KAISURAN LANGUAGE
A rudimentary explanation
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The first and most poinient thing to explain about the Kaisuran language is that no
word in it has a literal definition - the Kaisuran language is purely descriptive. The
word "Kais" is a prime example of this; Kais describes anything that is of Kaisuran
origin, and is used most visibly as the prefix of the name for any Kaisura species.

"Kaisura", to us, is actually a composite of two words to a Kaisura.

"Kais", describing something of Kaisuran origin.

"Ura", describing something which came first (chronologically).

"Kais'Ura" therefore describes "something of our origin which came first".

The names of all Kaisura species function this way.

Kaisiri, to us;

Kais, describing something of Kaisuran origin.

Iri, describing the underwater environment.

Kais'Iri, "something of our origin (in) the underwater environment"

This latter example also makes a small demonstration of the particular difficulty in
interpreting the Kaisuran language for non-Kaisura; context. Kaisura are exceptionally
intuitive creatures and thus their language largely foregoes any measure of deliberate
context. This poses no problem for Kaisura, but makes their language rather hit-and-
miss to translate for other species, save for the occasional individual of similarly
high intuition, or of many years of experience.

It should also be noted, however, that composite words are actually not very common
in the Kaisuran language today, beyond the names of Kaisuran species. Composite words
were used largely to narrow down what was being described more specifically. At an
earlier period of history, though at no particular point, many new words were
introduced to the Kaisuran language which describe subjects, concepts, and objects
specifically on their own, in turn drastically reducing the need for composite words.
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A little history, for flavor;
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Though its name might suggest it was the Kaisura, the Kaisuran language was actually
first developed by the Kais - the genetic predecessors of the Kaisura, from where the
descriptive meaning of the word Kais derrives.

For the longest time, no other species of Kaes'Aran could translate the Kais'
language with any consistency or reliability. At the time, this was to the Kais'
benefit, as they were largely subjugated by the Elves, Dragons, and certain other
dominant species of Kaes'Aran.

It wasn't until well after the emergence of the Kaisura and the bloody revolution in
which they became the new dominant species of Kaes'Aran, when the Kaisura themselves
called for a halt to the meaningless bloodshed and turned their efforts to diplomacy,
that they invested efforts into teaching other races how to interpret their language.

Ironically, it turned out that even with the Kaisura's help, the other species of
Kaes'Aran still found it difficult to translate the Kaisuran language, with the
translations often being partially inaccurate and largely inconsistent.

Only individuals of particular intuition, or significant experience, can translate
the language well enough for common conversation, let alone serious diplomatic
discussion. As a result, Kaisura simply teach their children how to speak, read, and
write the other primary languages of Kaes'Aran.

Many dragons to this day still find it infuriating that a three year old Kaisura
understands the dragon language better than a three-hundred year old dragon understands
the Kaisura's.