Einspeak

Spoken In: Storvhal and its territories (historical); no official speaking community remains

Evolved From: No recorded ancestor; emerged from the arcane-scholarly culture of early

Script: Angular runic glyphs, self-contained forms for carving and casting circles; left-to-right

Type: Fusional, SVO

Common Use: Formerly the language of scholars, priests, and mages; now confined to libraries, ruins, and preserved ritual texts

Note: Direct ancestor of Aerlyish. Suppressed following the Arcane Crisis and the rise of the Eloharian Church. Not extinct.

Einspeak was the working tongue of scholars, priests, and mages in Storvhal. It has no recorded ancestor. It emerged from the arcane-scholarly culture of early, and whatever came before that is not written down. It held the vocabulary of spellwork and sacred rite together in a single register, and it passed that vocabulary down intact until the Arcane Crisis. After the Church rose from the wreckage, Einspeak did not die. It was quietly defunded.

"The Church didn't ban Einspeak. They just stopped teaching it, stopped printing it, stopped funding anyone who used it. Took about two generations. Turns out you don't need to burn a language. You just have to make it inconvenient."

— Archivist Pol Veth, Storvhall University of History

Grammar

Noun Case. Paradigm: rün (rune). Four cases.

Verb Paradigm. Root: kast- (to cast).

Pronouns.

Numbers (0–10).

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