In Memoriam: Tai'lahr
OpenUru.org, along with the rest of the Mystonline community, is mourning the loss of Tai'lahr on October 16th, 2019.
Rest in Peace, friend.
Difference between revisions of "Guildmaster Telanis"
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"The study of the D’ni language began in the mid 90’s, shortly after the release of Myst and the publication of the first novels treating the history of Atrus and his family. Specifically, the reproduction of Aitrus’ map meD’nE bretalEo (From D’ni to the Surface) included in many copies of the Book of Ti’ana was the first D’ni document to be released to the public. Cyan, Inc. (now Cyanworlds) created a website that provided English translations of the various D’ni texts on the map" - Domahreh (LeMont A. Nalogue), The D'Ni Student on Scribd. <ref>[http://www.scribd.com/doc/162263377/The-D-Ni-Student-By-Domahreh The D'Ni Student on Scribd]</ref> | "The study of the D’ni language began in the mid 90’s, shortly after the release of Myst and the publication of the first novels treating the history of Atrus and his family. Specifically, the reproduction of Aitrus’ map meD’nE bretalEo (From D’ni to the Surface) included in many copies of the Book of Ti’ana was the first D’ni document to be released to the public. Cyan, Inc. (now Cyanworlds) created a website that provided English translations of the various D’ni texts on the map" - Domahreh (LeMont A. Nalogue), The D'Ni Student on Scribd. <ref>[http://www.scribd.com/doc/162263377/The-D-Ni-Student-By-Domahreh The D'Ni Student on Scribd]</ref> | ||
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| + | "The study of the D'ni language began in the mid 1990s, shortly after the release of Myst and the publication of the first novels chronicaling the history of Atrus and his family. Specifically, the reproduction of Aitrus' map meD'nEbretalEo (From D'ni to the Surface) included in many copies of the Book of Ti'ana was the first D'ni document to be released to the public. Cyan, Inc. (now Cyanworlds) created a website (now dead) that provided English translations of the various D'ni texts on the map. A handful of groundbreaking linguists, among them Telanis, Erithan, Sne'vir, and Coronus, worked to decipher the D'ni alphabet and make sense of the translations. Primarily assisted by Richard Watson, a full understanding of the texts was soon reached. Contact with Watson, affectionately dubbed RAWA by the small community of linguists, allowed for an early flowering in D'ni linguistics, as RAWA was (and remains to this day) Cyan's primary D'ni historian and the foremost expert on the D'ni language. | ||
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| + | The linguistic community, in pursuing their studies, organized themselves into a group known as the Circle of D'ni. The group was small in number and carefully tended its knowledge of D'ni; its philosophy held the language as a worthy subject of learning and education, rather than a collection of trivia. To gain access to the privileged information acquired from RAWA, one needed to demonstrate a genuine interest in D'ni. The language that the Circle had worked so hard to discover, to decipher, to cherish, could be easily degraded if an unknowing public mishandled it. | ||
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| + | Just as rumors surrounding Myst's upcoming sequel, Riven, began to circulate in earnest, one of the members of the Circle of D'ni broke from the organization's discretion, and the Circle's wordlist soon appeared on a public website. The repercussions were significant: wordlists took root across the Internet, simple (and often incorrect) D'ni began creeping into the common parlance, and the Circle eventually dissolved. With the memory of an intimate, devoted passion for a common language and a unique relationship with Cyan strong in their minds, most of its members retreated "into the woodwork," pursuing D'ni more privately." - The Birth of D'ni Linguistics <ref>[http://www.florestica.com/hpotd/dni_language/lesson01.html The Hidden Places of D'ni-History of D'ni Linguistics]</ref> | ||
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| + | "With the Circle, we normally communicated via email, as that was all we had back then ( I have a few emails from this period) . Telanis would get information from RAWA, and it would trickle down through Circle members via puzzles or email etc. We had a complete compiled dictionary and grammar book that was very extensive. I still have a copy. One of the female fans of the time brought this all together, and she did a great job on it (I forget her name at the moment). This got passed around to some people." - Erithan <ref>[http://www.dpwr.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2646&pid=16206&mode=threaded&start=#entry16206 DPWR forum thread "community timeline"-Erithan]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 07:13, 19 August 2014
Guildmaster Telanis is a Myst fan website created by Rickard Johansson (Telanis) in November, 1997. It is an IC website which welcomes those who "are interested in the Art, in D'ni, in the great Civilization." The name is taken from a character in the book, "Myst: The Book of Ti'ana" and many of the members use names of characters from the book, but not always the same vocation. For example, in the book, Telanis was a Guild Master in the Guild of Surveyors, but on the website, Johansson plays the role of Telanis as Guild Master in the Guild of Linguists and provides information about the D'ni language.
