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I found my old notebook!

In it, I created a dwarven alphabet, in theory for use in some of my DnD games. That turned out to be a bit cumbersome given the people I was playing with, (much more action-oriented) but it makes for a neat dA post.

As befits dwarves, the symbols are rather runic and angular, well-suited for carving into stone and metal. From right to left, the top row is:

Zero, followed by Null/Nothing, then One, Two, and Three.

Bottom row:
Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Eight.

Yes, these dwarves use a base eight (Octal) number system , as opposed to our base ten (Decimal) system. Furthermore, they distinguish between Zero, used as a placeholder when representing quantiles of Nine or greater (which to use would look sort of like 8 0, by the way); and the value of Nothing which we also call Null, and would be represented in English as the Empty Set Symbol. I haven't settled on an Infinity symbol yet, but it may show up in a future work.

I've posted their actual letters as well. Again, I subverted the normal "easy-cipher" alphabet (basically little more than a fantasy font, in my humble opinion), and have crafted an alphabet with six distinct vowel sounds, and twenty-one consonants, but without the hard and soft variations present in the English alphabet.

Vowels: [link]
Consonants: [link]

Description
I found my old notebook!

In it, I created a dwarven alphabet, in theory for use in some of my DnD games. That turned out to be a bit cumbersome given the people I was playing with, (much more action-oriented) but it makes for a neat dA post.

As befits dwarves, the symbols are rather runic and angular, well-suited for carving into stone and metal. From right to left, the top row is:

Zero, followed by Null/Nothing, then One, Two, and Three.

Bottom row:
Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Eight.

Yes, these dwarves use a base eight (Octal) number system , as opposed to our base ten (Decimal) system. Furthermore, they distinguish between Zero, used as a placeholder when representing quantiles of Nine or greater (which to use would look sort of like 8 0, by the way); and the value of Nothing which we also call Null, and would be represented in English as the Empty Set Symbol. I haven't settled on an Infinity symbol yet, but it may show up in a future work.

I've posted their actual letters as well. Again, I subverted the normal "easy-cipher" alphabet (basically little more than a fantasy font, in my humble opinion), and have crafted an alphabet with six distinct vowel sounds, and twenty-one consonants, but without the hard and soft variations present in the English alphabet.

Vowels: [link]
Consonants: [link]