You would think that makes the whole thing reliable. You would think that once learned, it stays learned.
But no.
Every word has several meanings. Prefixes alter intention. Suffixes alter relation. A rune’s position within a spell alters all of that again. Atop that, its relative size can shift hierarchies or even redirect the order of reading away from the rune beside it and towards an entirely different part of the larger structure. With witches, anything changes everything, because of course it does. One variation in size or placement, one slight alteration of emphasis, and a page-long Faramyr construction that had made at least some kind sense a moment ago suddenly turns into a dense declaration of garbage gibberish.
And just like that,
your whole last week of research reveals itself to be
just as much of a fucking waste.
And just like that,
your whole last week of research reveals itself to be
just as much of a fucking waste.
And just like that,
your whole last week of research
reveals itself to be
just as much of a fucking waste.
a̲l̥͙̦̀M̵̴͡Ą̴̼̗̪R̀ is one such a expression, cursed with a thousand meanings. Every wizard knows M̵̴͡Ą̴̼̗̪R̀ as mother, since it appears in the Faramyr rendering of Witch Mother. Most are also taught just how far its meaning extends beyond the literal concept of maternity. In the broader sense, M̵̴͡Ą̴̼̗̪R̀ can stand for anything female, anything that birthed, anything understood as an origin or generative source. At its most abstract, the word moves away from the creator and towards the act of creation itself; not the womb, nor even the one who possesses it, but the principle by which something came into being.
a̲l̥͙̦̀, when attached to a word like M̵̴͡Ą̴̼̗̪R̀, signifies loss, absence, privation, or deprivation.
With that a̲l̥͙̦̀M̵̴͡Ą̴̼̗̪R̀ could be translated as simple as motherless. Or it could mean the principle by which something was brought forth had been removed. That was rather less simple.
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