The Blah Reformation

[Panashea 3323]

 

 

The Orcish Blah exists a prevalent part of orcish society, however, not as a necessary language, or a muddle of grunts and cries within orcs. Instead, it is a form of worship and praise that the orcs practise in the guttural tongues spoken.  

 

Old Blah, or the language of the spirits was spoken long ago, beyond centuries, when orcish shamans possess power beyond power. It was a divine tongue that granted communication between the spirits and their worshippers, blessing the orcish peoples with powers such as Elementalism,Farseer, and Lutauman. Shamanism was born, bringing forth orcs who possessed control over the physical world and its aspects.

 

However, not all orcs were blessed with such an ability. Those who remained workers or craftsmen were only able to witness and hear these words, taking part of their tongue onto their own. Though they did not move mountains, or curse beings to rot, these orcs still worshiped the spirits. As such, their form of worship became the parts of Old Blah that they understood from the shamans, and spoke it with the courage and strength as to improve their standings with the beings beyond the Mortal Plane.

 

Not all orcs worship the spirits in such a way. Some view the act as pointless, while others find the tongue strange and alien. The way an orc speaks is simply a reflection of how they view the world, and the forces that guide it.  Their tusks do however still part an accent, though never enough to completely butcher or ruin their speech.

 

 

 

OOC: Due to the recent post, I essentially wrote up a reason for why so many orcs speak blah, HOWEVER, removing the necessity to speak it. Those wish to speak blah have reason to speak such. Those who wish to not speak it now do not have to, nor will be harassed by players for not speaking it.

[_pok_ 1768]

Controversial, but necessary. The Blah's become more of a hinderance than anything else unfortunately, as players have chosen to take it to new extremes by essentially using it as an excuse to spell everything completely wrong and butcher grammar. What began in Aegis under Mogroka as "Ug how are lat?" quickly became "Ug, 'ow amz lat?" A once simple and easy to understand language quickly became rather overcomplicated and muddled with made up rules and regulations that existed for nothing but our special-snowflakery. Hopefully this will water down the extremes of our system and make it a bit more user friendly. 

[OzYmandi 647]

16 hours ago, _pok_ said:

 that existed for nothing but our special-snowflakery

But we ARE special snowflakes. We are the only ones who aren't normal-skinned and normal-sized (Besides Kha and Dweds)

[MrMineLoveDude 299]

Moved to The Great Library. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.

 

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