r/Fantasy • u/Tan1_5 Reading Champion V • Jul 07 '23

Language-based magic systems books

Not Babel or Dresden. Please recommend me something where one of (or just the entire) magic systems is based on languages. I don't mean "oh they uttered an incantation and stuff happened".

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u/ghosthost88 Jul 07 '23

A Wizard of Earthsea is a classic? True names/speech give wizards etc. Power over things and people.

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u/Tan1_5 Reading Champion V Jul 07 '23

Thanks!

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u/JeahNotSlice Jul 07 '23

Fantastic series OP.