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the Correspondence Sigil and Chinese
zbr308
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12/13/2014
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This is the Correspondence Sigil.
This is the handwritten Chinese character “惑”, which means confuse, mislead, baffle, or lost.
See here: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%83%91
I feel pretty stupid for not realizing it before. Oh well, it does mean "confuse".
Now I fear I am becoming one of those gullible scholars driven crazy by it...
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mayexist
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12/15/2014
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More Correspondence Rorschach, linked elsewhere because I can't seem to get the HTML working here.
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Diptych
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12/15/2014
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Well, it is called the Language of Xanadu. And, if memory serves, we know there's more than one form of the Correspondence - the original, "pure" form, and so-to-speak "bastardised" forms used by creatures lower on the Great Chain. Perhaps some of the sigils we know came from, say, Fourth City-era research and adaptation. And we Scholars start with those characters - already re-interpreted and re-drawn to be comprehensible to human readers - and work backwards. *shrugs*
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