OPTION 11



{ Ancient Runes, Lesson One Homework }

Create your own set of runes. Use your imagination to create them, and give me the rune meanings.

This is the Glashfyre Set of Runes, and my attempt to make runes look shinier, happier and less morbid, professor. I love them, I really do, but you know, my younger cousin is positively SCARED of how hollow-ish and greyish most of them look.



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The Fruit



[] Bitterness:
The antithesis of the name itself.

[] Temptation:
The reach towards what is best left locked.

[] The Forbidden:
For the better good.

[] Mischief:
The spice that should not be sold. Or bought.

[] Change:
The transition from good to bad, light to dark.

[] Difficulty:
The complications we create.


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The Soil


[] Life:
The second name of death.

[] Growth:
The necessity of health.

[] Nourishment:
The provision of that, that makes us continue. To struggle.
To be.

[] Home:
A place to call your own.

[] Death:
Because the earth must claim us, for its own.

[] Mortality:
The necessary return to dust.

[] Contradiction:
The silent representation of conflicting opposites.


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The Fox


[] Wisdom:
Not in words, but within them.

[] Intelligence:
The quickness that not many possess, in truth.

[] Cunning:
How to put a stopper into death.

[] Adaptability:
Flexibility in the face of fire.
The willingness to shake hands with a dislike.

[] Camouflage:
There is something behind the bush.

[] The Hunt:
The ability to track.
Beware.


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The Broken Glass


[] The End:
Of good, or of bad.
But soon.

[] Breakage:
Of a heart. Of more.
Of how to sweep away broken dreams, and pick up new one.

[] Change:
The turning of a leaf.

[] The summons:
Something else requires your attention; and urgently.

[] Shattered Dreams:
Or a very living nightmare.


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The Ruby:


[] Fire:
What burns within us.

[] Love:
There is no word pure enough to offer description.

[] Hope:
Because all is never lost.

[] Riches:
There is always a ‘hall’ for improvement.

[] Desire and passion:
What tears us apart, and pieces us together.

[] Devotion:
That passionate variant of dedication.

[] Daughters and purity:
Two more ways to say ‘love.’

[] The month of July:
Heat, midsummer and beauty.