Instead of an array for Magic Mondays this week, we bring you and update to the Sigil System book and to the incantations.
For those of you who already have your hands on the Journal of Array Design Volume 2, you might have noticed that we slyly, and slightly, changed the way incantations work. It’s not a big change, and it does make life far easier for you.
In some arrays (like the Fireball incantation) you will find, or you can make, runes that have modifications on top of modifications on top of modifications. For example, you can want to increase the speed of a Pull rune by modifying it with a Quicken rune that is in turn modified by another Quicken rune and so on until you have a Pull rune with a “tail” of 5 Quicken runes.
Normally, you would read this part of the incantation like so: (Pull, modified by Quicken, modified by Quicken, modified by Quicken, modified by Quicken, modified by Quicken). Or as an incantation: Ob Trehen Ant Schniv Ant Schniv Ant Schniv Ant Schniv Ant Schniv Cob. This is technically correct, but it is also a lot of repetition that needlessly extends the incantation.
Instead, you can simply say by how many times a rune is modified by itself. That would turn this part of the incantation to look like this: (Pull, modified by Quicken by five). Or as an incantation: Ob Trehen Ant Schniv Fayf Cob. You still have the same information, but in a far more compact form.
And that’s it! Rather than repeating yourself endlessly, you can now simply say by many modifications you are using and cut all that time out sounding like you have bad stutter.
If you have already downloaded the Sigil System, you should have received an email for an updated version so you are good to go.
Also, if you haven’t yet gotten your hands on the Journal of Array Design Volume 2, click the banner above and get right onto it.
Huzzah!! I am a big fan of the Incantation system and have been looking forward to the appropriate utterances for the new runes that I have been seeing here.
Hi Bryce. For the two new runes we’ve created (the Invert and Rotate runes) that aren’t in the Sigil System, we have put their utterances on the posts where we showcased them. For Invert it’s “Omkirdi” and for Rotate it’s “Drahaii”.
Thank you for that. I have to admit that the Sigil System fits in well with a fiction that I’ve been working on for a while.
Well if you ever want to publish it as an RPG settinh with the Sigil System, give us a shout and we can help out.
I shall do that. Part of the reason for establishing the World of Wyrd website (though I’ve not put anything up there yet).
Well keep us updated!
I remember asking you about the numeric system used in the utterance above (where 5 is Fayf) however, I seem to have misplaced your reply and am once again attempting to reconstruct the system. Your assistance would be appreciated.
Hi Bryce. We’ve compiled all the runic and incantation rules into one book that you can grab for PWYW here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/294937
It has the numbering system in there as well.