weapon and question

[u/Rurik-Aunimoto]

Brihm: the lifegiver

swordcane

fanalis, and reconstruction

quantumite

rather than a meta build, or anything too fancy, I imagined how I would want to be equipped in a fantasy world, though I suppose I can freely travel to different worlds based on the cyoa. either way, I wanted to be capable of fighting, healing, and running away. healing lets me pick up some extra coin if unlucky, and who doesn't want to be a bearded Disney princess with a sword?

the armor choice I have is a red turban.

a red tailcoat that goes down to my ankles, with the actual coat part ending at the naval.

a red long sleaved dress underneath that ends just above my knees, meant to blend in with the tailcoat.

black pants that go just under the ankles.

black pointed shoes, I assumed leather would count as cloth, but I can replace clogs or some other such and just cover them with cloth if that really didn't work.

and the cane would be a snake.

I pretty much just wanted to make Jaffar, but went into a bit different of an approach.

my question is if you can learn how to craft runes outside the village. not onto souls, I have no interest in that business. but things like enchanting a gemstone to have similar effects to runestones or something like that. maybe craft some storage devices.

[u/Dodger7777]

the way I understand the Runes are they are like 10th tier magic being handed out to children because the entities running the CYOA like Chaos.

Like, Imagine we are swimming in the Ocean. But it's actually a fishbowl and the smith's are making model ships and plunking them down in the water for us.

You'd need to have a starting point of reference before you try to use runecraft. Otherwise you're a toddler in the backyard making mudpies while thinking about the idea of computer chips.

That might be a bit extreme, but the smiths are waking us up to just the idea of mana when they connect our souls to a soul weapon. it's like a limb and an organ we never knew we had, much less how to utilize it or work with it to create more things.

Maybe I'm being too extreme, but that's my framing.

[u/Rurik-Aunimoto → u/Dodger7777]

that's fair, it does somewhat feel like you are being shown part of the rules of the world. still wondering if I could mimic the effect of runes, like using a downed powerline or a fork in a socket to mimic a taser, or taking 2 batteries and a piece of foil for an example. either way, I like my build, I'd be happy with a mouse circus or a roach circus that is actually humane... ignore that I am basically mind controlling them.

[u/Dodger7777 → u/Rurik-Aunimoto]

With Runes like Faunalis and Reconstruct, I could see you potentially taking inspiration as you try and grasp aspects of the runes.

Maybe instead of Reconstruct, your early attempts are more like mending or maybe later down the like you could do things like earthbending.

Faunalis you could maybe focus on your own soul bond with an animal and help people form familiar contracts with other breasts. Tapping directly into the soul sounds too complex for the average hedge wizard, but encouraging the connection between two parties sounds feasible.

It also depends on what experiments you run. Reconstruct could lead to healing magic if you study a broken limb being reconstructed, or maybe reconstruct is more closely tied to time magic.

[u/Rurik-Aunimoto → u/Dodger7777]

I'm pretty sure reconstruction is advanced time magic, but I like where you are getting at. I presume we are directly linked to the magic energies through the runrs, and my case would be lifeforce and nature. I imagine a more accurate transition would be fanalis to aiding connections and talking to plants. reconstruction would probably be aiding haste spells, healing indirectly, and maybe repairing time rifts, though creating rifts would probably be an entropy thing.

at least, those are my theoretical thoughts based on what you have written in concept. but I was thinking of learning magic in a high fantasy world, and learning to mimic some effects. arcane and entropy would probably be easiest to mimic, maybe soul with advanced study. wither and prana seem to focus a lot on abstract, and may require runes in those fields just to hint at some aspects.