Burnt on Glyphs

[Gondric]

Could they not be put into wepons. like where you hold (the hilt i think its called) but how big are these thins neways?

[Karyuu]

They are small stones - you can hold several in the palm of your hand, I think. But again, they can't be transferred onto just any material. So placing them on whatever item purely out of convenience doesn't work.

[Garile]

hmm there obviously a difference between putting the power on the blade and putting the stone that channels the energy in the blade when forging it like when you put a jewel in.

Having a blade be created with a glyph inbedded to easier slice through magical barriers when you hold it? A glyph only needs to be near you to work so being inside a weapon that is being held should be close enough to work should it not?

If glyphs somehow aren't inbedded I wonder how you explain weapons like the "Icy" dagger and the "Dark" dagger. I would say the effectiveness of these weapons seems to have been enhanced by a magical enhancement. A glyph inbedded seems more logical then to say energy is somehow stored in the weapon by an enchantment, becuase that way the magic should become less over time.

[Karyuu]

Many weapon smiths and crafters are usually practitioners of the Red Way - and they do indeed "enhance" items, no glyph-embedding required. But just having a glyph in a sword doesn't mean that you're all set to go and your sword is somehow more powerful. You still need to work the actual magic, so just slicing with the sword without doing anything else isn't going to... well, do anything else. I don't see how names like "icy" or "dark" need to have anything to do with glyphs - and I see nothing wrong with magical enhancement dissipating over time :] More demand for our crafters!

[bilbous]

This sounds like a question for the devs as there is obviously not enough publicly known. One wonders if you examined a ring of the familiar (or whatever it is called) would you find glyphs etched upon it, if not a small Glyph embedded in it. Will it ever be possible to reverse engineer such an item? I think it unlikely through game mechanics but such a thing should be possible to a craftsman (jeweler and mage) of sufficient skill. One thing I think a lot of people find frustrating is that knowledge is handed down in dribs and drabs and there is little to go on to try to discover things for yourself. This is not meant to be a criticism, just a statement of fact, as I cannot see any other way the system could work without giving away the farm, so to speak. Perhaps others would see it differently.

[Araye]

Karyuu,

I don't read the statement, "no one knows exactly why they form" to mean no one knows literally.  I see it as more artistic expression.  I also see it as a convenient way for the author to get out of going into great detail that s/he doesn't understand themself (at the time of the writing).

To take things so literal is fundamentalism at its fullest.  But if that's how you wish to read it, ok.  I myself would inquire of the author for clarity.  I don't see my proposal as sacrilege, whether it is correct or not.  I don't think it is right for you to dismiss it outright because it disagrees with your interpretation of "right".  I just made a suggestion of how it "could work".

Araye

[Karyuu]

Araye, I am by no means trying to glorify the author nor considering your opinions as "sacrilege." There's no need to distort my position. However, there are somethings that we already definitely know about the world that leaves no room for interpretation. Can man create new glyphs? No. Can man concentrate power and make a glyph appear? No again. Glyphs are found and harvested, and a good comparison is herbs. Their rarity is of course far greater and you require extremely intimate knowledge of where glyphs can be located to gather them, but gather them "in the wild" you must. You cannot raise a glyph garden, so to speak.

[Narure]

Glyphs are found and harvested, and a good comparison is herbs.

Not really, you can grow herbs. I'd say a better comparision is gold, because gold cant be 'made'. Would it be possible for a freak accident where someone stumbles into a source of great power and is glyphalised.

[Karyuu]

You're right, that's a much better comparison :) I guess I'm fixated on herb gathering at the moment. I don't think a living thing can be "glyphalised," however. Glyphs are magical symbols that usually appear by a source of great power, but nothing gets transformed into a glyph.

[Narure]

I didnt quite mean that. More to do with the glyphs appearing on animal fur, could a glyph appear on a character as part of a rare event or extreemly hard to aquire quest?

[Karyuu]

Oops, then I misunderstood - sorry! That's not something I would know. A question more for Darkmoon or Talad.

[eldoth_terevan]

Pray tell, Karyuu, why arest thou fixated on gathering herbs? Is there a reason for that fixation? ... and just to stay OT: According to the settings information it doesnt sound like glyphs can appear on people. But I have no problem if they do and it might be interesting.

[Garile]

hmm well aslong as it's not suddenly an uber glyph, but a glyph the rest simply has in his inventory I don't really mind the idea of an enki with glyphs on his fur.

That would definately give some status to mages of high level if they would be able to do that at a certain level. Have the mastermage walk around with all kinds of symbols. The more he has the more powerfull he is.

But I agree also it doesn't seem to be part of the setting as I see it like glyphs take a while to form most likely so there is a chance it would appear on rocks and plants who remain at that powerpoint for a certain amount of time.

[Nikodemus]

But I agree also it doesn't seem to be part of the setting as I see it like glyphs take a while to form most likely so there is a chance it would appear on rocks and plants who remain at that powerpoint for a certain amount of time.

That's on theory. But we do know it may appear on animal skin. Animals do move the same way as people, is if it appears there, it may apper on people's skin too. But also bone, muscle, it is so that you can't just see it, but you know.
But i would like to say one thing as clear as possible: Anyone who is so excited about such a feature, should forget about it at all. While glyphs don't appear often and the fact we may have a lot of them, is because they were gathered since long time and cumulating since then. No quests and if you will be lucky to see such a mage, don't expec to see his whole skin in glyphs. One glyph, maybe powerfull, but nothing  more. Unless that guy was choisen by some god, but then don't expect you being that guy, because most likely you aren't good enough RPer.

[Garile]

animal fur

You might feel thats nitpicking but do keep in mind that hair and so also fur is dead material. This would limit it to enkidukai and none of the other races.