Oudeis he/him Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 This must have already been brought up, because how could it not have been, but I've searched the forum and couldn't find it. Elhokar's blade, Sunraiser, is described as etched with the 10 Fundamental Glyphs. Meantime, the Surgebinding chart. I'm sure I've heard that the Glyphs representing each order are supposed to be stylization of the hilts of the ten Honorblades. While there are obvious subtle differences, the Fundamental Glyphs appear very similar to the ten Honorblades. Any thoughts on this? Why are these Fundamental Glyphs? What do they mean, what do they represent? Were they carved into a Shardblade, or when the Shardblade took its shape, did it decide to show up with the glyphs etched into its surface? 1
WeiryWriter he/him Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 Brandon's store has glyph pendants for the Windrunners, Lightweavers, and Bondsmiths which name them as "Jeseh", "Shash", and "Ishi". Which are also numbers 1, 6, and 10 according to the Ars Arcanum.
Mailliw73 he/him Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 What would be useful is if, when, and I mean when, those guys in the Glyph Translation thread crack how to read glyphs, they figure out what these glyphs mean. That would be very interesting.
Windrunner he/him Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 They've gotten close, but it doesn't matter. They spell something in another language, Alethi or maybe even the Dawnchant. So got example when the Bridge Four glyph was analyzed, it was an Alethi word, so if we didn't already know we were looking at the word "bridge" we wouldn't have known what it meant. Honestly they probably just spell out Jeseh, Shash, and Ishi in a stylized way.
Shaggai Posted October 24, 2014 Posted October 24, 2014 I'm pretty sure the ten fundamental glyphs are just the numbers from 1 to 10. They probably also represent the orders, but from what Weiry said I don't think they're any more complicated than that.
Oudeis he/him Posted October 24, 2014 Author Posted October 24, 2014 Okay. It strikes me as a sorta odd way of saying it. We don't talk about clock faces having the "ten fundamental digits" on them. You're probably right, but I'm holding out hope it means something more. In many cultures which have symbols to represent words/concepts (english included) the word for "One" is almost always SIGNIFICANTLY easier than Jezrien's hilt there. i.e. most of them (again, english included) have a single line in some way. I have nothing really to back up my claim. The explanation just doesn't feel satisfying to me. I'm gonna continue to pick at it, while admitting I'm prolly on a wild goose chase.
WeiryWriter he/him Posted October 24, 2014 Posted October 24, 2014 As a point of fact I do think there is more to the fundamental glyphs than there numerical value. That's just one thing they represent, they are also mentioned to be related to the Orders, and probably things like the Heralds and Essences. For actual counting they have another system.
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