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The monumental-style script of the Second Language is an elaborate logographic system built on the names of the sixteen aspects of the Supreme Being, or nvv̀n. Derived from a matrix of each of the divine names of the aspects, or gods, each of the 450 component glyphs is a crossing of two gods, and represents a plant or animal. The second language, 2L, is a philosophical language, where each piece of its vocabulary can constitute the basis for a further refined concept. By understanding the relationships between these concepts—such as how the verblike adjective ʔjj́x, "to be yellow," is understood to relate to ʔjj̄x, "flying snake"—a great deal of cultural nuance and perspective can be extracted from the composition of the language itself. That all being said, despite the abundance of absolutes in which Vana Gloria deals, it is also rife with mystery: dozens of glyphs, containing the words of the god Hypostasis (whose words are used only in Name syllables) and the goddess Hubris (whose words are entirely lost to us, and have possibly been stricken from history), remain unknown.

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Did you know?

• Sherese (native syerès), a regional subdialect of the Hellesan dialect of Gabalea, has a phonemic /ɱ/ for ‹v›, actually.
• According to arcane knowledge, when Ermès created the Cosmos, it built a few portals to connect the different parallel realities that compose it, but once the heavens were created, these portals were shut or, according to some sources, destroyed.
• Sateu, the protohistorical language predecessor of Peran (Hellesan's mother tongue), was written with an alphasyllabary of at least 72 glyphs that centuries later fully evolved into an alphabet.

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