Keyfe Runesight

(I'm not sold on this name, feel free to suggest others.)

History

Training

Kerric Runesight (born Kerric Stoneheart) was raised by the clergy at Pious Point, but was always fascinated by the power of symbols and words. While it is normally within the practice of wizards that words are combined into magic, Kerric's upbringing was a very pious one, and he was convinced that such power must have a more divine origin, with arcane spells merely a faded copy of the original divine symbols that created magic. In his studies on the subject he was naturally attracted to the teachings of Boccob, but unlike many of Boccob's clerics, felt that learning the use of spells through arcane channels was an inelegant solution, likening the use of arcane spells to using words without first learning the letters that form them. After several years of research he uncovered what he was searching for. The divine runes of power, supposedly wielded by the gods themselves when forming the word. The correct rune or combination of runes could be used to describe the existence of any object or force, and thus create it at the same time. He has only just learned how to handle the most basic of runes, knowing full well that premature attempts to form runes he does not yet fully understand could cause untold damage to both himself and possibly those around him.