Letters #41 - Saradomin Names the Age

Saradomin Names the Age

The god of wisdom takes back his mailbag and sets the record straight. He names the new age, keeps an old promise about distant lands, and explains why the world has two names. The p adds a note.

Greetings, my faithful followers. My brothers have had their say, and I have tidied up after them, as usual. Here are the questions they could not answer politely.

Wise Saradomin, the books in Varrock still say we live in the Fifth Age. My apprentices say it ended on the night of the wall, and that this is the Sixth. I must teach them something by the next new moon. Who is right?

Sedridor, of the Wizards' Tower

Your apprentices are. The scholars will argue for years, as scholars do, but the people of Misthalin already speak of a Sixth Age, the Age of Two Worlds. They count it from the day Guthix struck the wall.

Reldo has promised to update his books, once he has finished hiding from Zamorak.

Saradomin, you once wrote that the routes to the west, the south and the north would open when the bolder members of the Council won their argument. My charts now show coastlines I have never seen. Did the Council grow bold at last?

Captain Tobias, of Port Sarim

They did not need to. The fusion opened every route in one stroke. The lands of the other world lie beyond the edges of the old map, and they are settling into place one by one, as a house settles after it is built.

I promised new trials and tribulations along with the lands. They will come, I assure you. Keep your charts open and your ink wet.

Why does the world have two names? The priests write Gielinor on their scrolls, and my customers in the market say Q-pea. I sell staffs to both, and I never know which to write on the receipt.

Zaff, of Zaff's staff shop, Varrock

Both are right. Gielinor is the true name, as Guthix spells it. Q-pea is the name the people gave it, from two marks the gods made. Guthix made the q, and I made the p, and the two stand side by side wherever the world is written.

Zamorak wanted to stand out, as always, and made a capital W. He declared that only a mighty W can close a gap between q and p. What the three marks draw together, I will not describe in a letter my followers' children may read.

To the faithful, with respect. I am the p. I stand beside the q, as is proper. I have read the W's letter, and I would like it recorded that capitals are not a sign of strength. Thank you. That is all.

The p, demi-god of Saradomin

Well said. I made the p to be polite, and it is. When something goes well in the market, the people now say "That's fallusius!" I have no idea who started it, but it is a lovely word, and nothing to do with my brother.

Yours in wisdom,

Saradomin

DISCLAIMER: The views of Saradomin do not reflect the views of DoubleU. DoubleU tried to stop him saying anything controversial, but he is a god.