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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 ...

A yinrih womb nest, a highly derived egg-sac with its own simple heart and circulatory system. A central bus artery feeds oxygenated blood to the kits, and returning veins pass through a semi-permeable dermal layer to allow for gas exchange. The arrangement of...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2025-09-18T20:49:59+00:00 Have any humans ever converted to or co-opted one of the yinrih religions? Humans raised by Claravian fostering orders like Sherman from the Multiverse Inn are raised as Wayfarers. As for adult converts, there ...

The first permanent human religious institution to be established at Focus was a Catholic mission in the heart of the City of Eternal Noon, established by an order of Dominicans founded for the purpose of preaching to the yinrih. It would eventually grow to be...

This is probably the last edit I'm making to this drawing. I was bothered by the fact the branch his left forepaw is holding was thicker than the trunk. lurker wrote: 2023-08-02T16:09:36+00:00 Visions1 wrote: 2023-08-02T07:08:14+00:00 I like the species idea ...

Much better than my first attempt.

I've mentioned that some Wayfarers regard terms such as claravianism and claravism to be mildly offensive, while holding no such view of the adjective claravian. The reason is the -ism suffix. To some it sounds like a pathology like "alcoholism".

It's possible Neoshamanists monopolized healthcare in the same way that the Bright Way monopolized other industries. One of the criticisms leveled at the Bright Way during the Shakeoff may have been that research monks were so preoccupied with what was above, ...

As today is the equinox (autumnal in my case), I figure I should at least muse a bit on the fall feast day. It's likely the least important of the four seasonal feasts. Great Kindling (the commemoration of the yinrih's rise to sapience) is likely sandwiched be...

I'm pretty sure yinrih get tired just like humans do, after mental stress or physical exertion. They may or may not go into torpor after such events. I've already established (via Doug from the Multiverse inn) that semi-spontaneous torpor is a possible reactio...

A womb nest incubator consists of an inner capsule into which the male and female eggs are placed. The capsule is transparent to allow visual inspection of the nest's exterior. The capsule sits atop a suspension system to cushion the womb nest against sudden m...

Here's the male counterpart to the healer's paw: the protector's paw. Like the healer's paw, it is a stylized depiction of the palmar pads on the forepaw, but male rather than female. Where the healer's paw is used like the caduceus or red cross, the protector...

On Newhome during the centuries leading up to the war of dissolution, a movement adjacent to the pious dissolutionists arose whose aim was to hold corrupt clergy accountable. Its original name, if it ever had one, has been lost to history, but humans studying ...

Random factoid: very early on, when I was just starting to explore the Pious Aliens concept, long before I merged the idea with my main conworld to create the Lonely Galaxy, I was also interested in octopi, specifically the giant Pacific octopus. I often pict...

I have a mild fear of losing consciousness. It's mostly related to anesthesia. I often have nightmares of being anesthetized in preparation for surgery. The second part of Beating the Heat originally had Sarah awake but unable to move or speak as Sunshine atte...