#vorin script

[novaraptorus]

Sorry to all the guys out there!

[kaladinsspear]

((translation: "Brandon Sanderson likes krabussy")) 🤣

[natequarter]

is the h in alethi names pronounced? we know it can act as a "placeholder" letter of sorts in written vorin names, but is it still used in spoken alethi? or is this a situation where historically the letter h was used in spoken alethi, but the sound has been lost in present day spoken alethi, and preserved in women's script?

[aahsoka]

had an idea in the shower. what if the books in alethkar were like illuminated manuscripts. you could have womens script with little simple glyph translations above (like when they put old english over latin) and images to help comprehension when theres no one around who can read. maybe they would carve shells of different chitinous animals instead of using ivory (im assuming it would be thicker than like a regular crab shell on certain things like chasmfiends for example). not exactly sure about writing surface they dont talk a lot about like getting hides from certain animals lmfao. you set spheres into fancy covers like they did with gems. maybe if u put certain gems together it becomes a fabrial with a cool extra function. really detailed glyphs with intricate patterns like celtic knots . vorin religious figures.

do u understand the vision

[bogreader]

I’m a good Vorin man what does the women’s script in the dalinar big natural post say

It doesn't say anything it's just scribbling

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

👶 - As a kid, what were they like?

I was always fairly quiet and secretive, to be honest.

I hid… certain things… from everyone.

Bullies and Vorin culture taught me that I had to.

Learning to read and write, for example.

Literacy is gendered to Vorin sensibilities. This means women are the scholars and artists, and men fight.

And having always been fairly scrawny, I was not very good at masculinity.

Before I swore my First Ideal, I could draw glyphs fairly well, and had secretly learned to read and write in the Women’s Script. Not very well, mind—my hand has always been a shaky one—but well enough.

I’m glad I don’t have to hide it anymore.

[yetanothercomicbook]

Destructive Infinity

Shadow Riders #3

The best issue so far.

Vorin's home world.

First script where the integration of the backstory felt natural/unforced. None of the characters stand out, but the story does have some interesting ideas.

On Sale Date: June 1, 1993.

5/10

[basket-of-radiants]

Good with languages doesn't even begin to cover it! Szeth is seriously impressive. He was nearly thirty when he first left his homeland, with no indication that he'd studied much of the rest of Roshar. Yet across the main sequence he's demonstrably fluent in Alethi, Azish, and Selay; each of which is from a completely different language family. It's implied that he may speak even more. He can read and write in other languages as well, which is not something that one just passively picks up, and which is certainly an achievement for a slave getting tossed around the world like a leaf on the wind. (Who is teaching him Vorin women's script, because he sure knows it!) In Way of Kings, he even makes a point of how his vocabulary is considerably more refined than those of everyone around him, to an intimidating degree.

It's easy to overlook, because he occasionally makes stupid choices, but Szeth is ridiculously smart. It's not just languages (although as someone who loves and yet struggles with languages, it's certainly his most impressive aspect to me.) He's clever, analytical, and curious, and he has seemingly perfect information-retention when he's not actively repressing everything. Seriously, this man is brilliant. Even setting aside his evident skills with surges and combat, Ishar was right on the money when he picked him out as his very special boy.

(I'm gonna gloss over how he would also have to be a master of geography to have fulfilled Taravangian's orders in WoK so efficiently, because most fantasy stories have the conceit that if you can fly, that also means you inherently know where you're going. He's also knowledgeable about architecture, because, you know what never mind.)

I think Szeth's backstory chapters did a good job of covering almost everything we'd need to know about him (honestly you really only need the first couple, being told "he's autistic, and he likes dancing" explains like 98% of the character) but how the hell did he become fluent in every language under the sun?

[mourningskvader]

[cosmere-cosmeme]

Got a little message for all my Vorin men out there <3

gotcha

[figgldygrak]

In the last chapter of Oathbringer, Dalinar says “you said pronouns have a gender in women’s formal script” when asking about masculine I and Navani says “you can use the neuter, like an ardent.”

