[Even if Liem doesn’t quite understand Sebastian’s demon mind and how it relates to his mastery of languages, he’s quite willing to accept the self-evident ease with which Sebastian is able to translate one language into another. The book still in his hands is proof enough of that.
Honestly, even the demon’s inability to use his own judgment when translating more creative or metaphorical passages does not concern Liem. It would make him completely unsuitable to translate any of Shelyn’s holy texts, obviously, given that the music and poetry written into the goddess’s scripture was every bit as important as the contents, but the text in the tome under discussion is about as literal as it’s possible for a work to be.
Liem frowns, considering the offer despite his better judgment.]
Well… that would certainly be convenient, but the entire book is written in Taldane. Could you read such a text?
[Sebastian didn’t mention possessing any skills that would allow him to read languages he doesn’t know, and Liem has to imagine that it would take even a demon like him some while to learn a language from a foreign world.
If he could, though… would there be a reason not to trust him with the book’s translation? Liem wouldn’t consider it for The Order of Numbers, but in this case, what was the worst that could happen? Sebastian messes with all the numbers so the book is full of bad information? A quick cross-referencing throughout the book could allow Liem to catch anything so obvious, so surely not…]
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Honestly, even the demon’s inability to use his own judgment when translating more creative or metaphorical passages does not concern Liem. It would make him completely unsuitable to translate any of Shelyn’s holy texts, obviously, given that the music and poetry written into the goddess’s scripture was every bit as important as the contents, but the text in the tome under discussion is about as literal as it’s possible for a work to be.
Liem frowns, considering the offer despite his better judgment.]
Well… that would certainly be convenient, but the entire book is written in Taldane. Could you read such a text?
[Sebastian didn’t mention possessing any skills that would allow him to read languages he doesn’t know, and Liem has to imagine that it would take even a demon like him some while to learn a language from a foreign world.
If he could, though… would there be a reason not to trust him with the book’s translation? Liem wouldn’t consider it for The Order of Numbers, but in this case, what was the worst that could happen? Sebastian messes with all the numbers so the book is full of bad information? A quick cross-referencing throughout the book could allow Liem to catch anything so obvious, so surely not…]