High Bretawald

High Bretawald, as it is known now, is an ancient tongue whose origins date back beyond the Bretawald empire which now lays claim to it as the high speech of their nobles and scholars. It is in fact, the language of the empire of Levexokarthil, carried through the ages in a slowly corrupting form as it use became more ritualistic rather than everyday. The roots of the language appear to stem from two most unlikely sources, a strange blending of Empyrean and Draconic, it has been suggested that this may have been due to the significant influences that Celestial beings had in the early days of the Levexokarthil Empire, that and the number of draconic allies that the empire was said to have, resulting in a tongue spoken by the everyday citizen that had become littered with terms and ways of speaking that would have been more at home on the streets of Axis, or withing the great holds of the Dragon Lords. Its influence can still be seen to this day, most strikingly in the names of many locations within the Maelstrom Nations, such as the Isle of Rondasseix, or the Li'lix river to name but two, where the ix, or eix are ultima often found within the draconic, with it denoting an ownership or duty of care, such a distinction within draconic is somewhat fluid.
Then we can look at place names such as Roquenil, which appears to be a truncation of draconic and empyrean, Quen being a common root word within the Empyrean language to mean fort, or defensive place, while the Ro is not an uncommon syllable at the start of draconic words, and, although it is speculation il as the ending again is something we see often within draconic, presicely what the speculated draconic words that surrounded the empyrean were is now lost to the passage of time, but I hope that you can see from these few examples that there is a clear line from the now mostly ritualiustic and poorly remembered High Bretawald back through Levexokarthil and their suggested ties to the Dragon Lords and Celestial hosts.