Notes Transfer - The Journey of the Guvlin Language
Okay, first letâs look reaaaal early
1) Step 1 Guvlin, or First Bo Guvlin, refers to the languages and cultures in the wetlands directly beside the Brokebacks, or is used to contrast with those that remained along its base or even inside the mountains (Reeling and Deep Reeling). Long after The First Great Flood and the flooding that followed, Guvlins from the base of the Brokebacks who had successfully adapted to life in the wetlands struck out quickly, utilizing the bo-system (an innovation that would eventually become Pan-Gobbish). We know Guvlin felt particularly safer in the wetlands than among trees, as the later Telmatic expansion âmarsh-hoppedâ across the continent. This first Step likely halted as the land rose and trees grew close. The woods of nowadays Hobbywood would have likely been popular by Guvlin outcasts - odd social orginizations, cults, exiles, etc
**itâs looking like the âgoblionoid languagesâ (developed for large scale popular movements and efforts?) are truly Guvlin in origin. I will (duh) have to keep an eye out for native Hobgob, Bugbear, and Quaggoth words and concepts (and Reeling, etc. Youâll see)
*Common Gobbish Social feature - Packs!Â
Telmatic Guvlin were hunters (nge-) of different animals. Fishers - *bllsnge-. Gatherers of toads, snails, berries, would become âgatherersâ/âherdersâ (tonge-) as such. âGameâ hunters would become domesticators - namely of rodents (donge?, tange?)
The Step 1 Guvlin saw the first *wobon, or maybe *wogobon? They coalesced under *bos-lat, local bosses. This would be while Fire Giants are just about to start their blitz from their colonies. This First Wog would *bo (spill out, pour) up to the treeâd lands (see above)
2) *Urgurslat welcomes Guvlin into the NON-PURPLE trees, in the guise of hoaxes, promising them safety and aiding in their advisement as they spread around Paupuroats. Theyâd likely be warned against moving North or past the Bloor.Â
3) Desperate Hobgobs and Expressive Bugbears converge in the trees of the area between Aeselia, Eddison, Hills, and the Runst, along with the Guvlin. Perhaps at first it is truly a meeting of individuals, as all three groups would have cause to keep away from the area. All three groups had some need or fixation on language, communication and order, etc, and famously bonded forâŠ.
The Great Speech Game, or Shared Speech Game
Whatever individual meeting occurred was eventually parlayed into the First Gob(k) - a meeting of small groups of Hobgobs, Bugbears, Guvlin (Quaggoth?) to facilitate a mass language lesson.Â
Use of the language spread likea trend, with even 1st Bo Guvlin sending their igglk to learn it and bring it back. Hobgobs and Bugbear toured as part of a cultic movement of [gobhood] and picked up tool making and the Guvlinâs rudimentary craft/engineering, and hosting loud [debates?] eading to the prevalence of the honorific -lin and the phrase *gob-lin. Hobgob and Bugbear waybounds got to see the Bo-system in action among the 1st Bo Guvlin, and they took it with them north to their kind
4) The Second Great Bo - The more stasble, close-by, Fore-Urgurslin Guvlin groups (who provided a large bulk of the language structure anyway) eagerly reinvigorated the bo-system to move NE w/ Bugbear fellowship and blessing.
Its beginning can be reconstructed as a Wave of Psychic Events and one distinct wonder, both likely by the figure Arsh. So-attuned influential individuals were given visions and dreams across all three kinds, and Urgrrslat cast a HUGE image in the sky to affirm: The Purple Woods were off-limits, change was coming ,etc. This wonder also influenced *Trogdor in allowing the 1st wave of Ewt migrants
The Hoaxes who spoke for Urgurslat big most Guvlin come into the Woods to join Her in Paupuroats
A few groups of Guvlin would join the Hobgobs in coming together to strike out west, armed with new organization, tools, ornament, to slowly but surely gather opposition to Fire Giant activity
Bugbears and a HUGE coalition of Guvlin groups move NE together and continue marsh-hopping. The Bugbear Cult movement that brought language south continued it North to MOST Bugbear groups.Â
(Some pre-language game Bugbear groups in the north?)