Ebb glyphs are used by Ebons and Brain Wasters to communicate and channel Flux to inanimate objects and have been the source of debate among the other races for centuries. A debate that meets with amused head shaking from Ebons and rude gestures from Brain Wasters.
Ebb glyphs are not characters in a complex alphabet or word system as the popular imagination would have it. An individual cannot simply "read" Ebb glyphs like a standard Killian sentence. Nor is it a matter of intuitive logic, like the Shaktarian language system. Ebb glyphs are a graphing of complex mathematical formulae that represent various ideas and concepts and their relational properties with Flux. No two Ebons will produce the same set of glyphs to communicate the same statement, though there is a body of standard glyphs for certain reoccurring concepts. To date, the Intruder Library of Ebonic Philosophy at MENY as cataloged 1,386,912 standard glyphs based on the criteria that three successive generations of Ebons or BrainWasters have used the glyphs. Any knowledgeable Ebon could inform the curators that even the standard glyphs have small variations due to individual interpretation and are not really the same at all. Reading Ebb glyphs requires a certain amount of skill (Formulae ebb skill) and even a master may misinterpret the exact meaning of a set of glyphs. Likewise, anyone not already conversant in Ebb theory would have no chance of interpreting the glyphs. There are cases of spontaneous combustion by humans who attempted to read Ebb glyphs.
Those with sufficient skill and understanding can create Ebb glyphs that collect and channel Flux from the area around them and can affix these glyphs to inanimate objects. By doing so, they can cause certain Ebb effects to occur or prevent certain effects from occurring. Obviously, these individuals are rare and expensive; however, increased demand over the last few decades have caused more of these glyphs to appear in the streets of Mort, usually Uptown and in trendy clubs. The Pit has the premier collection of Ebb glyphs.
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