Are we talking about the same thing though? Yeah gods do teach magic. But are they able to take an entirely mundane person not capable of magic at all and turn them into a potential wizard?
Because the only thing I can think of that is like that is whatever enabled Runesmithing.
Alright, while I think that logic sequence you've presented is getting the horse and cart in the wrong order, having specific mindstates is part of speaking the Anoqeyan word, not that speaking the Anoqeyan word gives you that mindset.
However we may also be able to find Anoqeyan words that move the winds in the same way that having the correct mindset would have, therefore I'm willing to entertain the possibility that its possible to either make a new family of runes that use a chants in Anoqeyan rather than Khazalid or find coincidentally the identical sequence of effects to precisely reproduce a rune.
The reason that I brought up that Anoqeyan allows people to manipulate the winds with more nuance than more mundane languages is that I'm even willing to consider that we could define a new family of runes with effects that are not possible without it (I don't think this is likely but I'm willing to consider it).
If the way we do this with an alternate chant is by precisely replicating the movements of the winds when doing it chantless or with Khazalid then I'd expect the result to be precise replica of the rune we are attempting to imitate.
Therefore these solutions don't explain why we would expect this category to be more powerful which was my main issue with the statement. Not the nebulous 'is it or is it not possible.'.
A position that I notice you're not defending... so I don't know why you're starting this?
The sentence I was specifically quoting in response to was taking as a granted that Anoqeyan would improve runesmithing. And you're saying that it may do nothing or less than nothing. So... these aren't the positions I was disagreeing with.
I dunno there are a lot of ifs and assumptions there that aren't really justified. It just feels like of many possible explanations you're just proceeding with the argument that is most favourable to your prior beliefs.
However even if we table that for a moment. We also know of a runic artifact that is "Basically be a wizard" and unless for some reason it far far simpler than its contemporary divine relics it should be in the 5-7 rune range as its Thungni's primary runestaff.
Saying that maybe one rune is all we need to fill in the gap just strikes me as extremely wishful thinking for a problem that probably requires 2 Mrunes and at least 3 minors.
I think you are also getting the cause and effect wrong, if we got a gramaphone and started playing a record of an arch mage speaking spells I wouldn't expect it to start casting spells because it doesn't have a soul and the soul is at least half of the spell. Thereby I think the danger of learning Anoqeyan is not spontaneously casting spells when you were previously fully mundane its spontaneously casting spells because you had an unrecognised and untrained talent for magic. However if you can point me to a specific instance to correct me then I think that would be exactly what I want to clarify the discussion I'm having with Gabrial so you could kill two of my arguments with one stone?
Anyway the right way to move winds in order to forge a rune is the way that they are naturally moved when forging. Thats the purpose of the rote systemetisation. To make sure it always works as best as possible.
