Knimwellit Symbology Language in The Cradle of Worlds | World Anvil

Knimwellit Symbology

The Knimwellit Symbology is an alphabet in a way. It has more in common with ideographic languages than a traditional alphabet. Several languages use the symbology as their primary writing method. Specifically the languages of the druids, primordial texts and the forest language of Sai'Uwm.   The Symbology is not entirely consistent or canonized, in fact there are many subsets and conflicting sets of glyphs. There are glyph sets for alchemical processes, astral navigation, biological functions, astronomical phenomena and timekeeping among others. Due to its large scope and highly specialized glyph sets it is one of the harder things to learn, especially as a complete understanding would require knowledge in multiple sciences, philosophies and have the words in a language to describe each glyph.   The symbology is found often in libraries, on menhirs, or even carved into the landscape. Because of this many people might be able to recognize one or two glyphs as their meaning in the landscape has been passed down through local legend. They are often also used as tattoos, though the bearers are found too often not know what is on their bodies. Others use the designs repeated in local fiber works, or in architecture even if the meaning is lost. Druids in particular are fond of natural puzzles with it, where some parts of glyphs only appear under certain conditions or only certain angles.   A common decorative stitching pattern of the Tarlinjin people is actually the word chicken, though druids often just grin and ignore it as if it were a private joke. The Fae will often give false or skewed translations as a longstanding tradition to those who convince them to translate it, and specifically use variants of glyphs with dualistic and even opposite meanings in the same glyph.


Cover image: by Markus Dehning (vertixico)

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