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Gutterspeak Headcannons

As a massive fantasy nerd one of my favorite aspects of fantasy lore and settings is how languages work. As almost all of my friends know, I am also a gigantic World of Warcraft fan, and I have a particular soft spot for everyone's favorite stiffs: the Forsaken.

This is just a bunch of HCs I have for the language of Gutterspeak.

  • Gutterspeak originated among the thieves and rogues of Lordaeron, technically every city has its own spin on Gutterspeak, but these languages are known as Thieves Codes to distinguish them from the Forsaken tongue.
  • Gutterspeak has several dialects, the most common dialects being the Lordaeron, Silverpine, and Talah'dorei dialects.
  • The Lordaeron dialect is distinguished by its "doublespeak," taken directly from the original Gutterspeak of Lordaeron. The words and vowels are identical to common (albeit with some sounds adjusted to be easier to pronounce by those who lack lips or jaws), but their meanings are entirely different. For example, "Lets have tea with the King," sounds mundane in Common, but in Lordaeron Gutterspeak it means "Get ready to fight."
  • Silverpine dialect is its own unique language, branched off from common. While it shares some words, and most of common's syllables and vowels, it uses a different word order (object - verb - subject), and lacks pronouns. Silverpine-Gutterspeak is mostly spoken by Forsaken rangers from, well, Silverpine. It also found a specific use among the archers of the Horde during the 4th war.
  • Talah'dorei is a pidgin language of Lordaeron Gutterspeak and Thalassian, and is almost entirely spoken by undead elves. Talah'dorei does have a unique quirk, in that it's very rare for words to have a future tense, and most words related to the past are ungendered, even traditionally gender pronouns.
#seeing this post in the tags gave me brainworms#i yelled about this on my private twitter already but i'm just gonna yell here as well. WoW language hcs are so underrated#i have not known peace ever since i read on the wiki that gutterspeak originated from rogues' guild#i wanna imagine that every rogue guild in game share the same universal language (early gutterspeak)#but they've also developed their own dialect+code#if i had the brains for this i would really think about like#how deathstalker dialect is similar to the defilers but their usage of code is different.#how the uncrowned has different dialect from the deathstalkers#and how deathstalker dialect is similar to the defilers but their usage of code is different. And then the defias#shit like the ravens around dalaran being symbols for entry to the uncrowned gave me a lot of brainrot too#world of warcraft#forsaken
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makanidotdot

That Cinematic Where Uther and Sylvanas Talked in Shadowlands Plus Everything that Led Up To It Except Now I Like It

Fuck ittt, reposting this cos it's the 2 year anniversary of this wall of text hyperfixation comic I ACTUALLY DID finish, but was only an imgur link bc tumblr didn't support enough images before. putting this shit directly on the good bad site where it belongs

uh ok imagine the blades of grass things in the jailer's hand here are actually like glowing threads of her soul. i could prob color just this part to make it more clear but my body goes limp like a marionette when i think about exerting that small amount of effort to make my comic more legible

this ^ is one page i would maybe color sometime, actually one of my fave things i've drawn tbqhhh

#jesus FUCKING christ#world of warcraft#forsaken

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