As the Thrones tend to heavily censor information, written language is becoming increasingly scarce, with some scripts likely to be unrecognizable, even to native speakers.
Psions and creatures with psionic ability are often able to communicate mentally, even with those they do not share a common language with. This is achieved through shared thoughts, sentiments, and emotions.
List of Languages
- Asuran — A lyrical and poetic language that uses tone, intonation, and meter to convey meaning. For this reason, it’s often used by Entertainers in songs. Its written form is still somewhat common, owing to its use in architecture and propaganda of the city of Wrend. Its script is smooth and embellished, with sweeping lines and swirls.
- Common — spoken across Tarisia and used in most trade or commerce. It is said to have been derived from Eld, but bears only faint similarities now. Its written form is a simple script of angular lines that is recognizable to many, despite widespread illiteracy preventing its full understanding.
- Eld — the tongue of the ancestors. A very formal, archaic, and esoteric sounding language, mostly lost to the world, but useful in tombs or ruins of ancient cities. The script is angular and neat, with clear symbols representing specific sounds. It is said that Taris herself taught Eld to the first Tarisians.
- Fenn — The yips, yeows, guttural sounds, and howls of the Fenn. It has no surviving written form and most Fenn simply write in Common, if at all.
- Kree’ar — The harsh croaks, shrills, and shrieking of the Peri tribes. The written form is common in Astarte Ruk, where it is used heavily in propaganda and architecture. It is composed of artistic pictographic symbols that represent commonly used words and their conjugates combined to form words and sentences.
- Saur’clk’ss — This language is a mix of guttural throat sounds, clicking, and hissing, combined with twitching head and tongue movement. It’s complicated, but possible for non-native speakers to replicate. The written form is exceedingly rare, but features a complex set of logosyllabic glyphs representing words, gestures, or syllables of the language.
- Termanid — The harsh chittering, clicks, and grinding sounds of the Termanid language are paired with pheromones and subtle psionic sentiments. This makes it nearly impossible for other ancestries to replicate without the aid of specially carved implements. Even with such tools, non-native speakers always suffer a –2 penalty.
- T’sho — A subtle set of coded hand signals and body language used for trade and communication amongst the Rakra’tesh, and an even narrower written codex of intricate flourished carved symbols indicating routes, dangers, territory, oases or kinships.