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arcaneadvisor ([personal profile] arcaneadvisor) wrote in [community profile] faderift 2016-07-29 11:33 pm (UTC)

"I will warn you if I have not already: the elven language, the written form in particular, can be insufferably vague. What few fragments survive can mean many things at once. There is something poetic about it." Poetry has a time and a place, and when attempt to understand specifics, the vagaries of language can leave much to be desired of.

"Tis rare; I have often wondered at the singularities of worship. Your people speak of the Creators and indeed, many stories depict aspects of family in a way; Father and Mother in Elgar'nan and Mythal, lovers in Andruil and Ghilan'nain, twins or twin souls in Dirthamen and Falon'din. Even Sylaise and June would have some overlap between hearth and craft and home depending how one looks. Yet…" She pauses to think since she isn't entirely sure herself where she's going with these words; Ellana is more progressive were she to think in such terms but Morrigan isn't Dalish. She might have studied a great deal, she might have had access to things a clan could barely dream of but she isn't Dalish. What she says might upset Ellana, for all that she certainly doesn't doggedly cling to her ways like some. "Worship seemed to be Temples devoted to one. Separate. I had wondered if bringing them together came after yet if this was used until the fall of the Dales, that would change things. I doubt others would move them there, however. So elves, yes. Though why and for what reason? That I cannot say."

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