Namzuul

An awesome and terrible language undergirds all of reality: Namzuul, the Truth. In the first days all things were given Names that were theirs alone, and to this day all things bear a Namzuuli Name: people, creatures, concepts, and all the elements of the natural world. Long ago, ancient sorcerers learned the means to manipulate the material world with these fundamental words, though at great cost to themselves and those around them. Mortal encroachment on the very building blocks of everything that is manifested itself as Taint, and all its consequences.

Contemporary magic is only a fraction of what it once was. subsists on fragments of this language, now lost to the annals of time. Even the most powerful sorcerer kings of today know little more than syllables of Namzuul.