Search for a word in Al'tahrn-Durngo or its Common tongue equivalent to reveal its family within the Black Language. Threads branch outward showing derivations, compounds, and kin-words from the Ebrietaes.
Al'tahrn-Durngo — the Black Language — originates within the Ebrietaes: the grating, guttural tongue used telepathically by mortal souls adrift in the Soul Stream. All things tainted, evil, corrupt, or dark are capable of speaking it — all undead, necromancers, mystics, frost witches, shades, striga, silit, and shade parasites.
The language was unleashed upon descendantkind when Ikuras fixed Its eyes upon the stream and prodded the language toward the dreaming minds of living mortals with wounded souls — those plagued by dark knowledge, those unnaturally connected to the Soul Stream without the song of Aeriel to prevent the intrusion.
Though it grates at first — like nails on stone, like scraping metal — persistence brings tolerance, and tolerance brings fluency. Once heard enough, every sapient being with a soul will develop resistance to its effects, and may even learn it while still among the living.
Linked with the language is its script — slowly understood by dark mages the first time they encounter it. To those unaffiliated with the dark arts, the words are harsh on the eyes and cannot be read properly; like trying to look into the sun. The original Black Script can be found at the font archive of the Ebrietaes.
Al'tahrn-Durngo's abrasive pronunciation cannot be weaponized or made relevant to combat. The discomfort of hearing it cannot cause damage.
Al'tahrn-Durngo is a language and cannot be instantly known. It requires years (at least 2 IRL weeks) of practice before full fluency, regardless of whether one naturally develops it or is taught.
Type in Common below, and your words will be rendered in the Ebrietaean Black Script — the written form of Al'tahrn-Durngo. The script is harsh to untrained eyes, like trying to look into the sun.
Linked with the language is its script — slowly understood by dark mages the first time they encounter it. To those unaffiliated with the dark arts, the words are harsh on the eyes and cannot be read properly; like trying to look into the sun.
The Black Script, known as Durngo'roshak, maps the sounds of Al'tahrn-Durngo to unique glyphs. Each letter of the Common alphabet corresponds to a glyph in the script. Type any Al'tahrn-Durngo phrase above to see it rendered in its true written form.