#broken dimensions

Who is this chaotic nonbinary Star Wars junkie?

Hi! I'm Ripley! I like the color orange, Star Wars, books, reptiles, cats, and art. I'm 23 years old and use he/they pronouns. If you stick around, prepare for endless Star Wars reblogs, the occasional scenic vista reblog, semi-frequent thought dumps, various other fandom posts, and frequent screaming into the void! :)

Why should I follow this nerd?

Uh.... for the Star Wars rants, I guess? For the pictures of my bearded dragon and my cats? For the occasional rants about society, gender, and/or the horrendous state of American politics? Idk man. You don't have to follow me, even, just lurk. I don't care.

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BlueSky

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go to my art blog.

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Smash your competition, baby Show us some good entertainment Victory's your only payment Gladiator, gladiator…

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yeah, you're in it now Ev. sorry pal, the plot demands that you be forced into submission in the most brutal way possible. no, it's no in a fun way. yeah no, even the guy subjugating you just thinks its kind of funny, the only satisfaction he gets is from the way he gains more power every time he uses you. yeah, that does mean you're a weapon with no ownership over your own self or destiny. sorry man.

…now NATHAN, on the other hand, is having the time of his motherfuckin' life.

SONG: "Gladiator" - Jann

Blackout Imperial - PART 2

Blackout Imperial - PART 3

^^ "Blackout Imperial" is the 3-part introduction to the Aetheria part of Fractal Alliances. It's admittedly a bit chaotic, but that's kind of the main cast's MO ;D

You can also check out:

Fractal Alliances - comic #1

...which takes place around the same time!

There's quite a few other things that have gone up on my Patreon for Fractal Alliances recently, and you can check out just about everything FA-related for free by visiting the collection.

Please consider giving the page a follow as well, even if it's just as a free member! I like having an idea of how many folks get to see my stuff - the whole point of sharing my art and stories with the world is that other people get to enjoy it! :D

Some of Broken Dimensions' conlangs exist mostly as ciphers based on the American English alphabet, similar to the Star Wars alphabet for aurebesh or the codex of Mandalorian script forms. Some of BrDim's conlangs have budding concepts of grammar, their own growing dictionaries, and pronounciation guides!

This part of the Broken Dimensions project is something I started working with (in much, much earlier forms) as a kid - I LOVED making up languages and symbols that meant things only I could understand.

The languages I've made and begun to make for BrDim are so much more complex and much more time consuming to work on, but I think little me would've been utterly fascinated :)

The Languages of Broken Dimensions

There are actually quite a few named languages in Broken Dimensions, but the ones I have words and small dictionaries for, or alphabets designed for, are as follows:

Central Aetherian - trade language spoken throughout the entire Aetherian Empire, centralized around the core world with variants and dialects that get more distant from the original the further out you travel. Has an alphabet... of sorts.

Talkian - the most developed language I work with! Has it's own dictionary of words that grows almost weekly, can be spoken, and shares the Base Tartarun block sign alphabet with the rest of the dimension.

Base Tartarun - both a language and an alphabet! There are some words that can be understood across all of Tartarus, regardless of whether or not regional languages use different words that mean the same thing. Verdisse, the plural for "soldiers," is one such word. So is hetarn'aika, a strong swear word/insult usually used in reference to the Seven Heathen mages post-revolution. Similarly, the BT alphabet is used across the entire dimension of Tartarus and beyond as a trade language/default script for the written word.

Old Tongue - bits and pieces of this one. A language spoken in Eras 1 and 2 that has since fallen out of use. Was once the premier language and script to be used for writing magical tomes and conducting research in, but fell completely to the wayside after Crisis 5. Ziojic is an Old Tongue word made from two other words meaning "void" and "magic."

There are also other languages I refer to often but haven't put much thought or development into, such as:

Alcairok - the regional language of southern Tartarus, specifically Alcairo. Only has a few words. Alphabet in development.


Aislos - the language of Hell's Aisles. Mostly exists as a concept.

Rekahn Talkian - a variant of standard Talkian used primarily around Vadetta Heights and the northeastern coast of Tartarus. By Era 10 it's more of a "house language" used only with family, sometimes with hyperspecific words whose meanings are passed down through family lines.

Vaali - trade language of the eastern and southeastern coast of Tartarus, used in conjunction with the more mainland

East Coast Basic - the precursor and base language for most languages spoken in the eastern half of Tartarus - extremely similar to modern Talkian.

Envarian Sign Language (Envarasil) - 1 or only 2 Tartarun sign languages (beyond field sign, which varies from region to region based on military history and dominance) to have persisted through the millennia. Envari predominantly speaks Vaali, BT, and Interdimensional Common Tongue (CT), so they had less region-specific words in their sign language. It became the default dialect to use, and is rivaled only by Enzian Sign Language, which is similar but much more broad.

Enzian Sign Language - made up of part field sign, part CT sign, and part Adreonian sign. Has a sub-dialect that was used by the 1920s-30s rebel groups when fighting in the Era 10 Tartarun Civil War.

Ialu'kan - Trivaalian temple district dialect, mostly spoken by scholars, priests/devotees, and religious leaders in the province.

Viadexi localé - name of the island dialect spoken by some characters in The Lycanthra Syndicate.

Adreonian - very lightly used in parts of Fractal Alliances. It's the only surviving Darekaeiin/Shade dialect, and so survivors from the region kind of cling to it.

Base Tartarun

So, what's all this at the top of the post about Base Tartarun, then? Well, I like to reference little codes in my work sometimes. Since Base Tartarun is the alphabet I have the most settled/decided on, I like to leave bits of it around sometimes! I'd like you all to be able to read it and look for extra features :)

Included above are multiple shots of the Base Tartarun-English alphabet cipher! Feel free to save one image or the other (with the description or without) to use when you see a coded message in my artwork. This will be most common in comic pages, but I have hidden BT in illustrations before, and quite a few character design sheets for Fractal Alliances have BT scrawled into armor plates.

(You can also use BT to write for yourself in code! I used to write notes to myself in BT when I was learning the script. It's great for keeping track of things you don't want other people to be able to understand without the codex.)

What's all this for, then?

For fun, mostly! :D Little me liked making up languages, and I still do. That's the bare bones of it :)

But also, I've always felt like it would be cool to have a language only I and a few people could speak. My first experience with creating a coded pictograph language was on the playground, y'know? We made a small dictionary of symbols we could use to convey meaning to one another in class, on drawing paper, on our hands. It was fun!

I've also spent a significant portion of my life feeling as if I am speaking a language no one else understands, or being spoken to in one I don't understand myself. This is, in some ways, an extension of that. Now no one can know what I'm saying - for real this time! ;)

But again, it mostly boils down to having fun.

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I hope you guys enjoyed this short dive into the languages of Broken Dimensions! I'm sharing about them with the intention of someday uploading a dictionary of terms for fan perusal, but I don't yet know what form that will take. I'll keep y'all posted :)