A Symphony of Syllables: Why fictional languages have meaning
Language speaks beyond its translation. It speaks through inflection, accompanied hand gestures, how sentences are structured and how things are phrased. It speaks to the region and those who are rooted in its soil. Thomas Aquinas understood this nearly a millennium ago. His philosophy of language suggests that the relationship between words, concepts, and objects is essential for comprehending the structure of reality. That language is not only a tool for communication, but also a means for conceptualizing and understanding the world.
This is why Orynthia needs its dialects. They make it more real.
If we are to see the world-build through the eyes of our characters, then we need to first understand how they verbalize what they are seeing
Real Trauma and Healing in the Minds of the Make-Believe
To survive, we all stitch on a mask and eventually call it skin.
And that is why trauma is so violent. Removing our mask is a terrifying, bloody mess.
The good news, is that sorrow and joy do go hand in hand. As does mercy and justice. Because it’s in those ravines where the best stories—stories like our own—unfold. Luscia and Zaethan’s interdependent sagas are not one in a million, they’re ones just like a million others.
What’s in a name? The untold story behind the naming of my opposing MCs.
For millennia, across continents and cultures and creeds, names have held their weight in gold. They’ve been prophetic, poetic, emboldening, and strange. Because names have power.
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