With 1 level in each class, a dwarf who prepares arcane spells can cast them with none of their normal components, though they gain a special (unremovable) material component in the form of runes on an object that vanish when the spell is cast. This seems like an interesting way to play a "closet wizard" who poses as a fighter (combine with Invisible Spell?). If you take
Black Lore of Moil then you can have one set of carvings activate three abilities at once, though there's not much point beyond novelty.
Any thoughts on fluff? How to excuse your material components? Carry a bunch of swords covered in runes and say they're ancestral weapons? Tribal tattoos? (mark them over actual tattoos so that the runes seem to
appear when you cast?) Or maybe write the runes invisibly somehow...