This implies that Alethi spoken language does not have gendered pronouns (which would explain no one being confused about The Sibling using they/them). It also shows that when gender pronouns are used, ardently use neutral ones. That does make the gendered pronouns normally used for ardents seem strange.

[cosmereplay]

[ID: The five images go through an example of the script, then sounds, a list of rhythms and how they would be written, some rules for sounding out words using the script, and then more examples with instructions, using one of Navani's keteks ("Alight, winds approach" with the Rhythm of Winds), and one of the Musings of El ("Humans are a poem, a song" with no rhythm. The script has a horizontal line through it, like the Vorin women's script, and has a perpendicular ending line like the Vorin script. Otherwise, it's quite round and asymmetrical, whereas women's script is sharp and symmetrical on each side of the horizontal line. It also reads right to left, whereas women's script reads left to right. Small lines, circles, and dots are added above the individual letters to indicate vowel sounds. There are rules for pronounciation based on whether the symbol is above or below the line, with the first letter being the largest, and the rest of the word in a smaller version alternating between above and below the horizontal line. There are no spaces. The symbols for the rhythms are individually created, not by sound, and they sit at the beginning of each line. For example, Tension has a dot in the middle. Below it is a V shape. Above is an inverted V. End ID.]

Hey Stormlight people! I’ve had this for a while but finally managed to recreate it digitally!

This is my unofficial script/language/alphabet (+ user manual because I made it far more complicated than was probably necessary but whatever) that I created for the singer/listener people, and I thought some of y’all might enjoy!

Couple of notes:

the rhythm symbols have no actual basis in anything, I just tried to make something that captures the feeling of the word. “Tension” is one of the more obvious ones but the others are vibe only so

Apologies on the handwriting, it’s not the greatest but oh well

If you have any questions on how to use or just anything in general I am willing to answer!

All credit goes to me please don’t claim this as your own (ik it’s whatever but this did take me like actually ~14 hours total so please be kind)

[shouldprobablybereading]

I really need to start practicing vorin script again

[koravelliumavast]

So, what is so far your most annoying aspect of vorin script?

Mine is forgetting th and sh are their own letters and realizing too late and now the t/s is the wrong size and you have to redo the entire thing

For sure the bottom half of the letters. Like they don’t match up with the top half and it bugs me. The th and sh hasn’t tripped me up yet but it’s bound to happen.

[shallahi-and-snowflake]

My whole thing with religion is more about how deeply the culture I came from is steeped in religion. A rigidly hierarchical and controlling one, too. As an example of what I mean, the word “Vorin” refers both to the culture and the religion. Yes, for some people, religion is an important part of their life, but I’ll probably always be a bit wary of it.

When I left my home, I felt this heavy weight lifted off my shoulders, and after a good bit of time outside of it, I’ve gained a better understanding about how it works and how it has affected my life.

For example, my left hand is my dominant hand. This didn’t affect me when I was assumed to be a man by both my family and myself, but soon after I formed my bond with Snowflake, when I had accidentally taken in enough Stormlight to heal my body’s disconnect with my image of myself, I found that to be a problem in two ways. First, I had to wear a glove on that hand—it became my safehand, not to be shown to anyone but my significant other. Second, I had to learn to write with my right hand—my freehand. Reading, writing, sketching, painting, and playing music are all considered feminine skills, and things like going to war are considered masculine. This means that there’s a literacy gap in the Vorin Kingdoms based on gender. The only thing that men can read and write are glyphs, logograms, not an alphabet-like script. Basically, learning to write with my right hand didn’t go well. Thank goodness for thin gloves and Thaylen sensibilities. I may not have gotten the brunt of that culture, but it did absolutely affect my life.

Okay I HAVE seen a few posts going about regarding Crimmus

And this Pokémon Center was playing stock sounding holiday music

But like. The origins are WAAAAAAY different than I'm used to. They're basically entirely centered around some guy named Chris and his adoration for gift giving.

It's a loooot more religious back where I'm from.

........ Kinda prefer this world's version.

[brightness-summoner-ghost]

What i say: i am going to study

What i mean: i am going to write in the women's script all freaking over my french packet