In another thread, Andakitty commented:
I don't see much problem with utilizing rune in a non-deific setting, personally. The rune can simply be representations and manifestations of certain primal forces of the universe.
Actually, that is pretty much how I'm doing it in my own home campaign; the setting I've created utilize runes in very much that manner, although certain gods and goddess have become 'attached' to them over the eons.
The system uses a different set of runes than Glorantha, and the runes themselves -- as in representations of abstract concepts -- are the prime movers in the cosmological scene. Your average farmer may not understand how the Life rune operates, and only knows of his local Grain Goddess, but the philosophers understand that the gods are actually varied manifestations of the runes themselves, developed as a means for the average mortal to better understand those cosmic forces...
From a slightly different perspective, is there any intent of how the Rune magic is supposed to work in a more vanilla fantasy setting? MRQ has been advertised as fully able to support any sort of fantasy setting, so how do you use runes in a setting without gods, say?
I don't see much problem with utilizing rune in a non-deific setting, personally. The rune can simply be representations and manifestations of certain primal forces of the universe.
Actually, that is pretty much how I'm doing it in my own home campaign; the setting I've created utilize runes in very much that manner, although certain gods and goddess have become 'attached' to them over the eons.
The system uses a different set of runes than Glorantha, and the runes themselves -- as in representations of abstract concepts -- are the prime movers in the cosmological scene. Your average farmer may not understand how the Life rune operates, and only knows of his local Grain Goddess, but the philosophers understand that the gods are actually varied manifestations of the runes themselves, developed as a means for the average mortal to better understand those cosmic forces...
