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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Runes

Though they are called "runes" by the game (probably due to the term's association with mystery and magic), these symbols do not form an alphabet, but rather a vocabulary. As such, they would be more accurately termed glyphs or especially sigila.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Alignments

• Chattur'gha - red in color; represents health or the power of Chattur'gha. Overpowers Xel'lotath, but is vulnerable to Ulyaoth.
• Ulyaoth - blue in color; represents magick or the power of Ulyaoth. Defeats Chattur'gha, but is overcome by Xel'lotath.
• Xel'lotath - green in color; represents sanity or the power of Xel'lotath. Prevails over Ulyaoth but succumbs to Chattur'gha.
• Mantorok - purple in color; represents the power of Mantorok. Dominant over all others, can replenish all three meters, and cause unusual effects in certain spells– but useless for summoning.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Verbs

• Bankorok - "protect" - used to create a force around something
  
• Tier - "summon" - used to summon something of the specified alignment
  
• Narokath - "absorb" - used to absorb the specified element from/into something
  
• Nethlek - "dispel" - used to dispel something of an alignment weak to that being used
  
• Antorbok - "project" - used to project the specified alignment's power onto something

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Nouns

• Magormor - "item" - focuses the spell on an item
  
• Redgormor - "area" - focuses the spell on the area around the character
  
• Aretak - "creature" - focuses the spell on a creature
  
• Santak - "self" - focuses the spell on the spellcaster
  

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Other

• Pargon - "power" - used to power up spells
  

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Runes", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki