Tartarus Sorceror
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The Runes on the Runes
The reason why it took a while is that there are various kinds of runes. There are the historical runes, which are similar to each other but were slightly different across place and time (futhark continental and futhorc in England, to make a big oversimplification), and also Tolkien's runes, which look similar but have different meanings and also weren't historically used (which I call Cirth).
Swamp: ᚲ = Cirth: S for Swamp
Shoals: ᛃ it could be two Cirth runes meaning S S (because there's two S in Shoals).
Snake Pit: S? It's not a rune, but looks like the Latin letter.
Spider's Nest: futhark ᚷ = G (Gossamer).
Slime Pits: ᚲ = S (Cirth) for slime or slimy.
Vaults: Futhark ᛗ = M (The rune itself is called "Man"). Otherwise it could be another kind of S ᛊ (still futhark) for "Silver".
Tomb: futhark ᛟ = O (or in Cirth U = Undead?). The rune itself means "inheritance".
Abyss: ᚾ: Cirth rune for L (Lugonu)
Mnoleg: futhark ᚹ = W (Cirth: P), somewhat similar to a Cirth G (for glowing?)
Lom Lobon: ?
Cerebov: futhark ᚠ = F (Fiery) (the only rune from Pan I am convinced about)
Gloorx Vloq: EI ? (Cirth &)
Pan: NG, Cirth U
Dispater: futhark ᛞ = D (Dis)
Antaeus: futhark I = I (Icy)
Asmodeus: futhark ᛈ = P (but similar to a futhorc ᚩ O for Obsidian)
Ereshkigal: futhark ᛏ = T (Tartarus)
Elven: I guess it's the one in ||||||||. It has the futhark rune ᛖ = E
If the artists wanted to share the actual transliteration, it would be pretty cool.
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