Magic
Living Runes
Golden script that moves on the page — and reads differently depending on who is looking at it.
Certain volumes carry golden runes that behave like living writing rather than ink. They shift, they brighten for a heartbeat, and they respond to the reader in front of them.
Zamaria can understand writing systems she has never been taught, in books whose languages appear utterly foreign. She has kept that ability to herself.
In the books
This is established in The Awakening, book 1 of The Arcane Odyssey.
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