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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Irgend Jemand</b>
on <!--date-->6:36 7/21/01
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<p>It is mentioned once that Tellinor on the west coast of Erelae is one of
Verduria's colonies. On the map of Almea, it looks bigger than any state in
eastern Erelae, so the people there must be quite behind Verduria if the
Verdurians were able to colonize them. What kind of people are they? And how do
the Verdurians treat them?
<p>As for the Ilii, do they use the same language in air and under water? I usually
can't understand spoken words under water, let alone speak. I guess that the
Ilii ears are better suited to this, but their speech apparatus must be kinda
strange- after all, they don't breath through their lungs underwater. So, how
exactly do they talk under water? And shouldn't that be basically different from
how they talk in air?
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>I'll answer these in reverse order, since the last question is easily
disposed of: I don't know. :( I hadn't really thought about this
problem! About all I know about the iliu language is that to humans
it sounds more like music than speech. I suspect rhythm and changes in pitch communicate better underwater than places of articulation.
<p>As for Téllinor, your guess is correct-- it's comparable to pre-colonial Africa in development. They have agriculture (based on rye, littlewheat, nutgrass, and the groundnut) and iron working, but no writing, and are organized into small kingdoms that are easy to take over or turn against each other. Racially they are kin to the Westerners of the Rau jungle, and so (to Verdurian eyes) have reddish skin and chestnut hair.
<p>They're about the same latitude as Verduria, so Verdurians and their crops thrive there (unlike the colony in Qaraumia, which is tropical). A few Verdurian words (and crops) taken from Téllinor: <b>zhadzho</b> 'groundnut' and <b>kyodo</b> 'clove', from Trêng; and <b>shekshek</b> 'cacao', from Yamda. (You may have guessed that "Téllinor" isn't a native name; it's pseudo-Cadhinor for 'West-land'.)
<p>Colonialism is never pretty; the Verdurians have so far behaved without genocide or atrocities or impositions of religion, but they are of course moving in, taking good land, and in general acting as lords, and someday this will cause trouble. It's not much of a defense to say that if they weren't here, the Kebreni would be.
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