Re: Who designed the runes?

From: Julian Lord (julian.lord@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Sat 08 Jul 2000 - 00:26:39 EEST


Simon :

> As far as I know, the runes we saw in RQ2 and RQ3 were the God Learner
> standard set.

AFAIK, the 'RuneQuest' Runes are not incorrect, and haven't been ret-conned : they
are Dragon Pass Orlanthi *versions* of the GL Runes (as presented in HW). Same
symbolic meanings ; different alphabet/syllabary/idiograms. Happened all the time
in RW.

I was once a Flame Warrior in the 'languages' thread ... ... ...

Still ; it does now appear that Western script *is* idiographic, after all ...

> What I do not know is where all these new runes come from. Are they
> variations on the GL runes? Are they collections of runes taken from
> different cultures?

They *are* the GL Runes ; and : Yes to your second question.

Make sense ?

cheers,

Julian Lord

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