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Old Realm

Old realm. The language of magic. The tongue of the gods. The signs of the first age of man.

by Zantiago Arkaham (Exalted | Resources)

A symbolic system that wizards need to know in order to summon a demon, but also the one most scavengers had learn from the warnings on the walls of ruins. Those who don't know it guess it too complex to think there was a day when everyone spoke it, and those who do still wonder how it is that any mortal can learn how to talk with a spirit.

The truth is that Old Realm is as complex and impressive as the skill of those who write it. The books written in the second age by mortal savants have a clumsy and poor Old Realm, while the ones written by the solar exalted in the first age are rich in meaning and as beautiful as art pieces. Learning it is not so hard; mastering it takes discipline, skill and inspiration. Here are the first lessons every savant must take to speak the tongue of the gods.

http://www.nocturnis.net/downloads/pdf/eln-old-realm-lessons.pdf

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