The wiki is outdated.
I tried a bunch of stuff and then actually looked at the base recipe for runes in my recipe book and it calls for Pixie dust, so i tried pixie dust and it worked. I had already tried bone dust and star dust with 1x 2x 3x small runes and nothing was working. I almost made this same post about 2 hours ago but decided to... you know... play the game a little bit more - read some in-game recipes, and figure it out on my own.