Soruharva

Source: Akhronath canon

Soruharva is the traditional language of magic and spells. Some wizards now theorize that the language is in fact not significant for the effect on the spell, and rather a way to focus and visualize that effect (and thus any other language would do fine as long as the mage is able to concentrate). However, Soruharva is still the only language commonly used.

General Information

The particular form of Soruharva detailed below is Soruharva Proper which is the standardised version used by the Empire and differs slightly from what is used in Avernum. Another variant is Draconic Soruharva which is spoken by Dragons and used in naming.

Grammar

Sentence Structure

Soruharva adheres to a subject-object-verb structure rather than the subject-verb-object structure of modern Imperial Standard.

Statement

[SUBJECT] [DIRECT OBJECT] [VERB] [INDIRECT OBJECTS].

Questions

[SUBJECT] [QUERY PRONOUN] [DIRECT OBJECT] [VERB] [INDIRECT OBJECTS]

Nouns

Noun Conjugations

Examples using the words sarca (blade), lúm (hole, opening) and haros (master).

Noun Conjugations	Indefinite Singular	Indefinite Plural	Definite Singular	Definite Plural
Nominative	sarcha lúm haros	sarcá lúmu haroeth	sarci lúmi haris	sarces lúmes harhwyth
Genitive	sarcon, lúmhon, haron	rsarcáon, lúmun, haroen	sarcion, lúmion, harion	sarcein, lúmesso, harhwyn
Locative	sarcet, lúmet	sarcáth, lúmath	sarcir, lúmir	sarcáeth, lúmaeth

Pronouns

Soruharva differentiates between personal and impersonal pronouns in the third person. Which it makes the distinction between sentient and non-sentient entities. In the terms of Imperial Standard he/she vs. it.

Pronoun	Personal	Impersonal
First-Person Singular	an	an
First-Person Plural	ánad	ánad
Second-Person Singular	u	u
Second-Person Dual	um	um
Second-Person Plural	ór	ór
Third-Person Singular	i	ic
Third-Person Dual	iss	isc
Third-Person Limited Plural	ína	ínac
Third-Person Plural	ínn	ínn

Correlatives

Type	Query	Negative	Exclusive	Inclusive
Person	enn	nár	est	oèja
Location	vin	ávin	vis	óva
Object	is	ámis	isi	óm
Time	ejel	sá	eli	elann

Verbs

Most verbs in Soruharva terminate with -è in their infinitive forms. The following table will use the word sarc as an example.

Verb Tense	Conjugation
Infinitive	sarcè
Present	sarc
Present Imperfect	sarcè
Past	sarca
Pluperfect	sarcája
Participle	sarcu
Future	sarcelè

Lexicon

A brief look at the more common words used in this language.

Root	Known Words
AI	aennè v. to rise ai prep. above, over
ALA	alannè v. to grow
ANJ	ang n. tower anja n. spearpoint
AND	ánthru adj. pale white
AR	arè v. to be
ARC	ARC archad n. branch, divergence arcè v. to branch, to diverge
CAIM	caima n. light, esp. bright golden
CARS	caras n. demon, nether creature
CEL	celra n. silver cel adj. of silvery color or quality
COLT	colt n. iron
COSSA	cossa n. drake, dragon
CREV	crevírè v. to intertwine
DAR	darrè v. to flow
DU	duè v. to have to, to must
ÉN	énè v. to think, to ponder
ER	era adj. black
ES	essè v. to see essos n. watcher, scryer
FAR	farra n. cloud
HAJ	hajan n. ship
HAL	halenè v. to sing halenos n. singer
HARTH	haros n. lord, master haran v. to rule over
HARV	harva n. speech, language harwè v. to speak
HWAI	hwaira n. wind
HWES	hwest n. dusk
HYS	hyth n. flute hysurè v. to whistle
LÁD	ladra n. table laden n. lake
LÁN	lánth adj. divine, holy lamperos n. priest
LETH	leth n. leaf, chapter
LOR	lor n. day
LOS	lossè v. to come
LÚM	lúm n. hole, opening, cave
LYM	lymnen n. tree
MAIA	maia n. fire mair sun
MÁN	mánta n. earth, soil ríemand n. beach
MEJ	mejor n. sorrow
MER	mera mera n. star
MIS	mith n. pen, quill missè v. to write to dictation, to copy
MÓR	mór n. undeath
NODR	dors n. smith, craftsman dorè to make
ORM	orm adj. long ormal adv. long
PER	peros n. servant
RAID	rhaidè v. to take, to bear
RAR	rár adj. wide
RAUN	raun v. to fly
REI	réjeth n. mysticism réos n. fairy, elf
RHÚN	rhúnè v. to descend, to fall
RIJ	ríja n. water ríen n. body of water fáríen n. sea, ocean ríemand n. beach ríesarca n. stream of water ríoros n. river
RUL	rullad n. crown
RWEN	rwenta n. cycle, year
SANT	santè v. to add
SAR	sarca n. blade, sword sarcè v. to cut, to cleave ríesarca n. stream of water
SEN	senru adj. grey
SIL	sil n. ice silf adj. icy silos n. moon silesóna n. winter
SÓN	sonn n. time silesóna n. winter
SOR	soros n. mage
SYN	synn int. yes, certainly
VAI	vairè v. to expire, to pass away
VAL	val n. wall

Corpus Wordlist

Soruharva

Magic Language

Maiaval

Firewall

Karzoth

Demon-Slayer (NB: This translation is of a debased form of Soruharva)

Note: All existing information on Soruharva is derived from the Archives of Akhronath