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The rear paws are just as prehensile as the front paws. There's no sexual dimorphism present here. Both the males and females have several smaller palmar pads on the rear paws, and females have no lactation patches here. The claws may contain iron, like the te...

A yinrih family consists of an equal number of male sires and female dams that can range in size from two (one pair) to twelve (six pairs). The number of sires and the number of dams must be equal. The collective group of sires and dams may be referred to in E...

Khemehekis wrote: 2023-12-26T02:44:51+00:00 I love the title you gave to your last post in this thread. I was laughing so hard when I read it. And I could see the title on the "Latest posts" board index, too. I mentioned the notion of yinrih trying to adopt hu...

thethief3 wrote: 2024-01-02T09:49:18+00:00 Probably as humans are discovered we see a push for the clergy to enter secular politics. And more men will feel as though they need to enter the clergy. Yinrih society's attitude toward gender roles can be summed up ...

Tree Dwellers (Commonthroat <qgKq-dq-g> /huff, early rising strengthening growl, huff, short high weak whine, huff, short low weak growl/ literally "forest yinrih") are a non-sapient species closely related to the yinrih. While humans often compare them to chi...

In the beginning, the tribal shaman tended the fire, protecting it from wind and weather. As the yinrih's civilization grew, shamans became clerics, and these clerics tended increasingly sophisticated hearths. Open fires gave way to sheltered hearths, hearths ...

I'm using the 12 word cartographer method introduced by Gestaltist here. The idea is that a supercontinent is starting to break up, and Damsback is the largest chunk of that former supercontinent. The River may in fact be a very narrow seaway that is forming ...

Hisses have some paralinguistic functions similar to human sibilants. They can be used to silence someone. Some cultures use hisses as an attention-getter, but the Commonthroat-speaking world uses a yip for that instead. A soft trilled hiss is used to catch th...

I've mentioned before that yinrih are not very good at throwing things, and they certainly never invented the bow and arrow, with tail slings being the go-to primitive projectile weapon. That means the use of arrows as directional markers never developed. Yinr...

I'm not sure yet what this will mean in-universe, but I've thought of a way of representing balanced ternary numbers in 2 dimensions. Here are the rules: 1. You draw a dot as your starting point. 2. Start drawing a line in any cardinal direction. 3. You may tu...

I need to think about how yinrih build their buildings and how they arrange those buildings into cities, especially pre-space age. As arboreal animals, I've assumed that they'd prefer to be off the ground where possible. Perhaps they construct their homes on s...

I haven't really given much thought to what forest flyers actually look like. Considering they're likely the most common house pet among yinrih I think I ought to change that. I describe them as having many of the same cultural associations as cats, so subcons...

Presapient yinrih would cache food in communal larders shared by single families and sometimes entire shires depending on local culture. Communal food caching is very rare on Earth (only two species are known to do it according to Wikipedia). This mostly consi...

As you may have guessed I've decided that these paths are used by the Mindseekers. It is unclear for what purpose. They may have used them as clever aesthetic touches, or they may have held some spiritual significance. Mindseekers would often hide such pattern...

1. curtain 2. washing pool 3. dirty area 4. tiled floor designed for tactile aesthetics 5. perches 6. latrine 7. stall partitions 8. grate for flushing the toilet and sanitizing the stall.

Idea: Yinrih may have a hard time recognizing one another by sight, preferring odor as the principle means of identification. Humans, on the other hand, are great at picking up visual patterns and can recognize yinrih at a distance. May not be canon though.

I sometimes post on a worlduilding community on Lemmy. It's far less active than the CBB, but I tried starting a free form roleplay like the Multiverse Inn to drum up activity. The thread never went anywhere, but this, posted below the OP explaining the concep...

A possible depiction of what was seen during the Theophany. It is an orb of light with a fringe of shifting hues, hanging in a part of the sky where the sun did not travel. Despite occurring at midday, the rest of the sky was dark as night and the stars shone ...