Arcane Linguist

Chapter 159 Beyond Linguistics...Calligraphy!
"congratulations!"

"Now that the funds are abundant, the Siris Rune project can be regarded as guaranteed!"

"What's the old saying in the Romance of Siris, that if you steal a chicken, you won't lose a lot of rice?"

"Yes, hahahaha..."

"Those people are so stupid that they just steal chickens and don't lose money!"

In the mage tower, in the residence.

Luxurious big sofas are placed close to the big table in the middle and surrounded by each other.

The mages in the tower settled down in their seats, chatting and discussing with a smile, exchanging recent events.

When everyone learned that the Autodox school's offensive had not taken effect, but instead added assistance to the Celes school's advancement, they couldn't help but burst into joy.

The whole party scene is full of cheerful air.

"Roland, now you are really making a fortune!"

"Remember to support the seniors and sisters!"

"The hair on your legs is thicker than our waist now, are you still missing pendants?"

Many people half-jokingly expressed their willingness to join in the grand event.

"Don't worry everyone, there are a lot of projects that can be done in the magical structure of the Siris characters. I am short of manpower here, and I hope everyone can help me..."

Roland, who initiated the party, said with a smile.

To help the world, he is not capable of doing it yet, but at least within the school, it is still possible to take care of the future of the students in arcane arts.

With so much money, it is impossible to spend it by yourself. This is the wealth of the entire school.

"The most important thing right now is to complete the magical structure of the Jiajin seal first, and then proceed to the follow-up excavation of runes.

A few small projects worth several thousand gold coins need to be completed first, such as the symbol system coding required for "scribing", the compilation of dictionary use cases, and the compilation of general courses in Seres, etc.

In addition, the organization and operation of the joint research meeting needs to be formalized.

I plan to recruit a group of regular members internally as officers. This is an important job to serve the school. If you are interested or have suitable friends to recommend, you can contact me directly. "

Roland arranged everything as the leader of the school.

When everyone listened, they were greatly moved.

These are opportunities!

Not everyone is suitable for arcane research, but if you leave the Mage Tower, you will lose many privileges of the ruling class.

It is a wise choice to transfer to the second line and take on the job of educational affairs or government affairs.

When the school develops and grows in the future, there may even be a chance to rise all boats and control the power of Art Rhine!
If you are good at learning, you will be an official. This is the most reasonable route in this country.

Someone also asked Roland curiously: "What are your plans next? After getting this funding, will you start the research on the Siris rune?"

Roland's answer was somewhat unexpected: "No, my next thesis will be a topic related to calligraphy. I plan to explore the connection between calligraphy and magic."

"calligraphy?"

"What is the connection between calligraphy and magic?"

Everyone was puzzled.

Scudder couldn't help complaining: "Why does this feel more profound than basketball and chicken?"

Roland smiled faintly: "That's because you don't know what calligraphy really means."

His expression at the moment is a bit dazzling, full of arrogance that "it's not aimed at Art Rhine, but everyone here is happy".

Everyone felt unconvinced: "Are you kidding, how could we not know what calligraphy really means?"

"Longwen, Elvenwen also has calligraphy, right?"

"No, no, no, does that deserve to be called calligraphy? It's just some art fonts with no appearance, and it's a gaudy thing supported by the principle of visual design!"

Roland showed disdain and unceremoniously refuted everyone's views.

Because he has read through the texts of various civilizations in this fantasy universe, and found that most of the alphabets are phonetic.

A small number of characters developed from pictographs to symbol systems are mainly similar to cuneiform, dragon claw imprints, etc., lacking the unique structural beauty of Chinese characters, and it is difficult to support an art form such as calligraphy.

Of course, dragon characters and elf characters also have their own unique features, and some magical features are even stronger than Chinese characters.

But in terms of the characteristics of calligraphy art, it is really not at the same level.

As I said, even in this universe, with many planes and worlds, Chinese calligraphy is still a unique art!
Roland said to the crowd: "The development of Seris writing takes the official script as a watershed, opening a new chapter.

Frankly speaking, there will not be much change in the main structure of official script and subsequent glyphs, and all subsequent changes and developments will focus on 'calligraphy'! "

Roland has practiced calligraphy since the Blue Star in his previous life. Since time travel, he has regained calligraphy, and with the control brought by the magic power, he has achieved some success now.

In the form of a brief introduction, he plans to summarize the calligraphy characteristics and artistic value of famous masters of the past dynasties, and set a road map for the development of calligraphy in the world.

