I love pure ess, lol, I get it so fast. Yes, ess is a kind of ore that you can make into runes, but only with a certain talisman dropped by monsters sometimes, usually goblins have air or mind, men and women have earth, etc. There are stone pillars everywhere that you use the talisman with and get teleported to a place where you can make aire runes or mind, etc. They are spread out all across the area, so you can't use one pillar to make all kinds of runes. Also, naturally, you cant use noted ess. Now, pure ess is another thing. Its only up for members, and it has extra capability for crafting runes. Now, I'm not a big runecrafter, so I don't know what this extra capability is, so don't ask me. That about covers it. :D