Four years after The Broken Greed War..
Underground secret lab, beneath the Divine Tree, Eldoris.
"Okay, Relas... You do it, I'll go hide," Damian said, smiling encouragingly at his assistant.
"That does not make me feel good at all..." Relas muttered, taking the giant parchment that had been custom-made by stitching together several smaller pieces crafted by Eldoris artisans.
After years of extensive study, memorization, and a little help from the ordinary runic knowledge books acquired from the Royal Library, Damian had finally cracked the code—or at least found a small backdoor hack. Creating entirely new spells from scratch was still far beyond his reach, but by combining unique sections of existing spells with common runic elements, he could craft some interesting combinations.