#it hinges on my knowledge of 1. ta'agra (non existant) and 2. early persian poetry (surface level at best)
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do u ever have a fic idea and ur like. oh god I am not well-versed enough in any of this to execute this even remotely well
#yans stuff#to be clear I am a professional bullshitter and might do it anyways#but man.#it hinges on my knowledge of 1. ta'agra (non existant) and 2. early persian poetry (surface level at best)#bc I always thought that would be a place to draw inspiration from if I was to attempt some sort of ta'agra poetry#bc it's really beautiful and I think the themes of religion and love would translate well to the setting#and then it was brought to my attention that there's a fan made ta'agra poetry book in morrowind that's presented as a translation#to cyrodiilic and the intro was like. I swear verbatim the thing u see in real world 1800s orientalist translations of persian poetry#and I went OH PERFECT#(no shade to the author of that btw it does perfectly encapsulate the frustration of reading these older translations of texts and#it was likely deliberately done to emulate that)#but yeah poetry is hard. making up poetry in a fictional language EVEN HARDER#alas. I will go to great lengths for old man yaoi
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