Elemental Fire
Fire is a greedy element, its language consists of barely more than expressions of want and need. Fire elementals can be quite intelligent, but their communication is little more than animalistic expression of domination and submission. They are not social in the least and there is very little need to express compromise, coordination or empathy. If not for Fire Warlocks, there would be none.
Writing System
Elemental fire can express dominance and territory not unlike the way canines do it with urine. Fire elementals have been known to deposit molten slags of metal as demonstrations of their heat. The higher the melting point of the metal used, the more impressive its demonstration is. No more complex messages would even be considered necessary between one elemental and another. The most impressive elementals will deposit lava.
Morphology
There is very little in Elemental Fire that can be classified as phonetic. Rather, elemental fire is communicated by the expression of heat flow, and when it comes to heat flow, there is very little give and a whole lot of take. So the language is usually a tug of war in which the most dominant elemental expresses its desire and other elementals acknowledge this through submission and retreat.
Common Phrases
Through pulses in heat transfer, the follownig phrases can be expressed:
- I am big/powerful/dominant
- Depart
- I acquiesce
- want
- fuel
- obey
- reward
- attack
- this is your target
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