I’ve been attempting to add ancient runes to a normal bone dagger. I haven’t gotten a single rune to stick (~20 attempts) except from other bone daggers. Also despite the dagger now being Ancient(3) it still doesn’t have a level requirement.

I’m hesitant to use more fodder items on it but it’s also a pain trying to make low level crafting bone daggers with ancient to get it past (3). Is there something odd going on with items below a level 0 equip requirement and glowing altar mechanics?
Edit:
I threw a few enchants on it but still not seeing a level req.

Should be +15 lvls at this point between the runes and enchants.
I’ve finished the other five A5s I was working on, this one’s just weird.