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Runeworking
Attuning rune material at the Wise Old Enby's Resonance Rig on Hilltop Workshop, Stillreach — the Beginner Echo Seeker, how a run works, and when the Rig opens.
Runeworking is attuning rune material into something useful. It is its own skill with its own level, starting at 1, and it happens at the Resonance Rig: the Wise Old Enby's own machine at Hilltop Workshop on Stillreach. The Rig sits below the Wise Old Enby themselves, and using it never means talking to them first.
The Rig opens once you have finished Not From Around Here and stays yours from then on, whatever you do with First Runeworking Lesson. Before that there is nothing to use there.
What you can attune
A Beginner Echo Seeker is attuned to detect hidden disturbances in RuneSpace. There is nothing to do with one yet beyond keeping, trading or storing it.
The Rig has two modes: Attune, where you start and watch a run, and Recipes, a list of every Runeworking recipe you know. A recipe stays listed in both even when you are not carrying what it needs, and in Attune, Sources beside its ingredient shows where to get more.
- Beginner Echo Seeker — 1 Rune Fragment. 20.4 seconds, 25 Runeworking XP, Runeworking 1. It always succeeds. It weighs 200g, the same as the Fragment it was made from, and stacks five to a slot.
Runs
Choose how many to make with − and +, or Max to keep going until the next one cannot start. Each one is checked when it starts: that you still have the Rune Fragment, and that the finished Seeker will fit once the Fragment is gone — a part-full Seeker stack is topped up first. Max stops as soon as one of those runs out, however many that turns out to be.
A started attunement is committed. Its Rune Fragment stays in your Inventory until it finishes, set aside for it, and you cannot walk away from the Rig until it is done. Only the attunement on the Rig sets anything aside; the Fragments for later ones are still yours until each one starts.
When an attunement finishes, the Fragment is used up and the Seeker lands in your Inventory at the same moment, with its XP. There is no cancel: Stop After This Attunement lets the one on the Rig finish and ends the run there. Closing the game or losing your connection changes nothing; the Rig keeps going, and when you come back it is exactly where it would have been.