Comments on: A Literal Token of Her Affections

By: Ganurath

Ganurath — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 05:39:36 +0000

In reply to Xero. I went back to this page because the font in question got used in another webcomic yesterday, and I wanted to double-check that it was indeed the same font. I feel compelled to say that reading your observation feels INCREDIBLY surreal.

By: Xero

Xero — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 07:13:13 +0000

The alien language is a font its a replacement cypger

By: The_Rippy_One

The_Rippy_One — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:40:02 +0000

@Vulpis: It would make me happy, to have another awesome bi character hanging around…

But it makes me want to write bad fanfiction of V, watching/re-watching ‘Saw’s “trysts” with Addy and blubbering why that can’t be her, ravished by the cute undying…

By: Vulpis

Vulpis — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:22:21 +0000

@Ganurath Either that, or Veled *does* swing the same way as Addy, and the feather *is* being used in a similar way to the Taledras use them. 🙂

By: Ganurath

Ganurath — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:59:52 +0000

Compared to searching for a fictitious language text that I didn’t know the name of, decoding a cipher was the easy way from where I sat.

I’m currently holding out for the possibility of both theories: The medal is a politically significant symbol, while the feather was lost to stress, and Veled expects that there will be more of both.

By: nikolai60

nikolai60 — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 02:22:34 +0000

I didn’t even think to try translating it at the time, props to you people, extra credit to Ganurath for doing it the hard way! Knowing what it says confirms my suspicions, Veled’s grateful to her voluntarily returning, though the actual meaning or political weight of the token and feather are still anyone’s guess.

By: mrtt

mrtt — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:32:50 +0000

Well, it turns out almost everything is that sideways 8. So all I know is that it is some sort of punctuation or another. Probably a –

I went ahead and uploaded the translation key I created if anyone is interested:
Wizardspeak to English.odt (16 KB)
https://mega.co.nz/#!2VMQkCbA!TPEeNEw_HilrLM8740fjSkhDdjAEHvDRfhYo97JYnZw

By: mrtt

mrtt — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:18:05 +0000

Thank you Sulucamas, it is clearly indeed wizardspeak.
I have used it to create a translation key and based on it here is the translation:
Consider this a
head start for
your collection.
-Veled

Note: Capitalization differs only in size of the letter so it might be wrong.
= and – are the same symbol so it might be =Veled

By: Sulucamas

Sulucamas — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:48:52 +0000

Someone get Ganurath a medal; they nailed it! :D AND they did it the hard way, rather than just translating it from Blambot's WizardSpeak font. ;) @Ganurath: I really like the idea of stress-induced feather loss, but I wanna say it's more of a Celeste signature. Whatever the medallion is, could it be just the start of Saw's tenure as Veled's hitman?

By: Vulpis

Vulpis — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 21:09:03 +0000

@LavaBat @Shad This does make me wonder if Veled means Jig is going to be collecting tokens from Celest…or feathers from Veled. 🙂 I’m reminded for some reason of the Talesedrin from Mercedes Lackey’s Velgarth books (they’re a little like the Valdemarian Heralds, but they have birds as partners rather than human-intelligent horses), and what *they* mean when they offer feathers. 😉

I am also noticing the marking on Jig’s hand here..not sure if they’re just part of her stripe pattenr, a moon, a banana in a circle…or possibly a symbol of a feather.