Re: Secret History of Verduria: College Hijinx

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Posted by Mark Rosenfelder (64.16.210.2) on November 14, 2000 at 15:27:03:

In Reply to: Secret History of Verduria: College Hijinx posted by Mark Rosenfelder on November 07, 2000 at 02:44:31:

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:

A hefty Verdurian grammar and a vocabulary of several thousand words, plus various short documents in Verdurian
Wordlists for Cadhinor, Cuêzi, Barakhinei, without bascially zero understanding of linguistics
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)
Several off-humorous chapters chronicling the group's adventures, which my girlfriend and I were writing up.
A rough chronology of the history of the Plain
Rough notes on the religions of the Plain
A draft of the Ciröma or Count of Years, the Eledhe myth dealing with creation and the three Ages of Almea
A 60-page history of the Eledhe dynasty
Random drawings, bits of calligraphy, and fragments from future epics.

All of this was modified later. I'm probably leaving something out.

Verduria was full of jokes back then... influenced as much by Bored of the Rings as by Lord 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 Rhuk 17e Cheltei Shrayomei on the Verduria province map-- 'Castle of the 17th Evil Wizard'.

There's also jokes and tributes in the language itself... e.g. dení for 'homosexual' is a nod to a gay friend whose name in French class was Denys. Chelt for 'evil', cthelt in Cadhinor, is an adaptation of Cthulhu. The words uestu 'man' and rhon '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. Amrab '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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: 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 Ciröma 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 Bored of the Rings as by Lord 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 Rhuk 17e Cheltei Shrayomei on the Verduria province map-- 'Castle of the 17th Evil Wizard'. : There's also jokes and tributes in the language itself... e.g. dení for 'homosexual' is a nod to a gay friend whose name in French class was Denys. Chelt for 'evil', cthelt in Cadhinor, is an adaptation of Cthulhu. The words uestu 'man' and rhon '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. Amrab '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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