''This article describes a meta-game concept.''

The characters of the civilization in our Avatar game do not speak English, but rather mostly [[Avatar/Common Language|Common]] or other languages. Speech and writing in the game is notionally translated into English from these languages. Common is represented by mostly-Classical Chinese, written with traditional character forms, but whether or not it is "actually" highly similar to any particular historical form of any Chinese language is a matter of personal interpretation. It does certainly share some linguistic characteristics with Sino-Tibetan languages at any rate.

The notional translation is usually idiomatic and follows dynamic equivalence rather than a literal translation. You do not have to check your puns to make sure they work in Chinese.

This practice is in keeping with that of other campaigns, [[Translation Convention|from the earliest days of HICU-RPG]] and [[BTW/Translation Convention|subsequently]].