<html> <head> <title>Laguz</title> <link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <link rel="icon" href="../img/runes/laguz.svg"> </head> <body> <p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_laukaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/laguz.svg" alt="Laguz rune" title="Laguz rune"></a></p> <h1>Laguz</h1> <p>Traditional meaning: water</p> <p>Meanings when upright:</p> <ul> <li>use of magical energy</li> <li>sexual tension</li> <li>shape-shifting</li> <li>manifestation of desire</li> <li>creation of magical illusions/glamours</li> <li>bending the will of others</li> <li>you can survive the tests ahead</li> </ul> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <ul> <li>fear of the unknown</li> </ul> <p>Laguz can be useful for:</p> <ul> <li>manipulating magical energy</li> <li>shifting one's awareness to other layers of reality</li> <li>bending people to your will</li> <li>feeding/creating a magical illusion</li> </ul> <hr> <p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p> <blockquote>Lagu byþ leodum langsum geþuht,<br>gif hi sculun neþan on nacan tealtum<br>and hi sæyþa swyþe bregaþ<br>and se brimhengest bridles ne gym[eð].</blockquote> <blockquote>The ocean seems interminable to men,<br>if they venture on the rolling bark<br>and the waves of the sea terrify them<br>and the courser of the deep heed not its bridle.</blockquote> <p>Norwegian rune poem:</p> <blockquote>Lo,gr er, fællr ór fjalle<br>foss; en gull ero nosser.</blockquote> <blockquote>A waterfall is a River which falls from a mountain-side;<br>but ornaments are of gold.</blockquote> <p>A modern poem:</p> <blockquote> <p>"I've always found it strange<br/> that, in hypotheticals<br/> of <strong>you losing control and going feral</strong>,<br/> you always imagine your draconic form.<br/> Not the one, the chaotic, proven to,<br/> when lost control, cause massive harm.<br/> What's up with that, Lethe?<br/> I mean,<br/> I'm not saying I want either to happen,<br/> but you're so focused on one<br/> that you discount the other's chances."</p> <p>I... I don't know, in all honesty.<br/> I have no concrete answers to give,<br/> no easy explanation that will relieve.</p> <p>I guess because...<br/> in the former form I'm slender and elegant,<br/> and maybe I associate it with intelligence,<br/> and so I'm more likely to retain<br/> some semblance of myself amidst the insane?</p> <p>Because part of the fantasy<br/> is you managing to rescue me?</p> <p>I know you said<br/> you wanted to spend<br/> your whole life at my side,<br/> but I don't want you here if to you<br/> this is just another sacrifice,<br/> if you're throwing away your happiness<br/> just to keep the worlds in safety and bliss-</p> <p>"That's... not what I meant at all.<br/> I just want us to be prepared<br/> in case you ever come under the thrall<br/> of another evil-seeking god.<br/> You <i>eat</i> gods, you know. Are you aware?<br/> With your tail you reave whole worlds to shreds<br/> and suck souls dry until there's nothing left.<br/> If you must be in the hands of someone,<br/> let those hands be mine,<br/> who has loved you since what feels like<br/> the beginning of time<br/> itself.<br/> You trust me, don't you?<br/> To not put you through hell?"</p> <p>Of course. I trust you with all that I am<br/> even after my very last death knell.<br/> I think, if I should ever go feral,<br/> it should be in the form that forgets the least<br/> so you can bring me back to sanity<br/> with the utmost of ease.<br/> After all, I think I'd like to remain<br/> an (arch)angel for the rest of my days<br/> since only then do I have the hands,<br/> the face, the voice to say:</p> <p>"I love you."</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>