Okay so I wanted to work more on the glyphs that the first era used for writing and the temples still use for record keeping and summoning tomes, which basically means taking the Ehtmoh language ( which I will remind everyone started as a reversed alphabet code I got Fancy with as a preteen ), writing out the names of spiritually important stuff since the empire is a theocracy and thus Things To Do With The Pywa Colors Language A Lot, and then condencing my original alphabet into a smaller list of key characters. These become my building block sounds for the glyphs, and will be the most common syllables in the language overall-- which gives me greater foundation with which to build from.
This also lets me straight up make up some words that stand in for complex concepts, which then become mysteries my characters can solve as they dig through a forgotten ruin or try to make sense of forgotten and mistranslated knowledge, and that's fun!
Also also, as I work over this stuff I come up with region names! Bonus points lol
Languages grow complex with time, and that complexity is often giant games of historical telephone. Trying to play that game by oneself is a fun way to spend an afternoon 🤣
