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    Rune Crafting Guide

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    Runecraft uses runes, which represent words and have specific literal meanings, to construct spell circles that cast spells. A basic spell circle contains an outer containment circle and an inner focus circle connected by lines indicating what runes affect each other. More complex spells can include multiple nested circles and spells combined together. Advanced techniques allow for conditional logic, automated activation using fuel runes, sending effects between separate spell circles, and even creating rudimentary devices like a preventative fire extinguisher.

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    Runecraft uses runes, which represent words and have specific literal meanings, to construct spell circles that cast spells. A basic spell circle contains an outer containment circle and an inner focus circle connected by lines indicating what runes affect each other. More complex spells can include multiple nested circles and spells combined together. Advanced techniques allow for conditional logic, automated activation using fuel runes, sending effects between separate spell circles, and even creating rudimentary devices like a preventative fire extinguisher.

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    Runecraft uses runes, which represent words and have specific literal meanings, to construct spell circles that cast spells. A basic spell circle contains an outer containment circle and an inner focus circle connected by lines indicating what runes affect each other. More complex spells can include multiple nested circles and spells combined together. Advanced techniques allow for conditional logic, automated activation using fuel runes, sending effects between separate spell circles, and even creating rudimentary devices like a preventative fire extinguisher.

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    Runecraft uses runes, which represent words and have specific literal meanings, to construct spell circles that cast spells. A basic spell circle contains an outer containment circle and an inner focus circle connected by lines indicating what runes affect each other. More complex spells can include multiple nested circles and spells combined together. Advanced techniques allow for conditional logic, automated activation using fuel runes, sending effects between separate spell circles, and even creating rudimentary devices like a preventative fire extinguisher.

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    Runecraft: The Basics

    Runes are entire words, much like Mandarin/Kanji/Cuneiform. Each has a very
    specific and literal meaning. The rune for "contain" means that the spell is
    contained within the circle. You can't use this rune to contain someone within a
    cage. The runes above are as follows: Sustain, Create, Contain, Fire, Small

    The basics of spellcraft and spellcircles consists of an outer circle (in blue) and
    an inner circle (in red). The red circle is the focus for the spell, the blue circle will
    contain runes to modify and affect the red circle. You can have as many circles
    within one another as you want, the more complex the spell you want to cast. For
    example, a fire spell (no matter what you want to do with the fire) will have a fire
    rune occupying the red inner circle)

    For one circle to affect another it must be linked to it with a curved line as shown
    here. To create fire you must link the create rune and the fire rune.

    If runes are affecting one another *within* a circle, you must show which is
    affecting which. For this, edges are used. The "circle" with the most edges affects
    the "circle" with the least, with a true circle being the last affected. Runes going
    from an outer circle to an inner one do not need to show order of operations.

    If one wants to create a spell that excludes something, one shows that by a circle
    around that rune, physically excluding it from the rest of the spell. For example, if
    one wants to create a dome wherein water does not come. One would link the
    dome rune (shown for argument in blue) with the rune for water (in red), thereby
    creating a dome wherein water cannot come.

    If one wants to modify a rune rather than affect it, a smaller circle is placed
    overlapping the rune in question creating a combined rune. This combined rune
    is then effected by all runes interacting with them. For example to create a small
    fire one would overlap the fire rune with a small (for simplicity's sake) rune.

    Here is a very simple spell incorporating nearly all stated above using the runes
    already explained. It is a campfire spell. The central Fire rune is modified by the
    Small rune. This combined rune is affected by the Sustain rune (ensuring it will
    keep for the night), the Create rune (to make a difference between using fire that
    is already available and creating it from nothing) and the Contain rune (to keep it
    within the boundary of the spell so that it will not go out of control).

    Runecraft: Adept Level Techniques

    Multiple spell circles can be combined to create a complex spell.

    Here you can see two spells, one in red/blue, the other in yellow/green plus some
    normal runes in purple. Even if you have multiple spells, one spell must be the
    focus, and one rune inside must be that spells focus.
    For example, the red/blue spell circle is the focus of this complex spell. The red
    central rune tier is the focus of the red/blue spell, and thus the focus of the entire
    spell. As an example, say you want to create a floating platform that is always on
    fire and cannot be put out by water. The red/blue spellcircle would be the floating
    platform spell and the yellow/green spellcircle would be the fire spell. The
    exclusion part would take the form of the purple runes.

    When dealing with multiple spells, order of operations function in the same way
    as they do in simple spells. The pentagonal orange/pink spell must show order of
    operations with the yellow/green spell because they occupy the same tier (the
    white tier). Because the red/blue spellcircle is the focus, it occupies its own tier
    meaning that the yellow/green spell do not have to show order of operations
    when affecting it.

    Runecraft: Master Level


    Techniques

    There are a number of runes and techniques which can be used to create a
    rudimentary form of automation.

    If you wish your spellcircles to have a specific fuel, then simply use the fuel rune
    (shown here in white on the blue circle) Connected to another rune (as shown
    here as the red circle) would mean that when a fuel source is added to the fuel
    rune, it activates the affect (red) rune. In such a way, this fuel rune can act as a
    switch.

    To add more complexity to your spellcircles, you can add an "if-then" statement.
    If the required action occurs, the rune works. Show here is a blue rune affecting a
    red rune. The curved line with the two straight lines intersecting the green rune
    represents this if-then statement. For example, let us say that the blue rune is
    Create, the red Fire and the green Human. This would mean that the spell would
    only Create Fire if a Human is present. Essentially, creating a trap.

    If you want to be able to link separate spellcircles together, you can use the Send
    & Receive runes. Sending & Rececing works in much the same way as multiple
    spells inside a complex spell. Its functions is to Send the effects of one spell to
    another spell. Call it teleporting the effects, because the spellcircles do not have
    to be near each other. The rune in the focus of the red/blue spellcircle is the
    Send rune. The rune in the purple circle of the green-yellow spellcircle is the
    Receive rune. The Send rune must always be the focus of its spell circle (shown
    here in red), because it will send all the effects of its spell to the Receive rune.
    The Receive rune cannot be the focus of its spell. It will always be an affecting
    rune (shown here in purple). This is because the Receive rune takes the place of
    a spellcircle. Its duty is to affect the focus of its spell circle with the effects given
    to it by the Send rune.

    Here is a spell tying together all these optional runes. Note: the bottom rune on
    the lefthand spellcircle is the Pull rune. It pulls into the spellcircle whatever is
    needed. This spell is a preventative fire extinguisher. It creates water when it
    senses fire. The left hand spellcircle Pulls in Water only if Fuel is present and
    Sends this Water to the righthand spellcircle. The righthand spellcircle uses this
    Water to Create Water only if Fire is present.

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