[he hesitates a moment, then takes the glove off of one hand; there’s a symbol etched into the back of his palm, kinda like a stylized set of stalagmites. it glows faintly gold]

They’re…magic stones, I suppose. Whole Runes contain sets of spells and are used for combat if they’re properly implanted in someone’s body, but one can also break them down and use the fragments for all sorts of other applications.