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He's got so many recessed glyph details.

I'm thinking:

A) I'm not talented enough to do this, especially anymore.

but

B) I'd love to put something like Tesseract glow into those recessed runes, then drybrush the Librarian/Crimson Fist blue over the top of that so the runes still pop in Tesseract Glow next to the Crimson Fist/Midnight blue.

How would you do it? Drybrush first, and wash some (something like) Cassandora Yellow into the recesses? Paint Tesseract and drybrush over the top very slowly to leave the recesses? Not even bother?

Base coat the armour and highlight. Then gloss varnish, a white pin wash into the glyphs, followed by the tesseract glow. Then matt varnish, and glaze thinned tesseract glow around the glyph. Or a gentle application with an airbrush. That's how I'd do it.

No other answers needed. This ^^^^^^^^ is how you should do it.

No, no drybrush. You definitely don't want the dark hues on the edges around the light source. That will completely destroy the effect you're trying to get. You want a glow, with a transition from super bright light source through to your base tone.

You can achieve fairly easy glowing runes that look good without too much effort. What you need to do is take your base colour (make sure it's at it's darkest, add black if you can, you want the area with the runes to be dark as possible). Now add some base hue with some of the light hue mixed in. Apply this in a patch around the rune, I'd say about half a mil or so for the termie runes. You probably want to work a few layers to form a smooth patch of brighter tone around the rune. From there, work down to your glowing hue gradually, applying the layers in decreasing area over the rune. Once you've got a nice patch of tesseract over the rune, do a pin wash of white in the rune recess. Now from here you can just leave it, or work it back and forward a bit more with white mixed into the tesseract to smooth it off. Remember, the centre of the rune needs to be super bright.

Sure, this way will take a little more effort, but it will looks far better than drybrushing.

I've recently just used this method on my Horus ascended with a fire glow over black, but unfortunately the photos are all focused on his head so don't show it well. I've attached a photo of Abaddon that I painted about 4 years back, you can sort of see this effect over the runes on his legs.