After the Great Dissolution, when the old nations collapsed and global information systems fragmented, human languages did not disappear. Far from it, they evolved, adapting to the changing environment and the new emerging cultures. From these transitions, three major cultural blocs arose: the Solarnati, the Hydrovelan, and the Nanocodax, each with its own particular way of speaking and understanding the world. Although they all share common roots in the languages that existed before the Great Dissolution, cultural and technological divergence has made communication between factions as difficult as it is revealing.
Although these languages derive from common origins, communication between factions is partial and full of misunderstandings.
In times of need, the factions resort to simplified forms of improvised communication—bridge languages born from urgent contact between cultures—or to multilingual human translators, who take on diplomatic or commercial roles. There are also shared linguistic databases (not always reliable), and it is not out of the question that certain groups have developed translation tools with the help of artificial intelligences.
The real obstacle is not so much understanding the words as it is grasping the values, emotions, and worldviews those words carry.
The languages of the human factions are not absolute barriers, but reflections of different worlds. They can be understood, sometimes. They are misinterpreted, often. But above all, they are living expressions of cultures that, although united by a common human origin, have learned to see reality through profoundly different lenses.
*Verna: The Language of the Solarnati
*Nuvélic: The Language of the Hydrovelan
*Codax: The Operational Jargon of the Nanocodax