The Tusks of Wusterim
The Tusks of Wusterim is a short story by Evan Dahm that was published in May 2010. The story is set in Wusterim's early history and shows, in four parts, the construction and fate of the Border-Tusks, which were built by the Old Empire of Wusterim, Taragi.
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Structure
The story is split into four sections, which are each four pages. While no definite timeline is established, each jump between sections is a progression in time throughout the lifetime of the Taragi Border-Tusks. The first three parts are definitely in the Green Age, since western Taragi fell in the early or middle Green Age. Also, since the events must occur within the lifetime of Viceroy Gurati, they cannot be too temporally distant.
While it is not clear, the fourth part may occur in either the Green or Blue Age. Taragi fell completely by the end of the Green Age, so it is plausible that the last part occurs either contemporaneously with Taragi's fall, or some time afterwards. Since there are no external references, though, any date for the last part is speculative.
Translations
In December 2010, remo.d, a Koala Wallop forum member, posted that he had completed a Lojban translation of The Tusks of Wusterim Isle, entitled "lo jirnyde'i be la .usterim.".<ref>http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=rice_boy_comics</ref> This translation followed the same forum member's earlier translation of The Tethered Isle. The translated comics are listed on http://lojban.org, on the page of "Lojbanic Texts".<ref>http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Texts%20In%20Lojban</ref>
A few images from The Tusks of Wusterim were posted to Dahm's Twitter and Tumblr accounts before the full comic was made available.
- Closeup of Rodúz on p1:
- Pencils of p11-12 shown on the desk
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