[This is the 7th of my April A-Z Challenge series of posts on Symbols, Glyphs, and Sigils. Each day I'll try to include some material that old-school role-playing gamers will find useful, but I can't guarantee that there won't also just be a few posts filled with weirdness for the sake of weirdness....]
A short post today, in terms of words. But I couldn't let a month of intricate symbols and glyphs go by without seeing the mystical etchings of
Dave Trampier's evil wizard Gremorly, from the long-running
Wormy comic strip in
Dragon Magazine.
Scoff if you must, but a magic circle like the following would flummox John Dee himself:
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The above is just one of several of Tramp's intricately rendered examples of the "visual manifestations" of Gremorly's conjurings. In a different strip, Gremorly's spell-casting speech was transcribed with a script (left panel below) that looks to me much like the Nuskhuri form of the
Georgian alphabet (right panel below):
Yes, my thoughts exactly! :-)
There's also a mild hint of some actual magical "alphabets", like the theban script from Francis Barrett's The Magus (1801.)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I see it... cool. I also wonder if Tramp knew about the Golden Dawn's cipher alphabet.
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Hi...I'm hopping over from the A to Z challenge. Lovely blog...good luck with the challenge!
ReplyDeleteDonna L Martin
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