[WIP] World of Flammarion: The Holy Empire

[Klaus van der Kroft]

Thanks!

Aye, most of them are purposedly similar to European languages (the names of each language on the map are hispanized, though, since we speak Castillian). Cervanes/Cervanish is basically Spanish (but more markedly Catalan in nature), Landorano/Landoran (from "Lang d'Or") would be emulating French, Obernes/Obernish emulates German, Etanes/Etanish is some sort of Baltic-Dutch smorgasbord, Belghadi/Belghadic goes after Gaelic, Maroviano/Marovian is inspired by East-European tongues, while Tramontano/Tramontanian is for all purposes Italian.

The other tongues listed have less direct ties. Antiguo Imperial/Ancient Imperial is somewhat Babylonic-sounding, while Irgardi/Irgardic, Ordobaradi/Ordobaradic, and Bestial don't have an equivalent. Imperial is a special case. It acts as the Common for the campaign, with its source depending on the language spoken at the table. So, since we speak Castillian in real life, Imperial is a tongue derived from Cervanish; if we spoke French, then it would be derived from Landoran. T'was an easy escape route I made up to quickly explain how Common works in the game, why does it sound strangely like the language we actually speak, and how come it is spoken in many parts of the Empire (however, it is not spoken by everyone, so maybe your Average Joe MacPeasant has no idea how to talk in it, but all important imperial documents, merchants and the like would at least handle it good enough to tell you who kidnapped the princess and where's the bathroom).