The languages of arsharin, both worldly and cosmic. These languages are learned upon character creation and when putting a skill rank into Linguistics.
Abaic
Spoken By: Profane and unholy entities
An unholy language, representing the most profane and profound evils in the cosmos, those that speak this cannot be reasoned with, and must not be listened to.
Abyssal
Spoken By: Demons and anarchist underworlders
The language of demons, burning hate and unholy rites. Those who dwell in the abyss of the underworld will always come to know this language and know it well. An important language for occultists as many demons will refuse to use a mortal language at all.
Architan
Spoken By: Archit imperialists
An old and seldom used language, belonging to an ancient empire that the archits once belonged to. As most archit nowadays reside within brigandine lands, this language should be considered long dead, however, multiple pockets of archits who believet he empire to still exist have been found along the underground roads, pillaging and ransacking caravans and trade routes for an emperor long gone. As such, this language still sees modern use.
Axy
Spoken By: Axytes, Entities who enforce order
Monotonous, empty, intentful is the language of the axytes, axy is language in pure, purposeful and orderly form, devoid of any deviation or slang. Most of the time, this language is used for transaction or stating the laws of the cosmos. Otherwise, axytes have very little need to talk at all as long as things follow the rules.
Brigandine
Spoken By: People under the final brigandine pact
One of the three primary languages of the final brigandine pact, otherwise known as Na'Brigandine, or Null Brigandine. Named as it ultimately has no notable features nor intended demographic but ultimately used by those living above ground in the wake of being the easiest to use and most applicable for people whose original language was lost in the dark war. This has caused it to spread far and wide and is the most easily recognized language in most of malbaar, though it's usage plummets outside of brigandine kingdoms alongside its sibling languages.
Cromero
Spoken By: Avian peoples and other winged creatures
A language descending from the avian people of eveless who helped widespread adoption of the language overtime due to being primarily travelers and tradespeople by combining terms and slang from other languages created by avian peoples and certain winged beasts. While not all encompassing, it is still a wildly applicable language only few corvinachi might not know. The original avian languages themselves have origins in the tengu of ko shusshochi and the enenra.
Da'brigandine
Spoken By: Underground-dwelling people under the final brigandine pact
A composite language that is a combination of miwarna, dwarven, some of the vocal pieces of heraklesian, and other languages originally of more isolated underground people. This language helps bridge the gap of all those underground to speak to one another and communicate properly of threats that they may have found below.
Da'zhelen
Spoken By: Shadow-based creatures
A language of pure darkness, in which to speak it siphons light from the world around it and is difficult to hear and comprehend. It is said to be akin to quiet wailing and blaring groans.
Dergerian
Spoken By: Dergerians
The proud language of dergeria and the dergerian people. A language with subtle growls and inflections often meant to help push a forceful and powrful image of dergeria, their leonine vocal cords easily adding gutteral tones to their speech. As dergeria never joined the brigandine during the dark war and ultimately chose to defend themselves alone, their culture and by extension their language, has survived and remained strong. Though, so has their isolationist views.
Draconic
Spoken By: Dragons
The language of dragons passed down to them by the dragonfather. All dragons bear an inherent understanding and capacity to speak the powerful, gutteral ritual language. Learning the language is a common and useful activity for alchemists and arcane scholars a like. However, do not expect it to remove a dragon's desire to use that around them as they see fit, language is not an all encompassing branch of peace for creatures beyond mortal ken.
Dwarven
Spoken By: Dwarves
A commonly learned and used language that has survived the test of time thanks to dwarven stubbornness and versatility. When in doubt, you can always hope to find a dwarven citadel to make commerce with wherever you go.
Fel Keimite
Spoken By: Malevolent keimites
A more distorted version of keimite, spoken by those who represent the entropy and hate of nature, these malevolent keimite use a more gutteral and malicious language filled with fell energies.
Gi'brigandine
Spoken By: Giantkin such as Trolls, Northerners, Minotaurus, Centaurs, and Ogres
Gi'brigandine is a somewhat difficult language to grasp, made and meant to peoples of far larger size, made for their larger lungs and muscles and created from mixing older languages that have origins form giants such as the original centaur and ogre languages, which have seen complete integration into gi'brigandine. Primarily being deep bellows and throated noises, the language is meant to help bridge brigandine communication for races who'd have difficult making the noises of da'brigandine or na'brigandine. While anyone can ultimately learn either, one or the other will often be an endeavour for the inexperienced.
