#seven rings

[abignonne]

i'm deeply sorry for spamming the king halo tag with my selfship dorks........

[dizzy-miss-lizzieeeeee]

seven rings!! 👀

Cassian jumped first.

He wasn't a religious man, he didn't believe in myths or powerful forces that controlled people's lives at will, as Chirrut or Skywalker did. But in that moment, with the wind whipping against his face and falling at great speed, he begged the Force to let him land in the water and not on the pointy rocks of the shore.

His wish came true, as he landed with a great splash; the force of the impact made him gasp and swallow saltwater. He felt his throat burning and the tide pulling him down, but he fought against it, swimming toward the surface despite the pain in his arm and the overwhelming power of the sea.

He barely managed to get his head above water to take a breath when another wave slammed into him and dragged him back down into the ocean.

The taste of saltwater, the sound of blasters firing from above, and the ringing of the explosion still in his ears made him begin to feel despair. This was Scarif all over again; the sea was going to claim him once more, and this time it was ten times worse.

Jyn was nowhere to be seen. He might as well let himself drown.

[bloodmoon24]

Four out of Seven Sins

(I might do Belphagor later)

[siamesephoenixrandomideatank]

Language of the Seven Rings and its Varieties

The Pride Ring/Common (Morningspeech/’Nugaheem’)

Initially, hellborns of the Pride Ring had their own languages based on grumble, roar, ‘controlled scream’, and aspects of the body like clapping, snapping, or slamming objects in patterns. This language is known as ‘Impish’

When Lucifer and Lilith fell, both introduced Adamic Language to imps, hellhounds, incubi/ succubi, and locals of the Pride Ring. Impish still existed as ‘peasants’s languages’ while ‘corrupted/Hellish Adamic’ is considered the official and ‘high language’.

Post-Babel humans introduced Semitic languages along with Kemetics, Anatolian, and Hittite. There were two ‘main waves’ outstanding from each period; Sodomite-Gommorian (Having senses of gender binarism and ‘chopped’ honorifics from ‘The Lord of Lords’ to ‘Trash-Slaves’) and Kemetic during the Exodus (Thanks to the last Plague).

After the ‘Babelite/Old Morningspeech‘ period, there was another big reformation after Hebrews and Latin-speaking sinners became more noteworthy. The ‘Middle/Common Morningspeech’ was meant to be ‘easily learnt, simple, and direct’ enough for even the laziest idiots to learn the basics in months. Some called it ‘Old Simplified Nugaheem’.

Later, the 3rd wave imported English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and ‘loanwords’ of Chinese and Japanese into the Pride Ring. It’s referred as ‘Modern/Intercontinental Nugaheem’ or ‘New Simplified Nugaheem’

Both versions of Nugaheems are commonly used between rings and sinners alike. Official declaration and media tends to use the Old/Classical one, except on casual media and Social Medias.

The Wrath Ring

The Wrath Ring’s Nugaheem is shorter by syllabi-per-word, lack of tone marking, and focus on time and relationship between senders and receivers. The written form is mostly direct, focusing on relationships between place, persons, and time, and incorporating emoji-like symbols that don’t take part when being spoken.

Acronyms, Alias/nicknames, and offensive terms are ‘flavorful’ and ‘various‘. 

Wrath Ring-variant Nugaheem is considered ‘low culture’ and in higher societies, Morningspeech is expected to be used instead.

Some elements of ‘Old Impish’ have remained; shouting, highlighting words, grumbling, and hand gestures play significant roles.

Nonlinguistic and Nonverbal languages also play major roles, as form or ‘context’; sarcasm, taunting, oathmaking/affirming, subjugated/confessing, threatening/commanding, or requesting/blackmailing.

The Gluttony Ring

Adjectives-specific; doneness of steak, ripeness of fruit, subtypes of flavors, cooking methods, etc. 

Each culinary adjective bears figurative meaning; ‘Medium-Done’ means ‘Half-willing’, ‘Green Rare’ means ‘toddler-like’, or stewed as ‘taking time to understand’.

Some loanwords from Italian, Chinese(especially Cantonese), French, Spanish, and Arabic. 

Context of genders, ages, and relationship between senders and receivers are almost nonexist beside familial and friendship closeness-related contexts.

They tend to use adjectives and adverbs frequently like ‘spices of language’.

The Greed Ring

Avoiding idioms and figures of speech, but jargon is highly used. Especially in written forms. Most of them are ones of communication industry, engineering, and business/banking.

Prefer to use ‘less words that carry more meanings’, in both specifying and vagueness, which causes loopholes.

‘Sounds polite, gentle, and professional’

Can be said quickly that there are almost no tongue twisters.

Commoners stick to ‘Official Morningspeech’ with sparingly added jargon.

The Lust Ring

Tonal, Prose-like, and Emotional(including anger, sadness, excitement, boredom, endearing, dominance, submission, etc.)

Romance-like with flexible honorifics and some loanwords from Japanese, French, and Spanish.

Written forms are Latin-based(as in almost solely Latin alphabetic) and ‘additional words’ are expected.

Vulgar words are more ‘specifically functional’ than others, while non-vulgar offenses are also common, but both are somehow combined.

Homonyms are common, as some say there are far too common.

The Envy Ring

Combining characteristics of The Greed Ring, The Lust Ring, and Gluttony Ring while also developing their own characteristics.

Regional Sublanguage elements are still present, as some pronunciations are incapable to be said by sinners at all.

Their language is riddling, highly symbolic, idiomatic, and hides true contexts on purpose(Like Kanto accent to the rest of Japan, but more extreme)

Hissing, Croaking, and throat-based pronunciations are common.

Adjectives and adverbs are not commonly used, but using them means it’s extra serious.

The Sloth Ring

‘Prayer-like’; slow and pitch-accented, but having several syllables per word can be tongue twisting if spoken quickly.

The closest to Babelite Nugaheem; barely changed. However, more Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin elements are somehow common as loanwords.

Prefixes and Suffixes are often used to ‘form words’.

Sometimes, silence and nonverbal languages between words are ‘part of the speech’.

Grammar barely exists, or if it does, it is simple and highly flexible.

[bubbles-and-bat-wings]

Something and something and six of my bitches

[birbiegal]

I couldn't believe Ariana Grande stole "seven rings" from sonic and the secret rings (2007) so I decided to reclaim what is rightfully his

[advicebrat]

@advicebrat I want it, I got it

[arofili]

@secondageweek day three | dwarves | the seven rings

But Sauron gathered into his hands all the remaining Rings of Power; and he dealt them out to the other peoples of Middle-earth, hoping thus to bring under his sway all those that desired secret power beyond the measure of their kind. Seven Rings he gave to the Dwarves; but to Men he gave nine, for Men proved in this matter as in others the readiest to his will. And all those rings that he governed he perverted, the more easily since he had a part in their making, and they were accursed, and they betrayed in the end all those that used them. The Dwarves indeed proved tough and hard to tame; they ill endure the domination of others, and the thoughts of their hearts are hard to fathom, nor can they be turned to shadows. They used their rings only for the getting of wealth; but wrath and an over-mastering greed of gold were kindled in their hearts, of which evil enough after came to the profit of Sauron. It is said that the foundation of each of the Seven Hoards of the Dwarf-kings of old was a golden ring; but all those hoards long ago were plundered and the Dragons devoured them, and of the Seven Rings some were consumed in fire and some Sauron recovered.

—The Silmarillion, “Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age”

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