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== Summary ==
A letter and in-depth discussion of [[Alethi]] [[glyphs]].
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The Darkest secret of the Guild is that the phonemes within a glyph can sometimes be deciphered. (Sorry to shatter your theories of dark rites and ancient moon dances) But glyphs aren't pronounced or read. They're memorised, and they
Contrast "zeras" with a glyph in
The glyph's phonemes are apparent as well as the glyph's resemblance to the actual creature.
Even older than "zeras" are the glyphs used in the First Oath of the [[Knights Radiant]]. These resemble more the complex, unreadable glyph representing the orders of knights than they do any middle or modern Alethi glyphs.
I suspect these were borrowed from an
This supports the claim that Alethi glyphs were adopted from older scripts likely descended from [[Dawnchant]] and might explain the two sets of phonemes used in glyph creation: Standard and Calligraphic.
Glyphmakers used both, the phonemes
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* eternal "kalad" storm "zeras"
* [[highstorm]] "kezeras"
* [[Everstorm]] "
* javani
* before: "tebel"
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