Portable Runic Field Device - #01

Adrian slumped down into the large chair in his study, placing a bottle of wine onto the table. A frustrated look plagued his visage. The scholar had been doing his utmost to organize his ranks, to ensure that his research division was making progress. Acha, his recently appointed Chief Apothecary, was nowhere to be found. Dylerun was too stubborn to offer any assistance to the Champion. Ceres was busy leading a school. What of his Chief Scribe?

Well, he didn’t have one. Adrian had been filling that role as early as the organization’s conception. It had been two, maybe even three years since it was founded. What had they done? What progress did they have to show, aside from a bomb? Close to none. The fog of war was strong, the stench of death even moreso.

The rehead took a few gulps straight from the bottle, slamming his tome onto the table and opening it up. He flipped his quill a few times and then pressed it down onto the paper, letting his mind run amok. A title was branded onto the paper, the ink reading:

Portable Runic Field Device

A device capable of storing runic barriers and wards that can be released on demand. The purpose of this device is to enable soldiers to bolster their combative abilities without having to have a runescribe carefully establish a ward prior to a battle. If done correctly, I, Adrian Montbell, believe this could be greatly beneficial.

After recording the draft of the foreword, Adrian was quick to head straight into business. He took another swig from the bottle of wine, searching through his personal library to delve into runic theory. He’d have to do a great deal of studying in order to establish the concept, and turn his ideas into realities.
(Adrian Montbell)

How did one condense something as large as a runic ritual into a handheld device?

That was the essential question. The underlying problem that had to be solved if he was to succeed in his efforts. He needed something that was capable of condensing energy to a confined space. After several moments of deep thought, a switch went off in Adrian’s brain.

When he was just eighteen, the scholar had succeeded in creating a containment chamber capable of housing something as powerful as a daemon. The device was small, very small. Adrian held up his hand and looked at his three rings, the ends of each one suited with a cube-like holster for his containment cubes.

Yes, yes!

That was the key. If he could replicate the process, albeit with some alterations, the idea itself was perfectly plausible.

Adrian flipped open his tome. There was a section dedicated to the study of daemons. It was small in comparison to some of his other notes. Alas, he hadn’t been granted as many opportunities to make as many observations and conduct as many experiments on the strange creatures as he would have liked. But what he did have was the schematics for the daemon containment cube, a device he had designed himself after receiving the materials from Evan so many years ago.
(Adrian Montbell)

Adamantite and steel.

Those were the two major components of the daemon containment device. In theory, the two materials would perform the same function for a different type of containment device. Adrian flipped a page in his tome, drawing out a few different sketches. Shape was one of the most important aspects. It had to be capable of storing a runic ritual-- the arrays of which were, more often than not, circular.

On the page there was a ring and a bracelet.

If the design could be perfected into a functional device, no one would suspect a runic ritual hidden within a ring or bracelet. No normal enchantment was capable of such. The underlying issue of those two containment catalyst was the size. Would they be large enough to contain a ritual? It didn’t seem too far out of reach. A daemon containment cube was capable of storing beasts that were far larger than the actual cube itself.

Adrian felt his creative juices flowing as his brain was overwhelmed with a new idea. A mixture of the two, yes, yes! He began drafting a new sketch. It was a larger bracelet that covered a fair portion of the wrist, though not large enough in size that it could be considered a bracer. That would do.

Once he had figured out it’s rudimentary design, the scholar had to think of just how the runes would be positioned, which commands were issued, to enable the device to work without complications.
(Adrian Montbell)