It's amazing that if played in reverse the lips correspond to the word they're saying. You can tell the animators and the whole Dragon Prince team made a huge effort.
yeah they put a lot of love and effort into it. The entire Hard of Hearing Community stans the Animators for they great and correct use of ASL. And I for a fact love that not everything is translated. So you need to reach out to ASL speaking people and ask them for help. There are a few tiny things hidden here and there that just give you more information about the characters if you read all the ASL
@@illleagueali982 I was just going off of how reversing the clip resulted in a pretty normal sounding delivery. Leading me to believe that it was recorded that way and then reversed.
Dude. To learn the spells, you don’t only say the word backwards, but the spell backwards. That’s a real mind bender for those doing the incantation... Not that I’ve tried.... or anything...
It’s off camera cause when she stands up you see a boot behind her which probably means hat she killed a man to save her father and they can’t show that cause u know, kids show
1. Twist a tangled knot of love and loss to drain life with a weapon of hate 2. Arc before me, and reveal the path to our destiny 3-4. Hearts of cinder cannot burn 5. He swallows your heart, He swallows your mind, He swallows your power
You know, there was once a time when I thought "Dark" magic wouldn't seem so bad if you removed all the aesthetics that make it LOOK evil. That was before season 3 happened and Viren turned into a completely bat-$#!+ insane Ozai
Dark magic corruption is slow, that's what makes it so insidious. And yet even a single use with the noblest of intentions can start changing you, as Callum found in his little dream.
Raistlin 34 perhaps but his dream also made it perfectly clear that his body was able to reject the changes and the corruption to open a new path to learning sky magic.
Raistlin 34 more like Sol Regam smelled the scent of whatever Callum killed to cast that chain snake spell mixed with dark magical energy, hence the reason he said “I smell death”. Considering the fact that killing magical creatures is part of dark magic I bet it does leave behind a foul scent that only dragons can sniff out.
@Hillary Sanderson Also people have auditory problems where they can hear words byt not make out sounds. Maybe whenever someone politely asks for accessibility, don't invalidate them.
Yeah, it's a parallel because instead of leading them through water away from the force that wants to hurt them, and saving them, he's leading them through lava to hurt others, and taking them to their doom.
AltheaJay I’d argue that Moses (+the Israelites) and Viren (+the humans) are more similar than you think. The Israelites violently conquered Canaan (the promised land) by bringing down Jericho’s walls and destroying their enemies (the pagans) just like how the humans in this world are trying to conquer Xadia and destroy the elven civilization.
I feel like when they use dark magic they don’t activate by speaking backwards they speak it while willing or whatever and it auto,stoically goes backward. So it isn’t nearly as hard.
I always figured that what we see, the backwards-speak, is just the shows way of saying "these people are using some archaic language" even though the audio is simply reversed. Like, in terms of lore, they're not actually speaking backwards, even though that's how we know it's happening. Kind of like Amaya. She uses ASL, but in Xadia/Katolis/etc, there is no "American Sign Language", so the real language is being repurposed as a fantasy one. It's easier than inventing a fantasy language for magic, or a fictional sign language.
Woah I watch this show in French so I never knew that Dark Magic was casted backwards!!! Idk if the French audio does the same and I’ve just never noticed, but dang, this was cool.
I have been rewatching the Dragon Prince recently and honestly, it is really hard for me to see either the humans or the elves as “right”! The humans have Dark Magic, which is insanely depraved but the elves also punished and shunned the entire race for the actions of a few, acted all righteous, some of them anyway, and didn’t even try to sympathize with the humans who had nothing and maybe even TRY to teach them Primal Magic. I really hope that Ehasz and the others fix this for season 4 and beyond. The series is still Phenomenal but this should be addressed next season because returning one baby dragon doesn’t just erase a millennium of prejudice and use of a depraved art!
@@erikolson4148 I am used to calling it life force en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_force It is popular among the Chinese whom call it by the name qi/chi Here is something more on the mater from wikipedia. "Living things were not the only things believed to have qi. Zhuangzi indicated that wind is the qi of the Earth.[18] Moreover, cosmic yin and yang "are the greatest of qi".[18] He described qi as "issuing forth" and creating profound effects.[18] He also said "Human beings are born [because of] the accumulation of qi. When it accumulates there is life. When it dissipates there is death... There is one qi that connects and pervades everything in the world."[18]"
@@TheZombiesAreComing Uh, I think that it has more with the fact that she stole the life and magical energy, not from a piece/pieces of a magical creature(s), but, *_directly from the source_* 😱😱!!
