|
|
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| − | Dibbed with quotes. --[[User:Jcowan|John Cowan]] 22:56, 17 Jul 2005 (EDT)
| + | Ser '''Ibaan Malmiz''' was probably born in -160 [[EC]] He combined the roles of orthographer, cryptographer, gourmand, thespian, [[occultologist]], religious nut, and Hive-Lord, a combination that is probably unique. |
| | | | |
| − | Although [[core script]] has been using accents unsystematically for some centuries, we owe the systematic account of [[accents]] summarized above to the early work of [[Ibaan Malmiz]], who was one of the most promising scholars of Ghyll before he went "around the river-bend" as the saying is, and began to spout the foolish, dangerous, and pernicious ideas for which he has become so well known.
| + | Malmiz's [[Accents|orthographical]] and palaeographical work with the famous manuscript ''[[Bordingbras his hatt!]]'' led directly to his rediscovery of the [[Clamorxian Decoding Method]] in -119 [[EC]]. The Method was a genuine contribution to scholarship but a commercial and artistic flop. We don't know exactly how all this led Malmiz to his unholy fascination with the [[Looliers]] and their [[Grimporke Grimoire|disgusting cuisine]], but probably it was his well-established inquisitive nature. |
| | | | |
| − | [[Ibaan Malmiz]] (-160 [[EC]] to -99 [[EC]]) Pursuing the question of his [[Hive-Lord]], [[Ibaan Malmiz|Ser Malmiz]] discovered heretofore unknown facts about the [[Looliers]] and their pratices. Being an inquisitive sort, he pursued the study of the only known Loolier writing and rediscovered the [[Clamorxian Decoding Method]]. Using this arcane series of textual transformations, he was able to discern that the Looliers were the inheritors of knowledge deeded to them by an ancient race of Ghyllians that had lived in The City of Spheres, Sayaziha. | + | His inquisitiveness took a turn for the peculiar, to say the least, with the publication of his [[memoir]] recounting his supposed travels and sojourns throughout Ghyll, from the [[Sarfelogian Mountains]] in the north to the little-known [[cactus forests]] of the south. So much could be accepted as mere traveler's tales, a recognized genre of literature. But when Malmiz began to write rants about the "Ancient Ones" who lived in "Sayaziha, the City of Spheres", their gods Mmyogurt and Leemonje'lo, and their slaughter by the Looliers (for none of which is there a shred of evidence), his reputation in the scholarly world began to founder, and he found himself creating the school of [[occultologists]], seemingly merely in order to have colleagues of some sort who would not despise him. |
| | | | |
| − | In [[Ibaan Malmiz|Ser Malmiz]]’ account, the ancients were misunderstood and were destined to always be. Ultimately, they went willingly to the slaughter just like beasts at the hands of the Looliers. This story is echoed in the epic [[Bordingbras his hatt!]] and in the demise of the Looliers themselves.
| + | Malmiz bore the title "Ser" because he was technically a [[Hive-Lord]], but he betrayed the most fundamental rule of Hive-Lord ethics: ''he set himself his own question''. There are various accounts of just what this question was, from "What is the meaning of life?" to "How should we worship the [[Kiluma|Dark Goddess]]?" to "What can we do with sour [[Fefferberry]] juice?" Granted, no other Hive-Lord had ever set him one, but nevertheless, such behavior has been banned from the [[Nitenmangrey|earliest ages]] until the present: no Hive-Lord has ever done it before, and we can be quite confident that none will ever do it again. |
| | | | |
| − | However it was first discovered, the [[Clamorxian Decoding Method]] was rediscovered by [[Ibaan Malmiz]] in -119 [[EC]], exactly 20 years -- to the day -- before his disappearance and presumed death in -99 [[EC]]. [[Ibaan Malmiz|Ser Malmiz]] studied [[Bordingbras his hatt!]], the only known surviving [[Looliers|Loolier]] text, as part of his [[Hive-Lord]] Question, and being absolutely certain that there was some sort of message hidden within, began applying various decoding procedures until some sort of sense came out of them. The strategies he employed became more and more complex until, in desperation, he attempted what would later turn out to be the Clamorxian Decoding Method. The Method is quite complex, and includes a set of spoken incantations and a small dance routine in its processes as well as the letter substitution and rearrangement techniques that are part of most conventional decoding methods, so it is unclear exactly how Malmiz stumbled upon it by chance, but stumble upon it he did. The very first thing he successfully decoded with the Clamorxian Decoding Method was the instructions for the Clamorxian Decoding Method, which left him slightly paranoid in his later years.
| + | In his last years, Malmiz descended into frank paranoia, either because of his consumption of undesirable food, the cognitive loop by which he discovered the Method by discovering the Method, or his abandonment of, if not by, [[Shtreiml]]. Malmiz died in -99 [[EC]] -- or at any rate he was carried off (supposedly by a spirit in the form of a pink [[Aelfant]], though I do not credit this) in that year and is presumed to be dead. |
| | | | |
| − | Upon discovering the Method, [[Ibaan Malmiz|Ser Malmiz]] immediately tried to market it for all its worth. Clamorxian Decoding rings, however, did not sell well at all, and the dance routine that makes up part of the method failed miserably when performed artistically in front of an audience -- almost none of the audience members could sit still long enough. While the Method was not a financial success, it was a great academic success, but [[Ibaan Malmiz|Ser Malmiz]] was unable to successfully patent the Method, and soon moved on to other things.
