Argent
Can either one of you, pretty please, tell us if Alethi was inspired by the Elian Script?
Peter Ahlstrom
It was not. The inspiration for the shapes was an EKG readout.
Brandon Sanderson
He might be speaking of the Thaylen script, which looks more like the Elian script than Alethi does.
Argent
Right. I was thinking Alethi glyphpairs, which seem to share some ideas with Thaylen letters.
Brandon Sanderson
The glyphpairs are more Chinese influenced. But Isaac will have to answer on Thaylen.
Isaac Stewart
Late to this conversation (forgot password!) Similarities to any Earth scripts is coincidental.
Argent
I was thinking more conceptually, less visually. Just trying to crack the writing system :)
Isaac Stewart
Thaylen and Alethi are related kinda in the same way Korean hanja and Chinese chars are related.
Peter Ahlstrom
Do you mean hangul? Since hanja and Chinese characters are pretty much the same thing.
Isaac Stewart
I defer to Peter on this one. :) And add a small RAFO, which looks a lot like 'rafo.'