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very rough draft of how money emerges. So let's say after Wayfarers settle the southern grasslands they start agriculture in earnest. Yinrih already exhibit communal food caching behavior, which blossomed readily into simple planting and harvesting in the amp...

These are the circumstances that lead to the Shakeoff. Much like the War of Dissolution it doesn't have a single definitive cause, but most historians say there are a few major contributing factors. First, a pandemic that highlights the inadequacy of Claravian...

Yinrih live on average around 724 Terran years and mature at around 53. Since they're semelparous, once they lay their egg they're out of the running, so the cohort size is only dependent on the size of the previous cohort. For my first method, let’s say the ...

"My dame, you have written to me on several occasions, urging me to suppress these Neoshamanists, even with violence, on account of their heresy. Each time I have given you the same response, which I reiterate once again unchanged. I, a mere patriarch, am not ...

The Algorithm has been serving me a lot of "What if [character from other franchise] was in WH40K?" fanfic readings on YouTube, and I've been listening to them as background noise at work. That naturally made me wonder how monkey foxes would fare in the grim d...

I have nowhere else to put this, but this has been stuck in my head all day. Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos standing on the bridge of a void ship, hailing a yinrih outpost,: "In the name of the God-Emperor of Mankind, you filthy xenos must be purged!" Yinrih, in...

I'm really tired so let's see how weird this sounds tomorrow morning. There's this belief among Wayfarers, I'm not sure whether it's popular piety, established dogma, or somewhere in between, but here's the idea: You know that "ah-ha!" moment when learning som...

Before i forget, terraforming may involve building artificial rings to moderate insolation on inner planets or even provide artificial light on far out dwarf lanets. These rings would also serve as spaceports and may be connected to the surface by a space elev...

I've made the Lonely Galaxy Mediawiki instance public. It can be found at https://constructed.world. I don't know how long I can keep it up for, but there it is. Before I forget: "Curiosity and Caution" is an artistic motif, usually depicted in statuary, of a ...

Random idea for a human dish that replicates typical yinrih cuisine. Take smoked shredded beef brisket, dill relish, and diced white onions and mix them together into a dry stew. Add salt and pepper and serve in a bowl. Humans use a fork or spoon to eat, yinri...

A colossus is a cynoidomorphic structure with a full-sized lighthouse on its back. The word for these structures in all major yinrih languages has gone on to mean giant or titan, and is used to indicate anything imposing or intimidating. The first Colossus was...

The Split Horizon speaks English but they may use Shavian instead of Latin to write it. The colony was founded in part because some humans were concerned that they would not be fully independent if they accepted High Hearthekeper Lucy's homesteading offer but ...

This post may not be canon pending a good night's sleep. I'm le tired. It was fairly natural that shires would evolve into cities, and then city-states, and then into states proper. The first polity to be recognized as such was probably the jungles around New...

This is the transit of one of the Knights' orbital monasteries. The reason why they're called the Knights of the Sun is because many of these monasteries are inside the orbit of Hearthside very close to Focus. They're located where they are so as to better con...

Was just thinking about how militant misotheists seek to kill Wayfarers in order to starve the Uncreated Light of worshipers in revenge for cursing the yinrih with sapience. There's a potential contradiction in misotheist doctrine here. The noosphere is only e...

Jotting this down before I forget. Atavists believe that widespread beliefs can manifest as entities with agency over real space. They also craft mythologies for their self isolating communities. Put those two together and you get Atavists constructing mytholo...

I have mentioned the Lifebringers in passing before, a group of Neoshamanists that sought to create sapient life anew through artificial selection. It is this group that was responsible for much of the yinrih's early scientific knowledge of ecology, biology, ...

The office of High Hearthkeeper did not exist prior to the Shakeoff. Once Neoshamanism and Atavism emerged, it became necessary to create a tangible sign of unity within the Bright Way that could be used to precisely define what a Wayfarer is. The office is li...