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Lingua Imperium
Lingua Imperium, also called High Common, is the old tongue of The Empire. Scholars, government officials and nobles often read and write in it, while most people speak Empirian, the daily language of the Empire.12
Knowing Lingua Imperium is a privilege that the highborn usually keep for themselves.1
Rubrus, the blue-white moon visible every evening, is commonly known by a name from Lingua Imperium, in which the word means "the moon".3
Among those who know the language are the witch hunter Harken Wischard, who speaks it along with Empirian and Elvish, and the mercenary Commander Gustavius.45
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