Modern Glyphing is peformed with a glyphing stone. The glyphing process itself involves drawing a number of rings with intricate symbols encoded on each ring. Unfortunately there is an uncountable number of glyphs, so to prevent the completion of an unwanted glyph while attempting to draw the desired glyph two techniques are used. The traditional way is to move each ring independently from one another while the glyph is being drawn, this is frequently peformed by rotating the rings of a glyph at differing speeds from one another. A handful of talented individuals do this by drawing the glyphs in different areas and bringing them together upon completion but this method isn’t recomended as 1 ring glyphs still exist. The second technique, while not nessessary, is used to add an additional layer of safety to the the glyphing process and is to change the colours of each ring while each ring is being drawn. When a arcane glyph is completed the colours must be fixed and the rings stopped at precicely the right positons. The slightest difference in colour, angle alignment between rings and millimeter scale marking of the symbols known to have drastic effects on arcane magic. The most famous example used in teaching is the cure-all glyph. Getting a slightly lighter shade of red on the third ring transforms the cure-all glyph to a spontaneous combustion glyph. Being 12 degrees out of alignment on the seventh ring skips the spontaneous combustion step and directly transforms the magician into ash. The cure-all glyph is used for this purpose both to put respect into training arcane magicians and as a warning, considering the cure-all glyph and these particular edits are known to have very similar sacrifices.
Grimoires
A book of glyphs. Some Grimoires contain commonly known glyphs, others contain the successors of arcane explorers and are not so widely utilised. The Vetela have been attempting to collect every known glyph alongside peforming their own research, which requires the collection of every Grimoire and as such own an extensive libary. While Grimoires are useful for the training of arcane magicians, they are expected to commit glyphs to memory for a moments use without having to flick a book to do so. As such the presence of a grimoire is both considered the sign of an amature arcane magician who has yet to learn glyphs or the sign of an exeptionally powerful arcane magician with an array of unfamiliar glyphs at their desposal.