• psmgx@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Huh so the sword that Sevarian uses in Book for the New Sun, which has a flat top, has a basis in reality

  • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Do we have a translation for the engraving? The closest I’m able to get anything out of is Latin(using online translators, and trying the V-for-U swap in places), which is coming out to “And the world is flesh”, which I’m assuming is wrong(I also have no clue what I’m doing).

  • Never Knows@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It anyone is interested in the subject, I recommend checking out The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrington. It’s the biography of a 16th century German executioner with lots of cultural info and details from his own journal.