Glaciat
Spoken By: Ice-based creatures
The elemental language of ice, your breath turns cold when you speak it, the world around understands it to be harsh and sharp to the tongue. A relatively quick language, more determined by intonation and pitch then a wide variety of sounds.
Gnoll
Spoken By: Gnolls
Goblin
Spoken By: Goblins, Hobgoblins, Redcaps
Heraklesian
Spoken By: Heraklesians
A quiet language that incorporates body language and the clicking heraklesians use. The usage of body language means while heraklesians are well conversed with, very few learn the language due to difficult or uncertainty in mimicking it properly.
Jiljagossan
Spoken By: Elves
The ancient language of the world tree, the treeguard elves spread the language to other elves in ancient time though some chose to abandon it while other used it purely as a scholarly or religious language till it resurfacedi n the face of the brigandine pact being formed, once again becoming the primary language all elves spoke, not just the treeguard.
Keimite
Spoken By: Keimites, certain plant-based creatures
The language of elvikeim, spoken by those who dwell in the land of endless lush natures and impossible turns. Despite this, this language is nearly a puzzle, meant more to be rhythm and prose to match the desire for the keimites to be difficult to parse but also provide meaning in learning to understand them and their intent.
Li'zhelen
Spoken By: Light-based creatures
Bright blaring light escapes the mouths of those who speak this language, spoken in two forms. The first is used to speak between two entities who understand the sound of light, a long droning ringing, the second is a visual based code to speak towards creatures who cannot hear light, allowing them to communicate with mortals.
Merinaw
Spoken By: Reptilian peoples
A language initially developed by the merinawans of the stone desert and spread as they lost their original homeland and moved across the world and grew. Overtime other reptilian people grew to understand and use the language as a means of kinship over the loss and empathy for the merinawans. It is said that before the dark war, the stone desert use to be a thriving swamp.
Orcish
Spoken By: Orcs
Netheish
Spoken By: Inhuman or otherworldly creatures
Cosmically, this language is an anomaly spoken by anomalies, an inherent understanding of this language is held by all who dwell in unknown places and exist in otherworldly states.
Northerner
Spoken By: Northerners, Gjornberians, Far-northern peoples
The most common and only widespread language of gjornbern and those who dwell in the northern reaches, though both a soft language it is also an archaic, purposeful language in which most flowery prose would be reserved for rituals or stories.
Pashardu
Spoken By: Aquatic peoples
A language devised over time as a means to properly communicate both below and above water by primarily aquatic dwelling races. The specific sounds used travel through water better and farther, allowing increased ease of communication for aquatic dwelling people while still allowing it to be used to speak and interact with those who live on land. Though civilization underneath the water is still ultimately smaller in size. Moments of strive such as the dark war has caused this language to be taken up by a sensible size of sailing folks as well due to the help they received from those dwelling in the water.
Pyran
Spoken By: Fire-based creatures
The elemental language of flame, roaring fire, simmering embers, or the sizzling heat of the desert. This language is spoken by fire elementals and those who dwell in fire a like. Though unlike the real thing, this language is not harmful to speak.
Quaren
Spoken By: Earth-based creatures
Grinding stone and falling rocks are the main voice of this language, the elemental language of the earth walked upon. While sensible when spoken by elementals and creatures related to the stone and earth. Like most elemental languages, magic is required to properly speak it in return.
Stormoran
Spoken By: Electricity-based creatures
Powerful and booming, the elemental language of lightning, the voice of thunder. Spoken by those who represent and connect with the storm, it is spoken in whispers to mortals so as to not deafen them, for to speak it normally would be heard for miles if the elementals spoke it normally. Though, mortals lack the ability to speak it at such volumes, and always seem to be whispering when speaking to a lightning elemental or those connected to the storm.
Tarabaaran
Spoken By: Devils and orderly underworlders
The devils' language, of the dark rusted halls of tarabaar. Similar to axy in it's to the point and authoritative usage of words, tarabaaran is however a more colourful language, with a large multitude of synonyms to use to imply harm to those with hate and evilness in their heart, but also synonyms for hope of redemption and to one day see erebaar once again.
Thalassan
Spoken By: Water-based creatures
The sound of running water, bubbling rapids, rapid flash steaming, The elemental language of water. Spoken primarily by water elementals and other creatures heavily tied to the water, this language is the sound of water itself, with intonations determined by the size of the wave you mimic, a whisper could be the subtle, slow dripping of water down a stalactite, yelling might be the splashing of a tsunami. A difficult language to catch the nuance of, like all elemental languages.
