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Cassirin · 01-08-2013, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Magical Soul

"Good morning everyone and welcome to your first Ancient Runes class this term." Botros started, giving looks to those not paying attention to him. The piles were obviously too intriguing for young people. "I'm Abraham Botros, your new Runes professor. Before we start I'd like us all to take a moment of silence in honor of the unfortunate professor before me." He bowed his head and clutched the cane with both his hands.

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One moment was done. He raised his head slowly and continued, "This subject, as you all will see, is mostly a theoretical one which tends to give the wrong impression on most scholars" Tsk tsk tsk, shame. "Together we'll try to take small gradual steps in order to understand the sacred runes of Odin - Runic magic, in particular." They were wizards and witches afterall. So no, they were not about to learn how to write in runes. That was too boring.

He moved to the side and waved his wand at the blackboard, removing the earlier instruction. "Runes of Odin, runic magic, runic inscriptions. I keep repeating the word rune. Who knows what are runes? Or what does the word rune mean literally?" Positioning himself on the middle of his desk, he leaned on it and waited. "Raise your hand first, please."

ooc: - You don't have to give a completely correct answer, just let your character reply according to their year/knowledge/personality. ^.^
- Do not edit your answer after you posted it.
- Class will resume in 12 hours.[/INDENT]

Runes, hmm? Which were entirely different things from ruins, thank you, and also were probably not German, although he wasn't 100% sure and didn't bother correcting his classmates. Mo was pretty sure they were from somewhere north. Norway or Iceland or the North Pole. Somewhere really cold.

After his classmates had answered, Mo's hand shot up in the air, and he wiggled around in his seat for a moment. "So... so like it's an alphabet, right? Which means that it spells words and people used to use it to write, only no one speaks in those languages anymore, so you'd think it would be a dead language like Latin. Except that, like Latin, we still make use of Runes to do really awesome things. But not just swapping letter for letter, because it wasn't like those ol' Rune-speaking people used English spelling or anything. But you can use runes for Divination and like... charms and things." FYI.

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Cassirin Legacy!! Manticore Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Nom nom nom Posts: 43,209 Hogwarts RPG Name: Mercer Branxton Ravenclaw Seventh Year x7 x8	Made of Awesome \| Ern-la the Best-wa \| TZ's Apogee Quote: Originally Posted by Magical Soul "Good morning everyone and welcome to your first Ancient Runes class this term." Botros started, giving looks to those not paying attention to him. The piles were obviously too intriguing for young people. "I'm Abraham Botros, your new Runes professor. Before we start I'd like us all to take a moment of silence in honor of the unfortunate professor before me." He bowed his head and clutched the cane with both his hands. .... One moment was done. He raised his head slowly and continued, "This subject, as you all will see, is mostly a theoretical one which tends to give the wrong impression on most scholars" Tsk tsk tsk, shame. "Together we'll try to take small gradual steps in order to understand the sacred runes of Odin - Runic magic, in particular." They were wizards and witches afterall. So no, they were not about to learn how to write in runes. That was too boring. He moved to the side and waved his wand at the blackboard, removing the earlier instruction. "*Runes of Odin, runic magic, runic inscriptions. I keep repeating the word rune. Who knows what* are runes? Or what does the word rune mean literally?" Positioning himself on the middle of his desk, he leaned on it and waited. "Raise your hand first, please.*" ooc: - You don't have to give a completely correct answer, just let your character reply according to their year/knowledge/personality. ^.^ - Do not edit your answer after you posted it. - Class will resume in 12 hours.[/INDENT] Runes, hmm? Which were entirely different things from ruins, thank you, and also were probably* not German, although he wasn't 100% sure and didn't bother correcting his classmates. Mo was pretty sure they were from somewhere north. Norway or Iceland or the North Pole. Somewhere really cold. After his classmates had answered, Mo's hand shot up in the air, and he wiggled around in his seat for a moment. "So... so like it's an alphabet, right? Which means that it spells words and people used to use it to write, only no one speaks in those languages anymore, so you'd think it would be a dead language like Latin. Except that, like Latin, we still make use of Runes to do really awesome things. But not just swapping letter for letter, because it wasn't like those ol' Rune-speaking people used English spelling or anything. But you can use runes for Divination and like... charms and things." FYI. __________________ ★ Dawn ★ Awakening ★ Spiritual ★ Hopeful ★ Honest