Harry's Blasting Rod

[Mr. Death]

http://sunnyway.com/runes/meanings.html This is the site I used. Gives you the phonetics and the meanings behind the runes.

[wardenferry419]

I found this picture.

[wardenferry419]

Or this one.

[Rasins]

I like those ... thanks a lot.

[Kindler]

I like those ... thanks a lot.

Making your own Traditional Ozark Folk Art, huh? 

[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]

Phonetically, they spell, "Donuts are tasty."

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]

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)?

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.

[Talby16]

I always assume Norse runes when I thought of the staff/rod. However, Harry had prime opportunities to compare his runes to Norse runes when Gard uses her rune based magic and doesn't.

[Quantus]

I always assume Norse runes when I thought of the staff/rod. However, Harry had prime opportunities to compare his runes to Norse runes when Gard uses her rune based magic and doesn't.

I wondered that once myself when I went looking for non-norse Runic sets/alphabets, but best I could find the term "rune" is (historically in RL) only used to refer to the europe and/or the germaic regions.  Even Runology is specifically a sub-section of Germanic Linguistics.  Meaning all Runes are technically Norse Runes.  There are plenty of fictional runic alphabets, but not many actual languages, and none outside Europe.  Of course I couldnt begin to explain a functional difference between runes and the other various alphabets and pictoforms of the world.

[Ananda]

You guys seem pretty good at wood stuff. What do you with these creations once they’re complete?

[groinkick]

You guys seem pretty good at wood stuff. What do you with these creations once they’re complete?

[wardenferry419]

Guys and their wood is a special bond.