21 21 - Rune Project and Aeritongue

It's been almost half a year since Christmas.

2 months after Christmas, I decided that I was finally ready to start my little project. What was this project?

Well, it involved runes, trial and error, and a lot of time.

You see, I'm no Rune Master, but when it comes to knowledge alone, I can definitely compare to at least some of them, and while I am still quite far away from being able to fight with runes effectively like using them to seal somebody's wand from connecting to their magic or even making a space that blocks out anti-apparition wards/anti-portkey wards, especially during a fight, I am able to use my knowledge to come up with interesting and useful ideas.

One of these idea, was to make a contact lense that.. attaches.. to your eye. It doesn't cause irritation to your eye after having them in for too long, in fact once they go into your eye, they become invisible and you can't even feel them.

The only way to take them out is through a voice-activation command which I set to 'Remove Super Contact Lense.'

Not very.. creative.. but that's not important, the part where it gets really cool is the runes that I have on it.

First it enhances my eyesight, making everything clearer and easier to concentrate at high-speeds instead of becoming blurry, sort of like improving your computer monitors Hertz and Resolution.

Second, it has a 'zoom' option which lets me, as you'd guess, zoom in or out. I managed to get it to 300% zoom but i'm sure there's room for improvement, not that it's important.

The way to change the zoom is through thinking it, which was honestly pretty hard to get right the first time around. I had to push my will, sort of like legillimency, into my eyes where the lense is, and think the right command which in this case is 'Zoom (How much you want it to zoom) In or Out'.

Finally, my favourite and the hardest to add feature, the ability to see magic.

Mage sight is an ability that only a small few are born with and only a small amount of people are able to create themselves, which the only way I know of at the moment would be through runes.

I'm positive that Dumbledore has, at the very least, some of these runes in his half-moon glasses, but there's no way for me to prove it.

Now, you might be wondering, how did I manage to add all of these runes onto something as small as a contact lense? Well, I used 'engorgio' on it to make it way larger, to the size of around the top half of a Sneakoscope. That wasn't the hard part, the hard part was incorporating all of these runes without having them overlap with each other and not work.

If it was a normal person, it would have taken years to get to my progress, but I memorised every single detail after each failure and calculated what variable went wrong in each rune to achieve such a result, then I adjusted each problem that occurred with an improved formula until it finally worked in perfect balance.

Okay fine, it wasn't as easy as i'm making it out to be, I almost cried a few times when I was tired but it just didn't work, but I got there in the end!

There are over 40 runes on the lenses, almost 30 of them to get the effects that I wanted, especially mage sight, while the rest include a stasis rune that makes sure they don't diminish in quality, along with a self-cleaning rune so that dirt doesn't mess with my eyesight, along with a reinforcement rune that.. while not making it indestructible, it would take a very large amount of force to chip or shatter them.

Finally! I added a rune that makes them completely invisible, mage sight or otherwise. I don't want Dumbledore looking my way and seeing that my eyes have ambient runic magic coming off them.

Once all of the runes were carved and done with, I used the Duplicating Charm which ended up draining me of almost all my magic, which I guessed was because of all the runes that I duplicated at once.

The lense made by the Duplicating Charm does rot and tarnish faster than the original, but it was counteracted by the statis-rune which while not completely freezing it, made it so it would take centuries at least for it to start to break down.. I could only hope I didn't need them by that point.

I'm also fairly certain that legillimency would be even more difficulty on me considering you'd have to go through a layer that's reinforced with runes.. which now that I think about it, might be a bad thing.

If someone tries using legillimency on me, I can handle it myself, but if they're struggling to enter my mind in the first place then they'll obviously get suspicious.. hmm, I suppose I'll have to make sure nobody reads my mind then, it's not like reading minds is a common thing to do.. well it shouldn't be anyway.

Of course, I didn't spend every waking minute doing this.

I honestly spent more time than I think was necessary just acting like a normal student. Talking and studying with my friends, playing a few pranks here and there and my morning run really helped clear my mind instead of becoming like Hermione when an exam is closing in.

Also, I always set aside a couple of hours everyday to improve my duelling and running skills in the forest which I've also expanded to moving through different environments, which the ROR was also able to do, increasing my amazement of it even more.

At one point, I found myself on a snowy mountain. It wasn't that steep, but I still ended up tripping 2 minutes in and being wiped out with spells which got me thinking, 'What happens if I slip somewhere and break my neck?'. Will I just die with nobody knowing where I am?

Meh, let's just hope I don't die, then.

I didn't study runes like last time, just drawing them out individually and memorising them, because actually creating something is better than any normal studying can help with, instead, I got hands on experience with runes because when making the contact lense, I honestly improved my understanding of a lot of runes that I had already memorised.

You can learn runic languages and just remember what they do and what shape they are but that doesn't make you a Rune Master.

During the time I spent making the contact lense, I figured out different runes react in different places. For example, if you put an 'Enhance' rune directly connected to a 'Reinforce' rune, it completely breaks the object that it's carved onto, making it fall apart, which i'm guessing is because the material isn't able to sustain the amount of.. energy.. holding it together making the bonds holding it together break completely.

I tried thinking about how runes and even magic worked with a scientific explanation but they seriously mess with my understanding of physics. Like, how can one energy be so incredible that it can directly break The Law of Conservation of Mass? Magic can change one thing into another even if they are of a different mass and density to each other, it makes no sense.. well no sense that I can understand yet.

As for runes, it's seriously weird how a written language is able to directly change, add onto and remove different properties of an object, but it's far more exciting than physics ever could be. Is this how scientists like Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton felt when they discovered a new part of the world that they never how it worked before? Because it's seriously addictive.

Now where was I? Ah, right. Other than my little rune project that I was working on, I also spent a lot of time trying to work out my Aeritongue abilities. Thinking about how Harry Potter had an entire magical language that barely anyone else could speak and he didn't even try to explore it makes me facepalm.

It turns out that Aeritongue has a lot of its own interesting effects and properties. Every language has it's own effects but for the most part they're the same, with Latin proving to be slightly stronger than most other languages like english or french.

A magical language, on the other hand, as you'd expect, resonates with magic far better than any regular language does. The power of the spells isn't really all that different, but it does take less concentration and a smaller amount of magic to cast the same spells when saying them in Latin. It wasn't by a huge amount, but an amount nonetheless.

Another thing, is that many spells reacted differently when cast as compared to their Latin counterpart. For example, The Featherlight Charm.