Editing Character Poetry (section)

==Language and Sorcery==
''Subsequent to the uncovering of evidence that the Enochian of the Seventh Age (WoD) might well be the same language as the Old Realm of the First Age (Exalted) this fragment of a conversation was found. It's a ripped up piece of paper annotated with time/date/location as well as file number and a reference to the recording agency - but all the specifics have been blacked out.''

It's a valid assumption, that Old Realm was the first language in the reality of Exalted. It doesn't have to be, though. What if Old Realm is not the first language at all? Maybe it's 'merely' the language in which the Primordial treaty of surrender was written. That treaty and the subsequent imprisonment of the Primordials has redefined both them and Creation, making it the fundamental language of the *new* reality that exists after the Primordial War.

Demons speak Old Realm, because that language has been forced on them, is part of their bindings. Gods speak Old Realm, because it is the language of their victory, the language of the redefined, newly anthropocentric Creation (which in turn causes the gods to become anthropomorphic themselves). Raksha speak Old Realm, because as far as they are defined at all they define themselves in relation to Creation. And everyone else speaks/spoke Old Realm, because it's the lingua franka and for the Exalted it is a reminder of their victory in every word.

''What would be the original language?''

Probably unimaginable to us as is the Creation before the Death of those who became the Neverborn and She Who Lives In Her Name's extinction of parts of reality. But I suppose it would have to be fluid - or more precisely consist of many interlocking languages, one for each Primordial and the part of reality it defines. If there is a common core, an intersection of those systems of definition, it would be the language the Primordials created in the moment they decided to act together to Shape Creation. The different species of beings that lived before the Primordial War and the mass-genocide the Exalted wrought would have spoken different subsets of that language according to which Primordial created them.

''You know what it could be? The language of Sorcery. You can alter the world with those words, backed by essence.''

How about it being the language of Infernal Sorcery? After all it would draw upon concepts and powers that belong to a Creation before the War, of a Creation ruled by the Primordials. So in shaping reality through those words you return it to what it was in the beginning and assert Primordial rulership-by-proxy over it. That would make sense in the context of sorcery being originally taught to Brigid by demons. "Here, have a gift of great power, that weakens our prison every time you use it."

Only then Brigid - being a Solar - found a way to do the previously impossible, to employ Old Realm as language of sorcery and in doing so defeated that insidious Yozi plot. Now the Primordial treaty is strengthened by every word of sorcery spoken and Creation kept stable and firmly in the hands of Incarna and Exalted.