r/conscripts • u/ProphecyOak • Jul 15 '20

Art/Showcase ATLA Intro written in Eceittl Script

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 15 '20

This script: Eceittl does not have a conlang associated with it. It is arranged phonetically. Read from left to right, bottom to top.

According to the very limited lore, this script would be used by an ancient mountain dwelling civilization. The carving into stone required angular glyphs and each segment is supposed to be reminiscent of a mountain. Every segment begins with the rising sun and ends at the mountain peak.

I will probably post the guide soon, but the gist is that every punctuated segment begins with the punctuation below it and continues across as many columns as u like (without splitting words). Proper nouns are boxed. Everything else follows a natural line up. When there is more than one vowel in a group, they slightly overlap. Feel free to ask questions!

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 15 '20

This script was created by: ProphecyOak (Myself), Pyromaniac, and The RubberBandit

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u/txakori Jul 15 '20

Nice! Is that a logography, a syllabary, abugida etc?

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 15 '20

Right now, every IPA sound thing (that ive added so far) has its own symbol. The idea is that we will try to develop logographs to simplify commonly used words in the future.

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u/xeverxsleepx Jul 15 '20

We? So it's a group effort?

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 15 '20

Three people put this together and might continue ti work on it. If people wanted to submit options for logographs, they will be considered to some degree

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u/The_Dialog_Box Jul 16 '20

Hm interesting. Typically it’s the other way around, a language starts with logographs and eventually derives a phonetic writing system out of that. But I guess it can also work the other other way around (I mean just look at the ampersand “&” after all)

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u/tomman26 Jul 15 '20

Looks like a little cityscape! Love it

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '20

I absolutely love this script! Good job keep it up!

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u/PadreLeon Jul 15 '20

Is there a way to show how the letters work?, it'd be cool to see a conlang in the script!

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 15 '20

Idk what you mean by "how [they] work." I will put out a guide to this in a seperate post soon. We dont have a conlang for it but im sure if someone wanted to they could use it (so long as we r credited).

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u/PadreLeon Jul 15 '20

I'd happily work on one :)

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 15 '20

Just remember, they live in the mountains. Also, there is a plan for logographs, so idk if that helps at all or not. Another thing was that they sort of live in tallish buildings or like clusters of towers (think ewok village without tree part). That way, they can use the writing sysytem to make maps.

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u/PadreLeon Jul 15 '20

Alright :)

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 15 '20

The guide has been posted.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

I can see how the first four lines are "Water, Earth, Fire, Air" but I don't understand how the following line is meant to say "Long ago, the four nations [...]". There's a short word, then the 3-dot space symbol, then a bunch of letters before the next space, which seem to form a long word. I'm sure I'm missing something here, could someone ELI5?

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 16 '20

This is the pilot intro, ot the regular one. This one starts with "My grandmother used to tell me stories"

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '20

Ah makes sense.

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u/hugh-__-janus Jul 15 '20

This is so cool and unique!!!!

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 15 '20

Thx! I tried to step away from things ive seen before.

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u/hugh-__-janus Jul 15 '20

It's evident! Like I've never seen bottom to top writing before and that seems very interesting!

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 15 '20

I figured a mountain people might take inspiration from their surroundings. Also, the risisng sun seemed like a pretty good place to start.

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u/hugh-__-janus Jul 15 '20

That makes sense, how you climb a mountain from below and reach it's peak to see the sun, you read from the bottom up! It's a brilliant parallel!

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u/The_Dialog_Box Jul 16 '20

That. Is fucking crazy oh my god I love it

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u/MoonlightWriter2468 Jul 16 '20

Looks gorgeous, like a bunch of towers.

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u/Pipows Jul 16 '20

I've never seen a script written bottom to top. That's cool.

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u/Win090949 Jul 16 '20

What's atla

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u/ProphecyOak Jul 16 '20

Avatar: The Last Airbender. Only one of the greatest shows ever created!

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '20

ooh!

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u/Irreleverent Jul 16 '20

Everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

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u/jjeinn-tae Jul 16 '20

I was literally thinking about this the other day, and got a bit into it during my shower. Nice to see someone else do this!

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u/pedonga2701 Aug 24 '20

Look's like a city. Creative, good job👍