𓂀the beholder𓂀

1. Alphabet (full inventory)
   All symbols are used as letters. They are divided into two groups:
   Basic (Latin bold):
   𝐀 𝐁 𝐂 𝐃 𝐄 𝐅 𝐆 𝐇 𝐈 𝐉 𝐊 𝐋 𝐌 𝐍 𝐎 𝐏 𝐐 𝐑 𝐒 𝐓 𝐔 𝐕 𝐖 𝐗 𝐘 𝐙
   Extras (Greek Fat + Special):
   𝚨 𝚩 𝚾 𝚫 Unnecessary round Ή 𝚪 𝚰 𝚱 𝚲 𝐌 𝐍 𝛀 𝚶 𝚽 𝚷 𝚿 𝐑 𝚺 𝚻 𝚯 𝚹 𝚼 𝚵 𝐙
   There are 52 letters in total. Case is not distinguished (all characters are already capitalized). Spaces and punctuation marks are standard.
2. Phonetics (sound meanings)
   Each letter is assigned one basic sound (simplified, for ease of learning):
   Letter
   Sound
   Letter
   Sound
   Letter
   Sound
   𝐀
   /a/
   𝐁
   /b/
   𝐂
   /k/
   𝐃
   /d/
   𝐄
   /e/
   𝐅
   /f/
   𝐆
   /g/
   𝐇
   /h/
   𝐈
   /i/
   𝐉
   /j/
   𝐊
   /kʰ/
   𝐋
   /l/
   𝐌
   /m/
   𝐍
   /n/
   𝐎
   /o/
   𝐏
   /p/
   𝐐
   /kw/
   𝐑
   /r/
   𝐒
   /s/
   𝐓
   /t/
   𝐔
   /u/
   𝐕
   /v/
   𝐖
   /w/
   𝐗
   /ks/
   𝐘
   /y/
   𝐙
   /z/
   𝚨
   /ɑː/
   𝚩
   /β/
   𝚾
   /x/
   𝚫
   /ð/
   Unnecessary
   /fʷ/
   round
   /ɛː/
   Ή
   /ɛ/
   𝚪
   /ɣ/
   𝚰
   /ɪ/
   𝚱
   /kʼ/
   𝚲
   /ʎ/
   𝛀
   /ɔː/
   𝚶
   /ɔ/
   𝚽
   /ɸ/
   𝚷
   /pʰ/
   𝚿
   /ps/
   𝚺
   /ʃ/
   𝚻
   /θ/
   𝚯
   /tʰ/
   𝚹
   /θʷ/
   𝚼
   /ʏ/
   𝚵
   /ksʰ/
   𝐙
   /ʒ/

The stress is always on the penultimate syllable (as in Polish). Long vowels (Α, Ε, Ω, etc.) are pronounced approximately 1.5 times longer.
3. Grammar (basic rules)
Word order: VSO (Verb – Subject – Object)
Example: “A man sees a tree” → verb + man + tree.
Nouns have 3 cases:
Nominative (who/what) - no ending
Genitive (of whom/what) — ending -𝚺
Accusative (who/what) — ending -𝐓
Number:
The only thing is - no ending
Plural - ending -𝐈
Verbs are conjugated according to person and tense. Stem + ending:
Face
The present
Past
Future
1 unit
-𝐀
-𝐄𝐑
-𝐔𝐑
2 units
-𝐄
-𝐄𝐒
-𝐔𝐒
3 units
-𝐎
-𝐄𝐓
-𝐔𝐓
1 min.
-𝐀𝐌
-𝐄𝐑𝐌
-𝐔𝐑𝐌
2 min.
-𝐄𝐓
-𝐄𝐒𝐓
-𝐔𝐒𝐓
3 min.
-𝐎𝐍
-𝐄𝐍𝐓
-𝐔𝐍𝐓
Negation is the particle 𝐍𝐎 before the verb.
Question is the particle 𝐐𝐔 at the beginning of a sentence.
Adjectives come after the noun and agree in number (ending -𝐈 in the plural).
4. Basic vocabulary (≈ 80 words)
Pronouns
I am 𝐄𝐆𝐎
You are 𝐓𝐔
He/She/It — 𝐈𝐒
We are 𝐍𝐎𝐒
You are 𝐕𝐎𝐒
They are 𝐄𝐈
Numbers
1 𝐔𝐍, 2 𝐃𝐔, 3 𝐓𝐑𝐄, 4 𝐐𝐔𝐀, 5 𝐏𝐄𝐍, 6 𝐒𝐄𝐗, 7 𝐒𝐄𝐏, 8 𝐎𝐂𝐓, 9 𝐍𝐎𝐕, 10 𝐃𝐄𝐂
Basic nouns
man — 𝐇𝐎𝐌
water — 𝐀𝐐𝐔
fire — 𝐈𝐆𝐍
earth — 𝐓𝐄𝐑
air — 𝐀𝐄𝐑
sun — 𝐒𝐎𝐋
moon — 𝐋𝐔𝐍
tree — 𝐀𝐑𝐁
house — 𝐃𝐎𝐌
bread — 𝐏𝐀𝐍
hand — 𝐌𝐀𝐍
eye — 𝐎𝐂𝐔𝐋
day — 𝐃𝐈𝐄
night — 𝐍𝐎𝐂𝐓
friend — 𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐂
love — 𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐑
life — 𝐕𝐈𝐓
death — 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐓
word — 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐁
language — 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆
Verbs (bases)
to be — 𝐄𝐒
to have — 𝐇𝐀𝐁
see — 𝐕𝐈𝐃
hear — 𝐀𝐔𝐃
speak — 𝐃𝐈𝐂
to go — 𝐈𝐑
give — 𝐃𝐀
take — 𝐂𝐀𝐏
to love — 𝐀𝐌
know — 𝐒𝐂𝐈
to do — 𝐅𝐀𝐂
live — 𝐕𝐈𝐕
Adjectives
big — 𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐍
small - 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐕
good — 𝐁𝐎𝐍
bad — 𝐌𝐀𝐋
new — 𝐍𝐎𝐕
old — 𝐕𝐄𝐓
beautiful — 𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐂𝐇
strong — 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓
Functional words
and — 𝐄𝐓
or — 𝐀𝐔𝐓
but — 𝐒𝐄𝐃
in/on — 𝐈𝐍
s — 𝐂𝐔𝐌
without — 𝐒𝐈𝐍
yes — 𝐘𝐄𝐒
no — 𝐍𝐎
here — 𝐇𝐈𝐂
there — 𝐈𝐁𝐈

