#and they more similar than common tongue and valyrian and still sometimes the differences affect the talking and writing

[vaedar]

𝐎𝐎𝐂; 𝐎𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞

      Thanks to a convo with @jaesasyrax, I thought it might be nice to share a detail I like to employ with Vaedar, as opposed to for example, Rhaegar. When it comes to talking in the Common Tongue, Vaedar will not use as much of the wording style or even sentence structuring as native westerosi and/or those who grew up in Westeros. He fully dominates the Common Tongue, but High Valyrian is structured pretty differently so it’s expected that when he talks, the manner of speech will also be different. 

For example, the most obvious ( that maybe my closest partners have noticed or not ) where Rhaegar might use the term ‘mayhaps’, Vaedar will simply do either ‘perhaps’ or ‘maybe’. Rhaegar could say ‘You seem lost in thought’ Vaedar might say ‘Lost in thought, you are’ or ‘Lost in thought, aren’t you?’. This is a byproduct of having High Valyrian as his mother tongue, a head-final language. Not to mention that he does have an accent, because unlike Rhaegar, who was brought up with both High Valyrian and Common Tongue, Vaedar learned the Common Tongue after instead of alongside his mother tongue. 

This would also apply to the verses where he’s a lord of the Old Blood in Volantis, though his High Valyrian would differ since it would be heavily influenced by the Volantene Bastard Valyrian. In his immortality verse, he would be able to more naturally structure his speech in Common Tongue as westerosi do but still one with a good enough ear would be able to discern the speech and accent being from a non-native speaker.