The Seven Wonders: The Colossus of Rhodes

Ah, Rhodes.  Beautiful city, but don't look up as you sail into the harbour - gods have no need of pants, you know.

Beasts of Myth and Fable #2

I rather enjoyed this one, as it's just as much about the inspiration for the beast as it is about the beast itself.

Bellicum Formicarum/Carmen Salicis Lacromosae

What the hey, have some more King's Quest in Latin.  The March of the Ants and the Song of the Weeping Willow, both from King's Quest V: Punning Makes the Player Flee Harder.

What do you mean, that's not the name of the game?

Exploratio pro Corona

The legendary story from King's Quest I, translated into Latin by yours truly.  Really a good game, although the graphics are somewhat outdated by today's standards.

Did I say "somewhat?"  I meant "very."

But it's a great game, and one I heartily recommend.  Anyway, without further ado, here's the legendary story that forms the background to the game.  The English version is up on Sierra Planet here, and the Latin down below:

Beasts of Myth and Fable #1

This is the first of a series of poems which all share two features: One, I will publish the lot as an e-book when the series is complete, with an extra poem, by which time I will hopefully have worked out the logistics of publishing an e-book.

Two, and more importantly, each of these poems is a riddle.  The answer to each riddle can be found in medieval bestiaries: As the title suggests, a mythological creature from either Greco-Roman mythology or medieval legends.  I did consider going for more far-flung creatures, but those two together added up to a round fifty, which seemed like a nice number to stop at.

Besides, it would make Riddle #51 harder if these weren't all of a type.

Anyway, our first riddle is something of a easy one, to get you started.

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!

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.