Author's Note

Common to all inscriptions found in the Nightmare Ruins site, and not shown in this translation, is a shared opening formula. Short and found at the beginning of each fragment, its meaning remains unclear, the presence of one uncertain. It may be a simple decorative addition, or a sort of formal notation. It may be a signature, though that is believed unlikely. Attempts to translate it by comparison with known symbols largely place the meaning as something like a term of endearment, to whom or what it is not known.

Waves-Hooked Heart

Heaven-witnessed-the-sea.

Fire-followed.

Fire-and-Heaven-witnessed-the-sea.

Heaven-declared.

Fire's-heart-grew-cold.

Heaven-coveted-the-land-beyond-the-sea.

Heaven-sang-of-leaving-the-skyland.

Heaven-sang-of-passing-the-sea.

Fire-listened.

Fire,-alone,-witnessed-the-sea.

Fire-turned-to-its-enemy's-domain's-birth.

Fire-came-to-Heaven's-halls,-in-unlight.

Heaven-sang-of-the-sea-to-greater-likesoul.

Cosmos-blessed.

Fire-over-Earth's-domain-much-beat.

Fire-came-to-its-halls.

Fire-its-enemy-fed-in-growth-beyond-birth.

Fire-Wind's-domain-dared-in-song.

Fire-heavy-on-unheavy-its-domain-unstood.

Fire's-heart-shook-cold.