Valverde
The Great State's main long-standing enemy. The war between them began around the 1940s and has dragged on for decades. According to some characters (such as Albert Meinicke), the conflict is largely beneficial to the elites of both sides—it allows them to enrich themselves and keep the population in constant mobilization.
Valverde's economy is heavily tied to war. The country borders the Great State to the east. The spin-off Beholder: Conductor depicts attempts at peace negotiations (a meeting of delegations in the city of Arneo), but they are frequently disrupted by provocations and covert operations. Valverde even attempted to obtain nuclear weapons designs through her agents.
South Borea
A freer and relatively prosperous state. The climate is warmer than in the Great Kingdom, industry is developed, goods are accessible, and living conditions are noticeably better. South Borea is at odds with both the Great Kingdom and North Borea.
Many residents of the Great State dream of moving there (or at least imagining what life would be like there). The game frequently hints that it is a "good" country, the antithesis of the totalitarian regime. Conflict with it sometimes takes particularly violent forms, including pogroms against South Boreans within the Great State.
Northern Borea
A totalitarian state, in many ways even harsher and poorer than the Great State. It has friendly and dependent relations with it—many northerners travel to the Great State in search of any kind of work. A cult of the leader, strict control, and harsh living conditions.
South and North Borea may have once been a single state, but they later split and have been feuding ever since. The names and dynamics are strongly reminiscent of South and North Korea.
Federation of States
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It's a freer, more liberal, and economically developed country. It offers good living conditions, a developed industry, culture, sports, and education (foreigners even go there to study).
For a long time, it has been in a state of cold relations with the great State.

By 1898–1900 (the exact dates in official historiography would later be carefully erased), the bourgeois regime had collapsed. The king abdicated, parliament was dissolved, and major industrialists either fled or publicly "came over to the people." A new order began to emerge from the ruins of the old state. Formally, "workers' power" was proclaimed, but real power quickly concentrated in the hands of a small group of people who would later be known as the Inner Circle. The leader became the face and voice of this group. His image was carefully crafted: endless portraits, obligatory quotes, a personality cult that grew faster than the economy.
The first years of the new century (roughly 1900–1915) were a time of simultaneous construction and purges. Large enterprises were nationalized, strict planning was introduced, and the first ministries were created, their names sounding almost identical to those later featured in the game's events. Simultaneously, mass repressions were carried out against the "remnants of the bourgeoisie," "counterrevolutionaries," and simply "questionable elements." The first directives were issued, regulating not only the economy but also everyday life: what could be read, how to celebrate properly, who could be trusted. The denunciation system, still imperfect, was already in place.
By the mid-1910s, the Great State already possessed all the fundamental characteristics that would persist for decades: closed borders, the cult of the Leader (who by then was officially "ageless"), total control over information, absurd but mandatory rules, and a deep-seated conviction among the majority of citizens that this was what justice should look like. The war with Valverde had not yet begun—it would only break out in the 1940s—but the enemies had already been designated, and the "external threat" became a convenient justification for any domestic measures.
Thus ended the bourgeois era and began the era of the Great State.

History of the Great State: from the decline of the bourgeois era to the first decades of the new order (late 19th – early 20th centuries)
At the end of the 19th century, the lands that would later be called the Great State were a motley but already deeply ill empire. Officially, it was a constitutional monarchy with a strong parliament, where real power belonged to industrial magnates, bankers, and the old aristocracy. Factories smoked day and night, working-class neighborhoods were drowned in soot and poverty, and high-society salons spoke of "progress" and "civilization." Censorship was gentle but selective: criticizing the king was permitted, but profit was not. Strikes were brutally suppressed by private security forces, and newspapers regularly wrote about the "need for an iron fist" to maintain order.
It was in this atmosphere that the man who would later be known only as the Wise Leader was born and raised. On December 21, 1864, in a provincial town, a modest young man was born. He had long worked as an actor in a traveling theater. He was assigned mostly silent roles: corpses, extras, shadows. One day, during street riots, he was mistaken for a murdered revolutionary. When he "resurrected" and uttered a few incoherent but passionate phrases, the crowd saw it as a miracle. Within two weeks, his face became the face of the revolution. According to legend, he himself was the most surprised by this.
By the late 1890s, the country was ripe. Economic crisis, crop failures, a sharp drop in coal and metal prices, mass layoffs, and the public executions of strikers created the perfect breeding ground. Revolution erupted almost simultaneously in several industrial centers. The bourgeois government attempted to navigate between concessions and repression, but it was too late. The former actor became the symbol of the uprising. His speeches, initially naive and theatrical, gradually acquired a hypnotic power. He spoke of a "new order," "justice for the workers," and "cleansing from rot." Crowds repeated his words, not always understanding their meaning.