I need help for a fic I'm writing!!! At the end when Aaravos is casting the spell, I can't tell if he says "He swallows your MIGHT" or "He swallows your MIND". Can anyone tell which is which??
are there subtitles so we can read what's being said cause I still can't quite tell what's being said when it's reversed to normal speech, cause of the distorted effect in his voice and such so....yeah. and I don't mean for just the first line or whatever I mean for all lines in this clip, naturally.
So it kind of seems like dark magic can do anything as long as you say your wish backwards. I hope we get some better explanation of how it works. In ATLA it was basic, bend water means you can manipulate water, therefore blood and plants too. And to be fair it's probably the same here
I've always believe, that anything that has the word DARK, should be used for warfare or combat, cause everything exist for a reason, and everything has a place, even stuff that ain't supposed to exist.
@@ZephyrBW: Exactly my point, that's why I'm also a big fan of the likes of Devil May Cry, even Demons have the capacity of embracing their Humanity, and use their Dark Power for good. 😉
Since all these spells sound much more epic reversed than the way they were aired, it's clear that the voice actor says the phrase normally and then the phrase is reversed in post (Yours Truly, Captain Obvious). It makes the words sound more alien, and I never had trouble believing that those words could be uttered by a human mouth before, but now that I know... I don't know. It makes me wish the writers typed the spell backwards and had the voice actor try to actually say the backwards words. Yes, it's harder on the actor and the average viewer wouldn't know the difference, but if done right, wouldn't it sound epic? Or am I just rambling? I think I'm just rambling.
Anyone else feel bad for all those soldiers turned into zombies, they go to war thinking that their nation is at threat so they march out thinking theyll preemptively stop the war from crossing their borders, and the fear in their faces as they turn. Dunno man, lot of good soldiers thinking theyre doing whats right and tricked.
Uh-huh 😔😢. Viren basically took away their minds and humanity 😫😱😡😠!! And the transformation *_looked and sounded excruciatingly painful_* 😫😱!! Even though Kasef willingly did it, it *_clearly_* still freaked him out and was painful 😓. (Poor King Ahling, he's on death's door, has just lost almost all of the armies from his kingdom, along with the other Human Kingdoms, along with his eldest son, all of which were warped and mutated with corrupted Sun Primal Magic 😫😱, if and when he hears the news, it will break his heart 😢😭.
They should’ve just put something stupid like “I will send you to Columbus, Ohio” and that’ll still have worked perfectly fine. Not that it’s Columbus though..
It’s freaky but it’s awesome as well. I hope Callum uses dark magic again it seems to help him learn primal magic somehow, like a “darkness strengthens the light” kinda thing.
1.etah fo nopaew a htiw efil niard ot ssol dna evol fo tonk delgnat a tsiwt 2.ynitsed ruo ot htap eht laever dna em erofeb (don't know what he said there) 3.nrub tonnac rednic fo straeh 4.Rewop ruoy swollaws eh, dnim ruoy swollaws eh, traeh uoy swollaws eh Here are all spells of this video :)
So this is really neat and all but like why are magic incantations just English played in reverse? Some noises required to say a word in reverse just aren’t physically possible with the human mouth, so it’s a bit jarring to see the animation attempt to sync up with it. Why not just have the incantations be English? Or a made up language?
I think it has to do with a couple of things. It's easy to record a line and reverse it to play backwards. Then when you hear the reversed audio, it sounds surreal and exotic. It's easier than making up a language for spells. Kind of like the Draconic words; many of them are based on Latin roots. Kind of like Amaya: she uses ASL even though there's no "America" in this fictional universe from which "American Sign Language" could have arisen.
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“Twist a tangled knot of love and loss to drain life with a weapon of hate”
Thank you, that one was lost on me
Thanks, I only got the “drain life with a weapon of hate” bit.
HelpfulApple yeah
That seemed like it was going to rhyme...
