Some languages and writing systems I’ve been making for my brother’s upcoming DnD campaign. He usually makes his own mythos and leaves the languages and scripts to me.
The dwarven language (Gewain) is read from left to right, and it was designed as very straight and geometric inspired by the Arabic script, made to be chiselled or carved into stone. With a central line that travels across the whole word, it allows for long, compound words to be made white still being easy to read. Has a main consonant form that is the start of the syllable, a space above for a vowel, and another below for an optional second consonant, that uses the “underform”.
it’s best visually seen as it’s meant to be, carved in stone:
“helfon”, the Gewain word for beauty. Here we see H, E, underform L + F, O, underform N.
The base elfish language, Alharic, was designed with voiceless consonants only and no “u” vowel, to sound more contained, and calm, giving it an almost “hushed” quality. This came in handy as later elves who came in contact with other races, developed different lifestyles and use voiced versions of some consonants, and harsher sounds using the “u”.
The script was made to form a full unit combining the consonant with the vowel.
The humans took systems from both these cultures and, in human fashion, adapted them into their script. They use both the underform concept from Dwarven and the “unit forming” concept from Elfish. Also comes in cursive!
It’s written top to bottom:
Last one for now, the language of the spider goddess, Rámsa.
Made to be easily written (or weaved by her elven followers) in one continuous long string, it links together the whole word seamlessly. (examples are a little iffy because it’s harder than it looks to fluently write it without stopping!)
