Firefighters armed with Water or Ice Runes for example. If there were six of them, at least one of that squad would have one of the two Runes. While the average policeman lacked a Rune, those who were able to manifest the talent necessary to use one would eventually gain one. Being able to use a Wind Rune to hurl a concussive blast of air at a fleeing felon, or to activate a Darkvision Rune to see in the dark, or to invoke an Ice Rune and throw ice arrows at a moment's notice. All very useful. Likewise soldiers had their 'Rune Specialists' who had a talent or prediliction for a certain type of magic and could expect all the advantages and disadvantages of being a specialist combatant.
It was so useful that testing went on in schools as people looked for children with the necessary life-strength or elemental affinity or natural talent to become Rune Users.
Genma was tested and found to have a good amount of talent in that regard, and was determined to have a primary element affiliation of Wind, secondary Shadow, third was Earth.
Ranma was tested and found to have some potential, but he'd never found out what kind of potential because he was a kid and the adults never confided in him. They just seemed to get very nice to him, which gave him all sorts of suspicions.
Genma on the other hand had gotten very excited and planned a new trip to take advantage of this development. The new martial arts manuevers of these Runes had come from the Viking territories - and some like the Berserker Rune were thought lost to time. The Valkyrie Rune, the Berserker Rune, the Fury Rune, the Might Rune - these and other legends all came from one region.
Genma dragged Ranma off to these far off lands, like many explorers and opportunists had done in trying to find the "truth" behind the legends. The difference was that Genma had found something.
The cave was concealed at high tide, and inhospitable at low tide. Only someone with the sort of skills Genma possessed could get in and out again in that time. The cave had held a glassy orb that Genma had recognized from an earlier viewing of Rune Orbs. He took it and snuck back out again.
What he hadn't expected was that at one point the Orb was being examined by his son, the Rune within flashed and flowed out of the Orb by itself. Ranma had been knocked out, and there was a Rune marking his left hand now. Genma didn't know what it was, but for a Rune to apply itself meant it was a powerful one. What he didn't realize was that:
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