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.