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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carnifex" data-source="post: 1348608" data-attributes="member: 227">Background - The Drakkath, Draconic & Ara LanguagesIn the above update, the wizard mentions the 'Drakkath' language, so to explain for the readers...The Drakkath is both the name of a very large area of wildlands within which several countries are nestled - such nations as Corinthia, Adbar, Killanon, Mirayek, and non-human domains as well - and it is also the name of an ancient language. The 'common' tongue of the area where this campaign is taking place - the north-east of an expansive continent, with knowledge of another large continent to the east over the Azure Sea - is called Ara, though usually just referred to as Common. There are variations and other languages, especially amongst the non-human races, but Ara is certainly the dominant tongue.Drakkath takes the usual place of Draconic in being the language of magic and the arcane. Draconic is used by dragons, Gilamesh cultists and clerics, and some other religions for ecclesiastical texts, but Drakkath is the tongue used for the scribing of scrolls, spellbooks and other sources of lore. The religion of Naskha the Sorcerer-God makes extensive use of both Drakkath and Draconic in writing their holy works - this is actually the cause of something of a schism, because some of Naskha's clerics assert that Drakkath is the truly 'magical' language and should be used for all sacred scribings, while others point to the draconic links that Naskha has and thus state that all His canon should be written in Draconic.The origins of Drakkath are hazy, and is believed to be an ancient language of the area before Ara ever became dominant, possibly before Ara was ever spoken. Certainly, particularly archaic forms of Drakkath are found in some of the ancient ruins and tomb-sites that are scattered across the Drakkath region and the surrounding areas, which are believed to be the work of a truly ancient culture, often identified as the 'Umbrals'. Some find this to have rather worrying implications about the history of this part of the continent, especially since so much is simply myth and legend when a historian attempts to put together an account of the centuries just after the Dawn War. The role that the Umbrals played in the past has yet to be revealed and fully understood, and few people other than scholars and wizards have much interest in finding out anyway.</blockquote>

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