While Min went looking for employees, Karl had the new Runecrafters gathered in the Guild House, facing a whiteboard, which he had covered in essential runic phrases for basic magical items.
They were all ones that worked well together, or could be added to other phrases as a modifier to give items a specific bonus.
"Alright, this is the single most common runic phrase that you will be using. I know that the System taught you to read the basic runic languages, so you should all see that it simply says Titanic Strength.
However, simply writing it wherever will not be as effective as proper placement.
If you’re writing it on a ring, you want the full enchantment to make even loops so that there are no empty gaps in the phrasing. So, this is the first thing that we will practice.
All the warriors of every Clan want these, unless they have better. So, you can sell a tonne of them to the traders.
On your tables are a bunch of wooden rings. Pick one that you like, it doesn’t matter the size, they will adapt to the bonded wearer. So, pick one that you think you can write the runes one well.
They’ve all got flat outer rings, for easier practice. Getting the runes just right on a curved surface takes more practice."
The Lycans picked up the rings, and memorized the four runes that made up the enchantment. That was one for every quarter of the ring, evenly spaced. It was not difficult, even without practice writing the language.
Slowly, they carved the simple wooden rings, careful not to mess up any of the stroke orders for the runes that they were carving.
That was one of the great dangers of Runecrafting, the Lycans decided. There were many runes that were nearly identical, but carved in a different direction, so one end of the stroke was wider than the other.
By basic layout, they were identical, but by width of the lines, they were not, and it was easy to make a mistake as to what you were writing if you messed up the order.
However, for many of the Lycans, they never actually wrote much of anything.
They could read just fine, and sent System Messages regularly. But physically writing? That was for nerds and mages. Not for the average Lycan warrior.
Karl knew how most of them felt about the situation, and that was why most of the warriors hadn’t signed up for the Runecrafting option.
It was mostly Elders and druids in here.
That wasn’t a bad thing. You didn’t want all the protectors to be inside creating gear when there was an attack. But you couldn’t cut them out entirely, or they would just end up poor.
Well, normally.
The Guild was very generous with giving out fun stuff, and the Pack was even more so, as they viewed it as the duty of the group to ensure that everyone had everything that they actually needed.



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