> Perhaps the "Orlanthi are illiterate" thing is relatively new
> for *Orlanthi*, too? I mean--Orlanthi had an advanced,
> imperial civilization not too long ago (the EWF). That didn't
> work out. Perhaps Orlanthi decided that literacy was one of
> the bad things of the EWF, and consciously suppressed it?
> They could convince themselves easily enough that good Orlanthi had
> *never* been literate, except for Lankhor Mhy, who's a
> stranger, anyway. (And who clearly isn't all *that* literate,
> since he never spells his name the same way twice...)
Interesting idea. And it (or something like it) happens again in the future, from the hints about something called the Illiteracy era in KoS.
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