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Interregnum, the Runes of Greyhawk: Part 2

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Continuing from Part 1 of This Series I present the next set of runes as they are given in the 1980 World of Greyhawk Folio Edition , pp. 29-32, the 1983 World of Greyhawk Boxed Set , p. 17, From the Ashes , p. 18, and the Player’s Guide to Greyhawk , p. 17. As said in Part 1, most of them appear to have been drawn from The Book of Signs by Rudolph Koch. Further research on my part seems to indicate these runes were compiled by Gary Gygax for the  Folio Edition  though I could not find definitively if that was the case. One other source I have used to reinforce the meaning given by Koch and to find the meaning for some runes that do not appear in  The Book of Signs  is Medicinisch-Chymisch und Alchemistisches Oraculum by August Lebrecht Stettin. What Gygax's sources were for the runes that do not appear in either of those sources we cannot know and are left only to speculate. Evil, Evil Pursuer.  This rune maintains its form throughout all Greyhawk publications in which the table