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First lesson since his most recent return to Hogwarts and Ethan Truebridge was sitting at his desk in the front of the classroom, a magical gramophone sat on his desk, the soundtrack of Les Misérables playing quietly.
The blackboard was apparently 'singing' along, as the words were sung on the record, in runic the translations appeared on the board and then disappeared again moments later.
Truebridge ignored it and kept his hazel-green eyes on the door, watching as the students began to file in.
"Sit wherever you like. Four to six people at each table if you please."
SPOILER!!: classroom description
The classroom is bright and airy, very clean and comfortable. There are no desks in this classroom, rather there are several wooden tables which would fit between four and six students quite comfortably. The tables are arranged rather higgledy piggledy, all out of alignment with each other and yet there is plenty of room to weave through the tables and walk up to the front of the classroom, or down to the back.
The front of the classroom has a large blackboard, charmed to write on itself,and when it isn't taking notes it quite often it has something to say, though you'll need to transcribe it from runic to English to make any sense of it. Truebridge also has a desk at the front of the class, set to one side, and a perfect view of all the tables arranged haphazardly around the room.
At the back of the classroom, set to one side, there is the door out into the corridor. Along the back wall there is a large bookshelf almost overflowing with books, mostly old, all very well taken care of. You're welcome to look at any of these books but if any harm befalls the tomes, there will be a severe price to pay. A long and comfortable couch takes up the rest of the back wall.
The windows along the remaining side, opposite the door and Truebridge's desk have soft white curtains that are almost transparent. When pulled they simply diffuse the light and ensure it is not too bright, allowing the room to stay bright and lit at all times. The window frames are the most interesting, if you go and inspect them, all of the exposed wood has been painstakingly carved with runes, mostly bindrunes and rune charms, set in ligature and carved then stained red. These have all been activated and almost thrum under your fingertips. No cold will pass these windows, no student will fall to their deaths. It is a barrier of safety and of comfort, and a good example of runic magic. The door into the classroom is similarly marked.
ooc note: Please note that class has finished. The thread will be open for a short time longer to allow everyone to complete the last task. Please read the following posts to catch up with the lesson, or the latest one if you wish to jump in on the current activity/question. Not all of Truebridge's posts are included here, just those relevant to the progression of the lesson.
As he was done carving his second rune, he heard a 'good job' coming from Sophie and he gave a small smile. Hmm, maybe this could be easy? Seb watched as Sophie was about to carve another rune, but her sneeze had gotten into the words, messing up the rune.
*SNORRRTTT*
Oh goodness. "Sorry." He muttered to Sophie, trying to keep the laughter inside of him. Yeah, he wasn't going to laugh because he knew he could do much much worse. Alright so on to another rune...
The Gryffindor scanned through the runes and picked another one that seemed to benefit his liking. Okay, here was one. Algiz. Hmm, well he guessed he could put it on the wood. What it meant to him was that you are always protected from danger here at Hogwarts. "Intaglio, Algiz, algiz, algiz, algiz." He said pointing his wand at the wood while looking at his book to see if he was carving it correctly. One of the three stem things were a bit slanted to the side, but it looked alright he guessed.
Sophie saw the amusement in Sebastian's eyes as she had sneezed and damaged everything on her wood. She gave him a long pouting look before saying with a shrug of her shoulders. "It's okay. It must have looked comical." The prefect could have imagined it did when somebody sneezed in the middle of an incantation. Looking at her wood piece she sighed heavily. "It's totally damaged."
She glanced over at Sebastian piece of wood with a pin of envy going through her which she suppressed. It was her fault for sneezing at the worst timing not her Gryffindor housemate. Sophie glanced around the room as she waited for Professor Truebridge to come over.
SPOILER!!: Professor T
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"Of course." Truebridge conjured a piece and handed it to Sophie in silence. But then gave the prefect a small smile before looking towards her table mate.
"That's not bad for a start." Truebridge commented. "Good. Keep practicing."
"Can anyone explain what a 'galdr' is?".
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Professor Truebridge came over and silently handed her a new wood piece. Beaming up at him she said simply "Thank you, sir!" Closing her eyes she focused her attention on carving again. Opening them she said out loud "Intaglio Wunjo wunjo wunjo wunjo wunjo!" This time the lines of the rune carved itself into the wood with care and precision. Producing a bite of smile across the Gryffindor prefect’s face she followed up her success with testing to carve the Thurisaz rune too.
The lesson moved on as the second method was introduced. Holstering her wand Sophie listened and thought about where she had read about galdr before. It was somewhere in her ancient runes textbook but she couldn’t put her finger on where.
SPOILER!!: Professor T
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Originally Posted by Con_Stripes
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
Sophie didn't wait long before many of her classmates provided a range of different answers to the question about galdr. But it was Professor Truebridge's definition that she wrote down on a parchment. So a galdr was a chant or spell like Intaglio but with a musical aspect since you had to sing a certain rythm to awake the magic in the rune. Sophie thought hard on the similarites between Intaglio and galdr but came up with only blank thoughts. She needed more time to think.