Of course, due to the reason of time travel, these can only be launched as the "settings" of "The Romance of Siris".

"So that's the case, that's really worth looking forward to."

Everyone was talking, but it was still a little inexplicable for a while.

They haven't really understood yet.

They all want to go to the artistic font of the alphabet.

……

After the party, Roland processed some mails from Nieves City.

The Seris Language Office under the name of the Educational Affairs Department plans to expand its staffing, and the positions in charge of the promotion and popularization of Seris language education and participation in course review need to be filled by members of the school.

According to the practice of Arterine, the Seris School can recommend some people to go in as experts to provide arcane support.

Right now, there are not many mid-level and high-level mages officially joining the school, but Bu Nuo and Pimiller are both lecturer-level and should be eligible for nomination.

Roland plans to communicate with them first, and ask if they are interested in becoming an official for the school.

In addition, there are more funds under the name, and project management is becoming more and more complicated.

This requires the hiring of specialized accountants and even the establishment of a secretarial team for business affairs.

This requires open recruitment. According to Art Rhine's regulations, qualified professionals must be recruited from the local area.

This is not allowed to use a succubus or a private secretary...

Roland summoned Al and outlined his request.

Al responded, "Okay master, I've made a note of it."

"Well, go ahead, I just happened to write the part about calligraphy."

The art of calligraphy comes from the beginning of the birth of characters. When characters developed from pictographic to symbolic, the basic form of traditional Chinese (traditional characters) that has been used to this day was fixed by Han Li. Change is the main body, and various ingenious calligraphy fonts have been derived.

The title of this article written by Roland: "On the Changes of Calligraphy in Sailis Characters and the Art of Calligraphy".

……

Orvisto Mage Tower, in the study.

Roland used the magical quill pen (alchemy prop) that can write for a long time to write rustlingly, and wrote this small paper of a popular science nature with a long-lost hard pen running script.

Strictly speaking, this has nothing to do with linguistics, but as an indispensable essence in the history and culture of Seris, Roland feels that it is very necessary to write an article specifically for this, so that the mages of Arterine can also take good care of it. Feel the unique charm it has.

Different from the sequential development of Jiajin Zhuan, Li, and Cao Kaixing intuitively, after the official script came into being, almost at the same time, other kinds of scripts had sprouted, and it was only after a period of time that they were gradually subdivided and formed. This evolution was completed between the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

The "Lanting Collection Preface", known as the best running script in the world, comes from this era.

Then came the Northern Monuments and Southern Posts during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The Tang Dynasty made great achievements again, pushed the art of calligraphy to a new peak, and endowed it with a strong individual style besides the verve that was emphasized in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

As a result, calligraphy has both "inner beauty" and "external beauty", and each style and artistic conception has its own characteristics.

With the continuous development of later generations, many famous artists have been born, and there are more personalized expressions...

These were summarized in various materials of Blue Star in the previous life, and Roland focused on his own point of view later.

From the point of view of materialism, art is a typical material that determines consciousness, and calligraphy is no exception.

The development of calligraphy is closely related to the background of the times, cultural features, and even geographical conditions, climate and other factors.

For example, cuneiform characters are mostly written on clay tablets, and a few are written on stone, metal or wax tablets. The writing tools are often sharpened reeds or wooden sticks, which tend to form traces that are thick at the left end and thin at the right end, or thick at the upper end and thin at the lower end. , which looks like a nail.

Oracle bone inscriptions in Chinese characters, as the name suggests, are inscribed on tortoise shells or animal bones, and were once made into a traditional Chinese medicine called keel.

As for the stone inscriptions of this fantasy universe, it was discovered more than 1000 years ago by an archaeologist named Uris on Catria Island in the ocean.

The island is named after the great volcano of Catria Island, which is rich in agate stone full of magical energy, which is naturally easy to carve.

The strokes of the text on this brittle material are mostly straight lines, and the arcs are very rare. Even the circle-like ○ is not a perfect arc line, but is expressed by a polygon with or more sides.

The development of Chinese characters, including the writing style of classical Chinese, and the habit of writing are similar to this.

For example, why is the deleted character "刂" next to the knife instead of others?
Why is writing written up and down, from right to left?

There are objective reasons.

And papermaking...

Without relatively cheap paper, how to develop calligraphy?

From this perspective, Roland discussed the reasons for the emergence of various book styles and their influence on later generations.

For example, Xiaozhuan is a highly politicized norm, Hanli reflects the clerical work needs of knife and pen officials, cursive script has the function of rushing to the draft, and "speedy ears", running script is a compromise between recognition and speed, combining cursive script and regular script Features, simplified characters come from folk folk characters...

