<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">Royce:</span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">> What is the language of sorcery? Or, am I wrong in assuming that<br></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">> sorcery is written and cast in a mode that we would call language? </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;
"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">> (That'd be hard to explain.)</span><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">I'd say that it would be a special language depending on the setting.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">> In a Fantasy Medieval Europe settings, what would be the historically<br>> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">logical linguistic choices for sorcery? I had a few ideas, mentioned</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">> below, but I'd be more interested in your opinions -- especially where<br>> they disagree with my superficial notions.<br><br>I suppose it depends on the source of the Sorcery.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;
"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">Latin is one possibility, being the language of the Church.<br></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">Greek is another, being the language of the Eastern Church and of the Byzantium Empire, heir to much esoteric knowledge.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">Hebrew is another possibility, as the original language of the Bible, this is good for Demonology as Solomon
was given charge of the Demons and his language was Hebrew.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">Arabic is another possibility as the Muslims had a knowledge of the Black Arts from their own religion.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">Another choice would be lost knowledge passed on down the generations, so this could be a lost language that only the practitioners of sorcery would know. </span></div><div
style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">Gypsies had their own magical knowledge and would have used Romany.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">GMs and players should come up with good ideas of which language would suit their sorcery
best.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">See Ya</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">Simon</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div></div></body></html>