Nebulonic literature

Nebulonic literature is the literature of the Nebulones or the literature written in the Nebulonic language. It often overlaps with, but is not to be confused with, Nebulonian literature, the literature of the region of Nebulonia.

The Pre-Literate Period
Scholars of Nebulonic literature refer to the period before the Nebulonic alphabet was created as the "Pre-Literate Period," although there are some specimens of Nebulonic writing done in the Chelyran alphabet or in languages aside from Nebulonic. For this reason, other terms are often preferred, such as simply "Early". Mainly oral, the contents and characteristics of this period's literature are attested through the works of writers of other cultures, the fragments mentioned above, and the works of Nebulonic authorities within the period after the Pre-Literate Period.

The earliest reference we have to literature among the Nebulones (or, rather, the Siqui, as they were known before the Nebulone Migrations) is in the Internal Oddities by the scholar Sogmyn of Gorphonas, writing around 800 BM (eight hundred years before the Migration of the Nebulones). He attests that "the Siqui are not literate like we are, but their stories are all told by word of mouth. They tell of the doings of the pictures in the stars or the deeds of kings in days gone by. Their poetry is musical, rolling off the tongue. Their style is very effusive and emotional, perhaps even outrageous." Other early writers give a similar picture.

The earliest written specimen of the Nebulonic language is two lines of poetry in the Chelyran script, clearly an early attestation of an early form of the legend of King Eveico.