The Index of the Giant's Comments

[Kish]

The runes are a ninth-level, not an epic, spell. Girard didn't take Epic Spellcasting. The gap between what the OOTS is capable of and what the Order of the Scribble was capable of is shrinking.

Also, Girard was a ranger/sorcerer (which is what he seemed to be before, but we didn't have explicit confirmation of it).