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Update & Chat! (Patreon)

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2023-05-24 22:19:09
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2026-06
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Hey all!Two quick things!

1. I lost a battle to a ceramic cup and cut my finger pretty good. The cup lost the war, though, as it did not survive the engagement. Today's chapter will be slower as my finger is now no longer pleased with my typing speed, but it will still come today, I promise. Just a little later than normal. 

2. Since I'm clogging your feed with this post, I might as well make it useful. If you've got any thoughts for Runebound (questions, plot modification clarifications, things you think might be errors or could be improved) feel free to toss them here!Obviously, beware of spoilers in the comments. Don't read them if you want to avoid spoilers. 

Here's a list of some that I already know of / am reworking!

- Noah's other students (removing the mention of them to avoid character clog this early on)

- Ash runes ( will be modifying his reasons for keeping the Ash runes)

- I may have forgotten some. Memory bad. 

Anyway, thanks for your patience everyone! I'm really excited to get this next arc started. 

Comments

Bunny Waffles

What did you do with your worthy foe?

Actus

Alas, it was sacrificed to the trash can

quiscon

I being wanting to ask, have ya read a novel called The Villain Wants to Live? its one of my favorites and one of the reasons I started reading yours since it gave me a similar vibe

abc

Noah seems to be rather clueless about the world around him and seems to be living his life every single day at a time. Do you think there should be a strong motivation for him to improve his abilities like for example in minute mage arlan is forced to improve himself due to the demons trying constantly to capture him. Because rn it seems like there is no time pressure on him at all.

Actus

You've got great timing. I wanted to keep things more open to start, but there's absolutely a pressure that's going to be building very, very soon. I don't want to spoil it, but I think you guys are going to really enjoy it.

Actus

Is it sacrelidge to say I haven't? I've heard a ton about it though, I feel like I really should...

Ryan

Sorry to hear about the finger but I’m glad your enemy ultimately perished! Love the q/a chapter got plenty of questions

Ryan

So first I’ve been wondering about the natures of Great Runes, like are they natural forming discrete entities or just like the culmination of combining/merging after all tiers. If so, could Sunder split the Hellreaver’s rune? Is Noah going to consider this, try it? Mostly rhetorical don’t really need spoilers on that lol

quiscon

I think that it is one of the first and best when it comes to this types of novels and I would honestly recommend ya gave it a read, if nothing else, it might give ya some inspiration.

Ryan

But the actual mechanics of combining runes doesn’t make sense to me. Merging two rank 1 makes you a rank 2 mage, and you can then create new rank runes. Are the new runes rank 1 and have to be merged into rank 2, or can they be directly rank 2. Can you merge more than two runes together or is it strictly in pairs? Not sure if Noah knows this and I missed the explanation or if it is intentionally vague

Actus

Great rune question - Yeah, that'll be for us to find out soon. The way great runes react with each other will be very interesting to write. I can't give concrete answers there yet. 2nd question - So you can't merge 2 runes - you need to merge all 7 at once, once all of them are full. I'll have to take another look at the initial explanation of the combination system to see if I should clarify things to make that more clear.

Ryan

Also it took me a while to wrap my head around the process of “filling runes with energy” I think that could be explained more clearly. Here’s how I think of it, is this right? - Creating a rune is just carving out a structure - Powering the rune is like filling the structure in. Done using souls of killed monkeys - A powered rune fills up with ‘aspected energy’, which regenerates.

Ryan

I don’t really understand the explanations of lesser runes (powers up faster? regen energy faster?) Or how combining lesser runes sets up a poor foundation if you can create new runes at the next rank. Maybe you could add a metaphor or more descriptions when Noah really starts experimenting with runes? Maybe when he tests merge combinations with Sunder?

Actus

Yep. I'll use a water analogy, I think that would make things a lot clearer. Creating the rune is making the bucket. Powering it is filling the bucket with water, using energy from defeated monsters. Once water is in the bucket, it gradually starts to refill on its own to the level that the water has been up to before.

Ryan

Ah good to know! Yeah dumped a ton of questions lol, loving the story!

Actus

Yeah, there will 100% be more context on it, I might also add some extra early. Also, for lesser runes, think of them as smaller buckets. They fill faster, but they're smaller and worse.

Ryan

Ah!! The bucket analogy is great! I really like the “to the level that it has been to before” makes it a lot clearer

Xel

Actus

Chapters 7 & 8 are updated on RR! I'll update them here soon too, but they've incorporated some of this.

Actus

- No more than 7 normal runes. - Combining runes is the main way to power up to get to next ranks, so yes, but you have to combine all 7 into a Rune of the next rank. - Greater runes are pretty much just the most powerful versions of Lesser runes, but they do take longer to fill. Hypothetically, a Lesser rune could be better if someone was in a super long fight and constantly out of magic. - No comment yet ;)

quiscon

By normal runes do you mean not great runes or just the sunder rune? I believe the mc character has 8 right?, was wondering if he ever considered if that would be bad for him, having more than 7 being dangerous I mean

Actus

Correct, yeah. Great Runes are separate from any limits imposed on normal ones.

Mundane

We know that a military / soldiers exist but it also seems like one of the main (only?) purpose of the school is to kill monsters. So what makes the military different? Why is there not a "non violent" path available for mages? On the other hand if you need to fully energize your runes before combining them why is our protagonist the only one grinding? With how much money runes are worth I am surprised that an outcast side branch family member would be given access to thousands of gold worth of runes with no control around them. The ease with which they can be secretly shared does not feel right to me. Over time this would mean many runes would become widely shared and the price would tank. Without some enforced scarcity (like each time a rune is copied it magically has a chance of disappearing) I just don't see how the rune economy works.

Alex

Well, I hope that the student/teacher dynamic remains a focus point in the plot development of the story. Would be a shame to lose that. The runes are a simple concept but with infinite possibilities so far, I think its a great power scaling mechanic for both newcomers and veterans. I wonder if they can be forcefully broken/added into a person or monster :) The characters are pretty limited but that's a good thing where the story is currently at, a couple of short sections in a chapter giving us a better look at Todd/Isabel/Moxie would be nice as they seem to be quiet central. The only characterization form them we see is spurred on by Noah, so maybe dedicating a chapter to exploring the 3 of them would be nice, as well as a more dedicated exploration of maybe the world they are in. Its nice to be self contained but a small exploration of the world beyond the University would do wonders to intrigue readers.

Actus

No worries, there are zero plans of ever getting rid of the teacher dynamic. That’s the whole point of the story after all, hahaha.

Actus

Lots of questions! I’ll be getting into some of those later, but - there are actually more ways to get energy than killing. I only tweaked this yesterday, but it’s mentioned very briefly in chapter 7 that killing is just one of the ways, not the only one. I think in the latest chapter, Moxie mentions that as well. There are much easier ways to get energy in runes - I’ll get to those later, though. Noah also isnt the only one grinding, but he was the only one spending time in the scorched acres to grind - answer to that will come soonish as well. Enforced scarcity is a good idea- im going to yoink that. And finally - it *is* strange that Noah has so many runes. He really shouldn’t. No, I won’t say anything more on that yet. I’m just going to say that a lot of things about Vermil are a little odd…