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Suli Ang Register: Hiuang "The Voice"

Hituang "The Voice"

Hituang is Suli Ang's fourth register. It includes two new verb moods: Aturii the magic optative and Atumai the magic imperative. These are separate conjugation forms than their non-magic counterparts and the effective magic “schools” for Hituang. Hituang also includes the vocative case, a case classically missing from other Suli Ang registers.

Speaking in a predefined way using the Hituang register creates magical effects, bending reality to the user's will based upon their performance and complexity of the command spoken.

Invoking the name of a deity or spirit is required to conjure magical effects if one has not bound themself to a deity or spirit already. When doing so, the deity or spirit’s name must be in the vocative.

  • Saanatuqatiyn sasniha!
    evil-make-agnz-voc burn-1sg/2sg.imp
    O' Sinmaker I beseech you, set this ablaze.

Once one has bound themself to a deity or spirit, their name is implicitly invoked whenever a magical form is spoken.

  • Sasniha!
    burn-1sg/2sg.imp
    Burn!

Including a verbal classifier focuses the magic onto a specific point or object by effectively giving it a dummy name with which to refer to it with. This is less effective than specifically naming an object, but easier in quick speech when needed to use on the fly.

  • Qaasasniha!
    small_object-burn-1sg/2sg.imp
    I command you, burn!

Other derivational suffixes may be used to narrow down the meaning, compare these example sentences as they increase in complexity and thus in strength.

  • Witha!
    fly-1sg/2sg.imp
    Fly!
  • Witpiqaha!
    fly-from_ones_hand-1sg/2sg.imp
    Fly from (the) hand!
  • Imerwitpiqaha!
    1sg.poss-human.clf-fly-from_ones_hand-1sg/2sg.imp
    Fly from my hand!
  • Imermaqwitpiqaha!
    1sg.poss-human.clf-sharp_object.clf-fly-from_ones_hand-1sg/2sg.imp
    Sharp thing, fly from my hand!
  • Imermaqwitpiqasaaha!
    1sg.poss-human.clf-sharp_object.clf-fly-from_ones_hand-and-1sg/2sg.imp
    Sharp thing, fly away from my hand!

As complexity and specificity increases, so too does the effect. In this case, the more complex the spoken sample, the faster the object would fly from the hand.

Polite speech, using the magic optative mood, is often used to beseech aid from something stronger or physically larger or heavier than you, whereas impolite speech, the magic imperative, is used to give commands to weaker or physically smaller or lighter things. Conjurations, or the process of creating something from nothing, always uses the magic imperative.

Proper pronunciation and prosody is prerequisite for magic, understanding when and where to stress certain elements strengthens the magic and makes it more reliable.

Stress in Suli Ang falls on the foremost heaviest syllable where heavier syllables are ones that precede consonant clusters. The final syllable is stressed in words with fewer than four syllables. In cases where are syllables are light in a word with more than four syllables, the antepenultimate syllable gets the stress. Intonation on non-interrogative clauses usually rises on the antepenultimate syllabe, falls on the penult, and rises again on the final syllable. Interrogative intonation rises on the penultimate and falls on the final syllable.

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