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Myr T

3 ~ Myr T Myr Tariniel is an awkward name in my head, and translating it alongside Denna's Mirinitel mangling is on a par with Imre Amary. It is difficult. It's got too many bits going on, too many syllables, too many edges, too many parts. Too many possibilities and not enough clues.  I prefer to abbreviate anyways for ease of typing. The city itself might well bear it own 3 part name. But Myr Tariniel clearly means something specific, obviously, we just don't know what.  It could very well be a direct translation of the Shining city, which isn't a bad guess b ut my jot is going on the answer being  White Tower. We don't really need to map out Myr T, Skarpi does that for us, but we can perhaps use any info gleaned make a bigger picture as we try to map the Empire of Ergen into a more visual format. 'Sit and listen for I will speak of the shining city as it once was, years and miles away...' That is an odd introduction. An announcement that almost sounds lik...
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roadworks span

 As above… So below. BOOK π When I wrote these next pages back in 2020 I had reached a point in my tinfoil where I could nearly count up to eight. 8 Cities, 8 Chandrian, 8 Angels and 8 Amyr… there might even be 8 Sithe, too, but they are not important here…yet. But if we are going to uncover the true shape of the world then we are going to need somewhere to stand. So it's finally time to go to The University. The Archives is one of the cornerstones of civilization which in another world (ours) would be regarded as one of the seven wonders, a dominant feat of engineering to dwarf all others. Sod Tinuë, all modern roads should lead to the Archives and so I think we had better start to begin drawing a few of my strings back together again for tangling together before knotting off at the present day. This is probably going to get a bit messy since I will, in part, be working backwards again, but this is also a real time deconstruction being built right now as I prepare to map the insid...
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Blue span

1 ~ Blue So what might be so special about this blue blood that I speculated upon in Primordial Soup then? Selitos is our main blue blooded example but his power was held to be in his ‘magical’ ability to look into the hearts of men and read them like heavy lettered books, and he was not alone… ‘In those days there were many who could do such things but Selitos was the most powerful namer of anyone alive in that age.’ I suggest then that this blue blood of the namers is in some way fundamentally different to the red blood of those without any such naming powers. Perhaps it has something to do with a Namer changing their own name? Elodin tells us that the original namers walked the streets like tiny goods and were obviosly far superior to their servants, the common folk and other serving men like foot soldiers. But could anybody become a namer or is this skill inherent only to certain bloodlines? and more importantly, can this power that blue bloods may possess be passed on biologically...
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