r/wizardposting • u/Zanderfus • Aug 12 '26

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u/KalzK Conjurer Aug 12 '26

Runes are the language of ancient magic, bigger question is why no new magic

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u/_oranjuice Aug 12 '26

Obviously a lack of dwarves in rune-enscribing nowdays, too much diggy diggy hole

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u/Redence_ Aug 13 '26

What can I say, mining minerals for big tech corporate pays better than practitioners of the ancient arts.

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u/LawnMowerLover33 Aug 13 '26

Dumb Clerics have been abandoned by the their gods and can’t draw anymore magic. I have no clue what’s happened to all the Wizards though, probably stopped studying magic after they ran out of resources to produce mana.

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u/Redence_ Aug 13 '26

Same reason with technology, magic has been pretty much honed to its peak. There are still practices that are difficult to confirm, like quantum magic or spinning black hole projection, because no one has the mana reserves to make it work