Editing Runes (section)

=== Fire ===
An upward-facing equilateral triangle, underlined.<ref name=":6">[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/practices-1/ [1.4 Spoilers] Notes on the Practices #1]</ref>

Calls upon spirits of the [[element]] of fire. One of the four classic elemental runes.<ref name=":6">[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/practices-1/ [1.4 Spoilers] Notes on the Practices #1]</ref> Can be used in [[circle|diagrams]] to create or manipulate heat.<ref>Putting one foot flat against the wall, her knee pointing out, she laid the post-its across her leg, and penned out a quick, simple diagram, one that was badly imbalanced, a triangle atop a circle, atop a triangle, each triangle pointing the same way. Within the circle, she penned the simple ‘fire’ rune, underlining it.<br><br>
“He was here recently, I hope,” Lucy said. "Looks like he was cooking.”<br><br>It might’ve been that there wasn’t enough heat.  She tried pressing her thumb to the bottom end of the diagram.  Pull in heat, feed it to the rune that defined the function, then push it out. She could feel the rune at her fingertip, uncomfortably numbing and kind of painful.  The end of the slip of post-it turned orange, smoking.<br><br>“What are you even doing?”<br><br>“Trying to create a light source,” Verona said. The end of the paper ignited in flame, spitting out the occasional spark. It wasn’t as much light as she’d hoped. The fire extended to the diagram, and traced out glowing orange lines as it burned through, the entire thing coming to pieces, with fire rushing to the fingers that held the paper. She tossed it up into the air rather than at the ground. It was ashes before it reached the floor. “Didn’t work.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/23 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.5]]</ref>

A diagram involving wind and fire runes can generate smoke.<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":14" />

When used in constructing the [[Sisters of the Torch]]'s mannequin [[vessel]]s, produced ones which pursued body heat, and exploded when they got close enough.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":7">The snow made it hard to tell which ones had which rune.  The metal-runes had barely moved from their meandering circuit through the area, and the others were largely engaged with Midge.<br><br>Two, I saw, were twisting and shriveling like ants underneath the microscope.  Fire runes.<br>[...]<br>The explosion shattered a series of windows on the ground floor, and cracked a few on the second floor.<br><br>The explosion went off a few feet from Midge, too.  She stumbled, but didn’t lose her footing.<br><br>Midge was in the process of going after the ‘metal’ vessels.  They didn’t fight back as she tore them to pieces.<br><br>When they started to go down, the struggling remains of the other vessels ceased. The metal ones had been, what, transmitting a signal?  Providing structure? Maybe a factor in why they had all arrived around the same time.  The ‘metal’ vessels were the generals.  Vulnerable on their own. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/05/15 Excerpt] from [[Subordination 6.8]]</ref>