"Ah, I suppose even a practical application may make little sense if one has no experience with it. Perhaps runes are not always earned, necessarily. They are words, after all. This Brain of Mensis may only need to establish contact in order to pass on a rune." Abysa pauses for a moment.

"I know OF this Brain of Mensis, but dear Micolash is reluctant to explain what sort of Great One it is. I can only assume, since you share a word it knows, that you have met it or something similar?"