>According to Kos -- "The best-known example of Minarian Memory Removal
>occurred at the end of the Second Age when the dragons betrayed the humans
>of the EWF. In this circumstance the process seems to have been that the
>ability to speak or think draconic was completely lost."
As stated in the rules, no person may speak Auld Wyrmish beyond 25% because it includes "visual, auditory, olfactory and empathic components" and "humans are not naturally empathic" (RQ3 rules p23-p24). From this, people could once speak Auld Wyrmish above this level but the knowledge is now lost.
>I assumed that the ability to write draconic was lost with the ability
>to think draconic...
It does not seem so.
"Dragonewts do not write, but during the Empire of the Wyrm's Friends a written form of Auld Wyrmish was devised by clever humans. Many Second Age documents were written in this tongue and it is still popular among pedants" Glorantha Book p35
The popularity among pedants indicates that the written language is still learnable and there's numerous scrolls written in Auld Wyrmish scattered throughout the scenarios. I assume that the empathic etc. components are denoted by a sign just like the aural components are. This prevents understanding of the magical meanings behind the Old EWF texts but works just fine for written communications.
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