$swéḱs$

There are six of us. We used to have names. They will return to us - I believe in it.

We do not remember well what happened before - maybe we were ordinary people. Almost like you.

We don't even know how long ago it was - time has lost all meaning for us.

Wandering in empty space, we see worlds like burning balls, whose light is too bright and hurts the eyes. We still can't peer or see what's going on inside. But we sing to them - and sometimes we hear a light whisper in response, like a distant echo from a deep well.

We hear that you are both like us and different at the same time. But don't worry, our differences aren't that great. Wait a little more - we will explain everything to you.

The story we are telling now is one of the stories of our world. She is somehow connected with us ... and our common hope.

weird titles

I don't want to post anything particularly serious, so here you go: a little list of strange names that we have compiled. Translated into Retsin somehow, as far as possible - with the preservation of the original meaning.

  • Metric of the base of the tail of the jearts as a marker of the correct posture or A word about balanced walking
  • The main forms of the contours of the beards of the female dwarves
  • Tree climbing for healthy development [redacted]
  • About the vestiges of extra pairs of nipples [this applies to Gearts, I hope]
  • About rotten meat dishes [I don’t even want to think where this could come from]
  • Alva tinctures, their recipes, use and modifications
  • About ways to undermine dragars [??? I really hope we misunderstood the meaning]

There is more, but it's somehow in the next time.

Ifensea

There is little content today because we have been very busy sleeping and eating all day. Now there will be a fairly large post, and a small preface to it (you can skip it, I will note). We will talk in general about the drawing of the dragariyka that I threw.

==BEGINNING OF A BAD TEXT==

As you know, modern historical science is skeptical about the events that took place in the territories of Orova before the third millennium BC. The explanation of the phenomenon is simple: all the sources that testify to this period are almost exclusively Glinnar. There is also Kharassukhum documentation, but since the local dwarves mostly sat in their mountains all this time, they can tell us little about what happened outside the southern part of the Kharas ridge.

It is customary to be wary of Glinnar documents, not because the elves are fond of lying, but rather because they are very fond of relying on their memory. It has repeatedly happened that Alvian historians testified to events that took place hundreds of years before they finally decided to write them down, and it is difficult to say in the end how much the information was distorted by the peculiarities of their perception and the long restructuring of memories.

That is why I want to warn all those who are not familiar with these legends: take them carefully, at your own peril and risk. Of course, there is a historical background in them, but how much myth is here, and how many facts, it is difficult to say.

==END==

So, many of you must know the name of Fodallein Goraetvi, a semi-legendary master of antiquity. He came from the ruling Glinnar South Digitan dynasty and, being the eldest son in the family, founded the so-called. The First Kind is a very respected house of Glinnar, which has not been interrupted to this day. He did a lot of great and small, good and not so good things, but this is not about him, but about his wife.

According to Alvian (and some hints of this are given in Dverzhian) sources, her real name was Ynokhtkhasha (Romanization Onâhţhaşa, Glinnar adaptation Inoytta Inoitha), and she was a Dragari. But, having met Fodallein, she fell in love with him so much that through a series of multiple transformations of her body, she brought him closer to a completely humanoid one. This, in fact, is quite probable - as is known, dragars, within certain limits, can change their morphology and even genotype. In those days, of course, science (magical and physical) was not yet developed enough to quickly and painlessly turn dragars into almost-humans, as it is now, but ... In short, it could well be, here. They also say that Ynokhtkhasha and Fodallein could even have children - this raises a little more serious doubts in me, but let's omit it.

Ynokhtkhashi also had an Alvian nickname - Ifensea (Aiphensea), "blue-eyed". You already know where I'm going, right? In that drawing, this was literally the only painted part, and experts confirmed that some stylistic features, such as the pose, turn of the head, and the shape of the tail, indicate that this is a drawing of this very Dragariyka.

Her fate was unenviable: not recognizing her on the battlefield, her husband stabbed her with a sword along with their unborn child. And realizing what he had done, he completely went mad and fought until he fell, putting down several dozen enemies.

And finally, the last two stanzas from one of the songs composed in honor of Ifensea.

In the halls of the forest under the rays of the moon
Inoytta sings softly.
Forgotten dreams flicker in the grass,
The sound slowly freezes into ice.

Ages flew around, hid in the shadows,
Disappeared in the plexus of rivers;
Inoytta is spinning on the Volg stones,
She stayed there forever

She stayed there forever.

Viryaz

They found a piece of birch bark with a drawing and an inscription in Glinnar script, made in a very clumsy handwriting. It seems to me that this thing can compete with the famous "I am a puppy."

It is written: "Dzhar'tskyi warrior, even Virꙗz call." Clementine inscription, because adaptation =D

PS Whoever this Viryaz was, he had an excellent portrait painter.

