BONDED-RUNES

Bonded runes define the essence of what a spell does. A spell is just another name for a sequence of bonded runes.

For example, the Flameburst spell consists of the two bonded runes "fu" (Fire) and "ev" (Evocation) while the Cure Serious spell consists of "bod" (Body), "goo" (Good, or Positive), "ney" (Energy), and "ja" (Power I). Flameburst is therefore also known as "fuev" and Cure Serious is also known as "bodgooneyja".

It is not enough to just learn bonded runes and then freely combine them into spells. You need to learn the bonding as well. For example, once you have learned "fu" and "ev", you will need to practice the "fuev" spell, or Flameburst, at your guildmaster.

Once you have learned a spell (i.e. a set of bonded runes and the bonding) you need to add one or more shaping runes to indicate how the spell will function. See SHAPING-RUNES for more information.