Voidtongue

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Voidtongue
Voca - Physical manifestations of Voidtongue groans, whispers and howls.

Master Entrati called it the Voidtongue. He feared it was meaningless... and feared more that it was not.

—Loid, on The Man in the Wall's bellows.

Nothing scared me in years, except... that voice. Couldn't even understand what it was saying.

—Cavalero's opinions on Voidtongue

Voidtongue is a mysterious language discovered by Albrecht Entrati, and is believed to be the native language of the Void's inhabitants, such as the Man in the Wall and the  Murmur. Due to its enigmatic nature, much of it remains untranslated.

Lore & History

Albrecht Entrati presumably discovered the Voidtongue during his fateful venture to the Void, and although he was struck blind and mute from the endeavor, he managed to recover and decipher certain words, nine of which would become the Requiem Words used to sever the Void-induced immortality of select individuals. He had done so presumably out of fear he had been replaced by his Void-borne doppelgänger, and possibly future copies of his fellow Orokin as the Void was further explored. Parvos Granum is mentioned by Drusus Leverian to have spoken Voidtongue on at least one occasion.

Voidtongue is a guttural speech, and the nature of the Void results in portions of Voidtongue manifesting a physical form outright. All of the nine Requiem words are attributed to stanzas detailing eldritch existences within the Void.

Known Words

Words with translations

• Fass - Chaos; "Roiling, moaning, this realm of ours / In madness lost shall die."
  • Used in:
    • A Requiem Word.
    • A Wyrm that co-dominates the landscape of Deimos.
• Jahu - Form; "Corporeal laws are unwrit / As suns and love retreat."
  • Used in:
    • A Requiem Word.
    • The Jahu Gargoyle.
• Khra - Time; "To cosmic forms from tangent planes / We end as we began."
  • Used in:
    • A Requiem Word.
    • Strands of Khra.
• Lohk - Void; "From brooding gulfs are we beheld / By that which bears no name."
  • Used in:
    • A Requiem Word.
    •  Grasp of Lohk
    • Lohk's Embrace
    • Lohk Surge
    • Wall of Lohk
• Netra - Decay; "Carrion hordes trill their profane / Accord with eldritch plans."
  • Used in:
    • A Requiem Word.
    • Netracells.
• Ris - Light; "In luminous space blackened stars / They gaze, accuse, deny."
  • Used in:
    • A Requiem Word.
• Vome - Order; "To cosmic madness laws submit / Though stalwart minds entreat."
  • Used in:
    • A Requiem Word.
    • A Wyrm that co-dominates the landscape of Deimos.
• Xata - Truth; "Its heralds are the stars it fells / The sky and Earth aflame."
  • Used in:
    • A Requiem Word.
    •  Xata's Whisper

Untranslated words

• Oull - "From endless faces, countless forms, a multitude unfolds."
  • Used in:
    • A Requiem Word, though this was added after the remaining eight words were introduced in the game proper.
• Voull, Ne, Vok and Mara
  • Used by The Man in The Wall towards the end of The New War, though a proper transcript was not available until Whispers in the Walls. With the exceptions of Xata and Lohk, the rest of the dialogue remains unknown:
    • "VOULL NE XATA VOK, MARA LOHK?"  (download, history)
  • Mara is uttered by Tagfer before the Jahu Gargoyle translates his speech.
    • "Mara lohk! Mara lohk!"  (download, history)
  • Eleanor mentioned Mara in the Höllvania Central Mall.
    • "What on earth is a "Mara Lohk"?"
• Ku(?), Noma, Elu, Ra and Kah
  • All used in a certain Zariman Tablet found in Duviri:
    • The Wall of Bone in whiKU NOMA ELU RA KAH, MARA LOHK?
• Yara, Mig, Uteh, Komek, Vashtav and Uru
  • Uttered by Fibonacci before the Jahu Gargoyle translates his speech.
    • "YARA MIG! URU URU YARA MIG!"  (download, history)
      • "KOMEK! UTEH KOMEK!"  (download, history)
  • "Vashtav" is mentioned by Fibonacci post-quest in a voiceline that occasionally plays after defeating The Fragmented on the base star chart. It is also the title of a Somachord track.
    • "As it was written, so has it come to pass. The awaited operator has slain the many armed envoy. Mmm. Vashtav, Mara Lohk."  (download, history)
• Zek and Aba
  • Uttered by Bird 3 before the Jahu Gargoyle translates their speech.
    • Bird 3: "Zek? Aba! Zek? Zek?"  (download, history)
• Shogrun, Ukul, and Iire
  • Uttered by Tagfer before the Jahu Gargoyle translates his speech.
    • "IIRE! SHOGRUN UKUL!" File:DMissionTwo0460Tagfer en.ogg (download, history)
• Vak, Uu, Ivbok and Shotarat
  • Heard in The Fragmented bosses' battle theme.
• Jeliira, Murum and Vull
  • Found in the Somachord entries: "Yara Jeliira" and "Murum Vull"

Trivia

• "Mara" is used to refer to the Operator in Quest scripts, as revealed by [DE]Rebecca.