Altarology

Altarology is the study of the magic concerning the Runecrafting altars. The study takes place mainly in the Runecrafting Guild, which, being located in the Runespan, resides in a realm of "purer" runic energies. One of the major issues in contention between modern altaroligists is that of the orbs that leak out of the various Runecrafting altars. The two opposing sides are led by Wizards Acantha and Vief, who believe that the the green or yellow orbs respectively are solely native to the Runecrafting altars.

Acantha and Vief are biased researchers, not actually curious about the subject of altarology at all and only interested in proving themselves right. Any researcher of basic wit who is actually curious about the nature of orbs, altars and runes will soon discover that both green and yellow energies are native to the altar, contrary to both Vief's and Acantha's hypotheses. Using an Orb of Oculus to peer into the core of the altars, we find that the altars actually contain an equal amount of native yellow and green coreorbs. That wouldn't be the case if only one of the colours were native to the altars.

There are, however, energies that seem not to be native to the altars. These are the cyan and purple orbs studied in the research lab in the basement of the Mage Training Arena in Al Kharid. One becomes curious about what would happen if one introduced one of these energies into the altars, and the future may yield just such an experiment.

The eminent Wizard Elriss is working on her own fundamental theory of altarology, but she's very secretive about it.

The question of whether the altar energies will last forever, or whether they are an indefinete resource has interested and dichotomised researchers since the dawn of the Runecrafting guild, but the permanence of the number of coreorbs of each colour in the altars suggests that the energies are not running out.

The orb containers in the Runecrafting guild have been empty ever since the giant orb in Lumbridge (from whence Zamorak pushed through into Gielinor) spawned. None of the researchers in the Runecrafting guild seems to know anything about it, but Yusou Bhoroi has speculated that it is the result of some conspiracy involving Brassica Prime.