Thoughts on the new year

Firstly, I would like to say Happy New Year to all and I thank you for voting so positively to my book at a mere glance into the world I am creating. Writing from the mind and the depths of one's imagination can be a great challenge and one that is dearly welcomed as I charge forward to completion this year. I am working on the geography of this world and even the language of magic, or Asta as it's called. It will be very arduous to create this dialect and keep its consistency throughout but it will be something that the audience can grasp and speak rather easily. I don't intend to delve into the lavishly ornate speech of Tolkien's Elves but something that makes sense.
The basis of the "magic" of the Astarians is simple. Like Yin and Yang everything has an opposite. Fire - Aflama has it's opposite to Water - Amalfa, appropriately named in that the word is actually the reverse of the word for fire. As if fire could be reversed or quenched, water would be it's quencher. The opposite word, in Astarian terms is usually used in defense, but the word for water is in actuality Hydroa and it's opposite word is Aordyh, another word for fire.
This is the ten cent lesson in the basics of Astarian magic and it's expression. The language of the faithful or Istol will be discussed at a later date as well as more words of magic. Thank you again for taking the time to read a bit about The Spirit Seeker.
yours,
Adam Perry