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You're not alone. Many have hypothesized this is just made up gibberish given the unusual distribution of glyphs. Not a recent hoax/scam, but an ancient one.
by riffraff 1y ago
You're not alone. Many have hypothesized this is just made up gibberish given the unusual distribution of glyphs.
Not a recent hoax/scam, but an ancient one.
It's not like there weren't a ton of fake documents in the middle age and renaissance, from the donation of Constantine to Preserve John's letter.
- philistine 1y agoThe way you describe it is why it’s not readily accepted. It’s misunderstood. You called it a hoax/scam and a fake. It’s not! Whoever made the document was sincere in making up something that doesn’t exist. They had no intention to mislead. You wouldn’t call a D&D campaign a hoax because it features nonexistent things?
- riffraff 1y agoSo you're saying it's a prop or a rulebook? (an old xkcd comic mentioned this). I doubt it's a rulebook cause it's not a real language. If it's a prop, it would be extremely expensive. Just to get the parchment you'd have to slaughter a herd of ovines, then you'd have to process it, then you'd have to pay a skilled professional or more for months of work to draw and write. So I think the profit motive is more likely, and given we know of a ton of scams like this from this period, it seems the most plausible. But I'll be happy to be proven wrong if someone finds more info in the future.