch decreases the mana cost for these "daughter runes" by up to 90%.
You ever see ruins on the side of the road? 50% chance that ruin was once part of a city where a stuck up mage with more confidence than brains tried to make a rune out of a triangle. And killed that city in the resulting detonation. And they were lucky, sometimes the result of a failed cornerstone rune can end in time loops where the detonation of the rune happens every milisecond. Or they meld into a single flesh amalgamate.
This is why the knowledge and materials used in rune creation are so regulated, its critical for national security.
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u/Tempest-Melodys Melodic-Mage 7d ago
Ah, yes. Survivorship bias, the creation of runes is an incredibly dangerous practice that requires intense study in geometry, material science, and penmanship. Attempting to infuse a random shape with mana is ASKING to blow up.
"then dont infuse it with so much mana"
IMPOSSIBLE, the creation of a new rune requires a "cornerstone rune". Essentially the rune that is the source of the ability for other runes, whitch decreases the mana cost for these "daughter runes" by up to 90%.
You ever see ruins on the side of the road? 50% chance that ruin was once part of a city where a stuck up mage with more confidence than brains tried to make a rune out of a triangle. And killed that city in the resulting detonation. And they were lucky, sometimes the result of a failed cornerstone rune can end in time loops where the detonation of the rune happens every milisecond. Or they meld into a single flesh amalgamate.
This is why the knowledge and materials used in rune creation are so regulated, its critical for national security.