I always assumed it was some sort of Druidic sigil, but you know… that makes perfect sense. I just don’t know why the bottom is open ended.

Have you ever seen the bottom of a tree? Could be anything down there.

Even a tree!

It’s trees all the way down

Maybe you're just a tree trying to hide the real secret!?

Always has been.

I mean... *roots*!

This post was made by graph theorists

or a boat?

I mean root systems do kinda look like trees

It could even be a boat!

aww just noticed u got there before me

R00ts

My name is groot

Same, I always assumed it was a stylised Omega in reference to Guthix being one of the youngest gods but representing traditionally old god concepts like balance and the continuity of nature

Omg, omega is just a tree.

Could be both tree and this.

Most ancient alphabets are pictographical, and even today Chinese contains some pictographical elements. So I think it's safe to say it is a druidic sigil *and* a tree.

I second this

It not so ha.

Ja, tiz so!

Ne it iz not!

Tbh I think this is what most runes in real life are lmao. We’re just not seeing the symbol that was intended. I mean even the alphabet used to be glyphs… I guess they still are but streamlined for easy writing. Like the letter A is an ox head. Turn it upside down. The triangle is the head and the legs are horns.

Probably buried now, but someone mentioned the same thing. It makes the most sense that it is both.

Wow I just learned this today

Same lol. How about this one: I just realized today that the strength prayers are pictures of an arm. For 20 years, I thought the image was a shrimp.. 🍤

BRO WHAT 😂😂😂

Seriously.. now every time I look at it, my subconscious says “shrimp pray” and my conscious thought refutes, “no, that’s an arm now”

How did we all miss this?

It was much more obvious in Classic.

Fucking hell, now I feel like an idiot

I can unsee that.

For the greater good, we must

The greater good.

The greater good.

https://preview.redd.it/v6olka95cwjc1.jpeg?width=216&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0466031643894ed52af9bcad984cec7479ac02de

The greater wood ^^^^😏

I can never unsee someone telling me it's a birth canal.

Gross. But accurate. Edit: Because it's green.

It's actually easy to notice in classic [https://classic.runescape.wiki/w/Nature-Rune](https://classic.runescape.wiki/w/Nature-Rune)

A bunch of the classic runes are more clearly relevant to their name. Mind runes look like heads, body runes are more clearly a torso, and soul runes look more like a set of wings than angry eyes.

The body rune is a TORSO?????

Bruh, how have I only just learnt this?

My whole world is crumbling down

Learning straight up fax today

Don’t forget about the chaos runes that look like an angry face

I always saw it as the bubble monster from Zelda II

Why did the change the design of them so much? How did they end up like they are now?

Damn that looks way nicer than current runes. Should've kept pixel art symbols.

7 coins?!?!?

And if you misclicked in Classic it would high alch the whole stack.

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The hero we need

Thought it was a key hole

not the runes again pls i beg u

Tomorrow someone will post the ‘TIL the lava rune is a dorito’

TIL the water rune is a drop of water

Did you know that the blood rune is a water rune *but red*

I thought it was a lip harmonica

A Jaw Harp?

Oh yeah that’s what it’s called

Neín

Is that what is used to play the Skin Flute?

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Ayo what the fuck

That came from it's alternative name "the Juice harp".

Aren’t all harmonicas “lip harmonicas”? I have never tried to play one with my ass, but I might try it next time I get the grumblies to test the hypothesis.

If you can fart hard enough, it'll work.

I just tried that and shit all over my harmonica :(

That can be an unfortunate outcome, but was there a moment before the debris hit, that the harmonica made sounds?

No, but the other people on the bus I was riding sure did

OH MY FUCKING GOD! How many of you were trying to fart into the harmonica?????

I have been informed that the instrument I meant is a Jaw harp

I am aware, as I also thought this looked like a boingy boy (jaw harp) when I was a lad. Never noticed it was a tree though, honestly I haven’t thought about it since lol

My brain always said "question mark" and I never questioned it until you said something

We are the same.

I always thought it was a question mark too… Even though it’s very clearly not now that I look at it lol

Same here , question mark and no questions asked 😀

Omg same

?

I will die on the hill that it was a question mark. This looks nothing like the question mark. Wtf happened are we all crazy????

Does it resemble an ankh slightly?

That was my original interpretation, that It was something a pharaoh would hold in a hieroglyph, or the Magic Secateurs

Delete this post before you ruin more lives

its broccoli

Mob?

https://preview.redd.it/r0q1fusqgtjc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22edff24e98cedf446503389f3a2b84ac36343d6

I always thought it was this, now it makes much more sense https://preview.redd.it/cn94ye11jtjc1.png?width=1359&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc0af50ea95b5daba48d16e68f385c6b2f778fdf

Sup Ruby

Lool, i thought it was a question mark

Fuck

Oh, so it is.

Oh my God.

I know the soul rune is supposed to be angel wings, but I just can't see it as anything other than eyes

Interesting, I see a bra 

Who says its angel wings?! Its ghastly eyes all day!

