Re: Re: on Darktongue

From: Mikko Rintasaari <mikrin_at_...>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:50:06 +0200 (EET)


On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Andrew Barton wrote:

> Troll Darkscan presumably uses sounds outside the human range of hearing.
> IMG I've assumed this means that Troll hearing covers a far wider range of
> hearing than human, and therefore when Trolls speak Darktongue to one
> another at least some of what they say is inaudible to humans.

Me too.

> Troll hunters may be able to communicate entirely in such ranges. Trolls
> speaking to humans may be able to speak entirely in ranges a human can
> hear, but they'd have to learn what those were - perhaps there's a pidgin
> form.

Infrasounds carry really, really far.

> IMG there are sorcery spells Infrahearing and Ultrahearing, and a special
> kind of tuning fork (quite hard to make, so rare) which warns you when a
> Troll is using Darkscan in your direction.

Hey! That's really clever. One can build that onto a helmet. That's parhaps something for the brithini warriors (I forget the name of the warrior caste).

        -Adept

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