Chapter 15, Page 7

RobertRVeith on Feb. 18, 2025

Language was one of the things I sort of gave up trying to include in these comics. There are only about 12 languages spoken across the Civilized Lands, which is very few for an area of this size (I used to live in an African country where there were more than 20 languages spoken by the approximately two million people who lived there). In the United States, where I live now, you can find speakers of more than 600 languages, but public speech is almost always English. And its sort of a trope in science fiction and fantasy that everyone speaks the same language. Anyway, as Tahni is fluent in five of the 12 languages and she's our story teller, I usually gloss over the multilingual aspects of the story, except where, as here, it's significant that a character doesn't understand what is being said around them.