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Originally posted by Gary Dallison

Interesting, so we could be potentially looking at two separate things here.

I'm sure in previous posts, Ed has said that Rune Magic does not use the Weave.

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And yet, Netherese using Elder Runes and the fact that they can be linked across vast distances and created by a standard set of spells (presumably weave spells), implies that the Elder Runes referred to by human scholars is in fact Weave based magic.

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Originally posted by Gary Dallison

Liriel crafting a rune and carving it on that tree which is then supposed to affect multiple beings across the planet sounds to me like liriel added a new rune into the weave by carving it into a weave node, thereby making it available to anyone (if they know about it).

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Originally posted by Gary Dallison

I'm pretty sure the way the weave works, and the novels appear to support this (Dangerous Games most recently and surprisingly), is that various places and objects (and even people) actually exude raw magic in varying degrees.

Some of these things pump out huge amounts of raw magic, meteorites being the biggest sources (as shown by the annasherion).

The Weave exists because the keepers of the weave (initially the baetith, then the Church of Mystryl and Mystra) have gone around and turned these raw magic sources into weave nodes (the exact process has never been detailed).

So what we have is a large number (in the thousands) of raw magic emitters, that are modified to change that dangerous raw magic into the much more stable weave, which today exists as a series of overlapping emitters that cover almost all of Toril.

Because these weave nodes overlap, and because they are all interlinked, any spells stored in the weave (the keepers of the weave literally have to add the spell into a weave node) is available to all users of the weave via a series of standardised components.


So yggdrasil's child, whatever it is, has been converted to a weave node at some point in the past, and when liriel carved the rune onto the tree she literally added a new rune / spell to the weave that will presumably become available to all weave users as soon as the Church of Mystra discovers its existence and spreads that knowledge across Toril.


Now, the weave has beings living in it, i propose that each weave node has a guardian sentience that defends it (it would be foolish to leave something so valuable unguarded).

Also, it seems to me that people can be weave nodes as well (the chosen as one group), and the Mystra is constantly creating more weave nodes. I reckon each magister that transforms into an artefact or a living spell, etc, all become weave nodes as well.


Just my thoughts on what the weave actually is, and how all this stuff works.

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The name Anauroch once meant just what is now called the High Ice: a rift-scarred glacial ice sheet, that gave way (as one travelled south) to rocky uplands where many wild sheep roamed, and thence to thick forests where stags reigned and dryads dwelt. Those uplands, now scoured to bare rock, are known today as the Plain of Standing Stones.

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