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"[/color][/font]
What? A what? Galdr?! That was the strangest word in this class so far. Louisa slackened back a bit while students answered that and she was yet more surprised of what that word meant after a while. A chant? Hmm. Like an odd way of saying words- that's what it sounded to hear when the Professor demonstrated it. She was so not going to try that, by the way. No way. It sounded like conjuring spirits from underground or something -__-
"They both do the same effect…" She said coolly raising her hand. "… and requiring the person to repeat words over and over again." Here, that was a simple question. Now how about we grab a knife and start carving on the piece of wood forgetting all about chanting some rhymy words? Hmm?
The similarity of galdr and intalgio? Mhhh, think about it Fee. Well could it be that ou needed to sing them both to get them right?Even though intalgio didnt really have a rythym right?! Or was it something depending on the runes? Woahh there was so much stuff in her head right now.But the blonde couldnt come up with anything making sense expect her first thought.Oh well it was worth a try."Is it that you should sing them both to get it right?",she said raising her hand.
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Originally Posted by Con_Stripes
"To summarize the correct answers, A Galdr is a chant, a spell, a method of calling and invoking the magic of the Elder Futhark runes. Each galdr has a rhythm, and is in fact 'sung' to the rune in question, while keeping the intent and the magical properties of that rune in mind. As for the falsetto aspect, that is not strictly necessary but some find that it helps and many muggles who attempt the magic do it. You can combine different runes into one galdr to suit your purposes but for today we will stick with the one galdr per rune, much like the example given a moment ago with:
"fehu fehu fehu
f f f f f f f f f
fu fa fi fe fo
of ef if af uf
f f f f f f f f f."
He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
Once again, Sierra felt herself sinking down in her seat. That sinking--it was becoming a habit of hers. Either that, or she seriously needed to start trying a lot harder in her classes. Maybe Ancient Runes just wasn't for her after all. Maybe she should have waited another year or two...or five or ten.
Either way, she only halfway understood what the professor had been saying. She sloooowly raised her hand, almost hesitant to even give the answer a go. "I think--for me, at least--repeating the name of the rune over and over helped me really focus on what I was doing and what the rune meant. Maybe it's the same with the chant," she suggested.
Students were now answering the question of the Professor which was the similarity of Intaglio and a galdr. Dianna had no idea what just happened when the professor started chanting or whatever then suddenly fell quiet.
Raising her hand very slowly Dianna looked around at the others before answering. "The repetition of words and um.. saying them in a singing matter.." she said before shifting in her seat. That fu fa fi fe thingy? Totally creepy.
Lucy was a bit sure of that one as curving the rune had turned successful. So to give the answer, she raised her hand and said "Professor, The similarities between the two is only that, they both act as a chant as the both need to be repeated constantly and to concentrate on the result as to what it needs to be turned into, just like in the intaglio spell." she said and was not sure if that was right, but wanted to know if that was right.
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"The next method does not use wands, so for those of you who are done practicing the Intaglio method, please holster your wand and listen."
Truebridge started with a question,
"Can anyone explain what a 'galdr' is?".
*Putting a hand up Matty said.*
"It is one Old Norse word for "spell, incantation", and which was usually performed in combination with certain rites, most commonly chanting. They are similar on how you must repeat the rune over and over."
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He fell quiet and looked around the room, eyeing the fehu runes that were carved around the place, some of them appeared to glow slightly but that was to be expected as many of them he'd carved himself.
"Can anyone think of how a basic galdr like this is similar to the Intaglio spell method that we practiced with our wands?"
Helena raised her hand. "Professor? I'm sorry, my question may have nothing to do with your question, but," she started, hesitating, "are we going to practice some kind of wandless spell? I am talking about the galdr."
Audrey thought hard about this question. She had just been shamed by some Ravenclaws and wanted her house to prove itself. She raised her hand. "Could it be they both are repetitive in their spoken words?"
Audrey stared at her piece of wood. What should she carve? Kenaz for a study-aid and wisdom? Wunjo for success and achievement? Ansuz was used in magic for wisdom and Audrey needed wisdom. Wisdom was held high in her House so she decided on Ansuz.
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I did read all of them, but haven't quoted them all.
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"Repitition, chanting, rhythm. Yes these are all correct." Truebridge nodded along as he listened to the given answers.
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Mia raised her hand in the air. "You are enacting magic through spoken words. Sort of like a chant." She put her hand down and and bit on her lip. Something like that anyway.
"All magic is naming magic." Truebridge answered by way of agreement. The spoken word has power, even if it is not a spell, and a Name has even more power than a simple word. In the old days many believed that knowing the Name of a person, gives you power over them, and same with knowing the 'name' of a spell, or the incantation, which I'm sure it is obvious how that can give you power." Knowledge being power and all that. "Knowing the Name of the rune works in much the same way. Using it is powerful, and speaking it is the way to bring that power to bear."
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"I, I, I wasn't sure where to go....I don't know any students but my brother. He told me he would show me where the classroom was last night; he said he'd meet me this morning but he didn't, and I've been afraid to ask anyone. I'm really sorry. It won't happen again; I promise," she stuttered, embarrassed.
What a great way to start lessons....not only don't I have a clue what's going on, I lost house points! I'm really going to need to be more careful...maybe I'll ask someone else to show me where my classrooms are.
