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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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 Posted - 08 Jun 2020 : 13:07:11
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Don't get me wrong.... I like that Dethek, Espruar, Thorass, Infernal, Celestial, Aquan, Draconic, Tuigan, Ra-Khati, Shou, etc... alphabets, and sometimes its fun to use them to put a hidden message into a picture (I've done so several times). However SOMETIMES, you want something to be "right" canonically but still you want to use a nice flowery font in English that you've found on the web so that someone can just look at it and go "wow, I like that".
So, in THAT vein, how would YOU institute a canonical cross over of the English Alphabet, given that there are specific things that have been done to indicate that such crossovers have occurred between the two worlds? My first thoughts are that the Rus appear to be the actual Rus of our world sending over a few tribes (and likely have little link to the place where "the northmen" themselves came from, other than a link to Yggdrasil's Child being probably where the Rus came through, and they probably settled in the isles near Ruathym for a while). I'm not sure that the earth Rus used the English alphabet though.
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
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Posted - 08 Jun 2020 : 16:29:23
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-The Rus spoke Old Slavic, which used Glagolitic and/or Cyrillic script, so you wouldn't be getting English or the alphabet from them.
-I could see a wizard who has knowledge and access of it being a big fan, because in effect, since linguistically it would have no relation to any existing languages or alphabets, it would be virtually undecipherable, much like how Navajo was used during World War II/Korea/Vietnam and wasn't cracked. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
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Posted - 08 Jun 2020 : 19:07:35
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Originally posted by Lord Karsus
-The Rus spoke Old Slavic, which used Glagolitic and/or Cyrillic script, so you wouldn't be getting English or the alphabet from them.
-I could see a wizard who has knowledge and access of it being a big fan, because in effect, since linguistically it would have no relation to any existing languages or alphabets, it would be virtually undecipherable, much like how Navajo was used during World War II/Korea/Vietnam and wasn't cracked.
thank you. I didn't know where to "look" for that. I knew some of the Vikings used runes, but not all.
On the Navajo thing, that's a good point. I didn't want it necessarily as a hidden language, but... |
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If you wanted earth alphabets on Toril?
