Is it possible to disarm or remotely trigger Runes?

So, part of being an effective thief is being able to disarm or circumvent various automated defense mechanisms. Y'know, traps.

Tripwires are easy, and the kind that are wired up to doors aren't much tougher, assuming the wire's on the side of the door I'm on. Pressure Plates are easily handled with the appropriate Sneak perk, and they can also be triggered via telekinesis or other means of placing objects with weight on them.

But the Magickal traps, specifically those glowing runes on the ground... those confound me. I've found nothing better to do than to throw up some defenses, and take a burst of (often very LOUD) magick to the face, which is... unpleasant and inelegant.

There has to be a better way? Is there some sort of Dispel Magic that I haven't found? Is there some other trick to disarming rune spells perhaps?

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You can use a ward (lesser ward is easy) and walk over it. It won't go off as long as your magic doesn't run out just as you're walking over it.

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Well sadly there is no effective way to silently disable the trap but you can throw a a fireball at the trap which will indeed trigger it but some kinds of magic dont work on some kinds of traps, i am unsure of which ones due to the fact that i rarely come across these kind of traps.

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I summon my familiar onto it. Boom!

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You can set off any rune by casting magelight on it.

There is another way. If you kill the wizard that put the rune spell, it will remain on the floor/wall and you cant remove it (it wont trigger even if you walk in it).

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For runes, shooting any destruction spell at them works. Even a quick burst of one of your dps spells should do the trick.

Get an enemy to set it off with a bow and arrow.

I used unrelenting voice to throw the trap off in a distance. But certainly not a subtle way to disarm it.

Disarm shout seemed to work really well

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You have to use the same type of spell on the rune... Fire for fire, lighting for lighting and frost for frost