> It's neat too. I doubt the Pent nomads have much use for writing,
but
> there's that sorcerous community somewhere in the wastes these...
'Tamga' (or 'tamaga') brandmarks and carvings were quite common amongst the steppe-peoples we might use as Pentan analogues (be they Sarmatian, Alannic, Avari etc. etc.). They're quite interesting runic symbols; often thought to be imbued with mystical power, they were generally used as marks of ownership and proto-heraldic symbols. In our modern world, many Tibetan and Mongolian letters are also used as tamagas.
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