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Harry's Blasting Rod
Quantus:
If Im not mistaken the runes that appear on the covers' staffs are actually Japanese kanji, fwiw.
Mr. Death:
Yeah, I think they spell out "MATRIX," from what I've heard.
I want to say Harry uses Norse runes in his stuff -- at the least, in Heorot he says he's familiar with them. I don't remember if there's a more explicit reference to what's on his staff.
Mr. Death:
In Small Favor, Eldest Gruff's staff is described as "carved with runes that looked almost precisely like my own." Dunno how accurate it is, but Eldest Gruff's picture in the DFRPG book has Futhark runes on it. Phonetically, they spell, "Donuts are tasty."
A description of the Stone Table in Summer Knight: "Writing writhed across the surface of the stone, runes that looked a little familiar. Norse, maybe?"
Every other reference to Harry's staff just uses "runes" without giving further description.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Mr. Death on January 10, 2018, 08:37:42 PM ---Phonetically, they spell, "Donuts are tasty."
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That is hilarious.
I always assumed he made up his own (assuming intent applies to enchantment), or else copied them off McCoy. Would McCoy use Celtic/Gaelic/Anglo-Saxon runic alphabets? Or would the runes he picked be whole-word substitutes rather than alphabetic (hieroglyphs, Kanji, that sort of thing)?
Mr. Death:
--- Quote from: Kindler on January 11, 2018, 05:41:20 PM ---That is hilarious.
I always assumed he made up his own (assuming intent applies to enchantment), or else copied them off McCoy. Would McCoy use Celtic/Gaelic/Anglo-Saxon runic alphabets? Or would the runes he picked be whole-word substitutes rather than alphabetic (hieroglyphs, Kanji, that sort of thing)?
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Probably depends on who McCoy's master was, and so on. McCoy might be Scottish, but his Master-Apprentice chain stretches back to Merlin...
... who was rumored to be taught by Odin.
So yeah, I can believe that Harry learned Norse runes from McCoy, who learned them from his Master, etc.
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