Dralish

The tongue of the dragon lords of lost Dralis, the Dralish language survives today in historical documents and magical study, spoken and understood only by the most educated of folk in Raiven and Forven, and rarely at all beyond the continent. Long years of study have been spent identifying and translating documents recovered from the ruins of lost Dralis and the dragonslayer-burned remains of drake dens. Most of these are only fragments, owing to the immense size of the ancient drakes relative to the average size of present-day scholars, and the work is slowed further by the evolving script resulting in multiple glyphs representing the same concepts. Numerous magical workings exist written solely in Dralish script leading many practitioners of arcane arts to a loose understanding of Dralish writings in the specific context of magic, if not a full comprehension of the language itself. This has resulted in a sort of modified Dralish within wizardly communities altered to serve the needs of practical magical practice, which further clouds the original source language for those not versed in the nuances of each arcane tradition. Nonetheless there is an echo of Dralish found throughout central Raiven, most notably in Atreus where there are phrases, loanwords, and some common sayings with their roots in old Dralish. The most notable example is of course the name Atreus itself which comes from the Dralish term A'teūsh which roughly translated means "betrayers" in reference to the people of Atreus invading and burning Dralis at its fall. Beyond this, there's simple terms such as Pairís which referrs to a type of indoor bath with an open roof and sūwarā which can refer to anything of towering height such as a large building or a mountain peak. There's also numerous phrases which persist, such as "birth from desire" which originates from a Dralish phrase proclaiming that the desires of one's heart are owed them from birth but which in modern Atreus is generally used to describe a greedy person.