Fun Facts and Trivia

Terra is a world shaped by years of living between cultures, a reflection of my life as an expat in a world where languages mix, traditions overlap, and nothing is ever just one thing. That experience is what inspired me to build Terra: a secondary world rooted in the real one. Yes, it has dragons, magic, alien civilisations, and powerful kingdoms. But so does our own world, in its own way. Terra simply stretches that truth, letting imagination finish what life started.

 Trivia

  • The languages of Terra are all inspired by real-world ones, staying true to how languages actually evolve. I’m a bit of a linguistic nerd, mostly because I love tracing where things come from. Every word has a story, and I wanted Terra to feel that way too: layered, accurate, and alive.

    • Draconic is based on Greek

    • The Erudites speak Sanskrit

    • Old Elven is Old Norse

    • Dark elves speak something like Icelandic, the closest language to Old Norse

    • High elves speak something like Norwegian

    • Wood elves speak something like Swedish

    • The dwarves speak my own variant of Scottish Gaelic

    • Ukhokho is Xhosa

    • Tazme is an Ewe-inspired language

    • Isqalimun is Inuktitut

    • Bodhan is Tibetan

    • Whakatere is, of course, inspired by Te Reo Māori

    • Banuelic is a Proto-Semitic language

    • Ghalizi is Classical Arabic

    • Kanjuunese is Japanese

    • Proto-Eruditan is the equivalent of the Proto-Indo-European language family

    • Indavi is Hindi

    • Izityenic is Russian

    • Bretannic is English (duh)

    • Hauvianic is German

    • Eruditan is Latin with Sanskrit honourifics

    • Seaman’s Cant is Spanish

    • Sud’s Dialect is Italian

    • Lutessian is French

    • Bravan is a mix of French, Latin, and Sanskrit for honourifics

    • Sindawr is a mix of an invented cat language, Arabic, and some Russian words

  • The nations of Terra are inspired by countries and eras of our world.

    • Bravoure is the Roman Empire if it had made it to the Middle Ages

    • Ghaliz is your land of the One Thousand and One Nights

    • Fallvale is Iceland

    • Kanjunna is Feudal Japan

    • Hauvia is 18th Century Germany

    • Lutessia is a mix of Renaissance France and Italy

    • Bretannia is Victorian England

    • The Moors is a place like Celtic Ireland

    • Ilia is your typical princess fairytale land

    • The mountains of Kanjuuna are the Himalayas where the Tibetans and Sherpa live

    • Ka Mui is New Zealand