:O
It's amazing that if played in reverse the lips correspond to the word they're saying. You can tell the animators and the whole Dragon Prince team made a huge effort.
yeah they put a lot of love and effort into it. The entire Hard of Hearing Community stans the Animators for they great and correct use of ASL. And I for a fact love that not everything is translated. So you need to reach out to ASL speaking people and ask them for help. There are a few tiny things hidden here and there that just give you more information about the characters if you read all the ASL
My assumption is that they made the scenes as usual and then just reversed the audio during the dark magic chants.
@@klassicbadz8009 if they did that, then the lips wouldn't match the speaking.
@@illleagueali982 I was just going off of how reversing the clip resulted in a pretty normal sounding delivery. Leading me to believe that it was recorded that way and then reversed.
@@klassicbadz8009 Oh, I see. Guess I just didn't understand your first comment correctly.
He swallows your heart
He swallows your power
He swallows your mind
That sounded so scary 😱
Yes that does
IK
It was Aaravos saying that. Making him a cocoon.
@@CamSiv996 did you see the 3 episode yet I did I'm on the 5 one 😀😁
Yes 'cause everything el se was sweet poetry
I’m glad on how they made dark magic more intense this season
It was already intense before, season 2 hinted using it can corrupt the user and also it can drain life energy off other living things.
In season 4 even more intense
@@wolfstormwizard424 if there is a season 4
Andrew Garcia the whole saga is confirmed :3
@@wolfstormwizard424 wat does that mean? 🤨
I love how when he’s using the dark Sunthingy staff he says ‘Hearts of Cinder” which is the name of the episode - and also I am now Captain Obvious
Yeah but the transformation looks painful i mean it looks like he breaks/dislocate his fingers
hot Moth Yeah. Like - what the hell?
I think it also stretches your arm
"Hearts of Cinder cannot burn" AKA People who have already burned to death cannot burn again.
"Girl, you have to tell me how you figure out those backward spells so fast!"
"Maybe backwards is just my native tongue..."
James Samson
Eeeeeeeeh! I love Zatanna!🤩👍🏻☺️
I love zatana
The Spells this season are really intense
the season started with a dark mage blinding a Adult Sun Dragon for life for a reason.
To lava bending and turning an Adult royal dragon to stone
Just remember kids, HEARTS OF CINDER CANNOT BURN!!!
reference to rwby cinder falls
but Souls of Cinder are very inflammable instead, if you kindle the first flame
@@francescosacca6674 hearts of cinder can also not burn
Hearts of Cinder Can Not Burn is my new moto for eating overcooked hot pockets.
my Yoke is Broke, I am stealing this Joke
lol
I don’t know why, but watching those scenes in reverse can either be incredibly hilarious or incredibly creepy.
Dude. To learn the spells, you don’t only say the word backwards, but the spell backwards. That’s a real mind bender for those doing the incantation...
Not that I’ve tried.... or anything...
It’s harder than it seems to speak backwards
Well, know at least *_one_* backwards sentence: "Enola eno on." (Pronounced:"No-law no-one." Or "Ee no-lah no one.") = "No one alone."
@@erikolson4148 u actually try'd to speak backwards?
@@ZephyrBW I saw it in an episode of an old Disney Show that I first saw when I was *_very_* young: *_Buzz Lightyear of Star Command_* .
It's pronounced "No-law no-one" 'cause the "e" is silent when you say it out loud.
I just realized something, this season The only time Claudia uses dark magic is at the very end to save her father and it's off camera!
Nope. During the battle she summons a ball of dark flames.
@@MauM. I think that incantation was latin, so maybe a subverted form of sun magic? (Since she's using a corrupted focus of the sun elves.
@@JustOneMoreChild : Indeed, that was latin. But a subverted sun magic can't also be considered a kind of dark magic?
It’s off camera cause when she stands up you see a boot behind her which probably means hat she killed a man to save her father and they can’t show that cause u know, kids show
Mau M. No, it was some form of sun magic because she used draconic symbols and words
I always wanted to know what they were saying but I couldn’t ever be bothered reversing the episodes. So thank you
1. Twist a tangled knot of love and loss to drain life with a weapon of hate
2. Arc before me, and reveal the path to our destiny
3-4. Hearts of cinder cannot burn
5. He swallows your heart, He swallows your mind, He swallows your power
0:30 I guess you can say Viren parted to Red Sea
More like orange sea
This whole scene made me pray to the lord
If I have to hear "hearts of cinder cannot burn" one mORE TIME--
You know, there was once a time when I thought "Dark" magic wouldn't seem so bad if you removed all the aesthetics that make it LOOK evil. That was before season 3 happened and Viren turned into a completely bat-$#!+ insane Ozai
Dark magic doesn't MAKE you evil. It's what you do with it. Callum showed that in season 2 when he damn near killed himself with it.
