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|Radiant / of birthplace / the announcer comes / to come announce / the birthplace of Radiants.
 
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Revision as of 13:37, 22 April 2012

A Ketek is a form of holy Vorin poetry which reads the same forward and backward (allowing for changes in verb form), and is also divisible into five sections, each of which also expresses a complete thought.

Examples

Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms— illuminate the silence above.

—A ketek by an illiterate dying HerdazianCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content

Radiant / of birthplace / the announcer comes / to come announce / the birthplace of Radiants.

—A ketek by AllahnCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content

Notes


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