@TheEdVerse Hi Ed, I hope you're feeling a lot better now?!
I had always wondered if all scripts on Toril are written and read the same (left to right and down) or do some flow in a Japanese or Arabic style?
I wonder this especially for the Drow Script?— 🎲 S͓̽i͓̽m͓̽o͓̽n͓̽ ͓̽T͓̽ 🎲 (@simontubey) October 6, 2019
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…trading (becoming top-down like we’re used to in modern real-world North America). Writings in Kozakura and Wa are still bottom to top, in right-to-left columns. However, drow writings (as seen in the original 2e…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 7, 2019
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…DROW OF THE UNDERDARK, from my pen), are left to right and down. Giant writings from elder times (800s DR and earlier) are right to left, but they, too, shifted to left-to-right as trading contact increased and the Common… 4)
…Tongue took hold. In the times of Netheril and earlier, dragons rarely wrote things down, but when they did (often through servitors such as human worshippers), they wrote from a central…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 7, 2019
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…Tongue took hold. In the times of Netheril and earlier, dragons rarely wrote things down, but when they did (often through servitors such as human worshippers), they wrote from a central…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 7, 2019
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…identifying-the-dragon-who-was-writing rune in a tight, nigh-circular spiral, outwards.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 7, 2019
So this was like the dwarven method, of starting with an identifying emblem (like a banner or rune), and spiraling outward.
Yeah, I remember that article.
— Christopher Mathieu (@LonePaladin) October 7, 2019
The dwarves adopted it from the dragons. Knowing a good thing when they saw it.#Realmslore https://t.co/ILO60Fko2p
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 7, 2019