Dark magic corruption is slow, that's what makes it so insidious.
And yet even a single use with the noblest of intentions can start changing you, as Callum found in his little dream.
Raistlin 34 perhaps but his dream also made it perfectly clear that his body was able to reject the changes and the corruption to open a new path to learning sky magic.
@@maxs9062
The corruption is still there. That's how Sol Regen sniffed him.
Raistlin 34 more like Sol Regam smelled the scent of whatever Callum killed to cast that chain snake spell mixed with dark magical energy, hence the reason he said “I smell death”. Considering the fact that killing magical creatures is part of dark magic I bet it does leave behind a foul scent that only dragons can sniff out.
I think you missed the one where he attacks Rayla's dad with a spell and steals his breath
*"Steal the breath."* 😱
Thanks
Please include subtitles. It was difficult making out the words with all the sound effects.
Yes
It can be harder when English is not your native language. Identifying word that are rarely used could be tricky
@Hillary Sanderson Also people have auditory problems where they can hear words byt not make out sounds. Maybe whenever someone politely asks for accessibility, don't invalidate them.
@@CoraMaria how bout u go make it ur self or just turn on the cc instead of making demands
@@hshsidieahsbd7242 maybe she can't hear it yo lol no one's making demands we're asking to be able to participate too
Fun fact: this scene is an obvious reference to the Bible. It's litteraly the rapresentation of Moses guiding his people to salvation.
He split a literal sea of red (lava)
Only it’s like he’s a messenger for Satan.
@@spenserfarman3045 True, and instead of fleeing they are invading.
Yeah, it's a parallel because instead of leading them through water away from the force that wants to hurt them, and saving them, he's leading them through lava to hurt others, and taking them to their doom.
AltheaJay I’d argue that Moses (+the Israelites) and Viren (+the humans) are more similar than you think. The Israelites violently conquered Canaan (the promised land) by bringing down Jericho’s walls and destroying their enemies (the pagans) just like how the humans in this world are trying to conquer Xadia and destroy the elven civilization.
I think Dark Magic spells are reversed words in every language.
Confirmed in Poland ;).
To think they actually went with a deep web approach to dark magic was interesting.
Yeah they definitely re recorded them in other languages and they sound reversed
@@pawea1347 In Russia, too.
I will chech the Czech ones :D
The hearts of cinder spell is my favorite probably. Or maybe it’s the unicorn horn one
it's a dragon horn but its ok
Maryam El-anwar it was called the unicorn horn in the episode
Maryam El-anwar I meant the first one where he fused the horn with the spear
I feel like when they use dark magic they don’t activate by speaking backwards they speak it while willing or whatever and it auto,stoically goes backward. So it isn’t nearly as hard.
i wonder how one learns to speak backwards? or is it the act of casting the spell that makes one able to speak like that?
Theorising time bois. This is what the TDP fandom was made for!
I always figured that what we see, the backwards-speak, is just the shows way of saying "these people are using some archaic language" even though the audio is simply reversed. Like, in terms of lore, they're not actually speaking backwards, even though that's how we know it's happening. Kind of like Amaya. She uses ASL, but in Xadia/Katolis/etc, there is no "American Sign Language", so the real language is being repurposed as a fantasy one. It's easier than inventing a fantasy language for magic, or a fictional sign language.
This is.... Intense
Woah I watch this show in French so I never knew that Dark Magic was casted backwards!!!
Idk if the French audio does the same and I’ve just never noticed, but dang, this was cool.
Que tal? Wait that’s Spanish...
I’ve been waiting ever since the new season came out for one of these to appear!
I have been rewatching the Dragon Prince recently and honestly, it is really hard for me to see either the humans or the elves as “right”! The humans have Dark Magic, which is insanely depraved but the elves also punished and shunned the entire race for the actions of a few, acted all righteous, some of them anyway, and didn’t even try to sympathize with the humans who had nothing and maybe even TRY to teach them Primal Magic. I really hope that Ehasz and the others fix this for season 4 and beyond. The series is still Phenomenal but this should be addressed next season because returning one baby dragon doesn’t just erase a millennium of prejudice and use of a depraved art!
