(Unsounded is not the best fantasy story nor the best fantasy story told in graphical medium, but it is one the best fantasy webcomics around. But yeah, magic

(Unsounded is not the best fantasy story nor the best fantasy story told in graphical medium, but it is one the best fantasy webcomics around. But yeah, magic as a secret language (or version where knowledge of the "true names" of things grants power) is old as anything. LeGuin's series was one the most popular studies of the idea, but it crops up in many mythologies. TvTropes has an non-exhaustive list of works that use the idea: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LanguageOfMagic https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LanguageOfMagic https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IKnowYourTrueName https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IKnowYourTrueNam...