Kirkut

Kirkut is an entire language family rather than a single language, with distinctive dialects spread across much of Akados — but the Haunted Steppe in particular. Kirkut is derived from roots in the Hundish language of the ancient Hundaei Empire, but after its precipitous fall to centuries of warfare with Hyperborea culminating in an internal war of unimaginable ferocity the last broken remnants of a once mighty people were scattered into small isolated tribes that are now known as the Shattered Folk. The Shattered Folk tribes have remained isolated from each other for so long that the Kirkut dialects diverged to the point that a speaker of one can understand that of another only with some difficulty.
Speakers of Kirkut still remain primarily found in the Haunted Steppe, but a surprising number of examples have found their way elsewhere over the millennia from the Ulnat of the Far North and K’Haln and Mongat of the Sea of Grass to the six Plainsmen tribes of eastern Reme that visit Bard’s Gate so frequently.

Spoken by

• Plainsmen