Looking for a way to create original magic runes and circles, but the caveat to this is that I am also wanting to inject some real world ones too. When I go online to look for public domain esoteric stuff I get anime and FMA or overseas video games. I'm guessing none of which are based on actual things are original and copyrighted. I don't want to copy anyone but I need a basic idea from old world runes and circles.
You could always combine multiple real-life runes to make your own runic alphabet, and design the circles with these runes in mind. Theban script, Germanic runes, Oanish runes, Pictish Swirl, Malachim and Angelic are a few rune alphabets you could look at and use for style and inspiration. And you could look at the popular mandalas for how to make circular designs, and replace the designs' triangles and smaller pieces with the runes themselves. Let me know if that helps!
the runes from the shadowhunter series are really creative and can be altered to make them your own
the runes from the shadowhunter series are really creative and can be altered to make them your own
That could still run into copyright issues. I've not heard of the series but if its published either self-pub or T.P. its probably not public domain. If you mean their stuff is public domain they might have certain licenses that need to be looked at like if you used their stuff you have to pay a royalty fee for commercial use, free if not being used commercially etc. I'm looking to avoid copyright infringement. Especially since this isn't fan-fiction and is original canon to my own universe stuff.
Thank you for the suggestion though, I will look at it still.
You could always combine multiple real-life runes to make your own runic alphabet, and design the circles with these runes in mind. Theban script, Germanic runes, Oanish runes, Pictish Swirl, Malachim and Angelic are a few rune alphabets you could look at and use for style and inspiration. And you could look at the popular mandalas for how to make circular designs, and replace the designs' triangles and smaller pieces with the runes themselves. Let me know if that helps!
Thank you for the suggestions. Are the Theban, Oanish, Malachim, and Angelic btw real world stuff or based off of someones fictional stories? I've not heard of those ones.
You could always combine multiple real-life runes to make your own runic alphabet, and design the circles with these runes in mind. Theban script, Germanic runes, Oanish runes, Pictish Swirl, Malachim and Angelic are a few rune alphabets you could look at and use for style and inspiration. And you could look at the popular mandalas for how to make circular designs, and replace the designs' triangles and smaller pieces with the runes themselves. Let me know if that helps!
Thank you for the suggestions. Are the Theban, Oanish, Malachim, and Angelic btw real world stuff or based off of someones fictional stories? I've not heard of those ones.
Theban came around in the 16th century, and is associated with people who practice witchcraft in real life, but the real origins are unknown, so its real world but kind of hard to trace. Danish (sorry i had spelled it wrong the first time) is also founded in real-world history and usually cross over with Germanic runes. Malachim is a derivative of Hebrew and Greek, founded once again the 16th century (making it public domain), and Angelic is from the Shadowhunter series, so it's not real and probably subject to a lot of copyright if you use it.
You could always combine multiple real-life runes to make your own runic alphabet, and design the circles with these runes in mind. Theban script, Germanic runes, Oanish runes, Pictish Swirl, Malachim and Angelic are a few rune alphabets you could look at and use for style and inspiration. And you could look at the popular mandalas for how to make circular designs, and replace the designs' triangles and smaller pieces with the runes themselves. Let me know if that helps!
Thank you for the suggestions. Are the Theban, Oanish, Malachim, and Angelic btw real world stuff or based off of someones fictional stories? I've not heard of those ones.
Theban came around in the 16th century, and is associated with people who practice witchcraft in real life, but the real origins are unknown, so its real world but kind of hard to trace. Danish (sorry i had spelled it wrong the first time) is also founded in real-world history and usually cross over with Germanic runes. Malachim is a derivative of Hebrew and Greek, founded once again the 16th century (making it public domain), and Angelic is from the Shadowhunter series, so it's not real and probably subject to a lot of copyright if you use it.
Thank you for clarifying! I really like your suggestions. Its hard to find anything online because you have so many neo pagan sites that claim authenticity and you go to check the accuracy or cross reference them and it turns out that they copyright infringed someone or they created their own effectively copyrighting their things. Kind of like warpaint is a beast to cross reference because of Skyrim and cosplay fads. Finding anything in that topic is horrible. A lot of these sites don't use terms like this anymore. So when I find an older site that uses terminology I generally save it. I think the major problem we are having in the tech age is the overwhelming amount of "knowledge" and repeat knowledge often not correctly written or referred/referenced to. Everyone wants to blog and make money. :/ So its really hard to sift through the knowing and the amateur.