Ayakadiya
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:57 am
Herein is contained a compilation thread for Ayakadiya. This language is not technically spoken by humans, but the speakers inhabit bodies humanoid enough that there are no relevant differences to be noted. General phonetic capabilities for speech are identical -- general musical capabilities, on the other hand, are not.
The speakers of the language call themselves aya, which can technically be translated 'person', but it's slightly more accurate to translate it as 'aya', once one has an understanding of the language's gender system. Non-aya species don't count as aya, despite any level of sentience (if present). The aya themselves are best thought of as a spiritual sort of creature, a soul if you will. They are capable of manufacturing flesh-bodies (and bodies made of other substances) in order to inhabit them, and by means of so doing gain a physical presence. They are effectively the gods of their world, having created it out of base matter via song. Their world's physics and magic are identical, being governed by a complex elemental-magic-esque system which manifests itself as music. Each aya has one, most likely multiple, songs (that is, specific elements) associated with their person. These songs compose their metabolism. They can get more by training themselves to hear and deeply understand the new song, usually helped by a strong similarity between the one they seek to learn and one they already have. (For instance, going from fog to smoke is easy -- but 'smoke' doesn't necessarily include 'smoke from a fire'.) They can also lose them, usually only by extreme physical (to the soul, but physical enough for them) trauma. Silence and discordant music are anathema to them.
All told, the deep connection they have with physics/magic effectively makes every aya a potent mage, or a potent reality-warper, depending on which term you want to use.
The speakers of the language call themselves aya, which can technically be translated 'person', but it's slightly more accurate to translate it as 'aya', once one has an understanding of the language's gender system. Non-aya species don't count as aya, despite any level of sentience (if present). The aya themselves are best thought of as a spiritual sort of creature, a soul if you will. They are capable of manufacturing flesh-bodies (and bodies made of other substances) in order to inhabit them, and by means of so doing gain a physical presence. They are effectively the gods of their world, having created it out of base matter via song. Their world's physics and magic are identical, being governed by a complex elemental-magic-esque system which manifests itself as music. Each aya has one, most likely multiple, songs (that is, specific elements) associated with their person. These songs compose their metabolism. They can get more by training themselves to hear and deeply understand the new song, usually helped by a strong similarity between the one they seek to learn and one they already have. (For instance, going from fog to smoke is easy -- but 'smoke' doesn't necessarily include 'smoke from a fire'.) They can also lose them, usually only by extreme physical (to the soul, but physical enough for them) trauma. Silence and discordant music are anathema to them.
All told, the deep connection they have with physics/magic effectively makes every aya a potent mage, or a potent reality-warper, depending on which term you want to use.