Covad Fragment
| Covad Fragment | |
|---|---|
| Language | Dawnchant (theorized to be a transcription) |
| World of Origin | Roshar |
| Universe | Cosmere |
“ I've been translating what I can, but got stuck on the Covad Fragment. If what you’ve been doing here is correct, it might be because Covad isn’t true Dawnchant, but a phonetic transcription of another ancient language… ”
— Urv[1]
The Covad Fragment is an ancient untranslated manuscript on Roshar. It is written in Dawnchant, but may be a transcription of a different language.
After Dalinar and Navani released information about how to translate Dawnchant, many scholars started working on existing texts in earnest. Ellista proposed that some of the more challenging fragments were potentially not Dawnchant, but rather its script being used to phonetically transcribe other languages. Ardent Urv, who studied the Covad, decided that this was an example of such a fragment.[1]