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The Bad Boys of Punctuation

The origin of the Bad Boys of Punctuation has been dated back to the Magic Sword Kings period when Fibrino VIII was believed to have animated the linguistically scrupulous punctuation marks--either wittingly or unwittingly (considering the Low-Elven translator's questionable scholarship, most likely unwittingly)--during his attempts to render the Mondowondomicon into a tongue of his own design. Upon taking up that most daunting undertaking, Fibrino found that the original Ooamp text lacked punctuation marks of any kind. His efforts to properly punctuate the baffling tome, combined, perhaps, with hidden passages of Elemenstation secreted within the text, may have brought the punctuation marks to life!

The singularly-avowed aim of the Bad Boys of Punctuation is to seek out tracts of erroneous grammar and to offer their lingusitic expertise--liberally mingled with thinly-veiled insults--to the author. A few notable examples of the Bad Boys' intervention include their attempt to properly conjugate the inscription on the Dagger of Nrorldrigar, from which Jebbidiah Mebbidiah, the darkdirk's wielder, barely managed to escape, and their likely assistance of Tharan the Collator in his compilation of all extant prophetic tracts in Battal. Still, despite the indispensible aid which they rendered to the world's grammarians, The Bad Boys of Punctuation were ignored, shunned, and even reviled by most people--especially semi-literate farmers offering "cows 4 sale" who often found themselves the unwilling recipients of lengthy lectures on proper syntax.

It may have been the largely hostile reaction to the animate punctuation marks which led to their withdrawal to the Lands of Va. There, it is believed that the Bad Boys of Punctuation impressed their obsessive linguistic scruples upon the dreaded NightLairds.