Charley had a horrible sinking feeling in her stomach now. She knew she could do so much better. She opened the textbook on her desk and began reading, hoping to glean something helpful from it.
"I see. Did it not occur to you," And Truebridge eyed the Ravenclaw robes, "to ask a prefect? That is what they are there for. To help. After class please be sure to look for your prefects, meet them and..." He eyed Finlay and Ivory, the prefects in question, "Inform them that they are to make sure you know where every class is before you are due to be in it."
He paused.
"Still, you are here now." And he tried to sound... err... kind. Or something. And not speak in his usual emotionless tones.
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Bennet contemplated the question a bit deeper, "Well, in addition to the repetition, I think it is probably more the focus aspect of both the 'Intaglio' spell and a galdr. In order for the Intaglio spell to be effective, it required our absolute concentration. I know that as soon as I got distracted, the incantation lost its effect and I needed to begin again. Same goes with a galdr - it needs to be experienced wholly and completely. The entire body, all of your senses, need to be focused one hundred percent on the rune in order to truly experience all that the rune wants to reveal."
And the geek is done.
"Entirely true. Rune magic always requires your complete focus to be truly successful. That is partly why there are so many rituals surrounding rune magic because the very act of preparing yourself in such a way serves to focus your intent."
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JP whispered over to her.
"it's ok. I know how that goes. I was a first year once too. I'm JP. If you want ill show you around after class."
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When she heard someone talking to her-well, whispering, but it was class-she jerked her head up, surprised. People tended to avoid her. Looking at the boy's robes, though, she noticed he was a Ravenclaw as well. Within reason, it bridged the personality gap-giving him a reason to not assume her life goal was to be a librarian or a hermit.
"Hi, I'm Charley. That sounds great. My brother can be terribly unreliable. What year are you now?" she responded, blindly pulling one of her many bookmarks from her bag, which sat on the floor next to her, and slipped it into the textbook, closing the book carefully.
Truebridge eyed the two Ravenclaws for a moment and made a mental note to mention to Vindictus how polite the boy was...
... even if he was chatting in Ethan's lesson.
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Marie had no sooner shoved Salander and Professor Truebridge was there telling her to sit down, get to work and to... apologize to Sal. "But he sprayed water in my face. Why should I apologize to him?" She said still not realizing that it had all been an accident.
Feeling the tears start to sting her eyes she started to sit down. It was then that she realized she had actually knocked Sal to the ground. Oops, she didn't mean to shove him that hard. Guess he'll know not to spray her with water again though. Even though she was about to lose it and start crying at any minute now, she couldn't help when a small smile started to appear on her face as she watched Salander pull himself off the ground. Oh, and he was apologizing to her. Crud, that meant she should apologize too didn't it. "I'm sorry too... for knocking you on your bum." She still wasn't sorry for using him as a towel though. He deserved that since he was the one that got her wet.
Hearing Sal's next words though made her look at the boy like he was nuts. "Vacuum me up. Nah, I'll just use your robes some more." She said as she reached out and grabbed his robes to dry herself off a little better. "There all dry." She said letting go of his robes. "You can do something about this though." She said pointing to her hair that was still a little wet in the front.
Hearing Truebridge as he continued to walk around the room Marie decided she better actually do something here. Maybe the class would go faster if she did the work instead of sitting there moping and wishing for it to be over. Grabbing the goggles that Sal tried handing her earlier she finally put them on. She then pulled on the gloves... after removing her wand from its holster, and grabbed the semi-dry piece of wood laying there. Okay now, what was the incantation she was supposed to use. Being in her little mood she had totally missed what the instructions were. Not wanting to call the professor back over for fear of him taking points away for not paying attention she decided to just watch the others for a few minutes.
After seeing some of the other students complete the task she grabbed her wand and the piece of wood again. This was going to be easy. She was good with her wand... that wasn't the problem in this class. How the runes actually work, now there was the problem. Pointing her wand at the wood she began. "Intaglio Perthro Perthro Perthro Perthro Perthro..." She repeated as she traced her wand along the wood in the shape of the rune. Looking at the finished product in front of her she felt pretty good that she got it done on the first try.
Looks like she got done just in time too since they were now moving on to the next method of doing this. She listened as Truebridge explained. Then asked what a... galdr was. Ha, she knew that one. That was that crazy word Jimmy had taught her about in their last study session. Raising her hand she said, "A galdr is when you sing to the rune, like... chant the magic and activate whatever channel the magic is intended to flow through. Its Old Norse. Means Incantation, or spell." Now if only Jimmy was still in class he would know that she had been listening to him and that he was a good tutor.
Huh, how was a galdr the same as intaglio? "Um, with both you need a clear intent to cast the spell along with repeating the incantation over and over." Yeah, that one she wasn't so sure about. She hadn't gotten that far in her study sessions with James yet.
"How many reasons would you like, Marie?" Truebridge focused on the Slytherin girl. He waited until she did apologise before eventually shifting his attention away, expression mildly disapproving.
Or perhaps disappointed.
But apparently she had been paying enough attention to give a decent answer. He nodded at her.
Just the once.
