I love pretty skirts, video games, and math.
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she/her, former fairy winged flower power kid. I should be writing.
ABOUT ME
Enzo North
I am bold, daring and fearless, I make no effort to stand out from the crowd, this sort of thing comes naturally to me. I am the pattern on a plain canvas from which excitement springs. I am guilty of being different and make no effort to change. I'm the best me possible and i'm getting better day by day just like they say about wine.
James Marsters has said in an interview that, when Joss Whedon let him know that Spike was gonna fall in love with Buffy in season five, he had assumed it would be one-sided - only for Whedon to correct him with a “Oh no, she’s gonna fall in love with you too.”
This is less conlang related and more of a worldbuilding thing, but I was thinking about how the enchanting table language (Kxënt'exo) would be used in universe, I’m designing the language to be naturalistic under the assumption that it was once spoken natively in some sort of empire that has fallen, and now only scholars know how to read it (it’s fantasy Latin basically, I know, a completely original idea™ never done before™)
This means that there’s nothing inherently magical about the language itself, it was just another natural language in this setting, I mean if it was magical everyone would be going around accidentally casting spells when they were just trying to say “good morning” right? so there’s got to be things that separated enchanters from non-enchanters back when it was a living language (and presumably to this day still)
And I mean, it is the language used in the enchanting table still, so there’s gotta be something that makes it special, some reason for why a dead language would be used for magical purposes instead of a living one
There’s many ways of approaching this but I decided to do the following:
After all the large scale building projects I was starting to feel a bit burnt out, so I did what I always do and went off into the hinterlands around the city and built something small. Introducing… The Tinker’s Cottage.
Built on a river at the borders of the Kingdom, this cottage is home to an eccentric engineer who makes all sorts of wacky clockwork contraptions and surprisingly good baked goods. The cottage is split between a small living area and a large workshop. There is also a dock for fishing and boat storage, and several vegetable gardens. The cottage has a large copper spike built into the roof to attract lightning strikes for experiments, and the tools in the workshop are powered by the water wheel.