Their respective writing tools and writing environments jointly determine the expression form of calligraphy art.

However, art is always something higher than reality.

In order to prove this point, Roland also picked up the brush calligraphy that he had practiced for a long time, and wrote a paragraph with the brush instead, and came up with a "picture and truth"!
Calligraphy in the traditional sense, of course, has to be written with a brush. Unfortunately, in modern society, there is less and less room for this traditional tool to be used.

In the world where Alter Rhine is located, alchemy props, magical quill pens (durable type) and ordinary quill pens (consumable type) are prevalent, and "scribing" is often used in daily life, and typewriters have also been invented by the magic school...

These characteristics determine that standard fonts that are easy to read are popular, while cursive fonts that are popular among some elegant people are originated from the elves.

That is the art of calligraphy in the minds of Atlantis people.

In this regard, Roland can only say, come and receive some artistic influence from Siris!

……

After some operations, Roland stretched long and greeted, "Al!"

The succubus companion who had been standing by for a long time came over.

"Correct this manuscript for me."

Then he went to the side and lay down on the rocking chair, drinking tea and resting under the service of Fox Er Niang.

In the next few days, Roland reviewed it again, and made the necessary revisions and polishes to this "On the Changes in the Calligraphy Style of Siris Characters and the Art of Calligraphy", and then submitted it to "Runes".

At this moment, in the rune editorial department, in the office.

Mage Lei was playing with the gold-encrusted quill pen in his hand in boredom, scratching and scratching on the paper from time to time, and wrote lines of beautiful elven cursive characters.

According to legend, this kind of calligraphy originated from thorns and flowers, and it looks like flowers and vines in the mountains and forests as a whole, with a natural vitality in it.

"Oh, Lei, your handwriting is so beautiful, it's like a work of art!"

Next to it, a new female mage colleague passed by with a coffee cup in her hand. She couldn't help but stop and admire it, with a look of admiration on her face, and exclaimed in surprise.

Another male mage felt a little jealous and sneered, "What's the use of writing beautifully?"

"It's really useless, it's just for fun."

Lei smiled lightly, not paying attention.

In modern times, many mages no longer have the habit of writing by hand. They usually snap their fingers while drinking coffee, and the "scribing technique" starts to work, and the quill automatically writes.

In order to write more beautiful and easy-to-read text, mages also developed different weights and styles for "scribing", such as italics, bold, cursive, embossed, and Gothic styles.

It's just that the output result of "scribing" encoded by this magic rune is inevitably dull, just like printing, it's the same.

Lei also had to admit that calligraphy was useless, and it was of no help to magic.

At this moment, the magic circle lit up, and Ta Ling's reminder came.

"Mr Ley, you have a new manuscript pending.

Rune School, Calligraphy Field, Miscellaneous Branches..."

"On the Changes of the Calligraphy Style of Sailis Characters and the Art of Calligraphy"?"

With a bit of curiosity, Lei took out the manuscript from the fax circle, weighed it, and felt that the weight was not heavy, so he opened it and read it with confidence.

As a result, looking at it, his complexion gradually changed.

A sense of enlightenment strikes as if enlightened.

Somewhere, there is a strong inspiration in the revelation.

"Art, this is real art!"

Under the surprised eyes of the female colleague, Lei danced and danced like a madman, jumping up for joy.

"What the hell, why are you so excited?"

The male colleague was taken aback.

Lei didn't bother to care about him. He took out a walnut wand that was more than a foot long from his waist, gesticulating and sketching something in the air.

Because of the magic power concentrated on the wand, the traces of the strokes appeared, stagnated in the air, and took shape.

Colleagues could vaguely recognize that this was Siris' writing, and it was in the style of seal script.

"Lei, what are you doing?"

The people in the rune editorial department were very impressed with this kind of arcane achievement from arcane star Roland, but they didn't understand Lei's intention at the moment, so they couldn't help asking.

"Wait, it seems that something has changed..."

"Leu is experimenting with different calligraphy fonts?"

Everyone continued to watch, and found that the written text had changed into another style during Lei's gestures.

This is the development from the seal script to the official script, and then it was simplified and turned into cursive script.

Immediately afterwards, Kuangcao!
Those who are facing the battle are all marching forward!

Lei drew the runes of the Nine-Character Mantra in one breath, and just made such a gesture with the magic wand. Without reciting the mantra, a magical aura emerged, and the "Liujia Secret Blessing" was displayed.

