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Scripturally accurate Claravian angel? Of course I've noted before that in the Bright Way angels are more solutions to certain theological problems rather than tangible entities. "If the Light is utterly unknowable, it must communicate to its little ones throu...

Narrativism is a philosophy that states that the truth claims of a conceptual framework, belief system, or religion are not so much assertions about the nature of reality but stories intended to produce certain desired results, and whether those stories are tr...

I've shown a couple images of HUD specs. Now here's the input to go with the output. The keyer proper looks like the molded rubber grip of a bicycle handlebar. Running across the top of the keyer proper is a cushion that conforms to the contours of the wearers...

The standard direction for vulpithecine screw threads is reversed compared to humans. It's counterclockwise to tighten and clockwise to loosen. Clocks and gauge dials are also reversed. This is due to two things. For clocks and dials, it's because the yinrih p...

I've been stumped for the longest time trying to lay out the rest of Focus, so I decided to take the Elder Scrolls approach and think of cool-sounding names and fill in the blanks from there. Just for review, I'll go over the inner system first, although as yo...

Spacers (Commonthroat qGKqJqg, {huff long rising strengthening growl, huff, long high weak growl, huff, short low weak growl}) are yinrih who live and work primarily in outer space. As I've stated many times before, orbital colonies have no artificial gravity...

I'm busy writing part 2 of Beating the Heat, and I'm starting to do "real" writer-type stuff that I swore I'd never do because I'm not a writer and this isn't a writing project, like outlining plots and writing character profiles. So here's what I have on the ...

So, more tossing stuff at the wall. I should really detail some of the other groups, but this idea's been in my head all day and I want to write it down. So, the Bright Way gets big, it has a monopoly on interplanetary travel, communication, and energy distrib...

When a yinrih enters a room, the polite thing to do is to stick the muzzle through the curtain and scent the air first before entering. This is the equivalent of a human visually scanning the room to get a general feel for who's present, what's going on, and ...

The high perch is both a literal perch and a metaphor for the authority of the high hearthkeeper. It, along with the reigning high hearthkeeper herself, was captured by the Pious Dissolutionists during the last battle of the war of dissolution before the Parti...

In the past, when the Knights of the Sun acted as a private security force for the Bright Way, a knight would take an oath of fialty, swearing obedience to his chapter master, and swearing to protect the clergy and the infrastructure they maintained. While not...

"Some yearn for a yesterday that never was. Others desire a tomorrow that will never come. The rest cling to today as though it will not pass." An Atavist saying.

The primary means of asynchronous long-form text communication (think email) and real-time voice and video communication (think phone calls) both categorize messages into solicited vs unsolicited. In order for a message to be considered solicited, both the sen...

If you look at pictures of furless chimpanzees, you'll notice that they're very muscular. I assume this is related to their arboreal lifestyle. They need to be strong enough to climb trees. I think this means healers like Sunshine will look swole, not because ...

Pre-theophany gender roles were simple. Men had worldly authority and women had spiritual authority. In the Bright Way this developed into a spectrum, with "women only" on one extreme and "men only" on the other. Strictly speaking at the time of First Contact ...

Here's a bit of lore since I'm feeling a tad better (at least about my testing issues, I always have some worry gnawing at my gut). Hearthside does not have stores as they exist in the US, where you have a cart and shelves acting as both storage and display fo...

The internet map This is perhaps the closest thing to what I imagine the noosphere "looks like". I thought this site had gone under because I couldn't find it for the longest time (yeah yeah my fault for just googling every time I wanted to visit instead of pu...

Wondering if childhood amnesia is a thing, or amnesia generally. For now it is since I included it in the latest part of First Contact (the second narrator is the pup from the first part who sprayed juice on Lightray's chest), and the second part of the story ...