In the Pathfinder Society Scenario "Waking Rune" we get the stats for Krune's Dragon-Tooth Spear, and in it's destruction method it mentions something called a "runefont." Does anyone know if this gets mentioned anywhere else in the lore, and where?
The relevant text for reference.
Krune’s dragon-tooth longspear can be destroyed by bathing the weapon in the waters of the runefont of Xin-Haruka, and then using the still-wet spear to slay a direct descendant of the dragon whose tooth was used to create the weapon.
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If I remember correctly the Runefont is the artifact/place of power from which all Runelords draw their power. Its where you can make Sinspawn for specific Runelords and do all types of other crazy sin magic.
Each runelord has their own and they are hidden all over old Thassilon at the very least. I believe you can find out more about them in the regular Rise of the Runelords AP and the last Runelords Ap where you take on the Runelord of Wrath. Oh, the one about Xin might have some stuff on it as well.
It might also go by Runewell or Rune well, runefont could be a typo.
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The term 'font' comes from the latin for 'fountain' and can refer to a receptacle for liquid (a baptismal font) or a source of something (a font of information)*: The later usage is fairly synonymous with 'well' so the item is most likely referring to a Runewell.
While the city of Xin-Haruka was destroyed, its Runewell is an artifact tied to Runelord Krune so it presumably survived the destruction of the city but was actually destroyed when Krune was finally slain by Pathfinder agents**.
It might also go by Runewell or Rune well, runefont could be a typo.
Sorshen created the Runewell after studying the Everdawn Pool. Then she shared the knowledge and each runelord created their own version.
The term 'font' comes from the latin for 'fountain' and can refer to a receptacle for liquid (a baptismal font) or a source of something (a font of information)*: The later usage is fairly synonymous with 'well' so the item is most likely referring to a Runewell.
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That seems rather strange. How did Krune get a runewell, and why is it connected to a spear that would predate runwell creation?
-6480 ar Xin appoints the first runelords to take care of the day-to-day drudgery of rule.
This would be after the spear was made if my understanding is correct.
–6479 ar Runelord Sorshen discovers the Everdawn Pool.
–6452 ar Runelord Sorshen reverse-engineers the
Everdawn Pool and builds the first runewell.
So about a minimum of 28 years between the spears creation and the first runewell.
Is this just a forgotten writing hiccup?
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Krune became the 7th Runelord of Sloth in -5525 AR, so the runewells would have been around for nearly a millennia before he rose to power (having been a high priest and advisor to Ivarinna, the prior Runelord of Sloth, who reigned from -5752 to -5525 AR).
This does clash with the 'runewells die with their masters' trend, but I presume that they weren't so fragile in the old days when they were being fed by an empire and only in modern times are they so dependent on their specific runelords.
Krune became the 7th Runelord of Sloth in -5525 AR, so the runewells would have been around for nearly a millennia before he rose to power (having been a high priest and advisor to Ivarinna, the prior Runelord of Sloth, who reigned from -5752 to -5525 AR).
This does clash with the 'runewells die with their masters' trend, but I presume that they weren't so fragile in the old days when they were being fed by an empire and only in modern times are they so dependent on their specific runelords.
But the spear itself predates the Runewells, was my point.
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Okay, I made the mistake of assuming Krune created the spear that bears his name, but the wiki states is was actually crafted by Xin, presumably between his appointing the runelords in -6480 AR and his 'death' in -6420 AR (presumably close to the start of this period).
So there was only a 32 year period (–6452 to -6420 AR) at best in which both Xin and any Runewell existed.
It is possible the ability of the runewell/font to weaken the spear is more a reflection of the Runewell's power and synergy than any association with its actual creation.
Also note the wiki for the Alara'quin also lists a different option for destroying any of these weapons, involving an entity which didn't appear on Golarian until -6301 AR (119 years after Xin's death):
The Alara'quin can be destroyed by hurling them under the crushing feet of the Oliphaunt of Jandelay, but only if there is no active runelord of the associated school of rune magic...
Artifact destruction clauses tend to fall into one of two specific categories:
1) Specific setup for the next stage of the adventure's story, or2) Largely meaningless flavor text that just explains why it has survived until now.
Given the near impossibility of actually meeting the requirements (you'd have to get the spear without actually killing Krune, go to the runewell of a city destroyed so completely that no one can find it, dip the spear in it, then immediately kill a direct descendant of a specific dragon killed 11,000 years ago), I think this one falls into the latter category...
So there was only a 32 year period (–6452 to -6420 AR) at best in which both Xin and any Runewell existed.
It is possible the ability of the runewell/font to weaken the spear is more a reflection of the Runewell's power and synergy than any association with its actual creation.
That is a very interesting idea.
Artifact destruction clauses tend to fall into one of two specific categories:
1) Specific setup for the next stage of the adventure's story, or
2) Largely meaningless flavor text that just explains why it has survived until now.Given the near impossibility of actually meeting the requirements (you'd have to get the spear without actually killing Krune, go to the runewell of a city destroyed so completely that no one can find it, dip the spear in it, then immediately kill a direct descendant of a specific dragon killed 11,000 years ago), I think this one falls into the latter category...
Agreed.