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Kurumi flew to her notes and added the details the professor had given before thinking about his next question. "Well, when I first used the Intaglio spell, I didn't really have a rhythm that I was keeping and I ended up making my piece of wood fly across the room...and smack Adam square in the face." She paused for a moment as her cheeks flushed beet red. "With this particular spell, it seems like you almost need to sing it to keep the spell from getting out of hand and making the piece of wood fly across the room or start on fire." Kurumi's eye widened and a giant light bulb turned on inside her head. "Professor, is that why you have music playing in the background? So we could keep in pace with it while we performed the spell?"
Truebridge listened to the little Gryffindor and then smiled at her.
"It is one of the reasons. The other is simply that I like the music."
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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict
"Sir, with all due respect, this song like chant, isn't it similar to all types of spells. All magic has a rhythm to it. A body and flow if you will. So this specific enchantment is similar to Intaglio because like the spell it has a rhythm. Now we are just more aware of it because the rhythm is more crucial to the performance of this chant, sir. Is that what you meant by your question?" The tiny redhead asked still a little embarrassed by her question on what the galdr was.
"It certainly is more crucial. Calling the runes, which is another way of saying 'invoking' or 'singing' the runes, can only be done effectively with your utmost attention. In order to make magic it takes a combination of elements -such as wand movement, incantation and intent- and the rhythm comes from putting them together effectively. Chanting a galdr provides a channel, a conduit for the magic to connect from the witch or wizard, through the rune, and into nature." Professor Truebridge answered after listening carefully. He wasn't one to simplify things, but he'd done his best and the little Gryffindor seemed more than capable of keeping up.
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Chris followed the professor's gaze around the class, and noticed something...different about a few of the runes around the room. She couldn't put her finger on what it was. They had ti be fehu if it was happening as he chanted...or she could just be crazy. "I think that... the reasoning and passion behind carving the runes is the same. You had to have something behind the wand moving across the wood in order to carve with Intaglio. You had to know why you were carving it. You have to know that it's a specific rune you're carving, not a random set of lines. To carve with galdr, you still need to know that," she said, amazed at herself for saying so much in respone to a simple question. In a class. With other people around. Listening to her answer. Just the thought made her sink lower in her seat, just in case her answer happened to be wrong.
And another Gryffindor thinking deeply on the question. Truebridge approved.
"You have to want it, and you very much have to know the why of it. Understanding is a big part of intent. To carve with a galdr, you do still need to know that.... however there is one thing missing." Just the one thing.
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again
Salander hadnt a clue what a galdr was other than the fact that it got the lad thinking about flying all of a sudden. When it was explained he looked up at the glowing runes around the classroom. Wow.... are they supposed to make their little wooden carvings glow like that?
His eyes returned to the Professor when he asked the next question. Huh."Well, Intaglio is a spell that carves the rune onto the wood.... so singing a galdr probably does the same thing-- grates the runes onto the wood."
Well all that singing will be grating on someones' nerves alright.
"Not entirely true. Singing the galdr is part of the process, but in and of itself it will not carve anything, as you will see in a moment, there is one thing missing."
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His eyes were back to his own rune as the Professor explained the form and the weight behind it. Nodding slowly, he traced both the jagged and curved lines of the imposed carving on his piece of wood. "Always has to be some aspect of the true form, even if it is just a shadow." Sabel mused, tracing a finger over the carving before glancing up at Truebridge; so Plato did come in handy every now and then. "Thank you Professor, that helps a great deal."
He had to pull his attention away from her to glance up at Truebridge in consideration of the question. Answering with a response about creating the correct form, or a decently similar one to the original, as Truebridge had explained to him didn't seem like the grandest idea though the point was valid. Still he raised his hand to forward a similar, yet slightly different idea. "You still have to create the image. Although it's through a mental projection by which you trace the lines in your mind's eye, the practice of the movement and its pattern is the same as the movement of your wand when preforming Intaglio."
"No law is mightier than understanding." Truebridge answered, paraphrasing in response. He smiled at the boy and nodded. "Yes indeed. The form of the rune, its shape, is the equivalent element of the wand movement in more contemporary forms of magic."
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Originally Posted by MissFeenella
The similarity of galdr and intalgio? Mhhh, think about it Fee. Well could it be that ou needed to sing them both to get them right?Even though intalgio didnt really have a rythym right?! Or was it something depending on the runes? Woahh there was so much stuff in her head right now.But the blonde couldnt come up with anything making sense expect her first thought.Oh well it was worth a try."Is it that you should sing them both to get it right?",she said raising her hand.
"In a way yes, singing is 'chanting' in this sense, and repeating the rune and the phonetic elements of the name of the rune are one of the easiest similarities to identify between the two methods."
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Originally Posted by Anna Banana
Once again, Sierra felt herself sinking down in her seat. That sinking--it was becoming a habit of hers. Either that, or she seriously needed to start trying a lot harder in her classes. Maybe Ancient Runes just wasn't for her after all. Maybe she should have waited another year or two...or five or ten.
Either way, she only halfway understood what the professor had been saying. She sloooowly raised her hand, almost hesitant to even give the answer a go. "I think--for me, at least--repeating the name of the rune over and over helped me really focus on what I was doing and what the rune meant. Maybe it's the same with the chant," she suggested.
