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"I was speaking of the shape of each rune symbol themselves, however it would be an interesting experiement, Kurumi." Truebridge answered. "Certainly what you carve the rune into has some bearing on the magic, so it would make sense for the shape of what you carve the rune symbol into to have some bearing in a magical sense at least."
As for everyone else.
"I know that some of the concepts are hard to get your mind around. But we'll begin now by opening our books to chapter five." He waited for the books to open and then continued.
"The twenty four runes of the Elder Futhark are listed here, along with a few magical and divinatory meanings associated with each one. The tables you are sitting at are each made of wood and I think are rather bare. So today we're going to choose runes to carve into the tables, based on the magical associations of each rune, and activate the magic of each one, hopefully to provide beneficial effects on your learning."
Yes. They'd be carving up the furniture.
"So take a look at the list. What kind of runes do you think would be good to carve into a desk that you do schoolwork on? What kind of effects would you think might be beneficial? Put your hand up if you can see one here, and do feel free to think outside the box, there is a lot of opportunity for that. You're welcome to say a rune someone else has said, but do try to share a different magical association to that rune as well as why you think it'd be
useful."
ooc: be creative, go ahead and say as many runes as you want, as long as your character can say why they think it'd be beneficial to be on a school desk/table.
Selina listened intently as the Professor talked. She was quickly writing down everything he said until she realized he was just answering Kurumi's question. Feeling quite foolish she tried to cover up her parchment that was scribbled on with all of his talking. Pulling out her book she looked through all of the runes. She was sure she had seen some of these before. Her mother was always doodling them on spare parchment when she was working in her office.
Looking through the book she saw two runes that spoke out to her: the raidho and the haglaz. The first of the two meant a journey and wasn't that what learning was all about- the journey and the change you make on that journey? The second was the haglaz which meant a disaster. From the time she was younger Selina learned that failure and disasters were natural and part of the learning experience.
She raised her hand and answered just that, "Professor, what about the raidho and the haglaz? One signifies the journey and don't we all go through a journey in school that perfects our person? And the haglaz is a trial or destruction. In school don't we all learn from our mistakes? Isn't that what learning is?" Selina asked.
Of course she was not sure if his question was even rhetorical so when she was done she blushed from her embarrassment.