We're authors

Marrishland has a long and violent history. Several civilizations have risen and fallen, here, and the book tells about events during one of the most turbulant periods - a period whose events determine whether a civilization survives or dies.

More than just authors

OTHER PROJECTS

HANGOUTS

COMICS

Fulemon (ca. 1950 - 2050 I.D.)

The Fulemon were mystics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries who claimed that they could draw knowledge from the great Kalkoraen library in Domus Palus, even though it had been known for centuries that Mar could not use Kalkoraen devices. The Fulemon, however, claimed that by meditating and fasting near the library's huge relays, they would occasionally hear the words of books contained within them. They would then share their flashes of insight with other Fulemon and with anyone else who would listen to them. These flashes were, of course, untranslated, though some Fulemon claimed also to be able to translate even Medien words that were unknown to Mar scholars.

While some Fulemon were knowledgeable enough of Medien to convince even a few skeptics of the veracity of these claims, as the number of Fulemon grew, so did the number of uneducated mystics who associated themselves with the movement. These Fulemon recited tomes of nonsense words and claimed them as Medien. In most cases, these flashes of insight into the contents of the library relays had nothing in common with the spelling, pronunciation, syntax, or other known rules of Medien. Eventually, the novelty of the Fulemon wore off, and the movement itself disappeared, with the exception of a few insistent madmen who continue to spew nonsense into the middle of the 21st century.

While the terms have since become obsolete, for a number of centuries, "fulemon" endured in the Mar language in various capacities. Scholars referred to the "fulemon fallacy" to describe any argument that used clever wordplay in an effort to appear logical or that cited puns or other linguistic coincidences as evidence in support of the argument. In Domus Palus, to "fulem" was to feign knowledge of a subject by using (often incorrectly) the vocabulary unique to that subject as much as possible. Outside of Domus Palus, a "ful" was a person who spoke much but said very little.

(Contributed by Weard Oda Kalidus)