Lorica/Arcanery/Heavenly Star
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[edit] Heavenly Star
A Heavenly Star or alternatively a Magic Circle is a round glyphic design that generally involves the use of Runes. Through different arrangements of such runes, different charms can be created.
A Heavenly Star looks like a circle at its barest. At one point in the Heavenly Star's main circle, the spellcaster draws the rune Inguz; this acts as the starting point for Charmase. The runic coding reader then goes counterclockwise along the circle, reading any runes and bindrunes placed on it. There are basically three types of runes/bindrunes:
- Manos runes, which tell Charmase exactly what to do;
- Logos runes, which tell Charmase what logic to follow in making those decisions;
- Bind-runes, which tell Charmase what targets to do actions with.
Thus, as Charmase proceeds along the circle, it acts according to the rules set by these runes.
Note that with structure runes, such as that for the repeat (loop) structures, the logic (if...then...) structures, and standard aggregation (grouping) structures, additional circles may be laid on an arc of the main circle, each of which would then represent that structure. These in turn could have circles on them as well, which may or may not be larger than the main circle, depending on the size of code that needs to be fitted in. When reaching such secondary circles, Charmase has two choices: "True" (Fehu) meaning that it take the outer course and "False" (Uruz) meaning that it take the inner course which extends within the primary circle. A repeat structure would send Charmase going around the secondary circles, well, in circles. As you can see, complicated Heavenly Stars don't look round at all.
The center of the circle is a place where the magic of that particular magic circle cannot take place, hence leading to the rise of the phrase "Eye of the Charm", a phrase which sounds close to but has very little to do with "Eye of the Storm".
Heavenly Stars for elementary (basic) spells were later replaced with Eutris charms.
