Aturian is the secret writing system of the Draol mage Atury. He created it to encrypt his notes pertaining to secrets he discovered, particularly in relation to glyphs and pronunciations. It is technically not a language, but just the writing system. When used as a writing system, the characters are benign, which was intended to mask the power of the glyphs when enchanted. An example of these glyphs in action can be seen in the Gateway Glyphs, which are part of the game Glyphmaster's Gateway. The game uses 25 of them.
Alphabet
The Aturian alphabet contains 42 characters, represented by the glyphs in the thumbnail image; the glyphs for the numbers 0-9 are not shown. It is a phonetic alphabet, and each character contains two connecting serifs so that characters that make up a word may be joined and separated by spaces.
Notes
- The r character is the only consonant with accents; when there are two accents above, it produces the sound of er, as in swimmer or herd.
- The alphabet does not contain the letters c, q, or x.
- The alphabet has characters to represent ch, sh, th, zh (as in the j in jacques), ai (as in the capital I sounded in words like file), and oo (as in the oo sound produced in the word book or wood).
- All vowels have extra-low descenders; only the vowels have this. No vowels have extra-high ascenders.
- There are no repeating characters in words; characters that would repeat (such as the t in little) have a single dot above them within the word.
- Each character has two connecting serifs, which form the baseline.
- There is no differentiated cases (uppercase, lowercase) of characters.
Sample
In the image below, two sentences can be seen:
- The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Thuh kwihk braown fahks juhmps ovr thuh lezi dahg.
- Church time has wood pews. Chrch taim hahz wood pyuws.
Translation
