[canad | voice]

[elfstoned]

[He takes a deep breath, feeling a little foolish.]

Istagir peded edhellen? Heniagir?

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voice

[testsonseashells]

Epic poem you mentioned?

voice

[elfstoned]

No -- well, sort of. The poem was originally in this language, I know that now. But pedin -- sorry, I can speak it. The language itself.

[He's not going to mention that apparently it was used by Elves.]

Re: voice

[testsonseashells]

Fascinating. Don't know what it is? Assume you'd have used its name otherwise.

voice

[elfstoned]

[Awkwardly:]

I don't have a name, exactly.

[Text]

[shiromadoushi]

何だ、その言語。。。

[[Hope your phone or whatever has Japanese support. Else you're getting even more gibberish!]]

[Voice]

[chalicejoker]

I don't think I speak that one, but...

[He'll say some stuff in something that sounds kind of like Japanese chopped up and run through a filter a few times because what is a language budget harsh and clipped.]

Re: voice

[testsonseashells]

But have something, yes? Can't hurt to share.

[handwritten]

[elfstoned]

[Voice]

[elfstoned]

[He fights down the instinctive dislike and the urge to ask what manner of creature used a language like that?]

...what language is that?

[Text]

[shiromadoushi]

Norse runes?

voice

[elfstoned]

...I know it seems ridiculous, but I believe -- no, I'm certain the language was used by Elves.

[His tone says that he is fully aware of how stupid that sounds.]

[handwritten]

[elfstoned]

Cirth. The writing system is called cirth. But they do look like runes, don't they?

Re: voice

[testsonseashells]

[There's silence for a bit, and then-]

Elves? Hm. How different from humans?

[Text until otherwise stated on this end!]

[shiromadoushi]

A lot like them, yeah.

What's this from?

voice

[elfstoned]

[Thank you for not laughing. Aaron's voice takes on a pensive note as he explains.]

...they were immortal. Beautiful to look at. Some of them had magic. When they die, they go to a place called Mandos--or is Mandos the god of death? It's all so unclear. I -- I don't know much about them as a race, but I know some of their history and religion from the poem.

[going back to phonetext now]

[elfstoned]

Wherever everyone else's memories and abilities are coming from. It's very familiar to me.

Re: voice

[testsonseashells]

No, no, misunderstand - idealized humans, yes? Pointed ears? Any other differences? Racial tendencies, hair and eye color concentrations, things like that. Vaguely recall that elves usually found in European cultures. Would probably tend to be caucasian.

Biological immortality interesting, however. Suggests powerful genetic repair mechanisms. Presence of "magic" also worth noting - likely unexplained biological phenomenon, but interesting nonetheless.

[Who cares about culture when there's biology to consider?]

[shiromadoushi]

So instead of weird visions you got weird language instead?

[Voice]

[chalicejoker]

I don't really know...it's not like it came with an instruction manual.

[It's definitely a language used by something monstrous, though Hajime doesn't have any way to know that for certain.]

I could ask you the same thing.

voice

[elfstoned]

Or maybe the characters in the poem are as realistic as Achilles. It is an epic.

[Scratch the magic. All he knows is cultural stuff, man, that's what epic poems are good for.]

I can't speak for the ears, but the physical descriptions are caucasian enough. Light skin, dark or blonde hair, grey eyes...

Re: voice

[testsonseashells]

Can hardly see someone inventing fictional language and culture to write epic poem in. Waste of time - although suppose "elves" could be real, but wrote epic poem to idealize selves. Interesting theory.

[Mordin, you have no idea how wrong you are.]

[elfstoned]

I had the visions too. A flashback the night of the werewolf hunt.

[Voice]

[elfstoned]

[Aaron's definitely getting the sense that it's monstrous, too.]

...it was used by Elves. That's all I know.

[Voice]

[chalicejoker]

Elves?

[There is no hiding the level of disbelief there. None. Not like he has any room to talk.]

At least you've got some idea of where it's from...

[He is thinking the North Pole.]

voice

[elfstoned]

[HA HA HA HA HA

Aaron's beginning to doubt now. He hadn't questioned at first that Elves were real and spoke this language, or that the Lay of Leithian hadn't depicted historical fact, but that line of thinking seems naive and foolish now.]

There's no way to know for sure right now. Perhaps later, if more of these "visions" come to me.