Runestones

A runestone is a catch-all term magical device that causes a mage to prepare 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. However using a spell not of your mana type is Sorcery and can be dangerous. 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 Arcana 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 colorful elbaite runestone. Though not actively magical, the runestone is made out of a material that resists the flow of mana. Tiny tunnels and furrows are present in the runestone, which form the shape of a spell pattern. You recognize the pattern of the Instinct spell. You should get three more spells out of the runestone before it wears out. Roundtime: 2 sec.

With enough skill, this will tell you the spell and the charges remaining. Simply focusing on a rune over and over is a great way for beginners to learn Arcana skill, as well as Sorcery skill if the rune is one of another mana type than the users.

• INVOKE the runestone to begin casting the spell. You will need to have recently focused on the rune in order to properly INVOKE it.

>invoke my rune
Closing your eyes, you carefully bend some mana streams through a shining calavarite runestone.
The saturated tunnels in the runestone form the foundation of a spell pattern.  With 
this template in place, you begin preparing the Arc Light spell.
That will disrupt less than a quarter of your current attunement.

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

Common Minerals

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	Instinct	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 Shards	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 INVOKE them to use the spell. Eventually, they will break as well. You cannot charge runic jewelry.

Item	Spell	Rare	Incomplete
Inscribed calavarite brooch	Arc Light	false
Chipped rhodonite ring	Fire Shards	false
Broad mistwood staff immaculately carved with bestial images		true
Asketine unicorn pin	Compost	true

Runestone Merchants

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

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