Runestones

A runestone is a magical device that contains a spell. The nice thing about runestones is that anyone with magical ability can use them, even if you don't know the spell, or have training in that school of magic. Depending on the spell, it does take a bit of fine tweaking to be able to properly cast it. When you work with runestones, you are working your Magical Devices skill.

The runestone carries no power itself. Instead, you have to FOCUS your own magical energy into it to be able to use the spell. Runestones have "lines" of power flowing through them. These lines always have a weak point. When you work with a runestone, you must adjust the flow of power through these lines, which will allow you to cast the spell. If the flow through these lines is too weak, you will not be able to cast the spell. With use, all runestones break and will crumble to dust.

Over the centuries scholars have found ways to scribe spell patterns into certain minerals. Any given mineral can only hold a specific type of spell pattern. Some spell patterns can be stored in a few types of minerals. While the color or setting of the mineral might change (rune, jewelry, wand, etc) the inherent crystalline structure that dictates what pattern might be impregnated into the mineral does not change.

Using a Runestone

• FOCUS on your runestone. When you focus, you'll get a dialogue like this:

You focus your magical senses on a dark asketine runestone. The asketine runestone has a definite magical pattern, which is apparently a spell. You recognize the pattern as a manifestation of Life magic. It seems to involve Nature Manipulation. The pattern appears to be the Compost spell. There is a weak point in one of the lines of energy, which will probably not hold for many more uses. The lines are of moderate width, and they glare with brilliance.

With enough skill, this will tell you the type of mana the spell runs on, the spell book it is from, the spell itself, the brightness of the lines, and the charges remaining. Simply focusing on a rune over and over is a great way for beginners to learn Magical Devices skill.

• FOCUS RUNE <PERCENT> - this command adjusts the flow of power through the lines of the rune. Depending on your skill, you may be successful in raising the power, or you could fail and the power will dim.

>focus rune 80
You focus your magical senses on a dark asketine runestone. 
You deftly make an adjustment to the flow of energy.
The lines of power brighten considerably.

• RUB the runestone to begin casting the spell.

>rub my rune
You rub a dark asketine runestone.
The Compost spell leaps from the runestone into your mind and you begin to prepare it.

Now that you are preparing the spell, you are able to HARNESS more power if you'd like into the spell. When the spell is prepared, simply CAST it.

Types of Runestones

Runestone Mineral	Spell	Mana Type
Asketine	Compost	Life
Avaes	Clear Vision	Lunar
Axinite	Mental Blast	Lunar
Azurite	Shadows	Lunar
Calavarite	Arc Light	Elemental
Celestite	Refractive Field	Lunar
Elbaite	Sphere of Protection	Life
Erythrite	Rejuvenation	Holy
Hafaltu	Ethereal Shield	Elemental
Iheaneu'a	Psychic Shield	Lunar
Ilmenite	Lightning Bolt	Elemental
Imnera	Zephyr	Elemental
Indakar	Protection from Evil	Holy
Lemicule	Air Bubble	Elemental
Malachite	Air Bubble	Elemental
Rhodonite	Fire Shard	Elemental
Scheelite	Fire Ball	Elemental
Selenite	Frostbite	Elemental
Sraeth	Soul Bonding	Holy
Xibaryl	Hypnotize	Lunar
Zengalmi	Gar Zeng	Elemental

Rune Jewelry

In the world, you will find pieces of jewelry that have one of the stones above listed, like a heavy golden sunfish pendant with delicate pink erythrite stripes or a skeletal asketine-veined leaf charm. If you look at the types of runestones above, you can match the stone in your piece of jewelry to the spell it will cast.

Jewelry has similar properties to runes - they must be FOCUSed and then you RUB them to use the spell. Eventually, the will break as well. You cannot charge runic jewelry.

Runestone Merchants

• Sierack's Reagents in Shard
• Kalazashi's House of Majik in Ratha sells rune jewelry.