Malverine is a language of Valrindor associated with the lost Malverand Empire. It survives in spoken use and in ancient writing.
Ancient writing
Krexyn translated the writing on an old gate, identifying it as Malverine from the lost empire. Other ancient inscriptions also used the language.
Malverine and Xalmyrran
Early atraxi learned Malverine from humans in Irrathis. Humans later adopted the atraxi's own tongue, which developed into Xalmyrran and replaced Malverine locally. The two languages therefore belong to different traditions, even though Malverine formed part of their early contact.
Malverine is the common language of Valrindor, inherited from the ancient Malverand Empire. It was deliberately constructed to resist language drift and provide an unusually wide vocabulary, then imposed throughout the empire. It survives in spoken use and in ancient inscriptions.
Construction and imperial enforcement
Language drift had caused difficulties in the early Malverand Empire. The inventor Arcanis developed Malverine around a wide range of words, expressions and descriptions, rather than efficiency. The resulting vocabulary was far larger than ordinary speech required. Eremion and his wife also contributed.
Barachiel banned other forms of communication and deployed language enforcers to prevent further drift. The gods were tasked with maintaining the system. Enforcement included burning and destruction where the language drifted, and the relocation of inhabitants within Malverand. Many fled beyond the empire's reach. The common language served political control as well as communication; its survival did not mean that it remained unchanged everywhere.
Survival and regional change
Ancient Malverine remained readable in surviving inscriptions. Krexyn translated the writing on an old gate, identifying it as the language of the lost Malverand Empire.
Malverine also contributed to the circumstances in which Xalmyrran developed. Early atraxi learned the language from humans in Irrathis. Humans later adopted the atraxi's own tongue, which developed into Xalmyrran and replaced Malverine locally.
Xarion learned to speak and read Malverine while working in Varnhallow, though he found its structure cumbersome compared with Xalmyrran.
Malverine is the common language of Valrindor, inherited from the ancient Malverand Empire. It was deliberately constructed to resist language drift and provide an unusually wide vocabulary, then imposed throughout the empire. Its surviving forms include regional dialects, ancient inscriptions and the language used by later Malverand societies.
Construction and imperial enforcement
Language drift had caused difficulties in the early Malverand Empire. The inventor Arcanis developed Malverine around a wide range of words, expressions and descriptions, rather than efficiency. The resulting vocabulary was far larger than ordinary speech required.
Eira, living in ancient Malverand as Aruviel, took part in redesigning the language with her husband Eremion and Arcanis. She helped create words for a new edition of its language book and found that some words familiar in her own time were inventions she had contributed herself.
Barachiel banned other forms of communication and deployed language enforcers to prevent further drift. The gods were tasked with maintaining the system. Enforcement included burning and destruction where the language drifted, and the relocation of inhabitants within Malverand. Many fled beyond the empire's reach. The common language served political control as well as communication; its survival did not mean that it remained unchanged everywhere.
Survival and regional change
Ancient Malverine remained readable in surviving inscriptions. Krexyn translated the writing on an old gate, identifying it as the language of the lost Malverand Empire.
Malverine also contributed to the circumstances in which Xalmyrran developed. Early atraxi learned the language from humans in Irrathis. Humans later adopted the atraxi's own tongue, which developed into Xalmyrran and replaced Malverine locally.
Regional forms persisted elsewhere. People in Ereshval spoke Malverine despite the region's isolation. Around Qarezh, a dialect used fewer words. Xarion learned to speak and read Malverine while working in Varnhallow, though he found its structure cumbersome compared with Xalmyrran.
During Thalena's visit to a far later Valrindor, the language was still spoken in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. Museum signs and computer interfaces used its writing.
Malverine is the common language of Valrindor, inherited from the ancient Malverand Empire. It was deliberately constructed to resist language drift and provide an unusually wide vocabulary, then imposed throughout the empire. Its surviving forms include regional dialects, ancient inscriptions and the language used by later Malverand societies.
Construction and imperial enforcement
Lothar proposed a common language after observing how speech changed across Valrindor. Barachiel instructed the inventor Arcanis to develop it, incorporating much of Lothar's own language. Arcanis built Malverine around a wide range of words, expressions and descriptions, rather than efficiency. The resulting vocabulary was far larger than ordinary speech required.
Eira, living in ancient Malverand as Aruviel, took part in redesigning the language with her husband Eremion and Arcanis. She helped create words for a new edition of its language book and found that some words familiar in her own time were inventions she had contributed herself.
Barachiel banned other forms of communication and deployed language enforcers to prevent further drift. The gods were tasked with maintaining the system. Enforcement included burning and destruction where the language drifted, and the relocation of inhabitants within Malverand. Many fled beyond the empire's reach. The common language served political control as well as communication; its survival did not mean that it remained unchanged everywhere.
Survival and regional change
Ancient Malverine remained readable in surviving inscriptions. Krexyn translated the writing on an old gate, identifying it as the language of the lost Malverand Empire.
Malverine also contributed to the circumstances in which Xalmyrran developed. Early atraxi learned the language from humans in Irrathis. Humans later adopted the atraxi's own tongue, which developed into Xalmyrran and replaced Malverine locally.
Regional forms persisted elsewhere. People in Ereshval spoke Malverine despite the region's isolation. Around Qarezh, a dialect used fewer words. Xarion learned to speak and read Malverine while working in Varnhallow, though he found its structure cumbersome compared with Xalmyrran.
During Thalena's visit to a far later Valrindor, the language was still spoken in the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. Museum signs and computer interfaces used its writing. Eira also possessed an extended copy of the Malverine language book, containing the full language as it was known to that date.