Scene #17071: AP Dead Languages

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Daimon Hellstrom	If nothing else, Daimon Hellstrom means it when he says he'll be teaching Nico Minoru about sorcery, witchcraft, black magic, and all of the fun things that go along with it. The potential downside is that these realms are so huge that they encompass more than just cool rituals and ceremonial daggers and the like. "...so you see here, this top line is written in Hyrkanian," Daimon says. "The bottom line is similar, but notice the tails on the letterforms, and how the right angles all become round curves... this line is in Turanian, which is /derived/ from Hyrkanian." Daimon looks over, to check and see if Nico has fallen asleep yet. "I'm not going to expect you to be fluent in these languages, or even necessarily able to read them -- no one speaks them anymore unless you summon a demon older than continental drift -- but being able to recognize them at a glance goes a long way toward knowing 'oh, this is an artifact from the Black Kingdoms' or whatever."

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If nothing else, Daimon Hellstrom means it when he says he'll be teaching Nico Minoru about sorcery, witchcraft, black magic, and all of the fun things that go along with it. The potential downside is that these realms are so huge that they encompass more than just cool rituals and ceremonial daggers and the like.

"...so you see here, this top line is written in Hyrkanian," Daimon says. "The bottom line is similar, but notice the tails on the letterforms, and how the right angles all become round curves... this line is in Turanian, which is /derived/ from Hyrkanian."

Daimon looks over, to check and see if Nico has fallen asleep yet. "I'm not going to expect you to be fluent in these languages, or even necessarily able to read them -- no one speaks them anymore unless you summon a demon older than continental drift -- but being able to recognize them at a glance goes a long way toward knowing 'oh, this is an artifact from the Black Kingdoms' or whatever."