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Of the major planet-wide societies at Focus, Hearthside is the most polychronic, with a relaxed attitude toward scheduling and a plethora of religious holidays off from work, this gives outsiders the impression that Hearthsiders are lazy. Wayfarers who have o...

The yinrih's torpor cycle isn't synced with Yih's day-night cycle, so it's likely there are no timezones on Yih. Calendar days will likely start at solar noon over a particular meridian, likely Newman's Dale. There will likely be time divisions lower than a da...

I spent WAY too much time on this considering it doesn't say anything new, but here it is, an article on the yinrih for Frathwiki. Edit: and here's a link to the article The yinrih (/“jIn.ri/), commonly called the monkey fox, is an arboreal animal native to t...

Not set in stone, but the office of High Hearthkeeper will likely be term-limited, with the new High Hearthkeeper chosen by lot from a pool of potential successors. One thing that is set in stone is that the office has been dominated by Hearthsiders for a very...

If it exists, a ham will either try to bounce radio waves off it or use it as an antenna. While Yih has an ionosphere that can be exploited for radio propagation at frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz, it also has a ring, which can reflect signals in the VHF and ...

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...