[Arche's writing a series of strange, wavy characters into her journal today. They're clearly letters of some sort, but strangely they aren't being translated
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[Well now, this is curious. Mithos is of course very familiar with those letters, having been born some 8000 years prior to Arche, and in the elven village of Heimdall itself no less. What he finds surprising is that someone here (aside from Yuan, but who cares about him) is familiar with the ancient language. (As an ooc note, I assume the two are very closely linked, perhaps like Spanish and Italian, if not entirely the same. "Angels" and therefore the Angelic language did not exist until Cruxis was established, and...I don't think Mithos, Yuan, and Kratos would have devoted time to developing their own unique and brand new language. Of course, this is just what I think, soooooo...yeah. If there's any evidence to refute this, feel free to whack me across the head haha.)]
[OOC: That's a perfectly reasonable conclusion, and like I said I have no knowledge of the links or lack thereof between the two ever being acknowledged in canon. So I think we'll go with that until proven wrong.]
Well, I've studied it since I was a little girl. It's come in handy a couple times too, let me tell you.
[written | filtered]imatreenowFebruary 5 2011, 08:10:43 UTC
(ooc: Oops, gonna continue to tl;dr about a fictional language herp derp. As an afterthought, Cruxis may have just borrowed Elven and it evolved over time (as languages tend to do, eventually becoming the "current language" of Symphonia's timeline), until the followers of the church of Martel probably started calling the old language used in founding religious texts "Angelic" on their own. ...Ok, I'm going to stop now.)
[Oh, Arche. This kid died before the world was ever called Aselia. Actually, Aselia wouldn't even exist if he hadn't been killed. As such, he doesn't quite know what you're talking about. He does, however, remember to put up a filter - something he had forgotten in his curiosity. It's rare that he elects to speak with anyone via the journals, and being paranoid and mistrustful as he is, he prefers to keep those correspondences private.]
I am from [He pauses to think for a moment, unsure of what to write. There is no place in the world that he would truly consider "home".] Derris Kharlan.
[written | filtered]skyborne_mageFebruary 5 2011, 08:27:06 UTC
[OOC: Yeah, that's definitely possible, and it's also one of those things the games themselves would never have bothered addressing (I really would have liked to have seen some examples of both languages).]
[Which leads to the question of what people called it before the split, but most likely nobody remembers the answer to that question.
She doesn't quite know why he threw up that filter at first, but as soon as Arche hears the words "Derris Kharlan", her heart almost skips a beat.]
[The alphabet catches Yuan's interest as well, of course. He hasn't seen these letters in a pretty long time. When he was young, he couldn't read a single word of Elven. He had to learn it all later on, after gaining immortality. Four-thousand years was plenty of time to master it.
He watches the letters appear for a moment, then scribbles the next one in the line. Let's see how the original author will respond.]
[Arche blinks in surprise when she sees the next letter appear, then beams, turning her attention from practice to communication, still in the same language.]
Studying it is an old hobby of mine, and it's come in pretty handy in the past. I usually practice off the journals, but I wanted to see if anyone might be able to read it.
[OOC: Oh hey so is Arche's Elvish at all similar to Tolken's? Not entirely pertinent, but Jonathan's tried translating the LotR books into Elvish as a hobby so he'd at least be familiar with the language and its mechanics and stuff. AND if it's not, then ignore. xD]
This is the coolest thing I've seen in my journal today.
[OOC: There are, to the best of my knowledge, no canon usage of the actual characters (probably because the programmers didn't want to bother making up an entirely new alphabet). So... I headcanon that yes, there are similarities, but it'd be like someone who's fluent in Chinese trying to translate Japanese.]
They are pretty neat-looking, aren't they? They're ancient Elvish!
[dsjkglhkdjg ELVISH. HOLY HELL does real-person Legolas have pink hair?? He always kind of knew Orlando Bloom was wrong for the part. Must. Contain. Fangasm.]
[She has no idea how much he's fanboying right now, she just thinks she might have met a fellow language enthusiast.]
Exactly! Well... just the one, technically. But I was thinking that if anyone responded to this from another world who knew about some old languages from there, I might check that out too.
I'm not so sure it's the language itself. More like... my intent behind writing in it.
What I mean is, say I only knew how to speak and write Ancient Elvish. It'd probably translate. But since I'm deliberately writing it out as a separate language, it stays untranslated.
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How do you know the language of the elves?
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Well, I've studied it since I was a little girl. It's come in handy a couple times too, let me tell you.
... You're from Aselia, then?
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[Oh, Arche. This kid died before the world was ever called Aselia. Actually, Aselia wouldn't even exist if he hadn't been killed. As such, he doesn't quite know what you're talking about. He does, however, remember to put up a filter - something he had forgotten in his curiosity. It's rare that he elects to speak with anyone via the journals, and being paranoid and mistrustful as he is, he prefers to keep those correspondences private.]
I am from [He pauses to think for a moment, unsure of what to write. There is no place in the world that he would truly consider "home".] Derris Kharlan.
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[Which leads to the question of what people called it before the split, but most likely nobody remembers the answer to that question.
She doesn't quite know why he threw up that filter at first, but as soon as Arche hears the words "Derris Kharlan", her heart almost skips a beat.]
Derris... Kharlan? Are you a Seraph?
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He watches the letters appear for a moment, then scribbles the next one in the line. Let's see how the original author will respond.]
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Hello! Are these coming through correctly?
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They are. I hadn't expected to see this language here.
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This is the coolest thing I've seen in my journal today.
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They are pretty neat-looking, aren't they? They're ancient Elvish!
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[dsjkglhkdjg ELVISH. HOLY HELL does real-person Legolas have pink hair?? He always kind of knew Orlando Bloom was wrong for the part. Must. Contain. Fangasm.]
Really? You study old languages?
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Exactly! Well... just the one, technically. But I was thinking that if anyone responded to this from another world who knew about some old languages from there, I might check that out too.
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What I mean is, say I only knew how to speak and write Ancient Elvish. It'd probably translate. But since I'm deliberately writing it out as a separate language, it stays untranslated.
It's a theory, anyway.
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