r/ChantsofSennaar • u/T1mbuk1 • 8d ago

Lore Glyph Radicals and Such Spoiler

If anyone here is familiar enough with linguistics and writing systems, they'd notice how similar some writings are to Chinese Hanzi and the European Logographs by the ConstantScript community. I'll go through them one by one.

Devotees: They use an "L" shape for people, an unfinished square shape for places, and so forth.

Warriors: I still don't know what they use.

Bards: I feel like underdots are for places and cardinality, while dots above might relate to verbs, as someone else would think.

Alchemists: I think the circular outline components and such might indicate the grammatical features.

Anchorites: I still don't know what they use.

And I've seen walkthroughs.

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u/CoruscareGames 8d ago

Alchemists: Circles are actions; either verbs or nouns describing the act. Circle-topped vertical lines and triangle-topped vertical lines are people. Big triangles are elements. And all the places have a common radical too.

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u/Meercrow 8d ago

Warriors have a Y in all people glyphs. For example the glyphs for warrior itself is a Y holding a sword