She hadn't thought they would count as runes, and she was correct about that - so maybe that counted for something at least. She still would like to learn more about the celestial runes. It intrigued her that people thought they had to use a special set of symbols to communicate with them. It made her wonder what else their culture believed...
Eliza thought the answer to this next question was fairly obvious, but maybe that just meant she wasn't looking at it the right way. She raised her hand and basically recapped what others had said. "Well when the runes were first used, they were the main form of written communication and appeared everywhere in the cultures. But as time went by, like we've heard said, they faded out, until now - when people use them as embellishments on things like clothing, staffs, or pendants. They believe using these runes can still bring some benefit to them, that the original meanings of the runes still hold power." She paused. "They are especially interesting to some of us in the modern day because the letters in our own alphabet have no individual meaning like they used to." And that was kind of sad, to be a culture with a hollow language. That's sort of how she viewed it. At the moment anyway.
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