Jul 28, 2017 5:23 am
Ancient Written Languages
Several of the modern forms of writing have a more distant, more obscure but still corresponding version that has been found in writing on old stone tablets, animal skins, and papyrus fragments. Nadrialian, Archalasian, Zutaran, and Otessite all have older "ancient" versions of the written language that can be deciphered by experienced modern readers, but with varied level of difficulty depending on the time period during which they were written.
The Alijanian font is a newer development of writing, so there are no known "ancient Alijanian" writings.
In addition to the ancient versions of the modern written languages, there are other, extremely rare written languages and symbol systems that have been discovered that do not correspond to any language in current use, neither spoken nor written. Two of such ancient written languages are Paroach and Uisde. They are languages only known by sages and historians of civilized lands. Even to those of the highest education, little is known about the lost empires of Paroan and Uisdea, other than that they were both apparently based on the Andra Peninsula of north-central Faolan.
Stories of the people of these ancient eras are more like legends. A handful of scholars have begun to piece together theories based on the fragments of their ancient writings that can be found and translated. It is likely that these ancient cultures knew something about the powers of sorcery and the arcane. The stories of the great and the terrible Paroach and Uisde sorcerers who bent the world to their will through the fearsome use of powerful magics are retold in many different cultures. Many of the writings used by modern day students of the occult arts (Ritual Magic) are written from old fragments of Paroach and Uisde animal-skin parchments and stone tablets.
These though are matters only considered by rare sages. The vast majority of people likely have no idea that Uisde and Paroach civilization ever existed, and many do not believe stories about them and their mighty deeds to be anything more than imaginative bedtime stories, myths continuously exaggerated to entertain or frighten children.
Several of the modern forms of writing have a more distant, more obscure but still corresponding version that has been found in writing on old stone tablets, animal skins, and papyrus fragments. Nadrialian, Archalasian, Zutaran, and Otessite all have older "ancient" versions of the written language that can be deciphered by experienced modern readers, but with varied level of difficulty depending on the time period during which they were written.
The Alijanian font is a newer development of writing, so there are no known "ancient Alijanian" writings.
In addition to the ancient versions of the modern written languages, there are other, extremely rare written languages and symbol systems that have been discovered that do not correspond to any language in current use, neither spoken nor written. Two of such ancient written languages are Paroach and Uisde. They are languages only known by sages and historians of civilized lands. Even to those of the highest education, little is known about the lost empires of Paroan and Uisdea, other than that they were both apparently based on the Andra Peninsula of north-central Faolan.
Stories of the people of these ancient eras are more like legends. A handful of scholars have begun to piece together theories based on the fragments of their ancient writings that can be found and translated. It is likely that these ancient cultures knew something about the powers of sorcery and the arcane. The stories of the great and the terrible Paroach and Uisde sorcerers who bent the world to their will through the fearsome use of powerful magics are retold in many different cultures. Many of the writings used by modern day students of the occult arts (Ritual Magic) are written from old fragments of Paroach and Uisde animal-skin parchments and stone tablets.
These though are matters only considered by rare sages. The vast majority of people likely have no idea that Uisde and Paroach civilization ever existed, and many do not believe stories about them and their mighty deeds to be anything more than imaginative bedtime stories, myths continuously exaggerated to entertain or frighten children.