Werneriin

Werneriin is a fictional archipelago, its language, and its people, developed for speculative fiction and tabletop role-playing settings. In the imagined world, the archipelago comprises roughly a dozen islands in a temperate sea and is organized into coastal city-states and inland villages.

The Werneriin language, often called Werneriinic, is described as an agglutinative, SVO language with an evidential system. It is presented as distinct to support worldbuilding, not as a real-world language.

Legend places initial settlement in the late first millennium, followed by a loose confederation among island communities. Trade networks expand and competition for fish and sea lanes shapes inter-island relations; later reforms introduce written law and guilds.

Society emphasizes kinship, seafaring, and woodworking. Typical crafts include boatbuilding, ropework, and carved wood, passed down through families and guilds. Festivals honor the sea and ancestors, with drums and reed music.

Werneriin appears in various worldbuilding projects and campaigns as a setting to explore coastal ecology, cultural exchange, and mythic memory.