A rune master (紋章師, Monshō-shi) is a vocation in the Suikoden series. It describes people who can equip and remove runes to and from their bearers.
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Although runes are used in daily life, the process of removing a rune from a rune orb requires a special technique that is not commonly known. A rune master is an expert on runes who can extract runes from orbs to attach them to people, or remove runes from folk, setting them in rune orbs. However, if the bond between a person and their rune was great, not even a rune master could remove it.
During the Gate Rune War, Jeane served as a rune master for the Toran Liberation Army at their Toran Castle headquarters and later for the New State Army at their headquarters.
Some speculate that women were naturally more adept at handling runes due to the large number of women who worked in the field and that the revealing clothing of such masters may be ceremonial in some regard. At the New Leaf Academy in Greenhill City, a rune master class actively trains young students in the field. As a discipline in high demand, it seems like that there is a well-established training process in place.
Those who could take the power of a rune from a rune orb and place it on a scroll to be used by anyone are called scroll makers, a closely related field.
References
- Genso Suikoden Encyclopaedia (ISBN 4-575-16297-3), page 284
- Genso Suikoden Genso Shinsho Vol.9 (ISBN 4-7753-0088-1), page 57
- Genso Suikoden Kiwami Encyclopedia, pages 105, 224