From: Peter Metcalfe (metcalph@bigfoot.com)
Date: Wed 26 Jan 2000 - 01:06:49 EET
Joe Mills:
>According to Kos -- "The best-known example of Minarian Memory Removal
>occurred at the end of the Second Age when the dragons betrayed the humans
>of the EWF. In this circumstance the process seems to have been that the
>ability to speak or think draconic was completely lost."
As stated in the rules, no person may speak Auld Wyrmish beyond
25% because it includes "visual, auditory, olfactory and
empathic components" and "humans are not naturally empathic"
(RQ3 rules p23-p24). From this, people could once speak Auld
Wyrmish above this level but the knowledge is now lost.
>I assumed that the ability to write draconic was lost with the ability
>to think draconic...
It does not seem so.
"Dragonewts do not write, but during the Empire of the
Wyrm's Friends a written form of Auld Wyrmish was
devised by clever humans. Many Second Age documents
were written in this tongue and it is still popular
among pedants"
Glorantha Book p35
The popularity among pedants indicates that the written language
is still learnable and there's numerous scrolls written in
Auld Wyrmish scattered throughout the scenarios. I assume that
the empathic etc. components are denoted by a sign just like the
aural components are. This prevents understanding of the
magical meanings behind the Old EWF texts but works just fine for
written communications.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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