Throne
Spoken By: Celestials
The language of the celestial realms, spoken by all who dwell within it or come from it.
Tytolcadan
Spoken By: Tytolcads
A language adapted from the original licastrian language, tytolcads had to learn how to adapt and adjust the language to be more easily understood and translated by other creatures during their time being taken in after the fall. The tytolcadan language is far gone from the licastrian language and for the better, though a reasonable amount of loan words have been taken it, it is a wonder why so many loan words were necessary over the ancestral language's words.
Ventin
Spoken By: Air-based creatures
The elemental language of wind, tornados, blowing gusts, and winding gales. Ventin is the speech of air elementals and beings closely associated with the wind that travels about the sky. Often used by the pragmatic as a means to speak allowed during windy days with those around them none the wiser.
Regional Languages
Many regions of malbaar have their own language formed from time and that survived the darkest of times to still be maintained and commonly used in those regions to this day. Often these languages are used by all who live within the region with few exceptions that will often be noted.
Freidelei
Spoken By: Freidelan
Hussalian
Spoken By: Hussalians
An accented language belonging to the kingdom of knights, this flowery language is widespread and commonly is spoken over brigandine in hussalia, though most who know one would know both in many cases.
Ko Shusshochan
Spoken By: Ko Shusshochans
The official language of ko shusshochi, an independant country that does not belong to the brigandine, as such, within ko shusshochi, this language replaces brigandine for heritages that would start with brigandine.
Racdar
Spoken By: Achdans
Reveldan
Spoken By: Reveldans
Revelian
Spoken By: Revelians
A language that does not often leave its original homeland, revely is somewhat archaic due to its inhabitants habits of completely salting the civilization and culture they are a part of and its language mirrors this.
Sarmatan
Spoken By: Sarmatans
First used by the lionel who originate from sarmata, over time, it spread as the primary language of the region as sarmata rebuilt itself over the years after catastrophe, becoming a language of pious scholars and decorated fighters.
Secret Languages
These languages are unknown to many and impossible to learn without help from someone who already knows how to speak it, however, most practitioners of the language would be unwilling to teach it due to their own vows or beliefs. These languages are purely passed down within the inner circles of the groups who know them with the promise they will never be taught to outsiders.
Druidic
Spoken By: Druid circles
A language used to allow the practice of druidic rituals and to commune with nature without the need to cast magics. The teachings of this language is closely guarded as each word itself holds power and the druidic circles who know of it worry of its misuse constantly even among their own. To those who do not know it, it is a deep and throated language that can shake nearby objects if used by a larger creature, the language is less of a conversation and more of a song that draws the attention of all plants and animals.
Runic
Spoken By: Runesmiths
While not specifically spoken, the language of modern runes is more a written language. A language of intent and with difficulty to use it to form a proper sentence, runes are more used to empower the world around it in place of magics.
Primal Rune
Spoken By: The Primal Cosmos
The language of the original cosmic chaos, where word speaks into being and changes the world around them. To speak this language in modern times is a sin that can harm the world around it and destroy its user. To learn it however, is nigh impossible besides by the most determined and maddened, and those who do, do not survive for long.
Tar
Spoken By: Darkdwellers
The language of the dark tar, gurgling anger and stolen words from languages long lost from other worlds as mouths not their own speak in unison.
Dead Languages
These languages are no longer used by any culture or people due to time, distance, or catastrophe. As such, while they can be learned, they do not need to be learned in order to study texts or artefacts with such writing on them, and require a more advanced teacher who specializes in the ancient text. These languages can also be studied and deciphered via a Knowledge (History) check,. and require a skill rank in Knowledge (History) for every dead language you wish to learn in addition to the skill rank in Linguistics. Particularly ancient creatures may still use these languages in some cases, such as ancient undead.
Hussal
An old language of the woad elves who resided in south hussal in the forests before disappearing during the dark war. While the oriignal users mostly disappearec with what few remaining joining others within the lands. This language still ended up being the original basis of current hussalian language.
Licastrian
The ancient language of the lost licastria. Falling out of use by their descendants due to being nigh unintelligible to others. The strange noises produced sound like odd, unnatural rapid notes on a piano or organ.
Miwarna
Formerly used by dark elves before the standardization of da'brigandine. As their former tongue, the words can be somewhat understood still but lacks the accomadations made to be more useful to other people dwelling underground and uses an older alphabet. Most written forms of miwarna has been lost due to tar incursions from long ago staining the pages, resulting in the language being effectively abandoned.
