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The Eomvjrdyrt <s[ {pronounced ‘Winchester Map’}
One of the peculiarities of this item is that people who look at it somehow instinctively know that its name is spelled “Eomvjrdyrt <s[,“ but is pronounced “Winchester Map.” This is a real phenomenon: some researchers back in 1996 did a double-blind study that confirmed that the human brain instinctively knows how to instantly translate the symbols found on the Map into their own language. This would have been worth any number of academic papers, except that… well. It would have been inappropriate.
The Map kind of has this effect on people. As near as anybody can work out, there’s nothing malicious or dangerous about it at all, but the Map is absolutely unnatural all of the same. The Map seems to seamlessly and effortlessly warp reality itself in its presence, apparently for the express purpose of making anybody who is in contact with, or aware of, it remarkably nonchalant about the way the Map rewrites physical reality. People don’t even go insane from their inability to reconcile the paradox! The worst result that anybody’s ever gotten from contemplating the mystery of the Map was a mild stress headache. Continue reading Item Seed: The Eomvjrdyrt