Map

And here are some more goodies. For several days I have been redrawing (in a photo booth, but to hell with it) an old Orova map of not very clear origin. The drawing seems to be similar to the Alvian one, but the names on it seem to be written by different people, and even at different times. But this is not so important, because for now I only have the drawing itself =D

Flipping through the dictionary and accidentally lost

reads like /emperodr/

Everywhere the entire Internet lags, it burns very strongly from this. It kills even more because literally every year some unfortunate scientist declares that he has FINALLY solved the problem of magical interference, which means that the whole world will soon move to a single magical network.

Spoiler: none of the proposed ideas have worked yet. Therefore, technology and electricity are still our everything.

Okay, I turn off the grumbling grandfather mode and get straight to the point. Generally speaking, I wanted to talk about my impressions of what is happening and what is happening in general.

There are forty students here in total, twenty-two from RNU and eighteen from USU. I won’t even say how many teachers and visiting scientists, because there are new faces here almost every day. I can say for sure that a lot of people are noble.

We were settled here in houses of eight to ten people each. I was lucky to have only two people here with whom I somehow know: Valera (you heard his voice on that old video) and Berenice. It is very unusual to be in the same room for so long with people whom I first saw ... a little less than a month ago, it turns out? But the guys, in fact, are quite good until they get drunk on vodka. I'll tell you a little more about each one later.

Yes, I now sit at home more (well, or just wander around the neighborhood) than I am directly at the excavation site. There are artifacts of such high importance that they don’t really want to let us near them - but enivey, then we are still partially transferred some things that we can work with. All my life, for example, I have been engaged in linguistics, therefore I help to decipher some of the documents found. I never did calligraphy, but I had to =D

In the next series: the secret of the origin of the drawing of the dragariyka, new notes of the wolf (fox?) varnish and something interesting from the historical Eryakhshar, which I have no idea about at all. Don't switch!

One of our crew was on the coast today and photographed this masterpiece. In Folk it reads:

CAREFULLY
spitting dolphins

Cœṽėni Dueniovlėdhi (Part 2)

I tried to be more of a man than a fox. I thought that if I was in front of people more often, they would be able to treat me more kindly. I was only partly right. Some indeed softened their hearts, but others burned even more with a strange, unsubstantiated hatred. Perhaps I could understand them if I were in their place.

While transforming, I tried to stay away from home. Not only so that they would not notice me at this very moment of my conversion, but also so that they would not shoot me out of fright. The larger my human body became, the more menacing my animal appearance looked.

For it seems to me that there is such a law in nature: nothing goes anywhere without a trace and something does not arise from nothing. The horse eats grass and hay, and fruit trees take strength from its manure. The baby, growing up in the mother's womb, feeds on the juices of her body - but often this is not enough for him, and in return for his birth, he takes the life of the mother who gave birth. An ordinary fox is small, and in order to become one, what must happen? Unless pieces of my flesh would fall off completely, and excess blood would mix with the ground - but how then to return them back later? A red-haired beast the size of a large wolf could scare anyone, so I tried not to catch my eye.


Her name was Gwenneda[1]gwenneðọ, from Prabetan *windiya, from *windos "white". Wed modern Botian name Gwynedd, duat Gwenez.and when I saw her for the first time, my heart turned to stone. As if spellbound, I watched as she combed her hair, sitting on the river bank. Her black braids burned with crimson fire in the rays of the setting sun, and my breath settled in this brilliance forever. When she turned around, I was speechless - her eyes reflected the blue of the sky.

She knew who I was, but she was not afraid to speak to me first. That day we sat on the rough sand until the very night. I don’t have any memories of what we talked about - I only remember her ringing laugh and the warm spring wind.

Since then we have met many times. She didn't hate me or hate me, as if I was a person like everyone else. But she showed no pity or sympathy either, and because of that, I was finally able to feel like I belonged.

The day came when I made up my mind. I don’t remember ever experiencing such horror and trembling in the knees before that time. I offered her my love. She, bowing her head, first burst into tears - and then quietly laughed through her tears.

"Oh, woe to me," she whispered in a barely audible voice. “I love you with all my heart, but I can’t be with you yet!”

It's like I'm deaf. She had to repeat it two more times before I finally got it.

She loved another.

Then I laughed too, realizing how the Gods played an evil trick on me and on all my family. When I finally fell in love with a virgin, I received what other virgins had previously received from me and from other men of my tribe.

But then she took my hand and looked firmly into my eyes.

“Years will pass, and they will start asking me to marry,” she said. - Will you wait for me?

There is not much left, my heart. Gwannada! I'm waiting.

Footnotes

Footnotes
1 gwenneðọ, from Prabetan *windiya, from *windos "white". Wed modern Botian name Gwynedd, duat Gwenez.

Andrzej mowi. We all scattered and went home for the holidays, because the next part of the chanterelles will be tomorrow, in the late afternoon.

PS Berenice, I remember everything.