Hermetic understanding of the fork

[The_Fixer]

@ezzelino

A sidenote: the argument was not that Hermetic magic could translate the glyphs, but that it could reconstruct the function of the object bearing the glyphs - e.g. a warning sign, or a tombstone, or a milestone - which would indirectly provide clues about the meaning of the glyphs.

Thanks for the clarification, I remembered badly (probably influenced by the topic's title ^^)

OTOH, your answers were also not as clear, even disregarding that if you've got 2 stones with glyphs, if you can't read the glyphs, there's no way to know wherether it's a warning or an elogy.

To take just 2 quotes:

@ezzelino

So if you see a stone with a glyph inscribed, you can learn the meaning of what's inscribed on the stone, since someone with the appropriate skills could do it just by looking. You are not dealing with thoughts, you are dealing with a warning-stone.

@ezzelino

Exactly, and the InTe guideline on p. 153 provides a simple, explicit operative definition: a property that someone with appropriate skills could determine just by looking. Someone with the appropriate language skills can definitely tell, by looking, that a stone tablet "is engraved with an arabic inscription expressing love". So can Hermetic Magic.

Actually, reading the last one, I fail to see much difference between this and that:

@The_Fixer

that same guideline could be used to translate carvings into an unknown language, on the basis (If I understood correctly) that someone with appropriate skills (knowledge of the language in question) would be able to do that.

=> I am under the impression that things may not be as clear to you and your troupe as you may think
=> You may want to discuss and clarify this with them