The Rooted Age… when the language began to stir...

Something begins to speak…

and Dr. Morrow hears it.

Field Notes (Audio Fragment): Dr. Aluma MorrowArchive Division // Epoch 7: Rewilding CensusDate: 14th Sunfall, Cycle 3Location: Overgrown Forest Sector 2/// moss.glade.echo

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For Aluma, the shift began quietly.

Not with whole words,

but with recurring shapes...

forms that echoed early proto-writing,

yet behaved like something alive. 

At first, she catalogued them as anomalies.

Coincidence.

Pareidolia.

Wishful thinking. 

But patterns don’t lie.

And soon the marks stopped feeling randomand began to feel intentional. 

Across forest floor and broken circuitry,

the same forms kept returning:

curves that leaned,

lines that trembled,

shapes halfwaybetween letterand living thing. 

She began to call them glyphs.

The earliest attempts, she believes,

of a language trying to root itself

back into the world.

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And this is where my work begins.

Because if this language existed...

if something in The Rooted Age truly tried to speak...

what would its marks look like?

How would they grow?

So, along with Aluma, I followed the fragments.

The marks.

The shapes that kept returning.

And slowly, glyph by glyph,

an entire alphabet took form.

But alphabets aren’t learned all at once.

They begin with a single mark.

In my next post, I’ll share some of these glyphs...

their sounds, their meanings, and the role they play in the world.