Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
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Dragorean notes — (ROUGH DRAFT ONLY; SUBJECT TO CHANGE) by TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
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11 Feb 2025
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Working on conlang stuff for my dialect called Dragorean, which is used primarily by dragons and elder races in the Chasm of Stars; based on the naming "language" I formatted up, with a whispering phonology and 38 official letters representing various consonants, vowels, digraphs, and sounds currently, I've been expanding it into a hopefully-speakable linguistic sample, and although I'm coming at it practically rather than scientifically (I've been building workable phrases and naturalistically reverse-engineering it from there), I thought it might be fun to share some of my behind-the-scenes development notes so far.
There's also a set of runes used to write Dragorean, which I'm developing; there will be at least 38 for each letter, collectively called Mezhon, and in the Valozian script, they're written in blocks of 4 to represent different syllables within the sentence. You'll see how it works, if I can get it drawn up along with the language itself.
Hoping to do a workable phrasebook eventually. I seem to be developing this from the viewpoint of phrases a person learning the language might need to know first — IE, basic "I am, you are, we are" phrases — and spiralling out from there.
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- Part 6 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 1 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
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- 1,038
- Chapters:
- 6/10
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Mezhon runes — (Developmental/Prototype Tests) by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
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11 Feb 2025
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The idea for Mezhon is taken mainly from your classic Elder Futhark series of runic inscriptions; it was designed to be a simple way for dragons in the Chasm of Stars to leave behind messages carved into the runic "dragonstones" left behind as memorials on the planets and in the realms they visited. Currently, there's 38 runes for different consonants, vowels, digraphs, and other sounds within the Dragorean language, and they can be written individually or using the "Valozian method", which is more common — inspired by Korean hangul, the Valozian method presents Mezhon runes and messages in blocks of four, representing two runes/sounds/phonemes at a time to form the full word.
Blocks of four become blocks of four to form longer words or sentences, and because it's still fairly primitive, there's currently no way to differentiate between sentences or parts of speech, as I'm mostly testing it with basic Dragorean names and syllabic phrases, but I expdct that might change as it continues to evolve and I finalize more of what the Mezhon runes actually look like.
This document is mostly some of my crude, first-run trial tests of some prototype Mezhon runes and what names in the Valozian method might look like.
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- Part 7 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 2 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
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- 8
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 27
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Dragorean notes 2 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
04 Sep 2025
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After some further work on Dragorean wordlists and sentence structure, I found I needed to make my own categorization system in order to be able to scan for useful words according to parts of speech and use within a sentence.
Word order is generally SVO, like English, but it's intended in a way where that can be tossed up at will by certain dragons if they want to. Like Yoda.
Very limited vocabulary, so not much to say with it. Trying to be able to translate Breaking Bad, and the "I am the danger" monologue specifically, which I'm realizing is way more difficult than it should be due to all the rampant colloquialisms which don't seem like they would exist in Dragorean culture. So, what even is the culture of dragons? We're gonna find out.
For reference, the line:
I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger.
Translates to:
Na nima wuk gruvo vus muhira, Zokailar. Na nima wuk tu muhira wisa.
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- Part 23 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 3 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 520
- Chapters:
- 1/3
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- 0