Amayaresh

> "Arghas… Arghas… Nazir-im Khad-nim… Arghas… Arghas… Nazir-im Khad-nim… Naz! Naz! Naz! Naz! Arghas-im Amagoth urus-im Urus-nim. Vilna!"
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> Last Testament of the Urus-nim, officially known as the Quinrah Manuscript

The **Amayaresh** (Stanislavan: *Detskaya Rech;* Oratio Ecclesiastica: *Natorum Oratio*), translated as **Children's Speech**, and often referred to as **Language of the First Men** by *unorthodox* Imperial Scholars, is the name given by the Association of the Academies of Extraterrestrial Speech to the spoken and written language of the first known humanoid civilization known today as the Urus-nim, though it is unknown what the peoples of this language referred to themselves as.

It is evident that Amayaresh is directly inspired by the Seraphic Speech spoken by the Anastari. The word Amayaresh itself comes from two Reshamayen words, "Amaya" meaning 'child', and "Resh" meaning 'message'. Several linguistic anthropologists such as Dr. Siphesihle, Em.D., O.S.V.S., believe that the Anastari themselves taught the Urus-nim how to speak Reshamayen, but due to the stark differences in their physical and metaphysical natures, developed a separate language overtime. This is commonly known as the Filial Language Theory (FLT), which is applied in this context to the Urus-nim's parent-child relationship with the Anastari.

It is believed that there were a thousand dialects of Amayaresh, but almost all were lost to time. One of the few remaining dialects come from the Ptosiasteric Era, the era when the Urus-nim Civilization began to go extinct as a result of the work of the Fallen Ones, hence the Hellan terms "Ptosi" meaning 'fall', and "Asteric" meaning 'star', are used to refer to this time period. This dialect is thus called the Ptosiasteresh, the dialect of the Urus-nim language spoken directly before their destruction.

## **Discovery**

The discovery of the Urus-nim and their language Amayaresh first came from the discovery of the Archive of Creation, a corrupted body of extra-terrestrial scripture originally found in the Erinyes Vessel Alpha, a light reconnaissance space-ship discovered during the First Epoch. In the latter-part of the Archive of Creation, the text explicitly details the Anastari's creation of the Urus-nim themselves. The Urus-nim were said to be "born in the image of the Anastari", but were also said to inhabit "lesser bodies" which paled in comparison to the bodies of their angelic creators. Their creation was overseen by the First of Ladies, Sëreanya, who is believed to be the Greatest Asëndyen that had ever existed. To their dismay, the Urus-nim were devoid of any actual life, as the Anastari themselves did not have the power to grant souls. When they had realized this, the Lady Sëreanya wept atop the soulless bodies of the first Urus-nim, as she had loved them as if they were her own children. In pity, the Anā'duin, the Gods of the Anastari, felt sympathy for what the Anastari tried to create. The Anā'duin then breathed into them a morsel of the Eternal Fire, and thus the Urus-nim were given souls of their own. The Urus-nim, with the help of the Anastari, began to forge their own civilization in honour of the Anastari and their Gods which gave them true life, the Anā'duin.

According to the Filial Language Theory (FLT) first theorized by Dr. Siphesihle, Em.D., O.S.V.S., evidence of which is based partly on the Archive of Creation, the Anastari taught the Urus-nim how to speak through the use of Reshamayen. But due to their differences in nature, the Urus-nim were unable to fully capture the essence of the Reshamayen, and began developing their own language overtime. This theory is given further credence by the plethora of words and ideas that Amayaresh and Reshamayen share.

The first true encounter of the actual Amayaresh language was a manuscript named the Last Testament of the Urus-nim, which was found in the hallowed gates of Quinrah, on the Planet Olethros IV, located in the Olethros Star System of the Triangulum Galaxy. The manuscript details the existential dread that the Urus-nim felt on their last days. It is believed to have been written by King Amaya-Nār IX, or at least by one of his chroniclers, servants, or companions, during the Siege of Quinrah, also known as the Siege of the Hallowed Gate.

## **Sentences**

 **Arghas-im Amagoth urus-im Urus-nim.** | The Shadow of Death has befallen us. | Ptosiasteresh | One of the sentences found in the Last Will of the Urus-nim. Note that "Urus-nim", which literally means the "Befallen Ones" in this context, has been translated as the word 'us'.

## **Names**

 **Nazirvil** | Dreaded End | The Vakonawa who challenged King Amaya-Nār IV to slay him.