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| − | The Book of Lore is an ancient and supremely valuable book dating from the very end of the age of [[Mythical Age|Myth]]. Legend | + | The Book of Lore is an ancient and supremely valuable book dating from the very end of the age of [[Mythical Age|Myth]]. Legend holds that after the Breaking of the World, [[The Circle of Seven|a number]] of books were written and widely distributed to the survivors. Among them was the Book of Lore, which told the whole history of the era. Against all odds, the book survived into modern day, where it became known as "The rarest, most valuable tome you can probably find in your local book store's clearance bin". |
An actual, in-tact copy of the original book of lore would be beyond priceless. What survived was not that. | An actual, in-tact copy of the original book of lore would be beyond priceless. What survived was not that. | ||
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| − | The eldest, by date, copy of the Book of Lore existed on M' | + | The eldest, by date, copy of the Book of Lore existed on [[M'KHar]]a sometime during the pre-dynastic era. A nineteenth-edition of it was confirmed to exist in 4150 B.G.A.(a point of time considered by some to still be within [[Antiquity#Classic Antiquity|Classic Antiquity]]. |
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| + | The M'KHaren version was originally translated from Scholar(a "high" form of the Ancient language) into High M'KHaren. The two languages are so different in sentence structure a basic composition as to be completely incompatible; any translation would be effectively useless. In truth, there has never been an "expert" on both languages able to make a determination. Ancient Scholar is a highly contextual language, a word's meaning is dependant on it's placement in the sentence and the other words around it; a well-assembled sentence can even convey the tone and candor of a message. By contrast, High M'KHaren is extremely pedantic, with a wide array of words and word-modifiers. A word in High M'KHaren has only one very specific meaning, which can lead to dozens(and in some cases hundreds) of words for basically the same thing. Any attempt to translate between the two is doomed to fail. | ||
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| + | Yet translated it was; then copied down through several editions an iterations, until finally being translated into Low M'KHaren, then into an as-yet unknown, dead language for several generations, then back into Low M'KHaren, then Ancient [[Runarin]], Middle Runarin, Low Runarin, Modern Runarin, and finally Common. | ||
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| + | What survives is not pretty. | ||
Revision as of 19:01, 17 February 2017
The Book of Lore is an ancient and supremely valuable book dating from the very end of the age of Myth. Legend holds that after the Breaking of the World, a number of books were written and widely distributed to the survivors. Among them was the Book of Lore, which told the whole history of the era. Against all odds, the book survived into modern day, where it became known as "The rarest, most valuable tome you can probably find in your local book store's clearance bin".
An actual, in-tact copy of the original book of lore would be beyond priceless. What survived was not that.
Common Copy
The eldest, by date, copy of the Book of Lore existed on M'KHara sometime during the pre-dynastic era. A nineteenth-edition of it was confirmed to exist in 4150 B.G.A.(a point of time considered by some to still be within Classic Antiquity.
The M'KHaren version was originally translated from Scholar(a "high" form of the Ancient language) into High M'KHaren. The two languages are so different in sentence structure a basic composition as to be completely incompatible; any translation would be effectively useless. In truth, there has never been an "expert" on both languages able to make a determination. Ancient Scholar is a highly contextual language, a word's meaning is dependant on it's placement in the sentence and the other words around it; a well-assembled sentence can even convey the tone and candor of a message. By contrast, High M'KHaren is extremely pedantic, with a wide array of words and word-modifiers. A word in High M'KHaren has only one very specific meaning, which can lead to dozens(and in some cases hundreds) of words for basically the same thing. Any attempt to translate between the two is doomed to fail.
Yet translated it was; then copied down through several editions an iterations, until finally being translated into Low M'KHaren, then into an as-yet unknown, dead language for several generations, then back into Low M'KHaren, then Ancient Runarin, Middle Runarin, Low Runarin, Modern Runarin, and finally Common.
What survives is not pretty.
