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[TakWrote]

I asked the same question in the previous "Ask a Simple Question" thread and the answers were uniformly "you can draw the runes whenever"....

[TakWrote]

The hard time limits on making a runic yantra have definitely struck me as odd as well. My read is that, like with ritual casting, a low Gnosis mage is going very slowly making sure that every line and every detail is exactly correct. It might even include creating a sketch first, then making the actual rune. A higher Gnosis mage has a much greater intuitive understanding (and probably much more practice) of how to create the Supernal symbols involved and so needs much less time to draw/sketch/tattoo the rune they plan to use.

It's like muscle memory for the soul - a higher Gnosis...

[TakWrote]

I think Invictus would probably prefer Unity to Mammon, but it would likely depend on which was the most valuable ally for them in the region.

For the Ordo Dracul, I don't think there's any ministry they would find a natural common ally; they would likely ally with whomever could help progress their research.

The Carthians would likely hate most ministries, but I could see a politically repressed and violent Carthian group working with the Praetorian Ministry as an alliance of pure convenience....

[TakWrote]

Makes sense and that's what I assumed as well. But the problem I have with that interpretation is that it doesn't tell me where the Area is. Is it a sphere around the subject, or set and immovable like a normal AoE spell?

Moveable sphere centered on the subject which extends to the size of the AoE range makes the most sense to me, it's just not how scale is written to work for areas....

[TakWrote]

How do spells with both a subject and an area work as far as scale goes?

I ask based on Lodestone which says
but I know I've seen other spells with similar effects.

The spellcasting rules specify

Which seems like if Lodestone targets a subject then there's no defined area and if it targets an area, everything in that area is also the subject, so what determines where things are drawn to?...