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This is another post open to suggestions and critique. The childermoot is the basic reproductive ...

While the Bright Way held a monopoly on interplanetary travel during the age of decadence, terres...

Yinrih don't separate the concepts of science and philosophy. They see science as depending on ph...

It's said that converts are the most zealous, and Firefly was certainly no exception. When he ret...

Human culture is far more varied compared to Yinrih culture thanks to the fact that we scattered ...

The term <HKrqFdqg> /long rising strong growl, chuff, huff, late high weakening whine, huff, shor...

This symbol is referred to as the "Healer's Paw". It's meant to resemble the distinct pattern of ...

Commonthroat, or one of its ancestors, was the principle language of the area around Newmans' Dal...

A possible symbol for the Partisans. I'm going for something like the White Hand of Saruman. I sh...

Yet another possibly non-canon idea: Waste reclamation is a big deal on Hearthside since most of ...

It is a matter of debate whether the earliest extant example of written language was in fact the ...

While yinrih primarily rely on perfumes to communicate things like social status and rank, visual...

Languages don't usually have names so on the nose as "Commonthroat". Sure some official dialects ...

On some parts of Hearthside, it's illegal to deliberately shed one's fur as it's considered imper...

Posted this in the Commonthroat thread, but this is pretty significant lore so here it is in the ...

There's a bit of a shibboleth between spacers and yinrih who live planetside regarding body langu...

There are a number of socieoeconomic conditions that could reasonably be called slavery around Fo...

Saint Aurora's Draft is a drink made by drying, crushing, and brewing the seeds of a certain bush...

Yinrih have microbes in their gut that aid in digesting food. This process produces gas as a bypr...

It should not be surprising that the yinrih attempted spaceflight long before they fully understo...

Dying one's fur began as a practical way to adapt to different environments. Hearthsiders often d...

Just some brainstorming on how vulpithecin social structure works and how it handles conflict. Ju...

It's spoopy season, so how about some good ol' fridge horror regarding metabolic suspension? What...

Adult yinrih are much more particular about their personal space compared to humans. There are a ...

Tornadoes are called <rpLqqkjg>, from <rpLqg> (wind) + <qkj> (fell, evil). This term is the stand...

Here's another brainstorming post. Unlike humanity, the yinrih don't have a concept of native or ...

Many offices in the Bright Way have a master-apprentice dynamic. Hearthkeepers have acolytes, Kni...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2024-11-04T13:44:54+00:00 What’s the yinrih equivalent to social media? W...

Steadfruit juice and some steadtree fruit. Size may not be final.

Woo that was 600 posts! Who knew that my hyperfixation on these maladaptive daydreams would teach...

A moot is a legal entity within yinrih society. Imagine all the non-romantic functions of a spous...

Khemehekis wrote: 2024-12-24T21:12:05+00:00 Do any yinrih cultures have a concept of adolescence?...

One Yih year is 1.47 Earth years long. One Yih day is 24.39 Earth hours long. There are exactly 5...

Around the high southerly latitudes of Yih there is a cryptid known as the rcfrcfDFg b sPnqg (gre...

Much like humanity, the yinrih's information age dawned around the same time they achieved spacef...

Yinrih consume a similar variety of media as humans. There are experiences similar to movies and ...

The qhrBFg, "weeping sires" or simply rBFmg "those who weep", is one of the oldest surviving exam...

Moots fill the same social niche as the nuclear family. Childermoots are a special kind of moot, ...

While the Allied Worlds is the chief source of entertainment media, a few offerings from outside ...

Kissing the glass of the star hearth is a common pious practice among Wayfarers. For yinrih, "kis...

As yinrih do not sweat, bathing is less frequent compared to humans. Yinrih from most cultures ba...

Of the major planet-wide societies at Focus, Hearthside is the most polychronic, with a relaxed a...

The yinrih's torpor cycle isn't synced with Yih's day-night cycle, so it's likely there are no ti...

Khemehekis wrote: 2023-12-26T02:44:51+00:00 I love the title you gave to your last post in this t...

thethief3 wrote: 2024-01-02T09:49:18+00:00 Probably as humans are discovered we see a push for th...

I've mentioned before that yinrih are not very good at throwing things, and they certainly never ...

I'm not sure yet what this will mean in-universe, but I've thought of a way of representing balan...

I need to think about how yinrih build their buildings and how they arrange those buildings into ...

Vulpithecine art is the visual art of yinrih cultures. Yinrih do not rely on subtle facial struct...

Revisiting the idea of high-speed nonstop trains, but not fast enough to create microgravity. No ...

A hame is a badge of honor granted to a healer. It is a cloak made from the pelt of a celebrated ...

Sighted yinrih may use long-form tactile writing in a few circumstances where a text must be reci...

I think since yinrih are arboreal, they'd have a desire to get off the ground whenever possible. ...

When a yinrih enters a room, the polite thing to do is to stick the muzzle through the curtain an...

Pre-theophany gender roles were simple. Men had worldly authority and women had spiritual authori...

Here's a bit of lore since I'm feeling a tad better (at least about my testing issues, I always h...

Here's the male counterpart to the healer's paw: the protector's paw. Like the healer's paw, it i...

The Ark of Sapience is a reliquary containing the earliest positive specimen of written language ...

I've made the Lonely Galaxy Mediawiki instance public. It can be found at https://constructed.wor...

Random idea for a human dish that replicates typical yinrih cuisine. Take smoked shredded beef br...

A colossus is a cynoidomorphic structure with a full-sized lighthouse on its back. The word for t...

Visions1 wrote: 2025-12-18T16:50:46+00:00 Do yin have chemical weapons? Bioweapons? Do they eat o...

(from a post on Lemmy criticizing what Mozilla is doing with Firefox) Now I'm thinking about yinr...

The Atavists are a diverse collection of related ideologies that encompass the idea of going back...

Here's a topic I've needed to elaborate on for some time. With the exception of healers, yinrih d...

Radical Atavists (the ones who reject sapience) are further divided into two factions: the Atheis...

Hearthside is a tidally locked world, meaning the sun is frozen in the same place in the sky, wit...

The Mechanists were a group of Neoshamanists who formed the first group of colonists on Newhome. ...

The hundred millennia between the dawn of sapience and First Contact can be divided into three ag...