Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-43783253-20200111172607

I have come again to make a suggestion!

This suggestion is about something that's not entirely cannon, but still fits into the Tolkien world without being outrageous.

My suggestion refers to runes, which everyone's favourite grey wizard used on occasion. These runes will belong to four factions. The runes will be made using "Rune-Staves", the crafting of which, along with the factions and runes i will list below:

Dwarves: the race best known for using runes. A Dwarven rune staff will be crafted on a Dwarven crafting table using two Dwarven Steel Ingots, one at the bottom-center, one at the middle' and on top a diamond will sit. Dwarven runes will include a rune of protection, which, when scratched onto a surface using a rune staff, will yield protection 1 to nearby dwarves and hired units of the player. The effect will last for around sixty-seconds, or maybe more, depending on your thoughts.

Elven rune-staves are crafted on elven crafting tables, with elven steel ingots, and edhelvir in the same crafting recipe as the dwarven staff. Elven runes include one that heals nearby elves and hired units, and invisibility runes, which make nearby elves and hired units invisible.

Mordor rune-staves are made with Orc-steel and Durnaur on a mordor crafting table, and can create runes that set nearby enemies on fire.

Dol guldur will be crafted similarly, but with gulduril, and on the factions crafting table. The dol guldur staff can carve runes thst poison nearby enemies.

Runes can be carved into almost any surface. And, depending on if the rune is used for harm or protection, will affect nearby enemies, or the player and their hired units, as well as NPCs of the faction that uses the runes. 