"The Runic Alphabet is an example of mortal ingenuity at its absolute finest. Across the entire continent dozens upon dozens of different Tribes, Herds, Packs, Queendoms, Empires and everything else all came up with the same idea, which was to give magic meaning via written language.
In the beginning it was entirely unique to those different places, with some having more complex characters than the others which resulted in vastly different sorts of enchanted items. To name an example of the complex and the simple, there were the Shaman's of the Cracked Beak Tribe - all Ravenkin or Crowkin - who invented a language of harsh lines intersecting at different angles to mean different things.
