Chanpukalor Svegapulthra I

Portrait of Chanpukalor Svegapulthra I

### Relatives

Chanpukalor Svegapulthra II (son), Chanpukalor Svegapulthra III (grandson), Chanpukalor Svegapulthra IV Deus Prime ReMiX (great-grandson), Chanpukalor Svegapulthra V (great-great-grandson)

### Affiliation

Svegapulthra Line, Goop Syndicate (former), Meat Institute, Meat Institute Department of Linguistics

### Occupation

Linguist, Professor, Public Speaker, Researcher

## Physical description

### Gender

SSGC-F3

**Chanpukalor Svegapulthra I**, born in the bog in 6757, was a linguist, professor and public speaker known as the "Father of Boguantzik". His lifetime achievement was modernizing the niche, near-extinct, ancient Meat Bog language of Kwgo'guantzik into a usable language for everyday communication. In its modern form, it is now used as a sort of Lingua Franca on the bog, with an estimated 25% of bog-dwellers speaking it natively and another 60% speaking it as a second language, largely thanks to Svegapulthra's updating and promoting of the language within his lifetime. As well as his achievement in the modernization of Kwgo'guantzik, he was also a founding member of the Goop Syndicate, the founder of the Meat Institute and later the Institute's Svegapulthra Academy of Linguistics.

## Pre-Blight Kwgo'guantzik

Prior to the 3000-year Goop Blight, which began in the year 3764, Kwgo'guantzik was spoken by the majority of bog-dwellers. However, the large demographic shifts and massive changes in bog communities brought about by the blight phased out the language almost entirely. During the 3-millenia long pandemic and the many conflicts and inter-realm interactions it caused, Kwgo'guantzik was almost entirely eliminated from public use in favor of the languages of refugees, invaders and allies from other areas and realms.

## Work within the Goop Syndicate

Chanpukalor was one of the 4 founding members and leaders of the Goop Syndicate, the group which helped rebuild the Bog after the blight. Although he did not have a formal title, his primary focuses within the Syndicate were communications, research, and sociological analysis of the post-blight world. He would also often serve as a bridge between the other members, uniting Lady Ding L'Baum's science, Twelfth Grade Student's mathematics, and Cunko Sandoval's art and design. Twelfth Grade Student once said of him in a documentary tape that "big Chanpuke [nickname given to Svegapulthra by Student] is like the glue that holds the whole syndy [slang term for the syndicate] together, knamsayin? But like, if the glue was always blabbin' about modernizing Kwgo'guantzik or whatever".

## Founding of the Meat Institute

> Further reading: Meat Institute
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Shortly after the dissolution of the Goop Syndicate and the Entropy Mechanics Institute, the building that was formerly the EMI would be occupied by the Meat Institute, which Svegapulthra founded as a solo venture after the deaths of Twelfth Grade Student and Lady Ding L'Baum. He would then go on to swiftly resume the development of the Chaos Anchor and complete it within two days based on prototypes left behind the two EMI founders. Cunko Sandoval did not immediately join him, and instead turned to focus solely on his art, due to his grudge against the EMI based on his belief that the Chaos Anchor project killed Lady Ding L'Baum, his secret lover and fiance. 30 years after the founding of the Institute, Svegapulthra tracked down Sandoval, who was living in the Chicken Bog, a southeastern region of the Meat Bog. He convinced him to join him at the institute, offering him the opportunity to found the Meat Institute Conservatory of the Arts. Sandoval, who at this point had mellowed out and understood that the Anchor had not, in fact, killed his wife, agreed to take on the position.

