The layered storytelling between the maps, chronology of songs, and the prose from a disembodied figure is so rich, I've flipped between pages over and over, back and forth.
It was easy enough to find the reference to Pliny the Younger's letter to Tacitus:
“But if such desire drives you to know our disasters,
and hear in brief the final trial of Troy,
although my soul shudders to remember and once more shrinks from grief,
I shall begin.”
I'm still breaking my brain trying to translate the first excerpt:
"Akrys anem kerym kunam / Prota valka Valkynarum Kruda kaloquorom ota / Vasavayu kenyt pota"
The text makes reference to husvalk, meaning housegirl, giving one segment a very latin feel if taken as evidence. "Prota valka Valkynarum"... "First woman of womankind"??
I'm dying for more clues as to what it says, and completely thrown by the "Riddle Song" if the author sees this.
In any event, this is awesome. Thanks for making it!
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