Illeelo led The Order of the Golden Eyed through the inner labyrinth of the castle of Jangar. As he led them he came to think of how he got in this mess.
It happened long ago, on a diplomatic mission with the Ajarhad. He was going with his brother, Kertith. The mission was mainly on aardvark trade, but the relations between the dragon and the Ajarhad were weakening, and there were rumors of another war between the elveniods and the dragons. They landed ashore in southern Murton after an accident with some human fishermen with anti dragon weapons.
"How were we supposed to know they had balistas? We have better tell Rubiellin that they are prepared for another war." he whispered to Kertith.
They wore vests to show that they were messengers, so they had no problems from the Ajarhad and other inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ice, though there was harsh stare, and some readied their bows. They soon arrived at the Palace of Ice. King Thorrad came out to meet them with his guards and translator. After their first negations they learned it was environmentalist who were hurting the aardvark trade. They spent the night there and Ileelo met the princess, Echo. She was about 12 years old then. That night Kertith snuck out the room. Illeelo heard him and began to follow. Eventually he found himself in the council chamber, with the council dead. He then rushed to the kings chamber but was to late to save him. He now knew what was going on.
"Cyrus, I summon you!" he shouted. A wisp of smoke floated in and it materialized into the demon himself..
"What do you want, Ileelo?" the demon whispered.
" If you prevent him from hurting the princess and any others I will be your."
"So be it."
Later war broke out, and Kertith was exiled, now knlon only as Scourge.
Illeelo turned into a room. It was filled with a cold liquid.
"Its mango juice!" exclaimed Talmera.
Dragon blood has many properties, one is that in certian dragon it explodes when mixed with mango juice.
Illeelo slit his own throat.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Writing Systems of Grendaw
The languages of Mansoar are written in many ways. The Elvin languages use an alphabet with many straight lines and few curves. There are no lower case letter. Examples are included in Figure A. The Dwarvic languages are not as standardized. The Dwarves use the Same system as the Elves while the Frostlings use a pictographs. Each one stands for a different word or idea. See figure B. And those Gnomes use a weird alphabet that connects each letter. And it is written left to right. And it has capital and lower case. See figure C. Not surprisingly only some of the Goblinoid Languages have a writing system. These are the Hordes, the Kobolds, and the Sea Goblins. All the other languages are unattested (meaning no form of writing is found). Though the Orcs seem to communicate over long distances with smoke signals and hides covered in Dots. But I have not deciphered either one so I say they do not have a writing system. The Hordes use a vowel less writing system. You have to figure out where vowels go. this makes it annoying to decipher. An example of how annoying are the High Goblinish words melkin (fire) and milken (water). They look the same when written out in Hordish: mlkn and mlkn. For that reason Low Goblinish uses a slightly modified system where an accent is placed over the letter after the vowel. There is no lower case. See Figure D. Kobold has no cases and uses different arrangements of circles/ovals to represent syllables. See Figure E. Now the Sea Goblins once again confuse everybody, by having an extremely weird alphabet. It just Attested to their other worldliness. And it has cases. An example is F=g and R=u. Very wired, is it not. Despite all of the Lizardmen speaking different languages, they all use the same writing system. It is an alphabet, with cases. It also is weird like Gnomish Script, being written left to right. There are occasionally pictographs used to make common words easier to write. See Figure F. All the Fanatic Languages use the same writing system too. It is a pictographic writing system, like the Frostlings. But the Fanatic pictographs are much simpler and more abstract. See figure G. Finaly there are all those Isolates. Luckily none of them have a writing system, as far as we know. Well the Darkanth are too mysterious for us to know about their writing and the Dragons can't write, due to thier size. The Vibrobugs have no language. But the Tirap communicate only in pictures and can lazer blast them into object, complete in color. So I guess they have a writing system. And while the Mountain Men don't have a writing System they do have a sophisticated form of communication using string, beads, knots and color, that is too hard to explain. 
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