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Other cultures on Earth with similarly strong traditions of complex verbal information transfer (for example, some African cultures, the Maori, various ''seannachi''-trained Scots Gaelic speakers, and so forth) similarly receive wizardly information as something heard, overheard, or "underheard". Such cultures typically refer to Manual functions as "the Knowledge" or by some similar name. | Other cultures on Earth with similarly strong traditions of complex verbal information transfer (for example, some African cultures, the Maori, various ''seannachi''-trained Scots Gaelic speakers, and so forth) similarly receive wizardly information as something heard, overheard, or "underheard". Such cultures typically refer to Manual functions as "the Knowledge" or by some similar name. | ||
| − | Obviously enough, other wizardly species native to Earth routinely don't use books, and receive Manual functions through other modalities. Whale-wizards hear the Sea "speak" or "sing" to them ([[DW]]), usually in their species's own idiom. Feline wizards hear what they refer to as "the Whispering", both spells and occasional commentary being assumed to come directly from [[Hrau'f the Silent]], one of the Feline [[Powers | + | Obviously enough, other wizardly species native to Earth routinely don't use books, and receive Manual functions through other modalities. Whale-wizards hear the Sea "speak" or "sing" to them ([[DW]]), usually in their species's own idiom. Feline wizards hear what they refer to as "the Whispering", both spells and occasional commentary being assumed to come directly from [[Hrau'f | Hrau'f the Silent]], one of the Feline [[Powers That Be]] and daughter of [[Iau | Queen Iau]]. |
== The Manual on Earth: technological implementations == | == The Manual on Earth: technological implementations == | ||
Revision as of 12:27, 15 June 2005
One of many, many names for the basic body of wizardly knowledge made available to all wizards.
(A note to the readership: This Concordance entry will be fairly complex, and is intended to be canonical, so it will more than likely take a couple of weeks from 6/15/05 to complete. Nothing in it should be considered definitive until the "stub" notation disappears. --DianeDuane 07:01, 15 Jun 2005 (EDT))
A brief history
Theories of Manual implementation
Inclusion of information
Authorizations
Contributions, assumptions, and plug-ins
The Manual on Earth: cultural variations
Not everyone on Earth receives their Manual as a book. There are numerous interspecies variations, not to mention cultural variations among humans alone.
In Ireland, for example -- unquestionably one of the earliest widely-literate European societies -- wizards are nonetheless usually "issued" the Manual as discrete pieces of information which then are committed to memory, the way druids and bards handled their own large bodies of data during millennia past. (AWAB) That said, the slightly crazed technological acquisitiveness and adaptation of the Irish makes it entirely likely that some new young wizard is already carrying a Manual implementation in a cellphone, and receiving updates via SMS.
Other cultures on Earth with similarly strong traditions of complex verbal information transfer (for example, some African cultures, the Maori, various seannachi-trained Scots Gaelic speakers, and so forth) similarly receive wizardly information as something heard, overheard, or "underheard". Such cultures typically refer to Manual functions as "the Knowledge" or by some similar name.
Obviously enough, other wizardly species native to Earth routinely don't use books, and receive Manual functions through other modalities. Whale-wizards hear the Sea "speak" or "sing" to them (DW), usually in their species's own idiom. Feline wizards hear what they refer to as "the Whispering", both spells and occasional commentary being assumed to come directly from Hrau'f the Silent, one of the Feline Powers That Be and daughter of Queen Iau.
The Manual on Earth: technological implementations
Other pertinent entries: CATNYP: WizPod.