Been trying to find some info on where the names of the runes came from. Was unsuccessful. Appears that the design team just made them up to sound archaic and mystical. I do wonder why they landed on these rune names though, and I have speculated at what the thinking was behind each rune…
Ber ~ the Buy Everything Rune.
Sur - Supremely Useless Rune.
Lo - the Left Overs (from a Jah trade).
Ist - the It’s Somewhat Tradable.
Vex - the Very Expensive rune.
That’s all that occurred to me but some other prominent runes, I can’t even begin to guess at:
Jah, Zod, Cham, Ohm, Gul, Pul, Lem?
Post your ideas.
Ps. Yes I know - I am clearly in need of time away from the computer.
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Been trying to find some info on where the names of the runes came from. Was unsuccessful. Appears that the design team just made them up to sound archaic and mystical. I do wonder why they landed on these rune names though, and I have speculated at what the thinking was behind each rune…
Ber ~ the Buy Everything Rune.
Sur - Supremely Useless Rune.
Lo - the Left Overs (from a Jah trade).
Ist - the It’s Somewhat Tradable.
Vex - the Very Expensive rune.
That’s all that occurred to me but some other prominent runes, I can’t even begin to guess at:
Jah, Zod, Cham, Ohm, Gul, Pul, Lem?
Post your ideas.
Ps. Yes I know - I am clearly in need of time away from the computer.
Ber ~ the Buy Everything Rune.
Sur - Supremely Useless Rune.
Lo - the Left Overs (from a Jah trade).
Ist - the It’s Somewhat Tradable.
Vex - the Very Expensive rune.
That’s all that occurred to me but some other prominent runes, I can’t even begin to guess at:
Jah, Zod, Cham, Ohm, Gul, Pul, Lem?
Post your ideas.
Ps. Yes I know - I am clearly in need of time away from the computer.
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I’ve also wondered this, but that’s mainly my linguistics interest coming through… so, I have a slightly more serious answer for you. What kind of syllabary is this? We have rune WORDS, we know how to spell them and thus have some definitions available, but how to pronounce them? How do they work as a language?
Some, like Exile, actually spell things: Void if you take the first letter of each rune ( Vex Ohm Ist Dol). Which is the real reason it’s always been one of my favourites. That’s Just Neat.
Tolkien’s languages, Skyrim’s Dragon tongue, Klingon, and others have always been a special interest of mine. I’ve long considered taking a proper crack at using the d2 runes as the basis for one myself, since it doesn’t ACTUALLY appear to be one already… it’s part of why I’m hand-writing my runeword chronicle as I go! It’s a way to look for patterns and sort of meditate on the runes themselves. I find that manually transferring something to a different medium is often much more helpful than just copy-pasting or printing when it comes to spotting things I’d otherwise miss and thinking about the material in different ways.
Well, that and it helps to force myself to take a bit more of a break from the computer for artistic endeavours…
Some, like Exile, actually spell things: Void if you take the first letter of each rune ( Vex Ohm Ist Dol). Which is the real reason it’s always been one of my favourites. That’s Just Neat.
Tolkien’s languages, Skyrim’s Dragon tongue, Klingon, and others have always been a special interest of mine. I’ve long considered taking a proper crack at using the d2 runes as the basis for one myself, since it doesn’t ACTUALLY appear to be one already… it’s part of why I’m hand-writing my runeword chronicle as I go! It’s a way to look for patterns and sort of meditate on the runes themselves. I find that manually transferring something to a different medium is often much more helpful than just copy-pasting or printing when it comes to spotting things I’d otherwise miss and thinking about the material in different ways.
Well, that and it helps to force myself to take a bit more of a break from the computer for artistic endeavours…
It's not that deep, boys.
The rune "language" comes from the same company that gifted us with names like Treehead Woodfist or rares like Puke Eater the Quick (@AlphaJackal)
The rune "language" comes from the same company that gifted us with names like Treehead Woodfist or rares like Puke Eater the Quick (@AlphaJackal)
It may not be that deep, but I’ve got a shovel and I’m prepared to dig. I mean come on, who HASN’T dug a hole to nowhere for fun before?mikelessar wrote: 10 hours agoIt's not that deep, boys.
The rune "language" comes from the same company that gifted us with names like Treehead Woodfist or rares like Puke Eater the Quick (@AlphaJackal)
The sun is a deadly laser and it’s too dang hot outside to do that now though, so I’ll take a hole to nowhere that can be dug indoors with paper and ink and too much free time, please.
Now, how would one write Puke Eater the Quick with runes…
Well, first you need to figure out how to translate, or transliterate, the name to rune-language
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I figure its supposed to be less a language and more like logographic / symbolic glyphs that convey a concept by themselves. Ofc, i doubt blizzard thought about it much during the inception of the runes lol. So my take is that they are each words / concepts, and together they can convey something different, i imagine something between runes of germanic/ nordic/ etc and the japanese logographic alphabet Kanji.EmaTheVampire wrote: 11 hours agoI’ve also wondered this, but that’s mainly my linguistics interest coming through… so, I have a slightly more serious answer for you. What kind of syllabary is this? We have rune WORDS, we know how to spell them and thus have some definitions available, but how to pronounce them? How do they work as a language?
Some, like Exile, actually spell things: Void if you take the first letter of each rune ( Vex Ohm Ist Dol). Which is the real reason it’s always been one of my favourites. That’s Just Neat.
Tolkien’s languages, Skyrim’s Dragon tongue, Klingon, and others have always been a special interest of mine. I’ve long considered taking a proper crack at using the d2 runes as the basis for one myself, since it doesn’t ACTUALLY appear to be one already… it’s part of why I’m hand-writing my runeword chronicle as I go! It’s a way to look for patterns and sort of meditate on the runes themselves. I find that manually transferring something to a different medium is often much more helpful than just copy-pasting or printing when it comes to spotting things I’d otherwise miss and thinking about the material in different ways.
Well, that and it helps to force myself to take a bit more of a break from the computer for artistic endeavours…
So I dont think theyre supposed to be letters, or used in any meaningful language, but more an occult "keys" that can shape or change reality.
Fellow co-digger here. I think I can have a fair go at this one…EmaTheVampire wrote: 9 hours agoIt may not be that deep, but I’ve got a shovel and I’m prepared to dig. I mean come on, who HASN’T dug a hole to nowhere for fun before?mikelessar wrote: 10 hours agoIt's not that deep, boys.
The rune "language" comes from the same company that gifted us with names like Treehead Woodfist or rares like Puke Eater the Quick (@AlphaJackal)
The sun is a deadly laser and it’s too dang hot outside to do that now though, so I’ll take a hole to nowhere that can be dug indoors with paper and ink and too much free time, please.
Now, how would one write Puke Eater the Quick with runes…
Pul - Ko [Puke]
El - Tir [Eat-er]
El - ‘the’ in Spanish
Ber - Ist - Ko [brisk]
Done.
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