Hopefully...
"Thats right. Its a matter of focusing your intent, repetition helps with that."
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Helena raised her hand. "Professor? I'm sorry, my question may have nothing to do with your question, but," she started, hesitating, "are we going to practice some kind of wandless spell? I am talking about the galdr."
"Yes we are. The galdr is the next thing we're going to use. For those of you who haven't yet, put your wands away."
He waited for everyone to comply.
"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
ooc: sorry for my absence, it was unexpected and unavoidable. Please have your character get a tool and practice carving runes into the test wood pieces. This is an ELBOW grease thing, physically carving the wood. The Burin won't do a thing without someone physically using it to carve the wood. Have fun and remember the tools are charmed not to hurt people, but any fooling around will result in Truebridge punishing the culprits. Remember, don't carve the tables yet! Burin image credit to www.rebeccafordart.com.
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Originally Posted by Con_Stripes
"Yes we are. The galdr is the next thing we're going to use. For those of you who haven't yet, put your wands away."
He waited for everyone to comply.
"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
Helena got a burin, still looking hilarious with her goggles and large gloves on and got back to her desk.
She started muttering for the first chosen rune.
"ansuz ansuz ansuz
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw s s s s s s
aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw"
She looked at the burin, now carving the rune on the wood piece. It worked! Then she started muttering the galdr for the next rune.
"wunjo wunjo wunjo
wu wa wi we wo
wun wan win wen won
wo we wi wa wu
w w w u u u n n n"
Small runes appeared on the wood pieces. They didn't look extremely well but Helena thought it was pretty good, for a first try. She took more wood pieces and tried again and again, until the runes looked just like the ones in the textbook.
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"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
ooc: sorry for my absence, it was unexpected and unavoidable. Please have your character get a tool and practice carving runes into the test wood pieces. This is an ELBOW grease thing, physically carving the wood. The Burin won't do a thing without someone physically using it to carve the wood. Have fun and remember the tools are charmed not to hurt people, but any fooling around will result in Truebridge punishing the culprits. Remember, don't carve the tables yet! Burin image credit to index.
Louisa's eyes hang upon those fantastic tools that the Professor had just showed them. They reminded her of artifacts that existed in the Louvre; Woody, stick-like, and magical. Looking at her pierced piece of wood again, she threw it away and walked over to the Professor's table.
A pile of new wood pieces laid there, she took one (Tried to pick the thickest.. just in case) and then the Burin. She walked back to her seat turning the tool around in her hand. It did feel like an artifact as well. Oh, she liked those historical things- alas, it was not truly an ancient tool. Never mind that now.
Once seated in her chair, she opened the text book to chapter five and searched for the galdr that matched her rune. "Ansuz..Ansuz.." she was murmuring till she found it- not a very impressive look appeared on her face. "Err.. is this chanting or conjuring spirits?" She whispered to herself. That versus of hers looked CREEPY and she was not about to spell it!
Hmm.. how about hide behind a book and then carve the thing by the wand and pretend that it was all well with the artifact tool? Sounded like a snake-idea but who cares! Slowly, she opened the big book of runes and put it in front of her on the table. Being young girl helped her to sink further into the chair and held her wand. "Intaglio Ansuz ansuz ansuz ansuz..." She whispered moving her wand over on the piece of wood.
Almost perfectly the spell has worked. One minute later, the carvings were good enough to recognize the rune she was expressing. Louisa gazed into her piece of wood admiring her word when a low thud was heard.. the book has just fallen off. She stared up (nearly frightened) at the Professor with her wand in one hand and the other held on to the piece of wood. Her Burin? it was laid aside the parchment.. uselessly.
Luin put her gloves and goggles back on and picked up a burin. She then grabbed her piece of wood and started with her rune
"Kenaz kenaz kenaz
k k k k k k k
ke ke ke ke
na na na na na
na na z z z
k k k k k k"
she worked carefully, trying to make it perfect. It was not completely so the first time though. She did not have the finesse down yet. She picked up another piece of wood and tried again, "Kenaz kenaz...." after a few more tries she finally had the rune on there pretty neat and perfect. She examined it carefully first, just to make sure, and then raised her hand in order to have the professor come and inspect it.
"Yes we are. The galdr is the next thing we're going to use. For those of you who haven't yet, put your wands away."
He waited for everyone to comply.
"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
ooc: sorry for my absence, it was unexpected and unavoidable. Please have your character get a tool and practice carving runes into the test wood pieces. This is an ELBOW grease thing, physically carving the wood. The Burin won't do a thing without someone physically using it to carve the wood. Have fun and remember the tools are charmed not to hurt people, but any fooling around will result in Truebridge punishing the culprits. Remember, don't carve the tables yet! Burin image credit to index.
Emily put her wand in her bag and went to get a burin.
This tools were quite cool!
Still wearing her gloves and goggles she started carving into the wood:
Ok, she felt slightly silly doing this, but it was working! Yey!
"dagaz dagaz dagaz
dh dh dh dh dh dh dh dh dh
d d d a a a g g g a a a z z z
du da di de do
dh dh dh dh dh dh dh dh dh
odh edh idh adh udh
od ed ud ad ud
d d d a a a g g g a a a z z z"
She carved her other rune. They both didn't look as good as the one's in the text book, but this was her first lesson! And she was doing extreamly well for a first year!
