Rune

Isaac Atkins, also known as Rune, is an enhanced librarian and practitioner of Rune Magic. He was raised in London, where he now operates in his civilian life.

Rune's supernatural abilities are thought to be hereditary, though he was orphaned as an infant, and his legal records are suspiciously vague and very few, likely due to tampering. His innate abilities became perceptibly strong around the age of 13 in a psychokinetic episode at his foster home (the Lily E. Bullock Home for Separated Youth), to which a staff member, a young woman named Juliet Chambers, responded by denying the extraordinary nature of the event. As it happened, Juliet was also enhanced, and she and Isaac agreed to keep their secret between them.

With Juliet’s help, Isaac learned to maintain control of his powers through control of his emotions. Juliet and Isaac began to hone his abilities in secret, and learned that Isaac had much more potential beyond psychokinesis when they discovered he could manipulate the mind.

After leaving his foster home for university, Isaac became more courageous in terms of his secret powers, and began to look into the glowing runes that appeared on his hands when using them. He discovered that the very same runes appeared in several ancient depictions of Norse mythology, which sparked in him an academic interest in history and mythology, for which he earned master's degrees. He believes that his powers are the same that the Norse "gods" once used in ancient times, and his encounter years later with Ian Alexander have reinforced, if not confirmed, his hypothesis.

Isaac and Juliet remain close friends and keep in regular contact.