history
A Monument to Our Sins
Deep in the jungles of Newman's Dale lies a massive slab of metal and concrete, with a few crumbl...
The Beginning of the Allied Worlds
After the War of Dissolution, the Partisans were still on the war path. The old Claravian hierarc...
Fossil Fuels
I had originally assumed that Yih would not have coal or oil deposits since I assumed that requir...
MFSK: Monkey Fox Shift Keying
Because yinrih language relies very heavily on subtle chances in volume, analog radio telephony--...
A Rough Ideological Timeline
A rough ideological tree showing the relationships among the major belief systems of Focus. It's ...
The Dawn of the Digital Age
After the shakeoff, a sect of neoshamanists formed known as the Mindseekers. They rejected the Gr...
Oracle OS
One persistent subject of interest to amateur cyberarcheologists is the so-called Oracle OS. It w...
Food Caching in Presapient Yinrih
Presapient yinrih would cache food in communal larders shared by single families and sometimes en...
Better Illustration of Balanced Ternary Paths
As you may have guessed I've decided that these paths are used by the Mindseekers. It is unclear ...
Tentative idea about the beginning of the Bright Way
Another tentative idea: After the Theophany, a movement grows within the interstitial teens. The ...
Early Claravian sermon
The stream that quenches also drowns. The tree that gives shelter also crushes under falling bow....
Thoughts on Early yinrih weaponry
I've stated previously that yinrih are not accurate throwers. They also have natural weapons in t...
Early vulpithecine metallurgy
I went down a rabbit hole that started with a youtube video about smelting iron, which lead me ul...
Focus is a star, too
From Newman's Dale, Yih's ring is only visible as a thin line stretching from east to west across...
What may have become of the Artificer's Litter
At the end of The Artificer's Litter the giant head's builders are scattered across Focus. It str...
On the Southern Grasslands
"The Bright Way" originally referred to the migration of the yinrih out of the jungle and into th...
No One Expects the Reverse Inquisition!
On Newhome during the centuries leading up to the war of dissolution, a movement adjacent to the ...
Idea for the development of currency
very rough draft of how money emerges. So let's say after Wayfarers settle the southern grasslan...
The origin of Neoshamanism
These are the circumstances that lead to the Shakeoff. Much like the War of Dissolution it doesn'...
Looking at the Yinrih's population growth
Yinrih live on average around 724 Terran years and mature at around 53. Since they're semelparous...
A letter from a patriarch to a hearthkeeper
"My dame, you have written to me on several occasions, urging me to suppress these Neoshamanists,...
More on the early Bright Way
Visions1 wrote: 2025-12-16T17:52:30+00:00 What was Bright Way organization like in the early year...
How Welkinstead was terraformed
Welkinstead was terraformed by accident. It turns out that oxygen is a byproduct of the gas refin...
The Founding of Pilgrim's Rest
Pilgrims' Rest is a dwarf planet located in the Outer Belt. It was founded by remnants of the mis...