Emily made more and more carvings in the wood, then raised her hand. "Profosser? These burins? Are they a muggle tool, except these ones are charmed?" she was curious to how muggles survived without magic...
"Yes we are. The galdr is the next thing we're going to use. For those of you who haven't yet, put your wands away."
He waited for everyone to comply.
"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
ooc: sorry for my absence, it was unexpected and unavoidable. Please have your character get a tool and practice carving runes into the test wood pieces. Have fun and remember the tools are charmed not to hurt people, but any fooling around will result in Truebridge punishing the culprits. Remember, don't carve the tables yet!
Cass tucked her wand back into its holster tucked it back into her sleeve. Then she placed stood up and took a burin from the professor's table and walked back to her desk. Then she sat down and sighed. More carving. yay.
Might as well get it over with.
So she snapped her goggles back on and started craving, while chanting
"isa isa isa
i i i i i i i i i
i i i i i i s s s s s s
(s s s s s s i i i i i i)
i i i i i i i i i"
She thought it was rather silly until she saw that the wood was starting to resemble the rune of her choice. "Cool." She simply said with a self-satisfied smirk on her face. It wasn't as good as she wanted it to be, but hey, it was her first time. Cut her some slack.
Happy with the result of her first attempt. Cass tried to carve out another rune. She thought for a while and decided on a rune.
She started to carve on the wood once more while chanting
"ehwaz ehwaz ehwaz
e e e e h w a a a z
ehwu ehwa ehwi ehwe ehwo
ehwo ehwe ehwi ehwa ehwu
e e e e h w a a a z"
Lexi listened closely as Truebs spoke. Sooo... they had to do manual labor. Hmm. She would give it a shot. Least she could do. Getting up from her seat she made her way to grab a burin and returned to her LONELY little table. Finding a blank section of the plank she set the burin's tip on it and took a deep breath.
Panic overtook her for a moment so she pulled it away and checked to make sure her protective wear was still securely in place. Yep, check. Anything else she could do to stall? She shot some glances around the classroom and decided quickly THAT was a bad idea. So... time to start.
Putting the tip of the burin back against the wood she began to chant, "Wunjo wunjo wunjo
wu wa wi we wo
wun wan win wen won
wo we wi wa wu
w w w u u u n n n."
...
She felt like an idiot. She tried to carve her little heart out. Not literally. Stopping for a moment to consider her work she shrugged. It could definitely be worse. She began to carve again and chant to boot. She was already breaking a tiny sweat from the amount of pressure she was applying to the board.
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Kurumi picked up her brune...braisin...raisn...whatever the professor had called it and looked at her piece of wood like it was the most daunting of tasks. Despite all her kendo, Kurumi didn't really have that much upper body strength, so carving into a piece of wood was going to be rather difficult. Okay, take a few deep breaths and just stick it to the piece of wood...no biggie...
She had already practice carving Wunjo and Kenaz, so she thought she would give Raidho a try this time around. But, first things were first, she needed to get the Galdr down before doing any carving. Kurumi flipped through the pages until she found the proper "chant" and read it aloud to herself first. Ug, there was a part in parentheses...was she supposed to say that part too or was it option in place of the part above it?
"...rudh radh ridh redh rodh...rut rat rit ret rot..." Kurumi help the textbook up right in front of her face almost close enough for her nose to be pressed against the pages. Hmm, the latter seemed to be much easier to pronounce than the first one, so Kurumi decided to go with that one. After reading over the Galdr a few more time to make sure she could say everything clearly, she decided it was time for her to give it a try.
"raidho raidho raidho
r r r r r r r r r
ru ra ri re ro
rut rat rit ret rot
or er ir ar ur
r r r r r r r r r," Kurumi sang like a small songbird. Surprisingly, the carving process seemed to go as smoothly as if she were carving small slits into warm butter and before she knew it, the rune had been carve into her piece of wood more elegantly than it had when she had done it using her wand. "All deep things are song," she smiled to herself as she turned back to her textbook to perhaps try a more complicated rune.
Mannaz looked a little more complicated than the previous runes she had attempted, so Kurumi decided to try her luck with this one as well.
"mannaz mannaz mannaz
m m m a a a a a a n n n
mu ma mi me mo
mun man min men mon
um am im em om
mon men min man mun
m m m a a a a a a n n n
m m m m m m m m m," she sang again carving the rune just as easily as she had with Raidho.
Smiling, Kurumi raised her hand and waited for Professor Truebridge to come and check on her progress.
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"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
Freya listened carefully when Professor Truebridge explained about the galdr. So they don't need their wand this time? Hmm..Okay. The Slytherin made her way to the box at the front of the classroom. After she got herself a burin, she made her way back to her work desk. She flipped her rune textbook to Chapter 7. Hmm..What will she carve to the wood this time? She was really like the Sowilo but she already made that one before with the Intaglio spell before, but the Professor said that they couldn't make the same rune, right? So she decided to carve the Sowilo rune.
