Lunar Glyph

Lunar Glyph is a unique form of writing that takes the form of sometimes expansive glyphs and charts showing the flow of events from one context to another in a visual, rather than striptural, format. Scribed primarily by full-blooded Lunars, Lunar Glyph historical documents are notable because they form the basis of many advanced treatises related to astronomy, divination, and alchemy that would be instantly recognizable to scholars of these topics in High Hedgemont.

Geographical Distribution

Examples of Lunar Glyph documentation are uncommon on New Generica and are prized for their rarity and utility. They are believed to be much more common in Lunalimina, however, as the city is effectively a giant library and temple to the goddess Myraluna.

Morphology

The Lunaric language is deeply concerned with actions and processes rather than objects to the extent that all of its nouns actually stem from verb roots. Lunar Glyph as a written language is no different from Lunaric in this respect, as it uses series of arcs, circles, and angles to encode the transitions that stars, planets, elements, and even the threads of time undergo to reach an expected result. Lunars, consumate scholars and intellectuals as they are, invest great care into how they create Lunar Glyphs as a matter of of personal pride. A given Lunar Glyph explaining how to navigate to a certain place on Generica, for example, might have little to no recognizable script but be so precise as to be time-independent short of completely unexpected changes to topography; everything, from tectonic shifts to the axial tilt of the planet itself, would be accounted for in agonizing detail.
The lines of a genuine Lunar Glyph are often illuminated in gold or imbued with illusion magic to enhance their aesthetic appeal, so long as these embellishments do not obscure the important information the Glyph contains. The earliest copies of these examples on Generica were executed in great detail with ink on vellum, but more loosely scrawled copies are found in mages' grimoires all over the known world, the quality and accuracy degrading with each iteration unless a given mage is experienced enough to personally make corrections. Indeed, the meme of a mage having a 'spell book' in New Generica comes from the uninitiated seeing young mages running around with study books crammed with fourth- or fifth-hand Glyph facsimiles.