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High Imperial is the official language of Spook.

It is the eastern slang that Spook spoke before the ascension of Harmony.

Quotes

“Wasing the where of needing”

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“Ups in the where above the doing”

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“Not of the yetting yet.
Wasing the place when I was young.”

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“Someone's coming! Out the night with the calling!”

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“You're awaking!
Notting as the now. Kelsier wasing the hit with my name; changed it to Spook.”

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“Wasing the Dox to come and be without the stay.
Weapons for the getting, giving the time to be.”

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"Nicing the not on the playing without." TFE Ch 24 "Losing the stress on the nip. Notting without the needing of care." Kelsier "Riding the rile of the rids to the right." "Wasing the was of brightness. Nip the having of wishing of this." "Ever wasing the doing of this." Kelsier "Ever wasing the wish of having the have. Brighting the wish of wasing the not." Ham "Wasing not of wasing is." Dockson

"I'm not of the seeing. Uncle, you really the burn, right?" TFE Ch 26

"Keep Hasting. Elariel soldiers with the attacking tonight." "Wasing the want of this." "Wasing the Snap when I was five." TFE Ch 32


"Wasing the where of calling out." WoA Ch 6


"Wasing the where of what?" Lestibournes. Lefting I'm born. I've been abandoned. HoA Ch 23

"Wasing." Was doing. " 'Wasing the run of there' would mean 'I was running to that place.' " "Wasing the how of wanting the doing." Beldre (reading Spook's writing) "Wasing the how of wanting the doing." HoA Ch 56

"But that's the best part, Beldre said. "It's gibberish on purpose, right?" Spook remembered with fondness how his parents had responded to his adoption of the slang. It had been a kind of power, being able to say things that only his friends could understand. Of course, he'd started speaking in it so much that it had been hard to switch back." HoA Ch 56

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