Posted by Bright 4 years ago Report

I reckon the one on the far right is:
"The big one who eats many small ones."

Posted by EmilyNidhoggr 4 years ago Report

Some clues:
-Most drawings are a question from Auðr, with markings on them from Gleym-mer-ey that provide a response (like on the previous page). One or two are Gleym-mer-ey's responses to the drawings directly above them (including the one on the far right).
-A vertical or horizontal line means "or". Arrows and crosses mean what they normally mean.
-As of the first few exchanges depicted, Auðr hasn't yet considered that her conversation partner is an elf.

Posted by Bright 4 years ago Report

Reading from left to right:
I reckon that multiple stickmen means people.

Would cross meet "not" ?
If so the next line would means something like:
"I don't live in house, I live among trees."

"I'm not an animal."

Something glowing?

Tiny person in house with big perosn.


So far at least I reckon that "big people" are humans and "small people" are stickmen.

Posted by EmilyNidhoggr 4 years ago Report

Close!
Three stickmen does mean people in general.
If you remember from the previous page, the first question Auðr asks is (People, only one of whom has a little person in them, or, people, all of whom have a little person in them). This page shows how Gleym-mer-ey responds, with an arrow pointing to the correct one.
Auðr might not have interpreted the answer as literally as it's intended, which leads to her other questions.
You may notice the tree, animal and sun all have smaller versions of themselves inside.

(If you're bored of guessing at any point, you can give up and I'll explain it in PMs).

Posted by Bright 4 years ago Report

Considering that the small person is in the house when the big person is lying down, and outside when they're standing up, it could be read as:
"Afraid to be in the same area when you're awake."


The one over there could be construed as a question of:
"Are you someone who lives in trees OR someone who hunt" (If it is a spear they're holding.)

Posted by EmilyNidhoggr 4 years ago Report

Yes, that's exactly right (the house one).
Auðr asks if the stranger will show themselves when she's asleep, and Gleym-mer-ey more or less replies, "if you're awake you won't see me."


Yes, it is a spear.
It's hard to tell because it got a bit smudged, but the big person is pointing the spear into themselves, towards the little person, who is also holding a spear outwards.
The image above it (with the arrow pointing to it) shows both the big person and the little person inside them sitting down and facing in the same direction, to share a plate of something that has been crossed out, and replaced with an image of a tree/plant.

Posted by Matteo42 4 years ago Report

I'll make use of what I saw you and @Bright talk about, especially those clues you left behind, so feel free to not give access to the free art (if I'm right, that is).

I think this conversation goes as such, starting from left to right.
Obviously, Gleym is trying to tell Audr what they are. Gleym starts by trying to tell her about what the humans are doing, without thinking it might be interpreted differently. She draws the person containing a stick figure, telling her that there's someone talking to her that is somewhat human. Audr thinks this is a human telling her there's elves nearby (idk, I'm basically just guessing at this point), so draws the six people to ask if there's many of them, hence why only one is filled at the top, and the three are filled at the bottom.
Audr thinks this is someone telling her about the lifestyle of the elves, so asks if they're nocturnal, if they're wild animals, or if they're also living in the trees.
She also asks if they're hunters or hunted, hence the crouching person and the one holding what looks like a weapon.

The houses are drawn by Gleym, and basically say that they don't trust the humans (approaching at night, away during the day)

The last images on the right I'm not too certain. You said it's Gleym answering what Audr is asking, but I'm not sure what that could be. It's probably got something to do with humans eating elves. What's most confusing to me is the 2nd to right drawing. Both are crossed off, and the people have something between their legs, but it's indistinguishable. One has a stickman, the other not.

The very last one is Gleym saying that humans eat too many elves, that I'm pretty sure of.

Oh well, that's my theory. Got anything right?

Posted by EmilyNidhoggr 4 years ago Report

Ooh, yeah, a couple of things right.
I'm just going to tell you I think. You and Bright both get a request. I honestly wasn't expecting people to put so much thought in just for me to draw them something.

Yes, it definitely starts with Gleym trying to tell her about what the humans are doing, and very deliberately using the same shape Auðr doodled, saying "we are the same".
"Elves nearby" is a good guess for Auðr's response.
If Auðr were an adult, she probably would assume she was talking to another human who had found her secret spot and was communicating about elves.
Actually she understands the meaning correctly, she just doesn't connect it to elves, because she doesn't think of them as people (yet), and she doesn't imagine anyone could be clever enough to find her spot.
Instead, she takes the idea of a person within a person at face value, and assumes she's talking to her soul.
All of her questions are her trying to figure out the nature of the soul:
"Does everyone have a person in them, or just me?" ("Everyone does"; alternatively, "you are all eating us").
"Are you a friend (do we eat together) or an enemy?" (Gleym replies to that one with "friend, but can we eat plants please?")
"Do trees, animals, the sun have a little tree, animal and sun in them?" (Gleym realises at this point Auðr doesn't understand she's an elf.)
"Will you visit me when I'm asleep?"
"When I die, will you leave my body, or die with me?"
"When I give birth, will you leave with the baby, or stay inside me?"
(To this one, Gleym replies with "no and no," and draws an image of how elves actually leave her body).

It's implied their correspondence goes on and on from there, evolving from pictograms to runes, but that's far too complicated for me to try and depict, so that's as far as I got.
Anyway, let me know what you want for your request.

Posted by Bright 4 years ago Report

I thought it was a fun thought exercise in deciphring a picture language.

I'll try to think of something fun to draw.

Posted by Matteo42 4 years ago Report

Damn, I hadn't thought about the soul XD
The images of giving birth and such were confusing, so that does explain it pretty well.

Honestly, I did it for the fun of it. Haven't really thought of anything to request.
I'll go looking for something, and if I find it anytime soon I'll PM you about it, okay?