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A hame is a badge of honor granted to a healer. It is a cloak made from the pelt of a celebrated healer, usually the foundress of a college or other well-regarded alumna. To have one's pelt made into a hame is the highest posthumous honor a healer can receive,...

Another tentative idea: After the Theophany, a movement grows within the interstitial teens. The miraculous light appeared low in the southern sky, at a much lower elevation than the equatorial sun was known to travel. The majority of yinrih still lived along ...

I've been thinking that the bright way would take an interest in elephants given elephants' apparent reverence for their dead. They'd probably want to set up an elephant sanctuary similar to the tree dweller sanctuary in Newman's Dale.

It's "the lonely galaxy" written using the newer "dajba" system. I'm pretty pleased considering I did it with a mouse.

It's been 2 years since I brought my various worldbuilding ideas together into this weird little paracosm. I'm afraid I don't have anything really big to mark the occasion. I will say thank you all again for indulging in this grown man's silly make-believe wor...

A polity claims a concentric ring around Focus. The ring is normally centered on a planetary orbit, but may differ in the case of non-planetary polities (the Spacer Confederacy and Partisan Territory). The polity has exclusive economic rights within this borde...

In the Bright Way, the soul of a sophont is considered to have three "layers" or "parts". The appetites, passions, or instincts lie at the bottom, and are not unique to sophonts. All animals have instincts. These include primal desires to eat, rest, beget youn...

The sacred path is an ethical precept within the Farspeakers. It states that the messages between two parties must not be willfully interrupted, altered, or overheard so long as they traverse a public network. The bold is important. Much like the relationship ...

Now the HUD specs are shiny!

I remember reading somewhere that the key to good character design is to have a distinctive and readable outline. So here's an attempt at a yinrih's silhouette.

Visions1 wrote: 2025-07-21T15:03:32+00:00 So are there any planets that get cold? Moonlitter (rather its moons) and PT can get cold. Outlander distinguishes bodies that can be fully climate controlled via Science and those that can be terraformed but have a mo...

Noospherics refers to the study of the noosphere. It takes different forms depending on one's view of what the noosphere is. It's most prominent. in the nonagentivist branch of Neoshamanism, where it means attempting to map the noosphere by creating a single u...

This is likely not canon, but I just thought about the Misotheists having "anti-liturgies", which is 30-60 minutes of uninterrupted blasphemy scheduled at the same times as Claravian liturgies in order to try and cancel out their prayers.

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Visions1 wrote: 2025-07-27T05:49:56+00:00 What happened with Newhome's terraforming in the end? Were they able to accomplish much there? Do they have any working environment? (I do imagine it a bit more feasible than with humans. I'm reading dune, and apparent...

The stream that quenches also drowns. The tree that gives shelter also crushes under falling bow. The fire that cooks the food also burns the flesh. Why revere these things? They care not a wit for you or I. Has even a great gross of offerings moved the River ...

I've stated previously that yinrih are not accurate throwers. They also have natural weapons in the form of their claws, so I'm not sure if spears would develop. Then again, spears were likely the first tools used by early humans (chimps also make spears by gn...

Minor update to Hearthside’s political system: the werenoot is the only house that can propose legislation, but all legislation must be approved by the wifemoot. Further, the two houses aren’t considered higher or lower, just as the US house and senate aren’t ...