Talk:Runecraft/@comment-5480911-20161027191126/@comment-27011036-20161027194944

There are a few possible theories, but nothing concrete has been stated in the LN.

1) Runecraft existed in YGGDRASIL, but was never discovered. Ainz did not know of a Runesmith Job Class, but that does not mean anything.

2) It was discovered by a player/guild, but the knowledge of it never leak out. (Don't forget, YGGDRASIL lived by the maxim "information is power".)

3) Runecraft is something like a hybrid of YGGDRASIL and NW. Like the purple potion Nfirea created. (In Nfirea's case they used YGGDRASIL ingredients with NW methods)

4) Enchanting with symbols was originally possible in NW, but a player advised runes as "common writing" to the dwarfs. (Runes function like an alphabet, have a inherit ranking system and other advantages over "random scribbles".)

I'm not 100% where to draw the line between 3) and 4). Might be the same thing, might be different.