Tradescript

Tradescript is a writing system originally developed by the Doroun traders of the River Wiyel, used for drawing up trade deals and simple contracts. It is an ideographic script, with a limited set of symbols for trade goods, numbers, dates and practical concepts.

Tradescript became important during the Empire of Dor-en-Sann as a vital method of communication when peoples throughout the imperial trade network spoke hundreds of different languages. Despite languageplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLanguages

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differences, tradescript pictographs were unambiguous and understandable in any language.

Contracts were originally inscribed into mud pressed into a rectangular frame, so were to be clear will easy to inscribe with a reed stylus. Two copies of documents were signed by both parties using a carved seal stamps, then the clay was fired in a brief ritual which dedicated the sanctity of the contract to the gods, and made the contract unchangeable.

Tradescript was officially replaced in the second century ME, as Doroun writing became the lingua franca of business and education throughout Ororr. However, tradescript symbols are still used on signs, inscriptions and by merchants and street traders throughout Ororrplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrorr

Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrlanguagelanguagelanguage
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