Took a very deep breath, Freya. She still had the goggle and gloves on. She hold the burin with her hand and stick it into the piece of wood.
"sowilo sowilo sowilo
s s s s s s s s s
s s s o o o l l l
su sa si se so
(sul sal sil sel sol)
us as is es os
si se su sa su
s s s s s s s s s"
And to her surprises Sowilo rune was now perfectly carved into the piece of wood. She smirked and raised her hand so the Professor would check her work.
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Sophie saw the amusement in Sebastian's eyes as she had sneezed and damaged everything on her wood. She gave him a long pouting look before saying with a shrug of her shoulders. "It's okay. It must have looked comical." The prefect could have imagined it did when somebody sneezed in the middle of an incantation. Looking at her wood piece she sighed heavily. "It's totally damaged."
She glanced over at Sebastian piece of wood with a pin of envy going through her which she suppressed. It was her fault for sneezing at the worst timing not her Gryffindor housemate. Sophie glanced around the room as she waited for Professor Truebridge to come over.
"Sorry, Soph." Sebastian said with a mere smile and shrugged. He didn't mean to almost laugh in her face, but truthfully, it was quite funny from his point of view. He would expect the same out of her if he had sneezed in the middle of an incantation. "You're doing great though." He said with a nod as he watched Professor Truebridge gave her another piece of wood and she carved out a perfect rune.
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Originally Posted by Con_Stripes
He waited for everyone to comply.
"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
ooc: sorry for my absence, it was unexpected and unavoidable. Please have your character get a tool and practice carving runes into the test wood pieces. This is an ELBOW grease thing, physically carving the wood. The Burin won't do a thing without someone physically using it to carve the wood. Have fun and remember the tools are charmed not to hurt people, but any fooling around will result in Truebridge punishing the culprits. Remember, don't carve the tables yet! Burin image credit to index.
A burin? Who named these things anyways? Why couldn't they just call it a wood chiseling tool or something obvious like that? Psh, silly people and their silly non-obvious names for things. Sebastian waited for Professor Truebridge to finish and he flipped in his textbook to Chapter 7, skimming through it.
Hmm, so this was the way to actually carve out the rune, without the wand. He got up from his chair and walked up, getting two burins for himself and Sophie. Before he was about to go back to his original spot he grabbed an extra wood piece and walked back over to his spot, taking his seat. "Here you go, Sophie. I got you an extra wood piece, you know, just in case." He chuckled and gave her a wink as he sat the burin and extra wood piece in front of her.
Okay, now to start carving. He fixed the goggles that was placed in front of his eyes and pulled up the gloves once more as they kept on falling down. He grabbed his burin that he had gotten and flipped through Chapter 7. Algiz, once again, but carving it this time. This is going to be hard work.
He scanned the galdr once more and started to carve into his test piece of wood.
"algiz algiz algiz
z z z z z z z z z
uz az iz ez uz
oz ez iz az uz
z z z z z z z z z"
He chanted as he started to carve his rune. Yeah, his hands hurt already. This was some tough elbow grease stuff as his muggle friends would say. Now he was just feeling silly.
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Originally Posted by Con_Stripes
"Yes we are. The galdr is the next thing we're going to use. For those of you who haven't yet, put your wands away."
He waited for everyone to comply.
"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
ooc: sorry for my absence, it was unexpected and unavoidable. Please have your character get a tool and practice carving runes into the test wood pieces. This is an ELBOW grease thing, physically carving the wood. The Burin won't do a thing without someone physically using it to carve the wood. Have fun and remember the tools are charmed not to hurt people, but any fooling around will result in Truebridge punishing the culprits. Remember, don't carve the tables yet! Burin image credit to index.
Emily put her wand away, much to her disgust. She didn't like the sound of all this carving and elbow grease business....
Lacking motivation and enthusiasm she dragged her feet to the front of the class where she picked up a new practice board and a burin.
Once she returned to her desk she flipped through chapter seven of the text and with a sigh she set it aside to begin her carving.
"ansuz ansuz ansuz
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw s s s s s s
aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw"
she recited as she pressed the burin to the wood. It wasn't easy work, sweat drops began to form on Emily's forehead as she worked to carve her rune. .....
she continued this only to examine her rune and discover is was crooked and wonky in places... "I can do this...." she tried to reassure herself.
And so she tried again. "ansuz ansuz ansuz
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw s s s s s s
aw aw aw aw aw aw
aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw aw"
Lucy attentively listening in the class as Professor started explaining on for to work on the second method to curve the rune. As the Professor completed explaining the hole method, Lucy with no further due, she went to the table taking a burin and two wood pieces for herself just in case if one was not enough. Taking the required items she came back to her table.
As to start on with her curving, she took a deep breath and took the burin in her right hand and opened the seventh chapter, and look for the Algiz rune. "So there it is" she said excitingly. She practiced it once just to get a hang of it and then when that was done she pointed the burin to the piece of wood and said "algiz algiz algiz
z z z z z z z z z
uz az iz ez uz
oz ez iz az uz
z z z z z z z z z"
And looked at her work, "hmm, this looks good" she said. "Ok to I'm done with my work" she said and looked for the professor "Hey Professor, I'm done with my rune" she said smiling on completing her work.
