A Competition | Vihai'sae Valleian

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Vihai’sae Valleian

Whispering Waters

Caras Siol, Caurost

Date

6th of The Grand Harvest | Year 280

 

Publisher

Isilmelire ‘Aduiladyr’ Acal’Turrii

“To be a good king is to command the hearts and minds of your people. 

This is to say, to be a good king is for them to believe in you with both their emotion and their faculty of reason.”

• Malin, King of Elves, Year Unknown

The Vihai’sae Valleian Library requests that the denizens of Caras Siol put their quill to parchment. Write of our ways, and nourish your minds. Two competitions will be held for the most scholarly of our kin: one for those who can write in their mother tongue, and the other, a creative show of their cultural understanding.

Description

For both, the topics will consist of our culture and history as a mali society. Feel free to stray from the most recent history of Caurost itself, write of our ancestors. Of the King, Malin, the silver maiden Larihei, or any other that holds an integral part of our history within their palm. 

 

If one would like to focus only on recent history, one may refer to the many illuminating missives shared previously.

1. [Culture Guide] - The Caurósian
2. Beliefs
3. Territories of Caurost

 

That which is written needn’t be limited to mere history. You may craft tales of high repute to elucidate the culture of our people for the younger minds, or engage in debate through your word to encourage deeper thinking. 

Competitions

For the first of the two competitions, the submissions must be written in the tongue of their kin, and they will be passed through a chosen council for judgment. As the mother tongue is quite an arduous task to write with at length, the winners will be given a variety of gifts. Those who partake may write as they please, poetry, stories, or philosophy.

 

These resources are included to aid scholars in their task,

1. Recovering the Ancient Tongue of the Elves
2. Elven Translations 
3. Elven | Wiki
4. Elven Sentences

The Winners will receive these rewards. For the gift of books, all winners receive ten from the library's storage.

1. First Place: 
   1. Title of elPuerithn
   2. 150 mina
   3. Books
2. Second place
   1.  100 mina
   2. Books
3. Third place
   1. 50 Mina
   2. Books

 

The second competition will allow for a more willful interpretation of the aforementioned topics, as competitors will not be required to write in the elven tongue; they will have greater free rein. They may write stories, poetry, engage in a debate on philosophy through their writing or compile the history of elves as they’ve seen it.

 

The Winners will receive these rewards, 

4. First Place: 
   1. Title of elParsaern
   2. 150 mina
5. Second place
   1.  100 mina
6. Third place
   1. 50 Mina

Kae san’ito saner | Tell me a story

 

A final word to those who participate: know that your words will be a blessing to our library and the people. It is with your creative spark that we seek to provide a place for our young to grow. Their minds nourished and their wits sharpened. 

Deadline

Those who wish to participate must do so by April 25th; feel free to confer with peers and historians about what it is you wish to write. Those who turn in late will have until May 1st. By May 2nd, at 6 PM EST the victors will be announced.

 

Following this, anyone who submits writing that can be debated may attend a gathering of like minds, wherein their work will be displayed. Depending on how these competitions turn out, this date will be decided soon after.

 

If you wish to participate, pen a response to this missive and place your submissions

 

OOC Note:

Please feel free to write these as missives (posts) - especially for anyone interested in debate, and as books, anyone who provides books will have them displayed in the library.

Signature,

 

 

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For those who are going to participate, forgot to include this, bird Yanaylf of Kian or reply to the post

[Maeth 53]

The Initiates greaves clatter across the stone leading to the board that she checks daily. Covered beneath several missives her eyes lock to one, making out the words 'COMP'. She pulls it forward with eyes excited, widening at the submission due date.

"I must start immediately, Light guide my hand. To share what I have learned of the walls I covet dearly is plenty payment for me." 

[Nickyp0o 37]

Thaelyra Valmyr studied intensely for this, though she was nervous to send in her submission. With a fleeting determination, she birds Yanaylf her short story. 

 

"Ame’ito Llum"

 

Eyha ame’ito kae narne, llum ito taeleh
Ker ito enet, karin ito perith
Kae andria ito uhier, ut sirame ne divu

Valah laureh ito kae oment.
akaln ayal ito lae, liewyn ito sulii
Lae san ayla, lae mal’leh nor
kae perith, acal ne ayla

Lae eyr akaleh, lae vull kae’taeleh
Res taelu ito lae, lie ito san
Ullral ito taliyu, ata ito tayna

Kae eteh sul ito kae’leh
Asul ehya sulirrin tae kae
Ame ehya ceru, sirame ehya evar

Ullral eth
Akal divu
Sul var tae ame

Eyha kae narne’ento, maelu tayna
Lye ito ame