The Runes and what they actually do

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The gloranthan runes are a very good collection of primal symbols, but the method in which they synergise as a framework can be radically altered to bring out a differeng mythic landscape still connected to runes.

• One Method of doing this is to consider everything in opposition amongst the Gloranthan runes [elemental and power runes] as part of a larger cycle or pattern.
• Another is to assume all the other runes do have natural polarities and form other sections of a framework.

For Example:

• Death and Fertility are linked, not only as opposites, but as part of a primal cycle that meets in both opposition and in synthesis. Related runes might be forms and spirit - corrupt synthesis might be undeath, whilst natural synthesis might result in the form runes. In opposition, they may meet as disorder or as a rune not made yet.
• The elemental circle has elements in oppostion, but also in balance, in progression from each other, an order or circle of dominance and submission and a cyclic progression.
• The form runes can be seen as an order of progression in shaping reality. Plant, Beast, Man [maybe sentients or uprights], Spirit, Dragon, others... all represent a scale of living things.
• Some of the more more widely defined or multipurpose runes, such as magic or infinity, would fall into polarities based on viewpoint (making this viewpoint more universal in a mythology/cosmology is one of the things I'd like to discuss].