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Heather went to the front of the class and picked up a carving knife. "Thank you, Professor." She said before going back to sit down and carve her wood. She placed the slab in her hand began concentrating.
She began mumbling out loud: "wunjo wunjo wunjo
wu wa wi we wo
wun wan win wen won
wo we wi wa wu
w w w u u u n n n"
She carved as she did the incantation. A line going down, another slanted upward away from the line on the right side and one going back down and meeting the original line. She was happy she had done it. Heather raised her hand and patiently waited for the professor to come to her.
"Yes we are. The galdr is the next thing we're going to use. For those of you who haven't yet, put your wands away."
He waited for everyone to comply.
"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
Jake did as he was told and flicked his hand in order to drop his wand back into its holster. Yup. 'Cause he was obedient.
Ruff ruff.
"Cold chisel?" the young man repeated. Why cold? Or was that just... a worrrrrd. Meh.
When it was time, Jake got up and went to get a burin, sifting through the box to find the best one, even though they were all pretty much the same. He already had his gloves and stuff on... now for the carving.
Jake shook his hands and arms to loosen his muscles in his arms and shoulders slightly, before picking up the burin again and getting started.
It was hard work. HARD.
Mostly because of the effort, but some of those 'words' were ridonkulous.
"dagaz dagaz dagaz
dh dh dh dh dh dh dh dh dh
d d d a a a g g g a a a z z z
du da di de do
dh dh dh dh dh dh dh dh dh
odh edh idh adh udh
od ed ud ad ud
d d d a a a g g g a a a z z z"
Uhm... that looked nothing like the bow-tie shape thing that dagaz was... it was more of an umbrella under attack by the wind.
So... he tried again, really REALLY focusing on what he was doing and what he wanted from the runes. A breakthrough of sorts. This time, when Jake wiped the teeeeeeeny beads of sweat from his brow, he was a little more pleased. He had a wonky bow-tie going on... but the young man was starting to get tired. May as well ask to table carve before he got too tired and stuff.
Raising his hand, Jake looked to Truebridge. "I think I'm ready to carve into the table. And... did you use this method of the other to carve these runes? Assuming it was you..." Because he hadn't seen them in here before.
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"Yes we are. The galdr is the next thing we're going to use. For those of you who haven't yet, put your wands away."
He waited for everyone to comply.
"The galdr can not carve the wood on its own. The galdr is the incantation element of a spell, the other two elements, wand movement and intent are comparable to the shape and form of the rune, and of course the focus you need to carve. However, without a wand, you still need a tool to use to actually do the risting."
From a cupboard under the chalkboard, Truebridge withdrew a box containing enough burins for the entire class.
"These are engraving tools, a type of cold chisel that works fairly well for carving runes, particularly in wood. They're called Burins. Each burin has been charmed so that it will only carve wood, and therefore they are perfectly safe to use, and you need not worry about cutting your skin by accident. Naturally you will all still wear the gloves and goggles provided." Because Truebridge did not want another probation. No thank you. And already this class had proved themselves well able to injure themselves and others regardless of safety precautions.
"You will need to use the burin, and chant the galdr for the rune you are carving. You don't need to be exact about the galdr either, as you will see in your textbooks, chapter seven."
He placed the box on his desk at the front of the room.
"Come and get a burin and try it out on your test pieces of wood. If you need another piece of wood you can get one of those too." He placed a stack by the burins just in case. "When you think you have the hang of it and are ready to carve runes directly into the table, put your hand up and I will check your work and answer any questions you might have."
Wands away. Charisa glanced down absently at her hand, still clutching her wand. Ohh, right. She slipped the wand into her pocket and then got up out of her seat. She made her way over to the professor's desk at the front of the room and picked up a burin out of the box, as she was told. Woot, following directions.
Sitting back down at her desk, Charisa looked at her piece of wood. It still contained areas unblemished by her previous botched attempts, and one successful attempt, at creating her rune. Deciding it was still good to use for her next try using galdr, she proceeded to adjust her gloves and goggles.
Flipping through her Ancient Runes book to chapter seven, as Professor Truebrige mentioned, she scanned the pages for the basic galdr for the rune in question, Thurisaz. Then, burin in her left hand and poised over the wood ready to carve while the other hand pointed to the galdr she needed in the book so she wouldn't lose her place, Charisa began the chant.
She spoke slower than usual, making sure each syllable came out sounding exactly as intended. She didn't want to mess up, even if the burins were charmed and she was focused fully on the task. The tool in her gloved hand carved easily through the wood, until the rune was completed. Charisa put down the burin and gazed at her work. The rune had come out much better than last time. Not as lopsided, with each carved stroke less shaky than before.
He took up the tools , began carving and chanting.
He thought to himself. "This isn't to bad. No wonder i like this class"
JP was happy in this class. This class was one of the few classes he walked into confident and happy. The professor was awesome and he still needed to speak to him but he would wait after class.
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Sounded like a snake-idea but who cares! Slowly, she opened the big book of runes and put it in front of her on the table. Being young girl helped her to sink further into the chair and held her wand. "Intaglio Ansuz ansuz ansuz ansuz..." She whispered moving her wand over on the piece of wood.
