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Draconic Script

The draconic language has no early script, as dragons are not great writers, instead encoding information in a form of Dragonsong and relying on an impressive power of recall. The two forms of draconic script are therefore the rather elaborate Ladonian-A of the dragonborn, and the Kobold alphabet, which uses greatly simplified versions of the same characters.   Each of these scripts is extensive, Ladonian-A representing thirty-eight consonants and over a dozen vowels and stops. Most kobolds prefer simpler scripts for everyday use, usually favouring Regime common tongue and either an Elvish or gnomish script. Dragonborn will rarely lower themselves to use another lineage's script, and even use a variant script - Ladonian-B - to represent other languages.   Traditional draconic writing is held on codices, although for civil purposes the book has been adopted. Particularly important texts are not even debased with codices, instead being inscribed in helical bands on sticks, rods and staves. This is also common practice for religious texts and magical inscriptions.   Although primarily phonemic, all draconic scripts include numerous common rebuses which combine letter or symbolic images to designate names, concepts or words, Every dragon's name is written as a rebus, never spelled out using phonemic characters. The form of a draconic name is always created in such a way as to allude to their honorific.

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