Magic Symbol?

[No_99_Melee]

I've seen this strange symbol plastered around the walls of rs. From the lesser pit in taverly dungeon to aggie's house.

 

 

 

Does anyone know what this symbol referrs to or where it comes from?

 

 

 

It has been troubling me for quite some time now. :-s

[PastyGangsta]

What the pentagram? Yeah... somebody else can explain that to you since I really... really dont want to go into all the witchcraft garbage... -.-

[No_99_Melee]

No it's not a pentagram. Its a hanging magical symbol. Looks like a spiral.

[RayOxide]

Have a Picture of it?

[No_99_Melee]

I wish I did, but I'm currently on a slayer task of 150 fire giants and don't want to walk all the way there. It's in aggie's house in draynor.

 

 

 

It's also, pretty much, all around rs.

[Smapla]

Wait, is it similar to the Eye that appeared like a year ago on the draynor wizards' tower?

[No_99_Melee]

No it's not the eye.

[PastyGangsta]

Maybe you should take a picture? Would make it easier for all of us... :D

[chad197]

He means this

 

[No_99_Melee]

Yes. thank you chad. Saved me a long walk :D

[Wouter828]

is it a sign jagex supports witchcraft? :shock: :ohnoes:

[Sy_Accursed]

I'll explain it:

 

 

 

Jagex makes a game

 

 

 

A game needs small details to decorate it

 

 

 

Jagex has limited server space/game size

 

 

 

Jagex reuses textures/objects all over the place to limit size

 

 

 

Jagex designed a wall hanging that looks magically

 

 

 

Jagex uses it in magical places as a finishing touch

 

 

 

Beyond that it means nothing.

 

 

 

If it does have some secret meaning then perhaps we alose need to research the secret meanings of all the rocks and flowers that look the same :roll:

[dkw0101]

more than likely to be used in a future quest or mini quest.

[No_99_Melee]

I'll explain it:

 

 

 

Jagex makes a game

 

 

 

A game needs small details to decorate it

 

 

 

Jagex has limited server space/game size

 

 

 

Jagex reuses textures/objects all over the place to limit size

 

 

 

Jagex designed a wall hanging that looks magically

 

 

 

Jagex uses it in magical places as a finishing touch

 

 

 

Beyond that it means nothing.

 

 

 

If it does have some secret meaning then perhaps we alose need to research the secret meanings of all the rocks and flowers that look the same :roll:

 

 

 

Do you think they would go out of thier way to put it everywhere though?

[FooK-A-Ji]

is it a sign jagex supports witchcraft? :shock: :ohnoes:

 

 

 

If they did, so what?

[Voldmort0]

No idea what it means. So I'll go with Paw_Claws explanation ;)

[Dormado]

I'll explain it:

 

 

 

If it does have some secret meaning then perhaps we alose need to research the secret meanings of all the rocks and flowers that look the same :roll:

 

 

 

i agree with the last statement

 

 

 

And about that symbol i think thatit's a mage's se4ryificate or some banishing symbol. You can see a vortex and soem demon horns in there.

[Dragon_lord]

Or maybe they just put together a bunch of squigly lines and you started to speculate? :P

[Sy_Accursed]

I'll explain it:

 

 

 

Jagex makes a game

 

 

 

A game needs small details to decorate it

 

 

 

Jagex has limited server space/game size

 

 

 

Jagex reuses textures/objects all over the place to limit size

 

 

 

Jagex designed a wall hanging that looks magically

 

 

 

Jagex uses it in magical places as a finishing touch

 

 

 

Beyond that it means nothing.

 

 

 

If it does have some secret meaning then perhaps we alose need to research the secret meanings of all the rocks and flowers that look the same :roll:

 

 

 

Do you think they would go out of thier way to put it everywhere though?

 

 

 

They put rocks trees flowers butterflies rats spiders doors windows walls fairy rings monsters skilling locations statues and fountains everywhere.

 

 

 

Do they all have secret meanings?

 

 

 

Like IO said its a magical theme piece of decoration hence it appears in many witch, demon and wizard locations across rs

[Dormado]

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I'll explain it:

 

 

 

Jagex makes a game

 

 

 

A game needs small details to decorate it

 

 

 

Jagex has limited server space/game size

 

 

 

Jagex reuses textures/objects all over the place to limit size

 

 

 

Jagex designed a wall hanging that looks magically

 

 

 

Jagex uses it in magical places as a finishing touch

 

 

 

Beyond that it means nothing.

 

 

 

If it does have some secret meaning then perhaps we alose need to research the secret meanings of all the rocks and flowers that look the same :roll:

 

 

 

Do you think they would go out of thier way to put it everywhere though?

 

 

 

They put rocks trees flowers butterflies rats spiders doors windows walls fairy rings monsters skilling locations statues and fountains everywhere.

 

 

 

Do they all have secret meanings?

 

 

 

Like IO said its a magical theme piece of decoration hence it appears in many witch, demon and wizard locations across rs

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Yes they do, we just need to figure out a pattern how they are link to each other and we will be able to find out great mysteries...And maybe even a hidden party hat treasure :-k \

[Chazimcgee]

I dont think it has any meaning at all. Just something that jagex uses to make things look more authentic like the witches house. They may have a meaning but i doubt it and not many people would know.

[Armadyllo]

There used to be pentagrams all over RuneScape, scrawled on walls for a bit of sinister decoration. The chaos druid room in Taverley dungeon had loads of them. This attracted a bit of criticism on forums from people who argued "pentragram = witchcraft = bad influence on kids".

 

 

 

Then they suddenly all got changed at once. A Jmod posted on the RSOF claiming that this was in response to complaints about the pentagrams.

 

The new one looked a bit like a line-drawing of a RuneScape demon's head. You could mouse-over them to see that they were all called "Demonic Symbol". This attracted a load more criticism from forums from people who argued "demonic symbol = REAL demonic symbol = bad influence on kids".

 

Not long later they all got changed again, being replaced with the colorful doodle that's being discussed in this thread.

 

 

 

I don't know anything about real-world witchcraft - do pentagrams mean anything at all? - but I suspect the people doing the complaining didn't know much either. For that matter, I really think it's absurd that anyone would complain about a shape that's labelled "demonic symbol" while happily ignoring the great big monsters labelled "demon". It's a game set in a fictional world with fictional gods, demons, monsters, talking penguins, etc!

 

 

 

Anyway, Jagex seems to have taken the complaints on board and obligingly changed the game to satisfy the paying parents. I thought this was a load of c---, but I suppose they can't risk RuneScape getting banned from schools by the overprotective parents that wanted Harry Potter books banned from schools in their States. Besides, the darn shapes don't do anything, and there's no great loss in having them changed to stop them upsetting people.