Thank god someone finally did this
2:05 he's making that boi health again!
Man, I can see why it's called dark magic now, because it can turn one's heart dark, but there is more to that
Uh-huh 😰😱. Along with crushing the life energy and magic out of magical creatures 😱, it slowly corrupts and, quite possibly, destroys the user 😰😱.
@@erikolson4148
Using it for healing purposes definitely seems to drain some of the user's life force as shown with Claudia's graying hair.
@@TheZombiesAreComing life force sounds about right too.
@@erikolson4148
I am used to calling it life force
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_force
It is popular among the Chinese whom call it by the name qi/chi
Here is something more on the mater from wikipedia.
"Living things were not the only things believed to have qi. Zhuangzi indicated that wind is the qi of the Earth.[18] Moreover, cosmic yin and yang "are the greatest of qi".[18] He described qi as "issuing forth" and creating profound effects.[18] He also said "Human beings are born [because of] the accumulation of qi. When it accumulates there is life. When it dissipates there is death... There is one qi that connects and pervades everything in the world."[18]"
@@TheZombiesAreComing Uh, I think that it has more with the fact that she stole the life and magical energy, not from a piece/pieces of a magical creature(s), but, *_directly from the source_* 😱😱!!
Reminds me of how Gravity Falls uses backwards messages, such as Bill making his Axolotl speech before he ‘dies’.
Mama always told me backwards masking was evil
I didn't even know this was how they did it!!
Yes! I was waiting for a video of this! I love how dark magic is used and what it says.
I really needed this
I was reversing all of those with an app, Gravity falls trained me well
Hearts of Cinder? Like Cinderheart? (Warrior cats fans know what I mean)
Your Friendly Neighboring Pigeon
I can see, but I don’t think that’s a reference if you are leaning twards that
I was just making that connection
Local beloved medicine cat secretly practicing dark magic and blood sacrifice
Ah, good morning fellow warrior cats fan.
benny and leo the cats mood
thanks for this :D
Kasef gives off mad yamcha vibes
i love this show im kicking and giggling my feet
"Creative solutions"
"steal the breath"
I need help for a fic I'm writing!!! At the end when Aaravos is casting the spell, I can't tell if he says "He swallows your MIGHT" or "He swallows your MIND". Can anyone tell which is which??
I that think it was 'might'?
Edit: nvm I guess it was mind XD
Scarlet Ninjas actually it was mind
I definitely heard it as mind
Thanks everyone for your help! :D
Are there any videos out here translating the parts Amaya doesn’t have a translator for? Cause that would be absolutely amazing 😀
OK Peachie You can just switch on subs for the show, it translates for you.
Omg if i were there i would run!!!
As if I needed a reason to be even more terrified and furious at dark magic and it's wielders
Huh. I didn't even realize they were using Zatanna's magic gimmick. I guess I'm just slow.
0:45 proof that conquering Xadia is humanity's destiny.
Im still amazed that Claudia didn't leave with Soren after seeing what happened to the prince
aww so they use baby magic, as Clarion would call it. how cute.
are there subtitles so we can read what's being said cause I still can't quite tell what's being said when it's reversed to normal speech, cause of the distorted effect in his voice and such so....yeah. and I don't mean for just the first line or whatever I mean for all lines in this clip, naturally.
yo, i'll add captions if you want
So it kind of seems like dark magic can do anything as long as you say your wish backwards. I hope we get some better explanation of how it works.
In ATLA it was basic, bend water means you can manipulate water, therefore blood and plants too. And to be fair it's probably the same here
Thank goodness Zatanna doesn't need to use living things for her magic... although the incantations follow the same rules
Tbh I dont see anything wrong with dark magic
I think elves and dragons just got mad that humans became more powerful and got scared
So I was right! They used good old BACK MASKING for the dark spells.
Now that is cool
I've always believe, that anything that has the word DARK, should be used for warfare or combat, cause everything exist for a reason, and everything has a place, even stuff that ain't supposed to exist.
Have you seen the show?
