> Mikko wrote:
>
> > 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.
Uh, there I went and spoke (well wrote) without thinking again...
Actually I _do_ remember the mongols even keeping written records.
It's wasn't easy to be the most effiscient and disciplined army in their
time...
-Adept