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These runes are not purely decorative, as they serve to channel and concentrate the Rune Priest's psychic powers.

A Rune Priest's Power Armour is covered with Fenrisian runes and they wear rune-encrusted fangs as pendants and badges of their office. These secrets are passed on from Rune Priest to Rune Priest, each generation teaching the young Skalds the complex and archaic incantations of runic lore. The Rune Priests are also the keepers of the oral history of the Space Wolves Chapter. The Space Wolves' equivalent of the psychic Librarians who serve other Chapters, these grim warriors possess potent psychic powers whose form is based upon the native shamanic traditions of the barbarian tribes of Fenris. A Rune Priest is a specialist officer unique to the Space Wolves Space Marine Chapter.