@@bartoszn1609: Yes, it's amazing. 😉
Not everything that is dark is always evil though light has that same quality as well
@@ZephyrBW: Exactly my point, that's why I'm also a big fan of the likes of Devil May Cry, even Demons have the capacity of embracing their Humanity, and use their Dark Power for good. 😉
@@thedarkknight727 For sure especially YuYu Hakusho
I can't help but notice you missed a scene.
when virren raids the 'throne'/nest room
What about the one from 'Dragonguard', the one Viren used on Laine (Rayla's father)
It's missing the spell Viren used on Lain in the flashback.
Zatanna's School of Spellcasting hahaha
the only spell he can use: hearts of cinder can not burn
So the dark magic incantations are basically words that are backwards?
kasef and the rest basically got cured
Since all these spells sound much more epic reversed than the way they were aired, it's clear that the voice actor says the phrase normally and then the phrase is reversed in post (Yours Truly, Captain Obvious). It makes the words sound more alien, and I never had trouble believing that those words could be uttered by a human mouth before, but now that I know... I don't know. It makes me wish the writers typed the spell backwards and had the voice actor try to actually say the backwards words. Yes, it's harder on the actor and the average viewer wouldn't know the difference, but if done right, wouldn't it sound epic? Or am I just rambling? I think I'm just rambling.
Hearts of Cinder cannot burn
What did he say in the first spell in this video?
"Twist a tangled knot of love and loss to drain life with a weapon of hate."
Me and my brother thought they were speaking German ☠️
3:38 woah....
Anyone else feel bad for all those soldiers turned into zombies, they go to war thinking that their nation is at threat so they march out thinking theyll preemptively stop the war from crossing their borders, and the fear in their faces as they turn. Dunno man, lot of good soldiers thinking theyre doing whats right and tricked.
Uh-huh 😔😢. Viren basically took away their minds and humanity 😫😱😡😠!! And the transformation *_looked and sounded excruciatingly painful_* 😫😱!! Even though Kasef willingly did it, it *_clearly_* still freaked him out and was painful 😓. (Poor King Ahling, he's on death's door, has just lost almost all of the armies from his kingdom, along with the other Human Kingdoms, along with his eldest son, all of which were warped and mutated with corrupted Sun Primal Magic 😫😱, if and when he hears the news, it will break his heart 😢😭.
They should’ve stayed loyal to Ezran like the other soldiers who refused to fight.
ye
Nobody:
Viren:
HEARTS OF CINDER CANNOT BURN HEARTS OF CINDER CANNOT BURN HEARTS OF CINDER CANNOT BURN HEARTS OF CINDER CANNOT BURN
Nrub tonnac rednic fo straeh
Can you do a season 1 and 2 dark magic reversed?
they are without will
oh dang
I wonder if Viren’s name was backwards at one point.
Neriv
Wow
They should’ve just put something stupid like “I will send you to Columbus, Ohio” and that’ll still have worked perfectly fine.
Not that it’s Columbus though..
2:29 - 2:38
It’s freaky but it’s awesome as well. I hope Callum uses dark magic again it seems to help him learn primal magic somehow, like a “darkness strengthens the light” kinda thing.
1.etah fo nopaew a htiw efil niard ot ssol dna evol fo tonk delgnat a tsiwt
2.ynitsed ruo ot htap eht laever dna em erofeb (don't know what he said there)
3.nrub tonnac rednic fo straeh
4.Rewop ruoy swollaws eh, dnim ruoy swollaws eh, traeh uoy swollaws eh
Here are all spells of this video :)
In h3earts of silver cannot burn viren looks like a good guy
Lol, Dark Magic is just speaking backwards.
reversed sounds more terryfy
still understood nothing need captions
So this is really neat and all but like why are magic incantations just English played in reverse? Some noises required to say a word in reverse just aren’t physically possible with the human mouth, so it’s a bit jarring to see the animation attempt to sync up with it. Why not just have the incantations be English? Or a made up language?
I think it has to do with a couple of things. It's easy to record a line and reverse it to play backwards. Then when you hear the reversed audio, it sounds surreal and exotic. It's easier than making up a language for spells. Kind of like the Draconic words; many of them are based on Latin roots.
Kind of like Amaya: she uses ASL even though there's no "America" in this fictional universe from which "American Sign Language" could have arisen.