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A conlang loosely inspired by my conlang that was loosely inspired by fingerprints. I call it ThumbLang.

Two hundred years after the apocalypse, humanity has only a handful of written languages. Only one of which is from pre-collapse times.

The written thumb is a language dating back only about thirty years. Constructed by finger priests who worship the god of creation and his thousand hands. They believe that every hand has a story to be told, written in our fingerprints.

These priests believe they have cracked the code to this language, but it can only be understood while highly intoxicated by a hallucinogenic substance, called Endorin before the collapse. Whether this is true they seem to have a serious grasp over psychic magic and have access to information and foresight unmatched.

In the distant past, it was discovered that spark was uniquely human in occurrence. While all living things had Aura, none wielded spark. However, the rest of the natural world was being damaged by the ambient energy, corruption, spark created. Leading to chaos in the ecosystem called entropic blemishes.

These strange features can be benign or incredibly destructive to the organism. Rashes of iron pocks, flesh converting to bark and visa versa, functioning eye-like tumors forming under the skin.

Humanity, in desperation, began a project to vent and store this ambient energy underground. Through strange ventilation and mathematic architecture, humanity structured tunnels underground that pulled the corruption from the air.

But humanity needed to maintain these internal structures. Thousands of architects and workers were sent underground to fulfill this mission. They remain here to this day. Toiling away to protect humanity.