King's Common

King's Common developed first in the human colonies on Fimbria around the third century AL - it dropped the more complex sounds and the elemental symbology of Old Mortaani and incorporated some further elvish letters. The high degrees of migration and seasonal work in the early colonies meant it spread quickly amongst the common citizens - in just a century, it had become the dominant language outside of court circles throughout much of Tor Morta'an, and when King Leofrik the Temperate ascended to the throne, faced with secessionist murmurs from Clovayni colonists and south Zo'an islanders, he decided to embrace the change and ordered the new tongue, denominated "King's Common Speech", codified in a dictionary, the "King Leofrik Dictionary of Common Speech".

For the purposes of this collation and research, which would take nearly two decades, Leofrik created a new organ of the Azurite Church, a sub-sect of the Scholars called the "Order of Seers", who more generally were tasked with expanding terrestrial knowledge as opposed to preserving spiritual knowledge as the broad bulk of the Scholars were charged. The dictionary was published in 440 AL, just 40 years before Tor Morta'an itself would collapse; for the moment, however, the new language allowed the Kamorta dynasty to retain authority over their growing colonial empire.