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Each rune contains three words combined to form a single rune through the "Scribe Rune" option. Runes can be destroyed by using your arcane tome on the rune. This will destroy the rune completely and you will need to scribe a new one.

There are 10 words used for rune scribing, what they translate to are: "travel", "self", "see", "Hell", "blood", "join", "technology", "destroy", "hide", and "other". Your Arcane tome, however, requires research and translation. Specifically, you must have words translated in its Notes section before you can scribe any runes that involve those words Every cultist remembers the words for "join," "blood" and "self," which are the words that make up the conversion rune.

There are three ways to find out the meaning of words. First, you can convert crewmates -- not security, as they are loyalty implanted, or the chaplain, as he is immune -- which will please the elders enough for them to grant you a word translation. You can also use sacrifice runes once they are available to sacrifice humans and monkeys. With each sacrifice comes a chance to suddenly remember a rune word. Unfortunately, sacrificing requires three people standing next to the rune for it to work unless the person is dead, which may not impress your dark lord. The other way is through trial and error. Knowing at least one word (preferably two) needed for a rune, you can find out the the other word(s) if you are clever. Trying to use a rune you scribed with incorrect translations does a great deal of brute damage, but all proper runes always have fixed colors and sprites, while incorrect runes are random colors, the exception being Armor runes which will always be random colors.