@TheEdVerse The font for dwarvish on PHB p. 123 seems to be one called Davek (online). In SGAG p. 105 a different font (Dethek) is used. Is one or the other canon? Are both? Also, is there a rune depicting giant (like there are runes for orc, human, elf).
— Michiel Brouwer-Cummins (@Bri_bra_brouwer) July 8, 2020
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Dethek is a runic script developed by dwarves (out-of-game: created by me in 1977, first seen by the wider world in my “Runestones” article in THE DRAGON) and used in the original Realms boxed set and many other places. Goblins even used it in elder days. 2)
So, yes, it's canon for the Realms.
Davek is the dwarven script of the Eberron setting, and over time, planar travellers have brought books and labelled items and knowledge of the script to the Realms, so that BOTH are now "canon" in the Realms, though your…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 8, 2020
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…average human commoner in, say, the Heartlands or Sword Coast who is shown Davek writings will frown and say, “Looks Dwarvish.” Whereas many human commoners can read a few symbols of Dethek.
In Dethek, there is indeed a rune for giantkind: it looks like an… 4)
…inverted capital "T" with a crossbar only a quarter the length of the vertical stem. Just below the top end, that stem is crossed at a 20-degree angle by a diagonal cross-stroke the same length as the (bottom) crossbar, lower end to the left and higher end to…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 8, 2020
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…the right; it crosses the vertical stem at the midpoint of the cross-stroke.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 8, 2020
Thanks for your (real rapid) answer. So the rune for giantkind would be something like this? Yes, but without that middle crossbar.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 10, 2020