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I wanted to add my thanks to Sander -- I've long been aware of the main elements of morphosyntactic alignment, but I don't think I've ever seen them sketched out so neatly. In addition, the diagram works well, once I fully understood it. :roll: (Initially, I focused only on the roles depicted and th...

I guess that I can give a quick reply here: In terms of personality and behavior, I would almost certainly qualify as an ewez -- I'm not a "macho male" type at all. (Although I seem to have acquired some more gume-like traits in recent years, and my beard is definitely gumun .) Attracted primarily t...

Ŋar and Fánao reminded me of Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (primarily because I'd just been reading about them.) Bingo! The story is actually a tribute to Lieber's characters (and even imitates some of his style). Aha! This explains a great deal, I think... :wink: I pity the eventual tr...

Thanks, Penelope and WMillier! I'm glad to see a few more comments in this thread -- I'd hate to think that there were only a few of us paying attention to it... Might we be seeing more of Ŋar and Fánao in the future? They seem like quite a fun pair. Ŋar and Fánao reminded me of Fritz Lieber's Fafhr...

There are Elcari in Arcél? I was under the impression they only existed in Ereláe. If you look at the world map on the "Descent of the Lesuinae" (sp.) page, you will see that there are elcari (marked in red) on most of the continents, including a large area in Arcél. (I do think that Mark once indi...

Ouch! Now you've given it away...



I just finished reading myself -- very interesting. (And very cinematic, BTW; I could see this as a TV episode.) I won't say much right now, but I hope that you have more stories (and more about Arcél) in store for the future.

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Glenn

http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=20 (yeah, that's the 20th topic ever posted on this board. By constrast, this one is the 16,467th.) Moreover, the thread Rory cites above was in fact a continuation of one of the last threads on the old Virtual Verduria Message Board (under the subject ti...

I would like to add my thanks to Mark as well, for pointing those passages out; the material on Almea (Almeiana?) currently on line contains the answers to many questions already, if one knows where to find it...

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Glenn

Mark has said somewhere that Xurno has its own long tradition of magic use, but that the Xurnese interpretation of their magic and its nature is quite different from the Cadhinorian tradition; unfortunately, so far that's all we know...

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Glenn

Serali wrote:Hi, Thanks alot!

You're welcome.

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Glenn

I thought I'd give this question a nudge, just in case some info was forthcoming... :wink: I was wondering if you had any information on the types of weapons used in Almea. It seems to be a very turbulent places with frequent wars, and I was wondering was they fought them with. Interesting; I wouldn...

Is it, perhaps, something like whalesong? I'm curious. I don't think it's similiar to whalesong in terms of structure, but it may sound a bit like it, at least underwater... Mark's description of the iliu language, posted on the old Virtual Verduria Message Board a few years ago, may be found here ...

Q: What is the dominant religion in Kebri? A: They have their own religion, descended from the polytheism of the Monkhayu; there is also a significant Eledhe population. Incidentally, in a previous statement, Mark described the native Kebreni religion as similar in some respects to Shinto. I took n...

It's done!

I saw Mark's notice on the Zompist.com front page that the Historical Atlas of Skouras had been completed, and finished reading the final entries tonight. Congratulations!
I was particularly interested in hearing about the Tzuro conquest of the Littoral...

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Glenn

Hi I went to the link you said and all I see is the map and no script examples. Hi, Serali! There are comments under each of the maps in the Historical Atlas, but your screen resolution may not be letting you see them; see Mark's Atlas Help page for details. In my case, I'm usually using my laptop ...

I was wondering what does the Jipperasti alphabet look like? Since nobody has answered this yet, just in case... The only example of the Jippurasti alphabet that has appeared online is the entry in the Historical Atlas of Almea describing the strokes that make up Drydic's example of sprand above --...

As noted already, Mark made the same point in the Language Construction Kit: People often suppose that the dialect of the capital city (or whatever other place has supplied the standard language) is more 'pure' or more conservative than provincial speech. In fact the opposite is likely to be true: t...

Thanks for the reply, Mark; I guess that we'll have to wait until the piece on Ara??t appears for more details...

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Glenn

Well, Bēgisios lived at the very end of Cuzei's existence, when "pietism" and intolerance were already on the rise, according to the religion article: The internecine conflicts of the imperial period, the decadence of the lords, and the increasing strife with Cadhinas, did affect the tenor of later ...

Do you turn on the Political checkbox? If not, that should help a lot with that problem. I should probably turn it on by default. Just wanted to respond to this--I did recently begin clicking the Political checkbox, but it's true that it took my a while to do so; since the box is irrelevant for the...

Just for the record, I have been following the Skourene Historical Atlas as well, and intend to continue to do so; among other things, I find the development of the various political systems interesting -- the usampas versus the ugaşras , the creation of a rather unusual form of representative democ...

Or, as I like to think, the animation shows the results of trying to learn Things That Man Was Not Meant To Know (i.e., that Mark hasn't posted yet ).

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Glenn

I look forward to the Atlas when I get back to the university and can look at it on a not-dial-up Internet connection. :?: I don't know--I'm here on a dial-up connection (it's the only kind I have), and I had no problems loading or viewing the Skourene atlas (or the attached history page) from the ...

Just finished reading the first part of the history--thank you very much! 8) I've often thought that the Skorene cities were reminiscent of the classical Greek states in some respects (although not in climate, admittedly), and this element comes through quite clearly. I found the discussions of poli...

As far as how many Verdurian speakers there are in Almea , I know Zomp's put a figure to it but I can't remember where it is. I'm sure Glenn will know :). I suppose I should be honored that some people consider me the Memory of Almea... :wink: The introduction to Mark's Verdurian grammar gives the ...