Roland invented this spell, and condensed two levels of spell results: level 0 with half the effect and level 1 with full effect. At the moment, Lei is using the latter, successfully buffing himself with a gain of +1 for all attributes Effect.

"Ah, this is the trick to casting spells silently!"

"Super magic skills?!"

All the colleagues were dumbfounded.

"It can also be simplified, only need the word 'Pro' as a quotation..."

With the help of inspiration, Lei said a word, and continued to try again.

The spell structure created in this way is not stable, and it is much more difficult to cast.

However, after many attempts, Lei still found the correct way to write this magic buff.

From this, he concluded: "Calligraphy can be introduced into the practice of magic as a 'posture'!
It works perfectly as a mantra replacement! "

The colleagues were deeply shocked, and suddenly realized that Lei was lucky and found a new path that fit his own strengths and talents!

……

"Have you heard that calligraphy is a super magic skill!"

"It can be used as a substitute for spells!"

"Seres rune, naturally has the meaning of calligraphy!"

"Position" is originally the same as speech, and it belongs to the magic component of the application level.

The casting of many spells requires certain "postures".

This thing is traced from the underlying principles, and the essence is to maintain the accuracy of the signifier and make the mana resonance more precise and clear.

The aborigines of primitive tribes would think that they were casting some magic when they saw modern people gesturing on the screen of their mobile phones.

Of course, the operation of magic is not like clicking on the screen of a mobile phone. It must follow certain rules. This is the application of "posture" in the magic components.

Lei's discovery undoubtedly opened the door to a new world for the practice of magic in this world.

But at this time, as the inventor himself, he felt guilty and fell into the entanglement of whether to write a paper on this topic.

Because he doesn't know whether he invented this thing himself, or whether someone else already has the results and is waiting to be published publicly.

It would be too embarrassing if I ran into someone's rightful owner.

"Otherwise, talk to the author?
This article was also written by Mr. Roland without asking. You just tell him your findings and ask him if he has any plans for in-depth research. "

There are still enthusiastic people among the colleagues who gave him an idea.

Lei thinks it makes sense. He is a member of the school of magic, unlike Gallo and others of the Autodox school, who did not hesitate to come up with the phonetic alphabet of Oss in order to seize the achievements of the arcane.

He thought twice, wrote a letter with humble words, and tentatively asked about this matter.

When Roland saw it, he couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

"Calligraphy... posture... super magic skills?"

He didn't even notice it himself!
After all, this kind of thing was directly carried over by him from the original civilization, the Huaxia of Blue Star in his previous life.

He was not as well thought out as outsiders imagined.

"Calligraphy... To be precise, the wild grass in calligraphy is suitable for casting spells in battle. Doesn't that also mean that seal script is suitable for secret seals, signatures, regular script and official script are suitable for stele inscriptions, and running script is suitable for spell scrolls or similar purposes... "

He drew inferences from one instance and came up with more conjectures.

"Go and explore these, these topics are all given to you!
If necessary, I am willing to provide you with a sum of money..."

Roland felt that his time was precious and should be spent on more meaningful things, so he immediately chose to assign this achievement to Lei.

"Really for me?"

In the opposite editorial office, Lei was stunned when he saw the reply.

Mr. Roland, the winner of the Morning Star Award, is so easy to talk to!

This is really worthy of the grandmaster's demeanor!
Others in the editorial department soon learned of this, and they were sincerely amazed by Lei's adventure.

"Thesis means results, and results mean benefits. Not everyone can be so generous and selfless..."

"Lei, you are really lucky!"

"I have admired the name of Mr. Roland for a long time, but I never thought that he is such a good man."

"It seems that you have really picked up a batch of good projects. In the field of calligraphy alone, how many spellcasting skills can be developed and how many teaching and training materials can be provided?"

Roland was acting like an open-minded lion at the moment. He didn't care about a little wild cat sharing a little bit of meat, so he just picked it up and gave it to him!

Lei also suddenly realized that his life opportunity had met.

If you don't hug your thighs at this time, when will you hug your thighs?

Although as a high-level mage who has made some achievements and even edited first-class journals like "Rune", it is a bit shameful to hug a young man's thigh in turn.

But, that is not an ordinary young man, who dares to treat the dignified Morning Star Award winner as an ordinary young man?

"Dear Mr. Roland, I have a heartfelt request..."

"What's the matter, you say?" Roland thought he wanted some support for participating in the research, such as funding or materials, and replied generously.

In the end, Lei said: "I applied to join the organization, please be sure to approve me to become a member of the Siris School!"

(End of this chapter)