what are these runes?

[jeffjerwin]

I saw these roughly centered over where the clan tula in my game is in one of the maps in the Book of Heortling Mythology (p.62) - the Volsaxi/Whitewall area.

Can anyone help me identify them? The first seems to be Velhara, the Lady of the Wild (which could mean it is nearby Beast Valley). That rune is also used by Gavren, her son (the Gavrenings are the clan I'm detailing).

The second resembles both Vela the matchmaker and the hearth rune (and Gustbran) so I suspect it has to do with marriage/home. I also have found it in the apparently meaningless collections of runes decorating the Thunder Rebels and Storm Tribe books.

Edited September 17, 2018 by jeffjerwin

[Tindalos]

They are the personal runes of Velhara and Varanorlanth. That makes it likely the location of Esjenen, the First Land.

And those meaningless collections of runes are actually ciphers. For example, the bit beneath Ana Gor's write up says "It will always be, because when Havan Vor was killed his blood spilled here"

 

[David Scott]

You might find this helpful, as noted already by @Tindalos they are Velhara (Lady of the Wild) and Varanorlanth's (Orlanth the Wild) personal runes, so yes likely the First Land.

[David Scott]

58 minutes ago, Tindalos said:

And those meaningless collections of runes are actually ciphers. For example, the bit beneath Ana Gor's write up says "It will always be, because when Havan Vor was killed his blood spilled here"  

If you've the PDF, copy the rune text into a word processor and the font will substitute and the message become readable, to be honest they are not worth the effort after discovering "Here is another good place to type in some rune text" reveals some poor layout decisions from the Issaries era.

 

Edited September 17, 2018 by David Scott

[Tindalos]

2 minutes ago, David Scott said:

If you've the PDF, copy the rune text into a word processor and the font will substitute and the message become readable, to be honest they are not worth the effort after discovering "Here is another good place to type in some rune text" reveals some poor layout decisions from the Issaries era.

Yeah, that one was a bit ridiculous, although it made me laugh.

Unfortunately, few of the ciphers have ever lived up to the first one I figured out, "Ezkankekko shall rise again and rule a new kingdom of night." in HQ1's Argan Argar cult. (p.122)

[jeffjerwin]

Esjenen, the First Land!

Well that makes sense...

 

Destor Hills are right beside the tula, and Destor is the son of Varanorlanth...

Edited September 17, 2018 by jeffjerwin