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There was a period of natural religion prior to the Theophany that may have even preceded writing (akin to the ritual burials of the neanderthals). It is here that the most fundamental rites are established: a female shaman keeping the tribal fire lit and perf...

So it's the Winter solstice. Seeing as how this is supposed to be one of the high holy days in The Bright Way, I should probably flesh it out a bit. The Seasonal Feasts are meant to be considered together, as though they are in fact a single discontiguous cele...

Bit of a lazy one today. This is the retribution field generator featured in one of my stories. When activated, the cube creates a force field that absorbs the kinetic energy of incoming projectiles. Then it unleashes that energy back at the attacker. Honestly...

This is a front paw gauntlet used in yinrih powered armor, with the palm facing up. The purple pads on the digits and palm are force projectors (Commonthroat name TBD). They use Science™ to exert force at a distance. They can also generate a negative force nor...

This is an amnion, or suspension capsule. This is how yinrih missionaries survive interstellar voyages going slower than light. Womb ships are only able to reach about 0.1c. Since Focus and Sol are about 25 light-years apart, it took the Dewfall about 250 year...

Here's some HUD specs and an earpiece for audio output. The HUD specs use a minimal, mostly text-based, UI. This is due to the very low data rate required by FTL communication. All the microelectronics sit in the muzzle bridge. The earpiece may use bone condu...

Oviposition in yinrih is a voluntary process. In tree dwellers and presapient yinrih it's triggered by geophagy (eating soil) which sets of a cascade of metabolic processes that results in egg formation. In modern yinrih, eating dirt is replaced by clean sanit...

Many offices in the Bright Way have a master-apprentice dynamic. Hearthkeepers have acolytes, Knights of the Sun have squires, Farspeaker anchorites have apprentices. All of these have a similar tradition when showing a newbie the ropes. While demonstrating a...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2024-11-04T13:44:54+00:00 What’s the yinrih equivalent to social media? With the exception of their lack of libido and their less private bathroom habits, yinrih have the same social impulses as humans, so they have similar social media...

Glenn wrote: 2024-11-11T14:41:44+00:00 Indeed! An interesting and creative (if slightly disturbing) alternative form of parental feeding of their young. An addendum: Wormcows are regarded much like Terran cattle--placid, slow-moving herd animals that aren't to...

After the War of Dissolution, the Partisans were still on the war path. The old Claravian hierarchy was laid low, but the Partisans wanted to make sure it could never rise again, and the only way to do that, at least if you asked the Partisans, was with the Pa...

The Light is the most common title given to the being worshiped by the Bright Way. It is a non-contingent incorporeal entity possessing a will and intellect that exists independent of the universe, outside of spacetime, and is said to have brought it into bein...

The Eschaton, or Omega Point, is, according to Claravian doctrine, the ultimate end state of the universe. It is the point at which the epistemological Realm of the Known finally fills the Realm of the Knowable and breaches the hitherto impassable boundary obs...

A bit of Claravian popular piety says that right before a martyr dies, The Light grants them a vision of how their sacrifice will benefit the Bright Way's progress toward obeying the Great Commandment.

Here's a typical mech used by the Knights of the Sun.

Here's a typical drinking bowl design. A flat bottom to allow it to rest on a tabletop, a flange around the rim and a smaller ridge around the middle to help the tail wrap around the bowl for easy carrying, and a broad bottom to allow the muzzle to comfortably...

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 me so much. I didn't know anything about Blender before, and I'm certainly still not good at it, but it's fun to mess around with. Anyway, here's some lore on the...