"I was once approached by a military man who asked for my aid. I told him to his beak that I would not join his war. He was taken aback and realized a misunderstanding. Fighting is not the skill he needed. My linguistic abilities are what he sought. If they win their war, he told me, my people would never hear of it.
I left my home to join the military man and would be away for many years. It took some time but we created a code that no one has broken. I cannot tell you anything of it."
History
During the
War of Seven Summers,
Grara found that
Bral had been intercepting their messengers and messenger birds. They began to create codes to prevent this but each code was broken quickly. They concluded that
Bral had access to too many prisoners and civilians in captured towns to break the codes in their language.
Their solution was to bring a language from the other side of their territory. The nomadic peoples of the
Orthlands were approached to lend their language, known as
orth, to the effort. These people were chosen because many from the border region already spoke
standard graran as a language for trade. The first hurdle was that there was no written form of the language which they needed to create. Once this was done and the code created,
Bral was never able to crack it.
Twice Coded
The first code they came up with translates the message in
standard graran into
orth, then substitutes each letter for a word in
standard graran.
Later, a second code was developed. This code takes the message that needs to be sent - written in
standard graran - and uses a word from
orth for each letter of the
standard graran. Then for each letter of each word of
orth, it is substituted with a word of
standard graran. This second code became known as the double code.
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Game Statistics
Unless a character understands both languages, they cannot make a check to decipher the code. Even if the character does understand both, upgrade the difficulty of the check three times.
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