flomsletter

Flomsletter is a fictional writing system used in the fantasy setting surrounding the Delta of Flom. It is depicted as a mixed script that blends logographic and syllabic components, enabling concise conveyance of weather, trade, and governance information. The term itself is created within the world-building of the setting and is not attested outside that context.

Glyphs in flomsletter are typically carved in clay or etched on metal. The script is read left to right on modern artefacts, though ancient inscriptions sometimes appear in vertical or boustrophedon styles. The basic inventory includes about a dozen river-related logograms plus several phonetic signs, allowing a range of phrases to be expressed through compounding and affixation.

In-world use of flomsletter spans official proclamations, religious texts, and merchant ledgers. It supports ligatures and sign combinations that express temporal relations and conditional statements, enabling relatively compact documentation of flood warnings and civic decrees.

Outside canonical texts, flomsletter has appeared in fan literature and role-playing games based on the setting, where designers use it as a flavor element and puzzle mechanism. The concept serves to deepen world-building by giving a tangible, culturally anchored script that participants can study or decode within the fictional universe.