I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure of the exact level of literacy or the general writing practices of our earlier steppe-peoples, and how they might apply to Pent for various peoples' Glorantha.
But if you want a 'literate-lite' Pentan culture, there was a historical nomadic example that used personal symbols and ascribed a fair amount of mystic worth to them. Quite similar to many cultural practices in Glornatha, in some ways!
Sadly, I've not been able to find many good examples of tamgas on the web, so I'll try and sketch and scan in the examples I've got in papers and books. One of which is disturbingly like the symbol the Warhammer posse used for Khorne...
> Uh, there I went and spoke (well wrote) without thinking again...
> Actually I _do_ remember the mongols even keeping written records.
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