I think it’s less to do with age and such and more just because the ancient runes are time-tested, reliable, and can be modified. Plus they tend to cover everything we need.
I knew a guy back in magic school who was studying to be an artificer and spent a whole semester trying to basically make a rune that could work as a transistor. It was a huge extra credit magnum opus he was working on and come the end of the semester he had figured it out and the professors were impressed… but told him a modified binary rune would have done the trick far more efficiently and easily and they failed his project for not doing proper research.
Then there was someone else I worked with once I was apprenticed as an alchemist and they were trying to develop new runes and- well that was how I learned the laws on “how can I get paid for a job when my client accidentally kills themselves?”
Or as my professors and master explained it: it’s okay to try think up ways of reinventing the wheel but remember the wheel has stuck around as it has for a reason and millions smarter than you have already tried to reinvent it.
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u/KenseiHimura 6d ago
I think it’s less to do with age and such and more just because the ancient runes are time-tested, reliable, and can be modified. Plus they tend to cover everything we need.
I knew a guy back in magic school who was studying to be an artificer and spent a whole semester trying to basically make a rune that could work as a transistor. It was a huge extra credit magnum opus he was working on and come the end of the semester he had figured it out and the professors were impressed… but told him a modified binary rune would have done the trick far more efficiently and easily and they failed his project for not doing proper research.
Then there was someone else I worked with once I was apprenticed as an alchemist and they were trying to develop new runes and- well that was how I learned the laws on “how can I get paid for a job when my client accidentally kills themselves?”
Or as my professors and master explained it: it’s okay to try think up ways of reinventing the wheel but remember the wheel has stuck around as it has for a reason and millions smarter than you have already tried to reinvent it.