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| | Term 11: December-March 2006 Term Eleven: Love is in the Air (Sept. 2057 - June 2058) | 
02-28-2006, 07:18 PM
| | |  Ancient Runes Lesson 3
The chaotic events involving the Love Potion had throughly disrupted Professor Opteryx's lesson plans for the term, though he himself wasn't all that upset about it. The craziness of the term had given him a nice break from the monotonies of his earlier occupation, and nobody could quite complain about that. While waiting for students to trickle in, Opteryx pulled out a few select runes from his drawer. | |
02-28-2006, 08:39 PM
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Sebastian walked into the classroom, and smiled at the professor, finding he was the only student in attendence as of yet.
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02-28-2006, 08:47 PM
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Serilda sat down and took out all of her books, papers, her quill, inkpot and textbook; she awatied the start of the lesson.
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02-28-2006, 08:59 PM
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Christy entered the classroom. She walked to the front of the classroom, placed her books on took of the table gently and sat down. She took out the necessary materials for class and sat mutely waiting for the class to fill with students.
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02-28-2006, 09:21 PM
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Alanna silently walked to a desk at the back of the room and sat down. She took out the necassary materials for class, and waited for more students to enter.
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02-28-2006, 11:24 PM
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Meghan walked into the classroom. She looked around and saw no one from her own house. She shrugged and walked over to a chair and sat down. She pulled out her things and sat her bag on the floor while she waited for the class to start.
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Julia rolls into the Ancient Runes classroom. She leaps to her feet next to the seat near Sebastian and brushes the dirt from the floor off her Bugs Bunny Cape. Swiftly taking a seat, she smiles at the Ravenclaw boy. Julia takes out her materials and sets her bag on the floor underneath her chair. Glancing around, she opens to her drawing section of her notebook and begins to draw Sebastian's ear, for no reason whatsoever, until class begins.
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03-01-2006, 12:06 AM
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"I'm fine, thank you," Opteryx replied to the student. "Alright, I think we're ready to pick up from where we left off last time. Anyone know what this rune is?" 
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03-01-2006, 12:10 AM
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Sabrina promptly raised her hand. "It's Haglaz"
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03-01-2006, 01:22 AM
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Rave raised her hand and answered "Thats Hagalaz. Its stands for the letter H in English, its runic number is 9, element is ice/water,color is Light Blue, polarity is female, associated with the gods Urd and Heimdall and its astrological correspondence is Aquarius."
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03-01-2006, 09:32 PM
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"Right you are, three points to Sabrina and five to Rave for glossing over the properties of the rune for us. More specifically, Hagalaz means hail, both as an aspect of the weather and in the sense of a hail of missiles in battle. In both senses it has the implication of a destructive and order-threatening force. It represents a force beyond our immediate control. When Hagalaz is linked with other runes, it can suggest limitation, interruption, or delay, and imply a complete change in direction. Hagalaz can also mean suffering, hardship, illness, or injury." "Now then, this rune? And bonus points if anyone sees a pattern with the sequence of runes I'm introducing you to." 
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03-01-2006, 09:40 PM
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Serilda examined the rune for a moment before raising her hand and saying, "Isn't that Naupiz? And doesn't it mean need or hardship? Or is it neid, meaning trouble or necessity?"
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03-01-2006, 10:04 PM
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Christy thought for a while and then raised her hand: "That is Naudiz, it represents need, hardship, or adversity. It includes the perseverance to endure, and reserves of inner strength. It counsels patience. Naudiz can also warn against taking a risky path. In conjunction with other runes, Naudiz tends to have a delaying influence"
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Yurio raised his hand. "A similarity(sp) could be that both runes so far have been in Heimdall's Aett?" he asked. He wasnt very sure about what he said but he hadnt participated in classes much and wanted to try for some points.
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03-04-2006, 06:59 PM
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"Three points to Serilda and Christi for pointing out that this rune is Nauthiz and for their description if its properties. This rune has the meanings of need, constraint and even, in extremis, misery. Some authorities read this as a fate-rune and equate it with the Nornir, or Fates, or Norse myth. It had the power of providing help when scratched upon a fingernail, and its meaning thus vacillates between assistance and the need to survive.
Now Nauthiz symbolizes hardship, need or adversity, even a combination of the three. It also includes the perseverance to endure and reserves of inner strength, so you could say while it represents hardship, it also represents the strength to overcome that hardship. As Christi mentioned, it has a delaying influence when used with other runes. Nauthiz has the runic number ten, is associated with fire, an emale polarity, the god Skuld and Capricorn."
"Yurio, while your answer is technically correct, that wasn't quite what I was getting at. It's a more simple answer than that, and it has to do with the runic numbers associated with the runes we've learned before, for one..."
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03-04-2006, 07:00 PM
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Serilda scribbled some notes down; she was happy to have brought 3 points to Ravenclaw.
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03-05-2006, 06:34 PM
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Professor Opteryx waited patiently in the silence that followed and decided that his students were either tired or worrying about the impending exams of their other classes. With an unconcerned shrug, he pressed on with the rest of the lesson. "Alright then, moving along. What's this rune and what rune is its meaning similar to?" 
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03-05-2006, 06:43 PM
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Christy thought for a while and raised her hand "That's Isa. It means ice, cold and freezing mainly. But it also means lack of change, stagnation and lack of emotion. I'm not sure but I think it looks a little like Laguz, the water rune.."
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03-07-2006, 12:42 AM
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"Five points to Christi. While Isa shares a similar element to Laguz--ice is frozen water--it's closer related to Hagalaz, which if you recall from earlier means hail. \Although ice can be beautiful, it is also dangerous. It can be slippery or trecherously thin, or block your progress, but it can take the heat out of a confrontation, or protect against magical attack. Emotionally, Isa implies a cooling of affection, or frigidity. It has a freezing, delaying, or preserving effect on other runes around it. It can also be used to reinforce the power of the runes it's bound to."
"Okay, we're running out of time today, but since it's near the end of the term I won't assign homework. Go off and enjoy yourselves, see you all next term."
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