Rickard Johansson was one of the first Myst fans to recognize that fans might be descendants of D'ni and started the Circle of D'ni, a group dedicated to
Also known as Nahvah Telanis (Master Telanis)
The Guildmaster Telanis hosts the Circle of D'ni and the website is dated November, 1997, but it's unclear when the Circle of D'ni was actually first formed.
The site is still currently available (Guildmaster Telanis), but has also been archived to the Wayback Machine (Guildmaster Telanis).
"Truly the first gathering place for those interested in the D'ni language. Telanis' website was on the cutting edge of web design in the day -- it still contains some great puzzles and other features -- and it was here that the foundations of modern D'ni linguistics were built. The list of the "chosen" is a veritable who's who of the early MREDU community." - D'ni Linguistic Fellowship on the Resources page. [1]
"Erithan - I have always been Erithan in the MRD community, since ye olde days of The Circle of D'ni when I worked with Telanis and the others to uncover the bits of the language that had been released to us and that RAWA would let slip from his grip well before the release of Riven." [2]
"The study of the D’ni language began in the mid 90’s, shortly after the release of Myst and the publication of the first novels treating the history of Atrus and his family. Specifically, the reproduction of Aitrus’ map meD’nE bretalEo (From D’ni to the Surface) included in many copies of the Book of Ti’ana was the first D’ni document to be released to the public. Cyan, Inc. (now Cyanworlds) created a website that provided English translations of the various D’ni texts on the map" - Domahreh (LeMont A. Nalogue), The D'Ni Student on Scribd. [3]
"The study of the D'ni language began in the mid 1990s, shortly after the release of Myst and the publication of the first novels chronicaling the history of Atrus and his family. Specifically, the reproduction of Aitrus' map meD'nEbretalEo (From D'ni to the Surface) included in many copies of the Book of Ti'ana was the first D'ni document to be released to the public. Cyan, Inc. (now Cyanworlds) created a website (now dead) that provided English translations of the various D'ni texts on the map. A handful of groundbreaking linguists, among them Telanis, Erithan, Sne'vir, and Coronus, worked to decipher the D'ni alphabet and make sense of the translations. Primarily assisted by Richard Watson, a full understanding of the texts was soon reached. Contact with Watson, affectionately dubbed RAWA by the small community of linguists, allowed for an early flowering in D'ni linguistics, as RAWA was (and remains to this day) Cyan's primary D'ni historian and the foremost expert on the D'ni language.
The linguistic community, in pursuing their studies, organized themselves into a group known as the Circle of D'ni. The group was small in number and carefully tended its knowledge of D'ni; its philosophy held the language as a worthy subject of learning and education, rather than a collection of trivia. To gain access to the privileged information acquired from RAWA, one needed to demonstrate a genuine interest in D'ni. The language that the Circle had worked so hard to discover, to decipher, to cherish, could be easily degraded if an unknowing public mishandled it.
Just as rumors surrounding Myst's upcoming sequel, Riven, began to circulate in earnest, one of the members of the Circle of D'ni broke from the organization's discretion, and the Circle's wordlist soon appeared on a public website. The repercussions were significant: wordlists took root across the Internet, simple (and often incorrect) D'ni began creeping into the common parlance, and the Circle eventually dissolved. With the memory of an intimate, devoted passion for a common language and a unique relationship with Cyan strong in their minds, most of its members retreated "into the woodwork," pursuing D'ni more privately." - The Birth of D'ni Linguistics [4]
"With the Circle, we normally communicated via email, as that was all we had back then ( I have a few emails from this period) . Telanis would get information from RAWA, and it would trickle down through Circle members via puzzles or email etc. We had a complete compiled dictionary and grammar book that was very extensive. I still have a copy. One of the female fans of the time brought this all together, and she did a great job on it (I forget her name at the moment). This got passed around to some people." - Erithan [5]