Thoughts on the Eredar Alphabet
So I referenced a couple things on Argus (and just Argus, so I don’t know about any draenei scripture elsewhere) to put together an abbreviated version of the Draenei (or Eredar) alphabet. There’s a scroll called “Ancient Eredun Scroll” that gives you a buff and looks like it has draenic letters on it:
A house in the starting area of Krokuun also has sigils etched into its walls that are very similar to the symbols found on the scroll:
Interestingly, it looks like the characters can be flipped any which way. If you look closely enough at the scroll, half of it is mirrored and some other characters have been flipped upside down. This also happens in the house because the characters get mirrored onto the opposing wall. Now, I’m not a linguist, and the use of mirroring could definitely be chalked up to game design efficiency, but it would be cool if in their alphabet, flipping the character in a certain direction made it a completely different letter/have a completely different meaning. Also, because so many of the characters have small components (radicals, if you will) in common, I’d conjecture that you could add or subtract those from other characters and change them that way. Say you add a circle or a line here and there and voila! Different meaning.
I took a quick look at the sigils on Xe’ra’s model and the Warframes, too.
They are Naaru symbols, so I’m hesitant to include them, but the Naaru probably had a sizable influence on early draenei society, since they gave them the original Ata’mal crystal.
