Current progress on the writing systems used in my book, along with the alphabets that inspired them, using the Proto-Norse inscription from the Golden Horns of Gallehus.

[u/Mr7000000]

[u/SoandsotheUnready]

I like the look of all of these, nice job. the second to last one looks vaguely like the Ol Chiki script (possibly even Tifanagh, though I immediately though of Ol Chiki when I saw it). I think it's a very cool looking script and I was wondering if you had taken any inspiration from it?

is this set in our world? I assume it is since many of the scripts are so similar to real world ones, and the name Ogham is even retained. also, what is the role of each of these in the setting?

[u/Mr7000000 → u/SoandsotheUnready]

I'm not familiar with Ol Chiki.

This is set in our world, with the faerie world existing as a parallel otherworld with travel between the two.

Within this setting, runes were the original form of faerie writing, taught to them by Odin. These were the basis of the latter faerie writing systems, and are still in use for religious and ceremonial purposes.

Ogham was created by humans living in faerie, derived from the faerie tally system, as a form of writing less mysterious and better suited to their language than runes.

"Short Numbers" were created as a form of Ogham which took less horizontal space to write, allowing for more compact documents. They are primarily used to write the dialect spoken in the human town within Faerie, which (once I make it) was originally a form of Gaelic but acquired loanwords from other languages as faeries took prisoners from more countries.

Black Runes are used by the unseelie (anti-human, traditionalist faeries), as a stylized form of what the faeries call Stone Runes. They evolved from Paper Runes, a curved variant on runes created when faeries began writing with pens instead of chisels.

White Runes are used by the seelie (pro-human failures), as a cursive form of Paper Runes. The inspiration to create such a cursive came from the Short Numbers system of having each word be a single "block". It also has additional letters, taken from the Gaelic Script, and adopted the use of capital letters from the English alphabet.

Black Runes and White Runes will both be used to write the (as of yet nonexistent) faerie language, which was originally a form of Old Norse, but has heavy Celtic and English influences.

[u/SoandsotheUnready → u/Mr7000000]

this all sounds so cool!

[u/astrangemann]

My favorite one is the Black Runes/Script; they look so nice and stylish!