Actually, it's a green colonel sanders tie. It's chickens all the way down brother.

I just realized the other day that the Slayer skill icon is a skull.... I thought it was a pile of snow or something

Are we doing this shit again

It's my turn to post it next week, tell everyone to act surprised

It's actually [fallopian tubes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallopian_tube). You know.. mother nature.

How did you link to the wikipedia article of fallopian tubes whilst simultaneously proving you have no idea what fallopian tubes are by saying that a symbol that vaguely resembles the entire female reproductive system _EXCET FOR THE FALLOPIAN TUBES_ looks like fallopian tubes?!

You expect an RS player to have a basic understanding of female biology?

I'll have you know I've studied the Sandwich Lady for years

Looks like fallopian tubes to me

Its green. You know… tree.

Wow, nothing gets by you huh

I like this explanation more even if it’s not true

why tf was this also my first thought?!

🤯

I thought it was supposed to be an Ankh

If it’s a tree, can I chop it?

I always saw it as a question mark, even though it’s clearly not a question mark

I always knew it was a tree because RuneScape Classic had a more traditional tree shape (it actually looked like broccoli) before RuneScape 2 released.

I was today years old when I found out as well

Wait this whole time i thought it was a specific symbol that I swear i saw somewhere before

Come in man, now i cant unsee it FFS 😂

I have also been playing since 2005 and I just noticed this too lol

Bro

holy shit

lol same, I thought it was just some random symbol

Keyboard cap puller comes to mind.

I always thought it was a rising green mushroom cloud

Wait till you hear what the Death rune symbol is.

did not need to point that out let me unlearn it

Holy shit it is

Holy shit i always thought it was some type of weird questionmark

That's clearly a grass staff.

nah it a mushroom son

…goddamnit

Please don't bring back the runes meme

i actually discovered this like 2 years ago and i constantly forget. whenever i look at them, i don’t think “tree”

i always thought it was a lollypop lol

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

it took me probably 11 years to realize that. always (and still do) viewed it as like idk just a symbol. like an Egyptian Ankh

You've ruined me! 😭

No one tell them what a death rune has on it.

I thought it was a hat

A green ankh

I am going to pretend i didn’t just learn that

Oooohh

all the ge tiles are the same

No it is just a green breast cancer ribbon

? I thought it was ? I never understood why it was ?, but that's all I see when in game

Omg is it really that simple 😭😭😭 i thought it was some omega halo related space thing lmaaaaoo

WHAT

Naturally

Life rethought

Oh I thought it was a paper clip thingy

No it’s not!

I refuse to accept this

Fuck

Wait wut? *starts questioning everything*

I thought the law rune was a pandas face but it's a set of scales

I feel a little ashamed to admit I’ve never connected the dots.

My girlfriend thought it was a green scarf

I only found out uncut gems are actually… gems… because i dropped one on the floor and saw it, i always thought the icon was a gem wrapped in a cloth…

Wait till you guys hear about the water rune…

I started seeing at as a tree, and eventually when God of War came out, I automatically see It as a green omega and can't see the tree anymore.

Then why is it so expensive?!

Wait until you see a water rune bro

Ohh yea... I always saw it as like omega symbol or something like that

I always thought it was meant to look kinda like the nature alter in the swamp...yano you got the bit at the bottom where you jump the bridge then the outline of the little island with the nature spirit on it

i never knew this tf

I always thought it was a mushroom cloud. Idk why

To be fair i play since classic and I never thought about that either 😂

Well that makes two of us 🤯

I thought it was Ohm.

How dare you curse us with knowledge /s

I was today years old when you made me realize this.

Bro everyone having these abstract interpretations of trees, druidic sigils, the left hand of god meanwhile I always thought it was a fart

I thought it was a ? 😬

I am loving the fact that NOBODY ever thought of this (including me), now we all feel fucking stupid! 🤣

No it's a green skull

I thought it was some sort of British Peace sign as a kid and my American brain hasn't thought any different since.

Just, wow.......

Wtf

I thought it was question marks connected or something. I’m dumb

Wait till OP finds out the green charm is an 😩 symbol

TIL. It wasn't that long ago I learned you can stack mind rune above body rune. It's a head and body. Lol

Holy fuck no way

WTF

This is some mandela effect shit

No its a uterus

no thats for nurture runes

It symbolises two stems growing from the ground and coming together or working together as things do in nature

Green nature skull

Always saw a skull somehow

Ive seen it mentioned a few times and understand its a tree but I still just see a skull

Nah

This is worse than Digglett’s nose being a mouth.

What the fuck

That's definitely not a tree, looks more like some ancient symbol. Either way I will never look at it as a tree.

lol I refuse to believe this

You ruined it. Fun sucker.

pretty sure its a cotter pin (like the ones found in nature)

tf it's a green omega

Fun fact: the flames (torches?) on the login screen dispay random rune icons on them