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Here's some Propaganda for the Inexplicably Evil Empire of 1st Edition DnD Kobolds. It reframes the (already problematic) trapping of Kobold-God Kurtulmak in an endless maze, thanks to the hand of Gnome-God Garl Glimmergold.
Kurtulmak is traditionally depicted -- in Human textbooks anyway -- as a God of Killing Gnomes, whose main personality trait is that he kills gnomes. A bloody cartoon of a character. The only reason to create a god like that is if you desire an enemy.
Maybe Garl just trapped Mr. 'mak down there because he didn't want to talk about "accidentally" dropping a mountain on the largest Kobold empire of the millenium. Maybe he, too, desired an enemy.
You may assume what you like.
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Transliteration: OShA MERO ZO {GARL} TE IYASHA KE {KURTULMAK}; OTEShA YIVITA AKE GE-LA KAMEN GAL SUJAL; MIJO AKE ZO; ODO; KIShU AKE VARAKAM.
Translation (updated): Because Garl didn't want to deal with Kurtulmak, he(Garl) threw him(Kurtulmak) into The Place That Is Behind. He(Kurtulmak) did not like this, and he now seeks an exit.
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Did I mention I have, like, only 3 colors I like?
Kurtulmak is traditionally depicted -- in Human textbooks anyway -- as a God of Killing Gnomes, whose main personality trait is that he kills gnomes. A bloody cartoon of a character. The only reason to create a god like that is if you desire an enemy.
Maybe Garl just trapped Mr. 'mak down there because he didn't want to talk about "accidentally" dropping a mountain on the largest Kobold empire of the millenium. Maybe he, too, desired an enemy.
You may assume what you like.
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Transliteration: OShA MERO ZO {GARL} TE IYASHA KE {KURTULMAK}; OTEShA YIVITA AKE GE-LA KAMEN GAL SUJAL; MIJO AKE ZO; ODO; KIShU AKE VARAKAM.
Translation (updated): Because Garl didn't want to deal with Kurtulmak, he(Garl) threw him(Kurtulmak) into The Place That Is Behind. He(Kurtulmak) did not like this, and he now seeks an exit.
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Did I mention I have, like, only 3 colors I like?
Category Artwork (Digital) / Portraits
Species Kobold
Size 900 x 1200px
File Size 43.6 kB
Quite pretty. And the colours are definitely your ones.
Did you miss the "KE" out of the image? It's in the transliteration but not in the image.
How do the pronouns work? Do they unambiguously distinguish Garl and Kurtulmak? I can tell "AKE" is one of the "he"s. It looks like "ZO" could be a pronoun too, but it's hard to tell with so little text.
Are "OShA" and "OTEShA" a pair that make the "because [...], [...]" structure?
Did you miss the "KE" out of the image? It's in the transliteration but not in the image.
How do the pronouns work? Do they unambiguously distinguish Garl and Kurtulmak? I can tell "AKE" is one of the "he"s. It looks like "ZO" could be a pronoun too, but it's hard to tell with so little text.
Are "OShA" and "OTEShA" a pair that make the "because [...], [...]" structure?
Thanks for the comment, and for continuing to spot my grammar / spelling mistakes. I'll update the transliteration shortly.
OShA and OTEShA are indeed a "because of this, that happened" pair! ZO means "not", and I should have put it before the verb it modifies. But didn't.
KE and AKE take the role of pronouns here. Sort-of.
KE indicates that an object (in this case, Kurtulmak) is the direct object of a verb, and AKE refers back to the direct object of the previous phrase.
The KE wasn't strictly needed after IYASHA, but it helps with the following AKEs. Which is an excuse I came up with just now to explain why I forgot to add it to the image.
As for the subject, The open verb MERO established Garl as its subject. The verbs IYASHA and YIVITA are closed, third-person form, meaning you can assume they have the same subject as MERO.
OShA and OTEShA are indeed a "because of this, that happened" pair! ZO means "not", and I should have put it before the verb it modifies. But didn't.
KE and AKE take the role of pronouns here. Sort-of.
KE indicates that an object (in this case, Kurtulmak) is the direct object of a verb, and AKE refers back to the direct object of the previous phrase.
The KE wasn't strictly needed after IYASHA, but it helps with the following AKEs. Which is an excuse I came up with just now to explain why I forgot to add it to the image.
As for the subject, The open verb MERO established Garl as its subject. The verbs IYASHA and YIVITA are closed, third-person form, meaning you can assume they have the same subject as MERO.
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