#sakhiva

[iskelan]

Young judicator Sakhiva’k’venatir walks around Laci province on sunny winter day.

[iskelan]

Sakhiva’k’venatir working on her scarf.

[iskelan]

She clenched her fingers stronger and opened her eyes. Around her was darkness, hardly lit by shining markings on many tables, hanging from the ceiling and on the walls. Table with the name of her son, also shining with pale light, was hanging right in front of her. Scarf that he wore during barely a year before the Void took his soul was holding her shoulders, and its tissue lied in mess in her palms. Sakhiva put it down on her knees, and few stripes of light flew up from her eyes. “Could you even know that this would be the only thing left from you for me?” 

[iskelan]

Takotos and his mother, prosecutor Sakhiva’k’Venatir in time she suffered the illness se’djer - neural pathology, that disabled her telepathic abilities completely and made it impossible to establish any psionic contact with her brain. So she started writing on sheets of paper - in my version of Firstborn society scrolls are stilled used for few kinds of information - particulary for children that can’t watch crystals yet and need to form some visual archetypes and for poets and artists. Sakhiva had to recall her limited knowledge on protoss written languages to make her messages clear, and she managed to combine few of them.

My imagination of what they look like is on the background. From left to right: - Cheamendu, the dark templar cipher, developed from the initial Sargas dialects and modified to include more “dark things” and almost rejecting the Khala influence. I actually have it’s mini-dictionary somewhere, but it is another story. Its symbols look like clawmarks (and initally they actually were clawmarks on stones and wood), and are almost impossible to read if you don’t know what to look for - “letters” are always surrounded with fake markings. - Khalani. I personally didn’t like the idea of calling all the words all the protoss speak to belong to Khalani, because the idea of dark templar or tal’darim speaking something called “Khalani” sounds ridiculous. But there actually could be such language - something to appear after the great unity came around and motivated Protoss (maybe Khas in person, maybe some of his apostles - Ara usually declare these markings as their invention) to create one sacred language for them all, with only few complex written hieroglyphic forms - you may see them on Sakhiva’s clothes as well, due to the fact that sacred symbols of this language is something that only the highest caste may understand properly, and therefore may use them. Complicated pictures lift up and spread around in many combinations and usually mean vectors of psionic energy. - Djurana - a dialectic form of sendji, used in northern provinces, spread in ancient Sheddar documents, and therefore in cultural legacy. Due to the fact Laci province is full of Sheddar khalai, this form of written language is widely spread, so Sakhiva got to learn it eventually. - Sendji - the most common language, developed by Shelak for spiritual lyrics and legends, and spreaded in many variations through Aurigan trading contacts. Letters are surrounding vertical stripes, ascending around them like plants (while in Djurana same symbols are cut in half). Literally the verbal forms of Khalani origin here too, and protoss pronounce some words in their thoughts without following them with an understandable image means that these are some holy words, that have to be said, even if you don’t feel what you say - like a mantra. Or like a vector - when you are too weakminded at the moment to form a distinct image (actual for children). Anyway. Love this one so much. Sakhiva and her son in my lore is a very dramatic couple, and I really have to translate their story one day.