Old Attran

Purpose
final pre-contact stage of Attran

Creative Constraints
Synthesis! Agglutination! Go crazy!

FIRE UP THE WORD FORGE!!!

Intended Use
Old tongue to be put through evolution to make a middle tongue and at least one branch. Create lots of words. Begin shift towards free word order. break out the idiom jar.

Writing System
Old Attran has one system, but two different executions lead to drastically different looks; the northern islands in the archipeligo carve into stone, wood, or wax, and the southern islands use styluses on leaves.

Cultural Notes
The oldest surviving complete poem 'Dance Above The Sky' was written during this time by poet-queen Dawn. Several other fragments of her work, including all but one stanza of 'Wings Alight', and the lullaby 'To Shore', date back to this era. 'To Shore' is still sung to this day, although it has gone through a great deal of change with the languages of its singers.

Several jar-libraries of writing and an extensive record of astronomical events indicate that the Attrans were aware that their planet was spherical in nature, had a surprisingly accurate estimate of its size, and that stars were an extremely large distance away. The queens of the southern islands have begun to unify into an alliance, and the queen on the mainland coast wages several wars to seize control of the nearest northern islands, while slowly losing territory to her eastern neighbors on the continent. The trailing yellow sunberry, native to the western coast of the continent, and the green-tufted lizardrat, native to much farther north, show up in several cook 'books' and recipie tablets, long with preserved bones, seeds, and artwork. A detailed list of instructions on how to properly sacrifice a hoofed swampdog to Attra world-mother, and how to dispose of the ashes respectfully, is found among a pile of harvest records. Two famines and a plague completely wipe out the Silver Hive, leaving only scattered markers in the lineages of its allied queens.