Runic Sorcery

Runic sorcery was not the same as weaving. Mortals were only familiar with one type of sorcery in the Dream Realm's primordial era: the Sorcery of Names. They could invoke the true names of things to wield great power, but speaking those names aloud was often an impossible task.^[5]

Hope, however, had invented the concept of writing and gifted it to humans. With the knowledge of writing, humans learned how to transcribe true names and did not need to speak them aloud anymore. Furthermore, the names could be bound to material objects through writing, thus granting the invocations permanence, and could be shaped into songs and phrases.^[5]

However, it was still based on the knowledge of true names. Without knowing the meaning of the name, transcribing it would have no effect.^[5]

• Underneath the ruined cathedral of the Dark City, in a small cell within that broken circle. Runes were carved into the stone floor, surrounded by countless symbols that were not recognizable.^[6]
• The Gateway within the Crimson Spire was surrounded by a circle of runes.^[7]
• The stone arch on the last level of the Ebony Tower and the one connected to it, situated in the beautiful white gazebo on Ivory Island had runes too.^[8]
• Inside the Night Temple, runes on the jail cell.^[9]
• Warmongers' weapons were enchanted with runes.^[10]
• The whole vastness of the ancient arena in the Red Colosseum was a runic circle.^[10]
• Underground level of Ivory Tower.^[11]
• Defensive enchantments in True Bastion.^[12]
• A runic enchantment to ward off various kinds of unwanted attention.^[13]

• Runic sorcery and shaping (See Sorcery of Names) relied on True Names, one etched through a written language, the other invoking them directly.^[14] The Sorcery of Names and the Sorcery of Runes seem to have a positive correlation, both relying on invoking True Names.^[15]
• The early mastery of runic sorcery was due to an ominous and ancient artifact, a mirror, hidden in a dark and silent underground chamber in Bastion. The mirror had a connection to the Other Side, a place where rare inscriptions were left in the ruins.^[16] (Great Mirror)