role: public
type: book
location: "Khasim's Crown"
foundry:
    base: Item:loot
    embed: true
    data:
        img: "icons/sundries/books/book-notes-ragged-green.webp"

Description

A traveling scholar's notebook, leather-bound and desert-worn, its pages crowded with transliteration tables and cramped marginalia. One spread lies open to a passage the linguist has managed to render.

The inscription

Transliteration

shudi mora keth yazir ranu loth vela noka shen

Word by word

• shudi "opens" · mora "the veil" · keth "the deep"
• yazir "aid" · ranu "the wanderer" · loth "the dark"
• vela "the dawn" · noka "remembers" · shen "the name"

Translation

"The veil opens on the deep. Aid the wanderer in the dark. The dawn remembers the name."