| + | '''Citations''': [[Clamorxian Decoding Method]], [[memoir]], [[Shtreiml]]. |
| | | | |
| − | The [[Grimporke Grimoire]] takes its name from the bad ham which is believed to have inspired it, said ham having lain about after a great feast and rolled in both spilt [[Ball Lightning Liqueur]] and soured [[Fefferberry]] juice before being ingested by the unctuous author, one [[Ibaan Malmiz]]. [[Ibaan Malmiz|Ser Malmiz]], also known as the Drunken Prophet, was quite infamous in his foolhardy explorations of both occult lore and dubious culinary "delights". In spite of this, the Loony [[Looliers|Loolier]], as he was called due to his fascination with said tribe, made a regular diet of this unholy concoction. It is believed that this odd culinary choice fueled many of his subsequent visions.
| + | --[[User:Jcowan|John Cowan]] 23:00, 20 Jul 2005 (EDT) |
| − | | |
| − | In any case, [[Ibaan Malmiz|Ser Malmiz]] claimed on more than one occasion to have plumbed the secret depths of knowledge of not only the [[Sarfelogian Mountains]] but also the ritual secrets of the ancient [[Looliers]]. He spent a great amount of time recording his various discoveries as a virtual hermit in the [[cactus forests]], far from the mountains for which he is known. It is said that he was shunned by the few natives of that land because he was quite visibly and materially haunted by a rather large shining spirit that took a shape not unlike that of a great, pink [[Aelfants|Aelfant]], though he was often the only one who could see it, without the "aid" of his favorite pork dish. Indeed, shortly after announcing, via postal mail, to a former colleague that he had completed his unholy work, he was seen by a local tribesman being carried off at great speed by that self-same spirit, and he has not been heard from since!
| |
| − | | |
| − | In [[Ibaan Malmiz|Malmiz's]] terrible memoir, he claimed to have seen fabulous Sayaziha, or City of Spheres, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than Ghyllkind. He was rumored to be a member of the [[Brothers of the Lantern]], but, if he was, he was only an indifferent Brother, and was no doubt expelled for worshipping the unknown entities whom he called Mmyogurt and Leemonje'lo.
| |
| − | | |
| − | Traditionally worshiped by the [[Looliers]] in ancient times, the ceremonies of [[Kiluma]]'s appeasement were only rediscovered by the infamous [[Ibaan Malmiz|Ser Malmiz]] as an answer to his [[Hive-Lord]], and have been practiced in modified form by the [[Exingians]] for many years.
| |
| − | | |
| − | [[Ibaan Malmiz]] - The eldest and most terrible of all [[occultologists]].
| |
| − | | |
| − | [[Modern Standard Ghyllian]] has been codified and derived from numerous sources including the languid, liquid language of the [[Looliers]], the obtuse, and somewhat obscure, Olkuull, and the unwieldy, unglamorous Untch. Of course, Olkuull has been almost entirely swallowed by the more popular Modern Standard Ghyllian and is now spoken by just a few rather "intense" hermits who herd semi-domesticated [[graphorn]] who were made quite infamous by [[Ibaan Malmiz]] in his quest to translate the [[Grimporke Grimoire]].
| |
| − | | |
| − | Indeed, [[Ibaan Malmiz]] has claimed that this synchronicity could possibly be exploited for useful purposes. Some [[occultologists]] have therefore begun seeking out [[zodiacal twins]] to experiment upon, in the hope that this will eventually produce an apparatus that one could use to communicate over large distances -- by inflicting a series of gruesome tortures upon the one twin, which could then be detected on the other twin.
| |
Ser Ibaan Malmiz was probably born in -160 EC He combined the roles of orthographer, cryptographer, gourmand, thespian, occultologist, religious nut, and Hive-Lord, a combination that is probably unique.
Malmiz's orthographical and palaeographical work with the famous manuscript Bordingbras his hatt! led directly to his rediscovery of the Clamorxian Decoding Method in -119 EC. The Method was a genuine contribution to scholarship but a commercial and artistic flop. We don't know exactly how all this led Malmiz to his unholy fascination with the Looliers and their disgusting cuisine, but probably it was his well-established inquisitive nature.
His inquisitiveness took a turn for the peculiar, to say the least, with the publication of his memoir recounting his supposed travels and sojourns throughout Ghyll, from the Sarfelogian Mountains in the north to the little-known cactus forests of the south. So much could be accepted as mere traveler's tales, a recognized genre of literature. But when Malmiz began to write rants about the "Ancient Ones" who lived in "Sayaziha, the City of Spheres", their gods Mmyogurt and Leemonje'lo, and their slaughter by the Looliers (for none of which is there a shred of evidence), his reputation in the scholarly world began to founder, and he found himself creating the school of occultologists, seemingly merely in order to have colleagues of some sort who would not despise him.
Malmiz bore the title "Ser" because he was technically a Hive-Lord, but he betrayed the most fundamental rule of Hive-Lord ethics: he set himself his own question. There are various accounts of just what this question was, from "What is the meaning of life?" to "How should we worship the Dark Goddess?" to "What can we do with sour Fefferberry juice?" Granted, no other Hive-Lord had ever set him one, but nevertheless, such behavior has been banned from the earliest ages until the present: no Hive-Lord has ever done it before, and we can be quite confident that none will ever do it again.
In his last years, Malmiz descended into frank paranoia, either because of his consumption of undesirable food, the cognitive loop by which he discovered the Method by discovering the Method, or his abandonment of, if not by, Shtreiml. Malmiz died in -99 EC -- or at any rate he was carried off (supposedly by a spirit in the form of a pink Aelfant, though I do not credit this) in that year and is presumed to be dead.
Citations: Clamorxian Decoding Method, memoir, Shtreiml.
--John Cowan 23:00, 20 Jul 2005 (EDT)
