Nah, there has to be a bit of power put into them. My inks are magically enhanced, but I could also use my own magic to make it happen.
[She picks up a small, green egg shaped item. It has tiny runes written along the sides and the top of it. She pressed just a bit of magic into it and the runes glow, crackling a bit. The optics light up and the legs extend. It lifts and tip-toes around the palm of her hand.]
If you have magic, you can use it to activate the runes without specialized ink. It reacts to the spell you wrote with them. But most runists don't have a high magical reserve. If we did, we'd be mages and just use verbal spells instead.
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[She picks up a small, green egg shaped item. It has tiny runes written along the sides and the top of it. She pressed just a bit of magic into it and the runes glow, crackling a bit. The optics light up and the legs extend. It lifts and tip-toes around the palm of her hand.]
If you have magic, you can use it to activate the runes without specialized ink. It reacts to the spell you wrote with them. But most runists don't have a high magical reserve. If we did, we'd be mages and just use verbal spells instead.