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Eldar Runes Insert (FR AD&D Cardstock)

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#1
chaosstorm
Jun 21, 2010 17:28:06 Back in the summer of 1994 or 1995 I borrowed my DM's Forgotten Realms campaign setting boxed set to create my character for our upcoming games. I created a half-elf shadowblade and drew his name from one of the runes on a cardstock insert included in that boxed set. I've always referenced it as an "eldar rune," but now, 15 or so years later, I've been wondering what other symbols were on that sheet. Anybody still have that set, and am I making stuff up?

I remember drawing this symbol repeatedly.
#2
Stigger
Jun 21, 2010 18:03:48 Somewhere or other I have them, but I have no idea where. Should go looking for those one of these days really. Offhand, I do recall some being mentioned in the Forgotten Realms Adventures hardcover for 2e. Pity they never updated those runes in later editions, they definitely added something I thought.
#3
Jorunhast
Jun 21, 2010 21:22:44
Back in the summer of 1994 or 1995 I borrowed my DM's Forgotten Realms campaign setting boxed set to create my character for our upcoming games. I created a half-elf shadowblade and drew his name from one of the runes on a cardstock insert included in that boxed set. I've always referenced it as an "eldar rune," but now, 15 or so years later, I've been wondering what other symbols were on that sheet. Anybody still have that set, and am I making stuff up?

I remember drawing this symbol repeatedly.

From the Realms 1993 Boxed set card, this is "Korombos" or the Elder Rune for chaos. It doesn't say whether it's good or evil, but rather it's a warning to travelers that dire consequences are ahead. You might find it on a door or above a passageway.

That said, here's a tidbit on what elder runes are, direct from Ed Greenwood:
..."Elder runes" is a collective modern-day Realms term, probably coined by an unknown human sage at least a thousand years ago (because it's about that long ago that the term gradually seeps into common usage among students and workers of magic), referring to a growing (as they're "rediscovered") collection of magical symbols (probably NOT of common origins) used by long-ago workers of magic. More specifically, we know that some Netherese (and a handful of their scattered descendants, after the fall of that realm) used them, and also that before that, dwarves of Besilmer employed some of what we now call 'elder runes, ' and may well have merely augmented and expanded upon runes in use earlier among the Stout Folk. The names now used for many of the known elder runes hint that elves also used them, and adventurers know that certain shamans among the goblinkin (orcs, goblins, and especially hobgoblins) draw them to this day.

Read more about Elder Runes here, at the Jan 8th response:
   www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/sse/...
#4
chaosstorm
Jun 21, 2010 21:26:53 Aha! So my memory does not lie

Thanks for the Ed of the Green Wood tidbit, too. I poked around candlekeep a bit previously, but didn't find that page.
#5
Jorunhast
Jun 21, 2010 21:27:47
Aha! So my memory does not lie

Thanks for the Ed of the Green Wood tidbit, too. I poked around candlekeep a bit previously, but didn't find that page.

No prob.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 chaosstorm Jun 21, 2010 17:28:06	Back in the summer of 1994 or 1995 I borrowed my DM's Forgotten Realms campaign setting boxed set to create my character for our upcoming games. I created a half-elf shadowblade and drew his name from one of the runes on a cardstock insert included in that boxed set. I've always referenced it as an "eldar rune," but now, 15 or so years later, I've been wondering what other symbols were on that sheet. Anybody still have that set, and am I making stuff up? I remember drawing this symbol repeatedly.
#2 Stigger Jun 21, 2010 18:03:48	Somewhere or other I have them, but I have no idea where. Should go looking for those one of these days really. Offhand, I do recall some being mentioned in the Forgotten Realms Adventures hardcover for 2e. Pity they never updated those runes in later editions, they definitely added something I thought.
#3 Jorunhast Jun 21, 2010 21:22:44	Back in the summer of 1994 or 1995 I borrowed my DM's Forgotten Realms campaign setting boxed set to create my character for our upcoming games. I created a half-elf shadowblade and drew his name from one of the runes on a cardstock insert included in that boxed set. I've always referenced it as an "eldar rune," but now, 15 or so years later, I've been wondering what other symbols were on that sheet. Anybody still have that set, and am I making stuff up? I remember drawing this symbol repeatedly. From the Realms 1993 Boxed set card, this is "Korombos" or the Elder Rune for chaos. It doesn't say whether it's good or evil, but rather it's a warning to travelers that dire consequences are ahead. You might find it on a door or above a passageway. That said, here's a tidbit on what elder runes are, direct from Ed Greenwood: ..."Elder runes" is a collective modern-day Realms term, probably coined by an unknown human sage at least a thousand years ago (because it's about that long ago that the term gradually seeps into common usage among students and workers of magic), referring to a growing (as they're "rediscovered") collection of magical symbols (probably NOT of common origins) used by long-ago workers of magic. More specifically, we know that some Netherese (and a handful of their scattered descendants, after the fall of that realm) used them, and also that before that, dwarves of Besilmer employed some of what we now call 'elder runes, ' and may well have merely augmented and expanded upon runes in use earlier among the Stout Folk. The names now used for many of the known elder runes hint that elves also used them, and adventurers know that certain shamans among the goblinkin (orcs, goblins, and especially hobgoblins) draw them to this day. Read more about Elder Runes here, at the Jan 8th response: www.candlekeep.com/library/articles/sse/...
#4 chaosstorm Jun 21, 2010 21:26:53	Aha! So my memory does not lie Thanks for the Ed of the Green Wood tidbit, too. I poked around candlekeep a bit previously, but didn't find that page.
#5 Jorunhast Jun 21, 2010 21:27:47	Aha! So my memory does not lie Thanks for the Ed of the Green Wood tidbit, too. I poked around candlekeep a bit previously, but didn't find that page. No prob.