The Translation Workbench
A Place to Try the Wyrm's Tongue, Sound by Sound
Devon Park, chronicler-engineer
Start with the most common shape. The frequency hints on the right are not cheating — they are how the kingdom's scribes learned to read. A wrong guess costs you nothing but a line in the log.
Pell, in the margin
Vyriak has thirty sounds, not twenty-six. Three are pairs of letters that count as one — sh, th, zh. Five are long vowels that wear a small bar above them. One is the glottal stop, which is the click in 'aru. Listen for those, and the rest follows. — P
You have not yet encountered any Vyriak texts in the kingdom. The first plate is above the Iron Veil door in Hearthhold. Walk past it, read it, and the Workbench will open.