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Posted by Mark Rosenfelder
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In Reply to: <a href="61.html">Secret History of Verduria: College Hijinx</a> posted by Mark Rosenfelder on November 07, 2000 at 02:44:31:<p>
I know you're out there... I can hear you breathing. Or browsing. This page gets 45 hits a week or so. Anyway, on with the story.<p>I accumulated a miscellaneous heap of Almean stuff during college:<p><ul><li>A hefty Verdurian grammar and a vocabulary of several thousand words, plus various short documents in Verdurian<br><li>Wordlists for Cadhinor, Cuêzi, Barakhinei, without bascially zero understanding of linguistics<br><li>A bunch of maps and notes covering places the D&D group had visited (including such miscellanea as Verdurian prices, a list of ship types, and character sheets for the demigod Stan Lee, his wife Sara, and son Bruce)<br><li>Several off-humorous chapters chronicling the group's adventures, which my girlfriend and I were writing up.<br><li>A rough chronology of the history of the Plain<br><li>Rough notes on the religions of the Plain<br><li>A draft of the <i>Ciröma</i> or Count of Years, the Eledhe myth dealing with creation and the three Ages of Almea<br><li>A 60-page history of the Eledhe dynasty<br><li>Random drawings, bits of calligraphy, and fragments from future epics.<br></ul><p>All of this was modified later. I'm probably leaving something out.<p>Verduria was full of jokes back then... influenced as much by <i>Bored of the Rings</i> as by <i>Lord</i> of the same. I've left in some of the jokes in the material I've put in... sometimes hidden by translation into Verdurian, as for instance <i>Rhuk 17e Cheltei Shrayomei</i> on the Verduria province map-- 'Castle of the 17th Evil Wizard'.<p>There's also jokes and tributes in the language itself... e.g. <i>dení</i> for 'homosexual' is a nod to a gay friend whose name in French class was Denys. <i>Chelt</i> for 'evil', <i>cthelt</i> in Cadhinor, is an adaptation of Cthulhu. The words <i>uestu</i> 'man' and <i>rhon</i> 'language' derive from Tolkien's 'Westron', from a time when I was trying to work with the (rather silly) D&D idea of languages for each intelligent race. <i>Amrab</i> 'law' refers to Hammurabi.<p>My girlfriend worked at learning Verdurian, and I wrote her some lessons. She complained about some of the difficult Russian-like consonant clusters, so you have her to thank that they've <br>since been modified.
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: I know you're out there... I can hear you breathing. Or browsing. This page gets 45 hits a week or so. Anyway, on with the story.
: I accumulated a miscellaneous heap of Almean stuff during college:
: <ul><li>A hefty Verdurian grammar and a vocabulary of several thousand words, plus various short documents in Verdurian
: <li>Wordlists for Cadhinor, Cuêzi, Barakhinei, without bascially zero understanding of linguistics
: <li>A bunch of maps and notes covering places the D&D group had visited (including such miscellanea as Verdurian prices, a list of ship types, and character sheets for the demigod Stan Lee, his wife Sara, and son Bruce)
: <li>Several off-humorous chapters chronicling the group's adventures, which my girlfriend and I were writing up.
: <li>A rough chronology of the history of the Plain
: <li>Rough notes on the religions of the Plain
: <li>A draft of the <i>Ciröma</i> or Count of Years, the Eledhe myth dealing with creation and the three Ages of Almea
: <li>A 60-page history of the Eledhe dynasty
: <li>Random drawings, bits of calligraphy, and fragments from future epics.
: </ul>
: All of this was modified later. I'm probably leaving something out.
: Verduria was full of jokes back then... influenced as much by <i>Bored of the Rings</i> as by <i>Lord</i> of the same. I've left in some of the jokes in the material I've put in... sometimes hidden by translation into Verdurian, as for instance <i>Rhuk 17e Cheltei Shrayomei</i> on the Verduria province map-- 'Castle of the 17th Evil Wizard'.
: There's also jokes and tributes in the language itself... e.g. <i>dení</i> for 'homosexual' is a nod to a gay friend whose name in French class was Denys. <i>Chelt</i> for 'evil', <i>cthelt</i> in Cadhinor, is an adaptation of Cthulhu. The words <i>uestu</i> 'man' and <i>rhon</i> 'language' derive from Tolkien's 'Westron', from a time when I was trying to work with the (rather silly) D&D idea of languages for each intelligent race. <i>Amrab</i> 'law' refers to Hammurabi.
: My girlfriend worked at learning Verdurian, and I wrote her some lessons. She complained about some of the difficult Russian-like consonant clusters, so you have her to thank that they've
: since been modified.
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