[OB] Women's Script Translations From Oathbringer

[Don'tBeTheEvil]

So I've been a lurker here for basically forever, but I hadn't seen a post yet about the women's script annotations on some of the illustrations in Oathbringer, so I decided to finally un-lurk and make one. If I missed it, I'm sorry about that, and someone can point me to it and I can remove this or whatever; it was fun translating them anyway. I did my best to translate them using Harakeke's handy-dandy translation guide (thanks Harakeke!) although I definitely have something confused in the very first one. I didn't do the pretty mock-ups like others have done, but these are taken from the page titled "Navani's Notebook: Ship Designs." (I'm just noticing as I post this that there are more on the "Navani's Notebook: Vambrace" page; I have to go to sleep but if anyone else wants to/has already translated them they should feel free to post; otherwise I can do it later.)

Anyway, the first translation, in the top left corner, is the one I have a tiny bit wrong. I think it should say "Too fanciful?" but I'm getting two extra letters at the end, and I don't know why. The second translation, the longest one, say "ask Rushu how to keep the mast from ripping off." And the bottom translation says "Jasnah's favorite."

Admittedly, there's no super-exciting content in these, so maybe that's why I haven't seen posts about them. We've seen Rushu the ardent before, so presumably this is just one of Navani's engineering projects. Perhaps the Vambrace page will yield something more revealing, but I still think it's pretty neat to see the world-building-y notes on engineering and research.

[Willow]

Navani has moved on from flying platforms to airplanes. There's a few threads about them already:

and

They've discussed some of the same things  you're wondering about (the ha?), but I think the images, while interesting, are not so full of worldbuilding that people have kept discussing them for a long time, especially not with all the other new lore we've gotten.

The vambrace page is actually a bit of foreshadowing of Navani's storyline later in the books, that's I believe where she develops the fabrial-taser thing she used in part 5, which is really awesome.

Edited December 8, 2017 by Willow

[Don'tBeTheEvil]

Ah! I don't know how I missed the second one of those (I know how I missed the first--it's titled about something else, so that makes more sense). But whoops! Thanks for the info.

[Willow]

13 minutes ago, Don'tBeTheEvil said:

Ah! I don't know how I missed the second one of those (I know how I missed the first--it's titled about something else, so that makes more sense). But whoops! Thanks for the info.

Probably because I think that thread is currently buried on page 15-something of the spoilers forum, I only found it myself because someone linked to it in the glyph translation thread.