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It’s comming. Day by day. Runes of Avalon… and Evelyne, the Apprentice to Merlin. Can she defeat Morganna? Can she learn rune magic quick enough to protect all the living? Who will she meet on her path?

Years ago, Morganna made a bid for power and only Merlin was strong enough to oppose her. They fought their magical battle on ground and in the sky, and soon the land around them burned and the air became acrid with smoke. In the end Morganna was defeated, but not without cost. The Field of Gold-known for its lush and productive lands?were destroyed and left a rocky, barren wasteland that would never recover.

Morganna, though defeated and wounded, escaped. Using magic as a cover, she nursed her wounds and grew stronger in secret.

Now, she is healed, dangerous and hungry for revenge.

Watch our website closely. New match-3 with a twist of Tetris. Runes of Avalon are coming very soon.

We’re getting more and more excited with each day that gets us closer to the release of Runes of Avalon. That’s just 9 days. You don’t want to wait that long? You can pre-order it now! Make sure to watch the trailer on our website.

Runes of Avalon puzzle game makes a great use of the Runes. But what are they? Do they really exist? What the Runes are?

Runes are an ancient Germanic alphabet, used for writing, divination and magick. They were used throughout northern Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and Iceland from about 100 B.C.E. to 1600 C.E. Runic inscriptions of great age have even been found in North America, supporting stories that the Vikings arrived in the Americas long before Columbus.

There are many sources where you can read about the runes. The major runic alphabets are called futharks based upon the first six symbols. The oldest runic alphabet is called Elder Futhark. Here is a piece of text about origins of the runes from Wikipedia:

The origins of the runic scripts are uncertain. Many characters of the elder futhark bear a close resemblance to characters from the Latin alphabet. Other candidates are the 5th to 1st century BC Northern Italic alphabets, Lepontic, Rhaetic and Venetic, all closely related to each other and themselves descended from the Old Italic alphabet. These scripts bear a remarkable resemblance to the Futhark in many regards.

I took a quote from another great source of knowlegde about runes:

The runes might be read from left to right or from right to left, even on the same artifact. Translation of runic inscriptions is therefore extremely difficult, and complicated by the fact that rune masters sometimes wrote cryptic puzzles or in secret script.

In Elder Futhark the runes are broken into three sections or groups of eight, called aett (aettir, plural). This helps one to remember their order, and later, has significance in magical uses.

Each rune has a name and it’s meaning. For example, Fehu, first symbol in runic alphabet, stands for wealth: possessions won or earned, earned income, luck. Abundance, financial strength in the present or near future. Sign of hope and plenty, success and happiness. For this fact runes are widely used for divination.

Here are some runes used in the Runes of Avalon game.

Runes fell into disuse as the Roman alphabets became the preferred script of most of Europe, but their forms and meanings were preserved in inscriptions and manuscripts.

If you want to know more about the runes check out following sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet
http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/

If you fall in love with the Runes, just like we did, then make sure to play Runes of Avalon game.

Have you ever heard of Merlin or King Arthur? I’m sure you have. I doubt you’ve heard about Morgan Le Fay. And definitely you haven’t heard about Merlin’s Apprentice. So here is short who’s who in Arthurian legends and Runes of Avalon.

Merlin is best known as the mighty wizard featured in Arthurian legend. His traditional biography has him born the son of an incubus and a mortal woman who inherits his powers from his strange birth. He grows up to be a sage and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic. Later Merlin serves as the king’s advisor until he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Lady of the Lake.

In Arthurian legend, Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgaine, Morgain, Morgana and a slew of related name variants, is a powerful sorceress and sometime antagonist of King Arthur and Guinevere. King Arthur is her half brother by Igraine and Uther Pendragon. Morgan has at least two older sisters, Elaine and Morgause, the latter of which is the mother of Gawain and the traitor Mordred. In Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and elsewhere, she is married, unhappily, to King Urien of Gore and Ywain is her son. Though she becomes an adversary of the Round Table when Guinevere discovers her adultery with one of her husband’s knights, she eventually reconciles with her brother, and even serves as one of the four enchantresses who carry the king to Avalon after his final battle at Camlann.

All that is what you can read on the internet. But is it the whole story? Is it true story?

It’s not…! I haven’t written a word about Merlin’s Apprentice, but I will, hold on. Story will be continued. In the meantime don’t forget to check out Runes of Avalon game trailer.