Questionable Questing

You can definitely apply runes to people, but they have to be runes representing spirits rather than concepts. Raw, natural concepts like darkness and growth will horribly mutate you since you're basically creating a pact or portal between your body and a realm of pure cancerous growth or infinite darkness. You have to find a demon, angel, god, or even ghost to form living runes.

spirits is what you meant and I like, I like a lot.

Charlie is a fucking source of runes as a patron ain't she. What is Charlie demon of, being the daughter of Lucifer and Lilith

Since these spirits can regulate the energy they're giving, you can create pacts that can limit and control the influence they can have on your bodies. Of course the downside of this is unlike the concepts which demand nothing for using their power since their only goal is to expand, these spirits can make rules for you to follow. Which will depend on their personalities and goals.

Thankfully they have Charlie.

Which neatly leads to Charlie. She's the anti-christ full stop. And not just that but she's an outsider as well. Someone from a different plane and thus not forced into the rules and roles of this one. So in broader spiritual terms she represents change, neither good or bad. But the more power she has, the more her magic and their magic combine and forcibly changes this world to more fit hers.

Change into what?

So in some sense she has unlimited power, since her soul is directly tied to hell which is more of a concept and thus practically infinite. But in the other sense, she's pretty limited in how much of that she can physically use. Not just personality wise, but her magic and this world's magic don't mix very well. So if she gives you her rune, you can't use anybody else's. You are directly tied to her.

If you die, you don't go to any other heaven or hell or any realm owned by the various spirits. You go to Charlie's realms. You are directly sucked into her soul and exists in this separate plain she is the god of. That's why she's very careful when she gifts it because to her she's damning you to her personal hell.

To a new mother goddess

But to tie back into what I said before, with her magic it doesn't follow rules and more flows on emotions, rather than the laws and concepts of this world. So a blending of the two which is naturally happening as Charlies power slowly gets assimilated in, will cause a slow break down of the Levy lines.

They are still very important but in the future you won't need them to do magic, just with enough will power and emotion you can do it. And this shifting of paragraphs will not only completely up end the current patron system with spirits and summoners but it'll cause a big shift in the Lines and require all the rune circles, some of which are thousands of years old and stupidly powerful, to need to be rebuilt.

So Charlie's magic is more about passions and feelings she inspires and embodies?

So would gods like Odin and such have been spirits people summon?

So you can see why Charlie's arrival is being seen as the Antichrist. She's unknowingly completely breaking the old system and replacing it with something new. Which I'm not going to say if it's good or bad. It's just a natural consequence of someone as powerful as Charlie appearing in a relatively magic starved world.

Interesting. Very interesting.

And how will Charlie's nature as a demonic spirit change, what kind of fertility principle will she come to be the avatar of?

Odin, Ares, Diana, they are all their and all have different goals. Some of them will love Charlie and subtly help her because they see change as good, others will hate her guts and doing everything they can to kill her futility raging against the changing of the seasons.

But with Charlie's magic in particular, normally if you want to heal someone with magic you have to do a multi day, multi stage process of balancing the right elements and concepts from a room to heal that very specific illness. A great example of how easy that could go wrong, is the concept of growth heals wounds but it causes cancer to explode. So all in all very technical. Very complicated. Very controlled.

But Charlie could heal that same person by singing, since singing is something pure and directly from her heart. It doesn't need all that structure and time, which makes it so much easier to use. But at the same time, directly calling up extremely powerful emotions constantly to access your magic runs the risk of creating something like the Sith not helped by the lack of control.