## Modernization Begins

Around 6877, just over a century after the blight was finally over by most accounts, the effects of the 3000-year-long series of conflicts and hardships were still being felt in the Meat Bog. Svegapulthra, at this point in his 120s (a young adult, by the standards of his race), had taken an interest in language from a young age, and felt that something needed to be done to restore Kwgo'guantzik as a shared language in the bog, an area which had lacked one for centuries, if not millenia. After years of establishing a sense of humor, a name for himself, and a jokebook to use on the few living natives of the Meat Bog and transcribing dozens of past-times that had been lost over the millennia, he tried the meat-based methods he'd collected as a child in the hope of starting a language renaissance. He soon heard utterances of his invented Meat Bog, and he then quickly realized the futility of further languages without actual conversation, and began actively pushing his language for native usage. By the year 6912, Svegapulthra had finished overhauling the language into Boguantzik, a modernized and simplified version that was not only sound to his ears, but actually semi-relatable to the few existing speakers of ancient Kwgo'guantzik bog-language. Svegapulthra had helped birth the modern language, which had grown from a few isolated pockets to a living language that the majority of the population of the Bog did not only understand, but speak fluently, rather than merely sign or mime it.

## Criticism and hinderings in progress

After founding the Meat Institute and beginning his linguistic journey, Svegapulthra added to its facilities by founding the Svegapulthra Academy of Linguistics at the Meat Institute. He soon stepped down as president, leaving the position to his son, Chanpukalor Svegapulthra II, in order to focus on training the Upkeepers and being a Boguantzik professor at the new academy. There he taught the Boguantzik language, as well as his many inventions, with the aim of bringing modernization to the Meat Bog through language. Despite his best efforts, however, Svegapulthra soon faced a backlash from those who feared the progress of the language's reform, and even a threat of physical violence. The backlash and violence have continued to this day, temporarily forcing Svegapulthra into hiding from "the more delicate listeners" of the language. Despite these woes, however, Svegapulthra soon returned from hiding, helped by a sway in public opinion after the Meat Institute linked improvements in bog quality of life to the speaking of Kwgo'guantzik. He was also provided by Institute administration with an armed escort of anywhere between one to twenty bodyguards, depending on the occasion. These guards were led by Goop Blight war hero and security director of the Meat Institute Candelabro Destructum, who was chosen for the role by Svegapulthra himself, and would eventually become a formal army by the name of the Meatmen.

By the later years of his life, Svegapulthra had successfully brought Kwgo'guantzik to the forefront of the people of the Meat Bog, but he'd still struggled with acquiring wide-spread participation in Kwgo'guantzik academics, a subject which most found boring and overly complex. As a result, Kwgo'guantzik studies remained an unpopular subject to the Bog-folk, much to Svegapulthra's dismay. Though he had managed to bring Kwgo'guantzik to the top of the list of living languages used by the people of the bog, those who were not familiar with the language, such as the few goop-affiliated beings left after the blight, often denied the language's existence entirely, saying that it was too gross to use. In response to this, Svegapulthra declared that Kwgo'guantzik was neither gross, nor difficult to use, but was simply disgusting, a controversial yet brave claim that gained him huge support in the world of education.

## Involvement with social movements

Since then, Svegapulthra had continued to focus on Boguantzik, rebuilding the Academy of Linguistics as well as the Meat Institute at large, looking into the means by which he could bring more and more bog inhabitants to the use of the language. He often stayed on the metaphorical soapbox to shout his case, but on occasion he would descend to the surface to get more direct involvement in the cultural revolutions that were still in progress. Though he had not helped cement his place as the de facto leader of the revolution by continuing to speak in his own language, he had at least made his ideas appear more acceptable to the peoples of the bog. In a few cases, where Svegapulthra had been on hand, his enthusiastic support had had a significant impact on the desired result.

He was also far and away the biggest supporter of Meat agriculture, and spent a good deal of time lobbying for bog farmers to get involved. Svegapulthra had even set up a representative in the regional government of the marsh, despite some early reluctance by the representative to agree to such a plan.

## Death

Svegapulthra died in 7086, at the age of 329, at his home on the institute grounds. He was surpassed by his son, Chanpukalor Svegapulthra II, who would continue in his father's footsteps as an academic at the institute and begin the now famous Svegapulthra Line of academics.

## Quotes

> "Boguantzik isn't gross. It's simply disgusting."
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> "Fecal-language? Bufoonery! There's nothing gross about that! It's just disgusting."
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> "Uggggggh! I don't know what you people are talking about!"
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> "Language, thy name is plural, disgusting!"
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