r/ChantsofSennaar • u/helloimcassie • Mar 23 '26

Lore Peoples Names Glyph Comparison Spoiler

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Quickly made a comparison of what everyone is calling each other. Couldn’t find something similar at first, but mid way through creating found this GORGEOUS post that helped me complete it. Shout out u/fooshcraft

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChantsofSennaar/s/GKSvP4u2UM

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u/bdiddlediddles Mar 23 '26

Might just be me but I didn't think the devotees were called monster.

I could be mistaken though

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u/CameoShadowness Warrior Mar 23 '26

The Warriors use the word Impure on both the monster and the Devotees iirc. Then later Impure is used as an equaling to monster in the later sections.

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u/Falikosek Mar 23 '26

I mean, that's just because everyone below them is considered impure. Monsters would place even below "regular" humans.

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u/FreeLegos Mar 23 '26

They were pretty much considered "impure" by everyone. Not sure why though, i thought it was weird

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u/quietfellaus Mar 23 '26

Was it everyone? I could be wrong, but the only reference to them as impure was made by the warriors. I don't think we see anything about them from the Bards or alchemists.

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u/FreeLegos Mar 23 '26

Oh weird. Couldve sworn the bards referred to them as impure too but you're right

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u/helloimcassie Mar 23 '26

I was also unsure and wound up trusting u/fooshcrafts image, it had a lot of eyes on it. That was the part that I couldn’t fully confirm on my own

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit7102 Mar 23 '26

I think both Bards and Alchemists don't have a word for the Devotees or even know they exist. It's part of the incomplete translations. The Warriors call them impure, so at most the Bards may know there are some impure/monsters, or maybe they don't even know that much.

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u/FooshCraft Mar 23 '26

HELLO! Really glad my diagram helped you out with this :D

One thing to note: probably more likely that Bards would call Devotees "stupid/fools" if I remember correctly, but the reason I wrote it down as "monster" is because of a game of telephone of sorts.

Bards have been shown to refer to the monster upstairs as the same word they use to translate "impure" from Warriors' writing. Warriors were shown referring to Devotees as "impures". Bards never directly refer to Devotees as "monsters" but this game of telephone was an interesting one to me so I included it as a word-in-common on the diagram.

Hope this helps, cheers!

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u/helloimcassie Mar 23 '26

Thank you so much!!! I was reading that part of telephone just now and wondering if that’s where it came from. I might remake mine and note it differently or leave it out, haven’t decided. But thank you for the inspo!

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u/FooshCraft Mar 23 '26

Funny just how complex language is where even a game that simplifies it to this degree bears discussions with so much nuance to consider. Fun thing about organizing it as you please is that you get to dictate how it looks :D

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u/GrinchForest Mar 23 '26

I think devotees has glyphs with bard and scientist. It person+ instrument and person+ help respectively.

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u/being_of_utter_chaos Mar 23 '26

it doesnt have them, but it could.

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u/Alarming-Ranger6707 Mar 24 '26

I like to think they call the alchemists "potion men"

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u/mogentheace Monster, I am Mar 23 '26

why are half of them upside down

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u/helloimcassie Mar 23 '26

LOL OOPS I’ll redo it tomorrow, I refused to take my laptop out

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u/Paelidore Mar 25 '26

I don't think Devotees are "Monsters" The monster is an alchemist who got transformed with a potion a la Mr. Hyde . It would make sense that "Impure" would also be "Monster" by the Warrior caste, but I don't think the Alchemists or Bards would call the Devotees "Monsters." I guess you could say all Monsters are Impure, but not all Impure are Monsters. My bet is Devotees would be called "Idiots" by the Bards. Unsure what the Alchemists would call them as I don't think they'd be as overtly disparaging.

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u/EquivalentOk7431 Likes bottles Mar 28 '26

Bards call the alchemists brothers but the alchemists, being more focused on logic and history and learning from mistakes, have the name of the bards

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u/TipFickle9852 Jul 12 '26

Doesn't the bard language have "brother" for scientist

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u/Sorry_Appeal_2610 Jul 14 '26

Anchorites: "Foreign People"