Shudar Writing Style Tradition / Ritual in Dola Vonde | World Anvil

Shudar Writing Style

A writing principle laid out by Shudar that's meant to be used in Personal Logbooks from her people.   Expecting factual, precise information, her people gave emotional reports, unrelible and biased reports.   So she ordered a specific writing style, to be as emotionless as possible.   As Suda became more prevelant and got rid of many Shudar practices, she simple altered this one. Still informative, but encouraged to remain as unbaised as possible.   That's been since translated to being biased positively towards Suda, but remaining rather emotionless even in more serious situations.   It's often seen as skewed to younger Ardusans as being filled with emotion and other meaningless events, and by the time they have passed their First Week to be indistinguishable from others, and is seen as childish to not yet reach this goal.

Notable Passages:

 
"One day I woke up and one was walking in front of me.   I tried to stay still so it wouldn't see me, but there was too much color on my faded dress for it to ignore. In a blink of a count, the monster leaped at me, trying to get to my neck but I held up my arms out to block it. It coiled around my forearm instead, and I screamed and threw my hand wildly in the air.   Big-Grass was squawking and flutter-running towards me, the other petalmere away from the scene."  
-Felilel A Wodlerver Far Pravet, aged 10
Here is a passage of Felilel, an orphaned girl describing a night where she nearly died. She always tried to follow Shudar's writing style, mostly as she had limited resources and wanted to be seen as useful. The Godsears disapproved the sentence of her screaming and her escape. Too emotional.  
"My brother tries to invite me our parent's anniversary, but I am much too busy to see family.   He snuck in a while ago, but he scared Chalhinral to Egander a Elivol and woke up my wife, so he's not welcome anymore at the store! I don't know why he's trying so hard. We're still friends, still brothers. He has nothing to prove, or really worth saying, as far as my wife tells me. It's Keldars, as I wrote, and the snow is just as bad as it ever is. Even in our new home, I have to admit, I feel a little Trapped In! But its all fine.
I'm with family.

So I am okay and alive."
 
Fibelben of Egander a Elivol, aged 24
  This passage is from an adult that knows how to do a proper entry, but purposely makes several mistakes that catch notice. Fibelben was suffering domestic abuse from his wife and her cult-like followers, and was only allowed to seek help through coded entries in his logbook which she didn't check.

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