Rune Casting

by Rowan Sylva

Description: A novel and authentic system for reading and divining with rune staves. Ask the old gods for guidance. Contemplate your Oracle

• Creating rune staves

• Using a rune cloth

• Casting technique

• Rune casting as social game

• Cosmological overview

• Historical overview of the runes

• Historical rune poems

• 216 poetic rune oracles

• Generate an oracle using only this book

• 29 rune staves x 9 worlds of Norse mythology = 261 individual oracles. Players select and cast rune staves onto a cloth representing the nine worlds. The player reads the oracles associated with the rune in the world in which it has fallen. Each oracle is rendered as a short poetic stanza rooted in Viking Age life. The book includes: an introduction; detailed instructions, including for group play and a social game; brief summaries of the history of the runes and the nine worlds; hints for interpreting the oracles; the 261 oracles; and example readings. The system has been tested and calibrated. For generating a quick oracle, the book includes a pick-a-path system, requiring only the book. 
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