you know i really wouldn’t put it past him, and he’d say “well it increases my combat prowess” and that’s really the reason he did it, but I would forever be suspicious of it

littlest-death-knight-blog:

(Personal headcanon: 85% of death knights tattoo runes all over their bodies for this reason – Or at least, they claim it’s for this reason.)

He’d 100% do it if he thought it would help in combat. And he does have runes tattooed everywhere else.