Zompist Bboard Again

Good stuff, as usual. I like the different types of magic associated with each group. Are there any further physical differences besides color: height, facial features, build, etc.? Many thanks! As to physical stuff, well, maybe a few things. Off the top of my head: Both the Theurgoid and Vatoid ra...

THE HUMAN RACES It’s a funny thing, but I don’t think I’ve actually bothered describing what the people of this world actually look like to any major degree. Well, I’ve all the words and none of the pictures, so let’s get started: The Auguroid race is predominantly found in Pelia, as well as parts ...

Inspired by a colleague’s work I’ve made a couple more short stories. The titles are concepts in my world that I’ve explored. Come take a look!

Jaayakam
Chashvarah

On the subject of Munkhâshi if not Dhekhnami music, may I make the suggestion that the music not quite conform to musical scales per se, but to chanting similar to Native American songs? No definable notes per se, more of an emphasis on steadily increasing volume and tempo as one goes along, and pos...

I have reached a decision! It shall start with animate/inanimate and high/low distinctions, with four distinct variations of each other category (not marked for form). Sixteen in total, which I cunningly merge down to fewer and fewer categories as time goes on! See if I can’t put up a chart to demon...

Honestly if it’s possible I’d like to help. I used to be quite a baritone back in the day, and it’d be helpful to get back into practice.

So I thought I’d make some adjustments to Classical Salvian, and there’s something that’s been poking at me. The original system I had encoded for a combination of masculine/feminine/neuter and animate/inanimate/ethereal/miscellaneous, which is all fine and dandy except that a) I worry it conveys to...

THE WORLDS THAT WERE There are many worlds to visit, the Chronicles say. Each one tucked away inside its own pocket of reality, accessible only through some in-between place, the Wood Between the Worlds. Each only a small part of the Emperor's creation, many hold creatures quite similar to our ours...

BIRTHRITE The spell doesn't promise very much. It doesn't grant long life, or wealth, or even much happiness. A little happiness, to be sure–it wouldn't deny its people that–but not much. The spell wants to be born, you see. A little spark, tingling in the air-beyond-the-air. A conduit for new soul...

I have a vague impression that Calormen may be inspired in part by medieval Christian ideas of the East: e.g. Lewis didn't think Muslims worship a literal demon (his comments about Islam elsewhere are pretty complimentary), but some (most?) medieval Christians did. Certain aspects of Calormen are r...

Interesting stuff. Lewis was my favorite author for years, and back when I was a believer I wished I'd come up with as attractive an idea as Aslan. I'd forgotten how many "Titans", as you call them, actually appear in the books. There are a few fundamentalists who really hate Lewis, becau...

As an aside: does anyone have a list of words Pedant contributed? I’d quite like to see which words are new and which ones were always there. I have the original list on my Google Doc if you'd like. It's been updated somewhat (some of the words Zompist remade to better fit the feel), but they're al...

OK, I've gone over Pedant's list, and updated the Kebreni lexicon . He added a mind-boggling 300 words, all with careful attention to possible sources, and even solved a few etymological puzzles in Almeology. I have changed some of his words, for various reasons, but I really appreciate the great w...

quinterbeck wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 11:46 am A little tangential, but have you read Planet Narnia, by Michael Ward? I found it a very enjoyable and interesting read myself.

That I have not! But looking at the site it does seem intriguing…

alice wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 11:17 am This is an obvious thing to do in (a pastiche of) the inimitable stye of Bob...

I’m terribly sorry, but I’m not quite sure what you mean.

First up: THE CHILDREN OF THE EMPEROR There is only one Emperor-Over-Sea. Where people go wrong is in thinking that He has only one son. In fact the Emperor-Over-Sea--called Mahmeen in Calormen and among the jinn, and Enkin on the Islands and by the stars, and Gruk by Black Dwarves and Bismian gnome...

Richard W wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:20 am Do the three heads of Tash represent the three persons of the Trinity via reciprocal name-calling?

Um…I wasn't actually aware that Tash had three heads. Thought it was just one, shaped like that of a vulture. He does have four arms, if it helps.

Thoughts? Good Lord, how many simultaneous projects do you need before it's enough??!! :lol: Heh, heh. Honestly about as many (plus law school and a TV script learning a few natural languages) as it takes to keep my mind active and more importantly useful. Too much mush otherwise. I was also introd...

Well, to be honest with everyone, Tolkien may be my idol but Lewis came first. As a matter of fact, my attempts at creating languages for Calormen, Archenland, and the Lone Isles were some of the first I ever made, way back in middle-school. (Given my absolute lack of any linguistic training at the ...

It's not completely certain when the Senok Desert began to fall from the hands of the Nukkians (Ancient Nukkian Nuk-yo "Nuk people" and Nukki "Nuk-land", from the root *nyk meaning "plain, grassland"), that ancient race of shapeshifters who worshipped animal gods and ef...