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On Hearthside, it is illegal to use terms such as "buy" or "purchase" (rather their Hearthsider equivalents) unless a transfer of ownership is taking place. If you're paying for time-limited access (even if that time limit is measured in centuries) terms such ...

Visions1 wrote: 2025-07-23T17:12:17+00:00 Spoiler: Ideas: "Look at how females make up the clergy! The females monopolize power! If you join us," say the Partisans to rambunctious, hopeless males, "you'll be free!" And then the church is banned and now almost...

In the Bright Way, fasting consists of abstaining from solid foods. Fasting and other forms of self denial are considered highly sophontic (virtuous), as only a sophont would willingly deny their instincts for no immediate survival benefit. Many drinks are tr...

If endurance running and throwing things accurately are the quintessential human sports, perhaps climbing and leaping are the quintessential yinrih sports.

A space elevator on Sweetwater whose foundation is at the seabed. A giant coffer dam surrounds the base, exposing the surrounding seafloor to sunlight. The city that has grown inside the dam is possibly the (de facto) capital of the planet, or at least the cap...

Visions1 wrote: 2025-07-29T12:37:27+00:00 How large is a typical island? What typically lives on it? The average size is about 18-25 square miles. The substrate is firm enough to permit tree growth, and it may be that the "trees" are actually growths of the ve...

Not sure who'll have this system of government, probably Wayfarers' Haven, but anyway. The idea is that there's no one monolithic legislative body. Instead, there are a set of departments that govern different areas of life like education, agriculture, economy...

Lighthouses have geographical boundaries. During the golden age and the age of decadence, the moots within a particular lighthouse's boundary were powered by that lighthouse, and paid tithes to it in turn. Wayfarers were expected to attend liturgies at their l...

Minnows* are a class of mass-produced submarine used on Sweetwater. They're more of a sub "chassis" or rather outer and inner hull design with a small set of standardized components with an interior that can be customized by downstream manufacturers. Discarded...

idea: rather than using electric current to transport power, the Bright Way uses thick optical fibers and lasers. Imagine shining an extremely high-powered laser down a fiberoptic cable and having a really efficient solar cell on the other side to collect the ...

Sighted yinrih may use long-form tactile writing in a few circumstances where a text must be recited while the eyes are focused elsewhere. This may be done where humans would use cue cards or teleprompters, and in worship aids to recite prayers or hymns while ...

I think since yinrih are arboreal, they'd have a desire to get off the ground whenever possible. This leads to them building up rather than out, with dwellings packed together and raised off the ground, with the foundation resting on stilts or pylons. The fact...

I think I'm going to stop worrying so much about perfect landforms and just wing it until someone complains. Damsback has an Andean mountain range (damsbackbone?) to the east. The mountains are the source of the River, and it flows westward to the sea. I'm not...

I went down a rabbit hole that started with a youtube video about smelting iron, which lead me ultimately to this Jewish ethical text. The relevant passage is thus (emphasis added): Ten things were created on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight, and these are t...

From Newman's Dale, Yih's ring is only visible as a thin line stretching from east to west across the sky. As yinrih began following the Bright Way out into the southern grasslands, the ring appeared to widen, dominating the northern sky as the pilgrims approa...

At the end of The Artificer's Litter the giant head's builders are scattered across Focus. It struck me this morning that that's en excellent founding myth for a stateless nation that practices a form of Mechanist Neoshamanism. This nation may or may not have ...

You know that old joke about soviet citizens waiting 10 years for a new car? I bet a yinrih would hear that and shrug. "10 years? That doesn't sound so-- Oh wait, that's like over a tenth of your total lifespan." This is why I sometimes think the two species ...

I've mentioned the idea of a previous missionary team landing in North America prior to the arrival of humans before. Here's another spin on this idea: Yinrih arrive in the New World during the ice age, but for whatever reason humans never migrate across the B...