Focus Rune Attunement

Cost: 5
Ability Type: Meditative Technique
Related Skill: Meditation
Prerequisites: Meditation 4, Spellcasting 4 and Enhanced Concentration

Through a study of advanced Spellcasting techniques you have learnt to externalise parts of your spells during casting, relying on runes to anchor key elements while you concentrate on the spell at large – making your casting more reliable and your spells more refined.

In order to use runes in this way you must have access to a runic item specially created for the purpose and you must spend time acclimatising yourself to the particular runes involved, their layout and the feel of the item as a whole – a process known as attunement.

Attunement requires a Meditation skill check with target dependant on the item in question and takes about an hour. Once successfully attuned to an item, you may use that item to enhance your casting until you chose to attune something else in its place. The maximum number of rune items you can be attuned to at any one time is equal to your number of Rune Slots, which is dictated by your level of Concentration. Attempting to attune yourself to a new item but failing the skill check still cancels your attunement to any item you previously had attuned yourself to in that slot.

Attuned Focus Runes are faintly visible to any form of astral vision that is capable of sensing general spells and become clearly visible to astral vision when they are being used in spellcasting. If an item marked with Focus Runes is enchanted, the runes visibly glow – providing Illumination equal to 10% of the spell's Power (round up).