Numerals, Saguza

    Saguzaharasat, the language of the Saguzahar uses a base-six number system. Each of their characters/syllables has a corresponding numerical value associated with it. Under normal usage, only the base numbers (zero through five) are used. However, for numerological purposes, each letter's value can be used to calculate a numerical value associated with a given word. This seems to reflect a shift in the way numbers are handled in the language over time. Indeed, the assignment of values to letters doesn't seem to have a sensical progression, and implies that the values were either assigned at random, have been changed eclectically over time, or that the alphabet once had a different arrangement. 

    

Saguzahar

    The Saguzahar are a people of the south-eastern mountains of the Midal Realm. They lived for many ages under the earth, knowing nothing of the surface world. They are lithe of body, with elongated proportions. Their heads have a grotesque appearance, their flesh twisted into ridges and folds, with a small, sharp toothed mouth and beady eyes. Their ears are large and pointed, and seem to flow naturally into the ridges and folds that surround the face. They bear a passing resemblance to some bats, and indeed, the strange shape of the Saguzahar face seems to serve the same purpose as the ridges of a micro-bat-- that is, performing an aid in echolocation, at which they are adept. Saguza are sometimes called Bat-folk, but this is considered derogatory. Their vision is shortsighted and unusual compared to the races of men. They see a color bellow violet on the spectrum, called cébre, and cannot see the color red. (see: Exotic Colors)

    Despite their frightening visage, they are a peaceful people, known for their monasteries of arcane study. They are famous for their unusual artwork and poetry. They have had extensive contact with the former Atlantic empire, and their forms appear often in Atlantic murals and pottery. Most Saguza worship Tság, the blind god of the soil-- indeed, their ethnonym Saguzahar translates to "the people of Tság."

    Saguzahar speak a strangely structured language unrelated to any other tongues of men. 

    For more information, see: Saguzaharasat

    The Saguza writing system serves double-duty as a base- six numeral system as well. In addition to this, each character in the syllabary has a numerological value associated with it, that is used to derive mystical meanings from words by calculating the value of the syllables. 

    For more information, see: Saguza Numerals

Saguzaharasat

    The Saguzahar language (Saguzaharasat) is the tongue spoken by the Saguzahar people, a race of unusual, long-limbed troglodytic humanoids native to the south-eastern mountain ranges of the Midal Realm. Their language is spoken with a somewhat small pallet of phonemes, and written with a rigid, mostly phonetic syllabary. Although the transcription of Saguza writing into Latin characters attempts to approximate accurate pronunciation, there are certain rules for when particular vowel sounds are dropped, among other orthographic conventions, that must be accounted for in transcription. 

Dinosaurs

    - Non-standard. "Dinosaur" as a modern concept encapsulates a very broad selection of drastically differing varieties of animal, of which their only similarity to each other is being extinct. Given a fantastical environment without this shared commonality, "dinosaurs" are not practically spoken of under a blanket terminology. Speaking broadly of "large reptilian monsters," one could be talking about any number of fanciful beasts, many of which would not be dinosaurs by any stretch of the definition. 

Some cultures group theropods with other large terrestrial avians, such as ostriches. Northern cultures may not distinguish significantly between small pterosaurs and birds. Ceratopsians share more in common behaviorally and in physical description with animals like rhinoceroses, and would never be lumped into a single grouping with an animal like a tyrannosaur, should both be encounterable.

That said, for the sake of clarity, and as an accessible reference guide, an index is provided here, for finding specific glossarium entries, organized by the real-world scientific (or common) name of the dinosaur. Other prehistoric, non-dinosaur fauna are also included here for convenience.

Devils

    Demons, pulled from the abyss and masked by Satan and given identities. Many work as his agents, but some feel no fealty towards him. Mostly civilized. Sticklers for details

Demons, Abyssal

    Abyssal Demons, also called Thurse, are entities of pure chaos and hunger. They are without well defined form, and wander the abyss aimlessly, banished from the sight of divinity, who almost universally see them as an affront from their inability to take ordered form or behavior. These beasts are nearly universally fatal to encounter. They are nearly invulnerable to harm, and take no well defined pattern of behavior, attacking with blind determination. Demons that have been tamed and given identities are known as Devils. Most of these are in service to their warden, Satan, and act as his emissaries in the physical world.

    Curiously, Demons are put to use by Lókfaer engineers, using their boundless energy as the driving component of thursengines, great machines capable of driving Lókfaer contraptions and war machines.

    See also: Devils

Demon-Lord

    A powerful spirit, elevated by a dark entity to a position of power. Demon-Lords of a given kind are members of orders, each order having been created together long ago. Most serve Mwt, who has maintained dominion over the more well known tracts of hell for several millennia.

    Demon-Lord's may be summoned in secret by mages for nefarious purposes. They may be used as guards, but more frequently are used to direct hordes of lesser hellions/fiends.

    In the bureaucracy of Mwt's Hell, demon-lords do not answer directly to Mwt, but are under the thumb of unique Hellions, sometimes called Archdemons, who are frequently lesser deities, or demigods made to submit to Mwt.