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candlemom ([personal profile] candlemom) wrote in [community profile] logsinthenight 2020-02-15 10:00 am (UTC)

[The analogy gets a wry smile.]

That is precisely it, I fear. They do have a language, though deciphering it is... largely beyond my understanding. Like the language of the forest spirits, the World Eaters speak a tonal language, though it doesn't seem to follow linear patterns. Instead, the World Eaters utter a great many tones all at once, allowing them to convey an enormous amount of information in a single "word", by our standards. The entire command for a reset, for example, is a cacophonous sound of only a few seconds in length, and yet it gives the forest spirits a complicated set of step by step instructions for completing a reset.

You see, this is how I've attempted communications with the World Eaters. The forest spirits seem to understand their language, so in engineering the command for a reset, I was able to include a message to the World Eaters themselves.

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