Tuesday 19 September 2017

A Piratical Song

Yarr!  It be that time o' tha year again, when pirates be on tha prowl.  Here be a piratical song fer a freebootin' fellow ta be singin' as he be terrorisin' tha landlubbers!


Wednesday 13 September 2017

Precis ab 'Arcano': Ter'el, the Elven God of Wisdom

Starting up a new series of Latin translations, wherein I'll be translating all of the "God Prayers" from Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.  Mostly, it's an excuse to practise my Latin grammar - those prayers can be rather... difficult, at times.

Anyway, here's Ter'el's prayer in English and Latin:

Offer to him
Who cannot see
Nor hear
Your soul, made of trees.

Li'tani he seeks
To touch, to burn
For his eyes are dark
And his ears are blunt
And wasted.

Wisdom comes
To the bringer of gifts
And eyes that see far
From he
Who sees nothing.

Anima, arboreus
Ad caecus
Et surdus
Offer.

Litani quaesit
Contingere, incendere
Quia oculi opaci
Et aures obtusae
Reiculaeque.

Ad portatus doni
Sapientia venit
Et oculi longituens
Ab se
Nullituens.