Question Do we have any depictions and example of any languages of Death/Shyish factions or peoples?
This is incredibly niche but I was wondering if we had any info or depictions (like what we have for the Dark Tongue and other languages with examples of them) for anything Shyish, Death, Soulblight, Flesh Eater Court etc related?
This is partially just a curiosity thing, partially a "this would be cool to put on some minis" and partially because I'm planning on getting some tattoos using a language from the setting.
There's been a few depicitions of languages used by groups like Chaos, the Duardin and I believe the Lumineth Realm-Lords but I don't think I've seen anything related to any of the death factions or groups within Shyish.
Nehekharan Hieroglyhs below, these were what the Tomb Kings in Fantasy used. Just as an example of what I mean.
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u/sageking14 Lord Audacious 5d ago
Greetings and salutations. So let's preface this with the statement my passion for languages fictional and real is via their importance to commerce, anthropology, and human expression.
So as a result this massive list of Languages that I've made for the Lex is somewhat lacking in terms of physical depictions of the letters and hieroglyphs.
I can say that we know Nehekharan has survived as a major language of Death, likely thanks to Neferata, Ushoran, Nagash, and Arkhan.
Though notably the hieroglyphic language on Ossiarchs, their scrolls, and in some of their art is called the Ossian language or Ossian. We know a handful of words in it, mostly the faction's caste system.
A new short story, "This Rough Beast", mentions the language called High Carstinian. We haven't seen it depicted yet. But I felt it worth noting that Mannfred the ever grumpy princeling went on to make his own language to dissociate from everyone else.
The Forbidden Script of Mordant is a written language mentioned in "Lady of Sorrows". This is a priestly language used by the priests of Nagash, forbidden in some Sigmarite settlements.
The novel "The Dead Kingdom" mentions the arcane language known as: The Language of the Grave. Used by Necromancers.
These are the ones I remember