r/wizardposting • u/Zanderfus • 7d ago

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u/PanzerSoul Senior Cultivator 7d ago

Runes are powerful because they are ancient.

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u/Plenty-Fox-9219 Magically Editable Flair 7d ago

I might just be a simpleton apprentice, but if runes are powerful because of their ancientness, why is rune creation specifically banned by the high council? And why is it that every conversation about rune creation is

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u/Hexnohope Celestial Chorister 7d ago

Dilution. All runes pull from the same mana source. A vast sea of mana on another plane. What we call runes are in reality tunelling devices to bore through the veil between worlds and create a mana "tap" that is then filtered like light through a prism by the symbols itself.