In Brazil still, not coming back til January 2th. Got shaky internet at a friend's place where I'm on at the moment. Been working on TONS of Lore, backstory, plots, races, planets, etc.
Got my flashdrive and my laptop with me, so don't think I quit on you guys. I was not expecting to leave the country, it was... Sudden.
In any matter, here's a scanned diagram of the Arkhan'a language's basic characters. And yes, Pyro already told me I screwed the Swastika. It was meant to reflect the ancient symbol of Power and Life, the actual Swastika, which weirdly enough exists on every corner of the world and much to my surprise is even naturally occurring in the center of a Brazilian fruit that grows in the Amazon rainforest. How eerie.
In case I haven't mentioned it yet, the Arkhan'a language is an amalgamation of English, Italian, Arabic, Norse, German, Latin, and a few other languages, its Alphabet numerically based on English while featuring other unique characters to symbolize dual-letters and other such features, and has a highly-complex that no living language has. English is read left to right and written left to right, Languages like Chinese and traditional Japanese (tategaki, not yokogaki) are written and read top to bottom, and others like Arabic right to left. Arkhan'a started out as a secret code I created when I was about 10-11, so its very complex in its nature. It is written from top to bottom, right to left, and read right to left while each word conjunction is read left-to-right. Wat? Yeah, I know. Its extremely difficult to crack as a code, unless you know what each letter is, what each symbol's secondary meaning is, as well as its metaphorical meaning. In linguistic terminology, Arkhan'a has logographic, Phonographic, and Ideographic forms.
Therefore you have 3 manners of being read and 3 manners of being understood, so in one script you can have 9 possible dialects using the same language.
I pride myself on my ridiculously-complicated language, hehe. I always have a substitution Codex for every basic word in the English language as well as expressions and ideas unique to my Lore and that I commonly use.
In any rate, like Runic languages in games like Elder Scrolls, Arkhan'a will be making a cryptic appearance in Rise of Hyperion: Pixel Station.
Also, if anyone was wondering... I'm left-handed. I've always had trouble writing in traditional American notebooks because the bindings on the left make my hand rub into the book due to the way I hold a pen or pencil. High school was a PAIN due to those damn spiral metal bindings in college-ruled multi-section notebooks my teachers demanded. :| It's so much easier to write from right to left, haha. The actual original Arkhan'a started out as me pulling a Leonardo Da Vinci and writing backwards English in my journals. Then, I mixed English and Portuguese. Then I started replacing characters. Then I created the Antitetragrammaton Rule (don't even ask.). So on and so forth, til it because less of a code and more of a complex language with 3 Alphabets, 3 Styles, and 3 Graphic forms. Always did have a weird obsession with the numbers 3, 9 and 13... For some reason they've popped up in my life more than any other number, always bearing important news and change.
Anyway, enough confusing you guys. Time to get to work on posting that update before I head to the wedding tomorrow.
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