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An icon of sin is an artistic motif meant to serve as visual aid to examining one's conscience. It takes the form of a statue or painting of a yinrih holding an object in each paw and with a fifth object wrapped in the tail. What the objects are can very from ...

Hearthkeeper's Canticles are short poetic prayers that double as mnemonics to aid in a cleric's engineering duties. Anything from scientific formulae, such as Ohm's Law, to procedural checklists, such as the method for safely shutting down a star hearth, are r...

Random factoid: As you would expect from an arboreal species, monkey foxes make excellent linemen, well, linewomen. The lowly task of maintaining utility poles and transmission lines is usually the domain of acolytes and seminarians, but some ordained hearthke...

Tree dweller childermoots consume the remains of the womb-nest after their kits hatch.

Here are a few subtle changes that First Contact has on the English Language: The words "person" and "people" no longer refer only to humans, but to humans or yinrih. The term "misanthropy" and related words shift meaning to refer to anti-human prejudice rat...

Much to some humans' dismay, yinrih do not appreciate being petted or scratched. They have a strong sense of personal space. The title phrase is seen on public service announcements reminding humans that, while yinrih may look like dogs, you shouldn't treat th...

Arayaz wrote: 2024-05-14T23:05:42+00:00 That's a wonderful insult ─ it looks like it's straight out of Calvin and Hobbes! It does seem too long to be a regular-use slur, though. Khemehekis wrote: 2024-05-14T22:43:57+00:00 Heh -- these are great! Thanks! I'm ce...

Despite bearing a Terran name, Ludd Laws are laws put in place on Hearthside, the Allied Worlds, and other yinrih governments to prevent the export of monkey fox technology to Earth. They are so named because they were the brainchild of Dr. Staples and other a...

Lucy is the human-pronounceable name of the high hearthkeeper in office at the time of the Dewfall's arrival on Earth. She is the successor to the High Hearthkeeper who tried to once again put a stop to interstellar mission work that caused Pascal to lapse out...

thethief3 wrote: 2024-05-12T03:58:31+00:00 What's the Claravian relationship/doctrine with environmentalism? I'm glad you asked, as that was one of the things I was going to write up soon. This earlier post touches on an adjacent issue. The Bright Way is agai...

Here's a symbol for the Knights of the Sun. It plays on the Claravian Star and Gear. The spikes represent both sun rays and a spiked tail weapon, which as stated in the Commonthroat thread, has similar symbolic value to yinrih as swords do for humans. Hearthsi...

The standard unit of length at Focus is the Tailslength or just tail which, while long since redefined in terms of physical constants, is meant to approximate the length of an adult yinrih's tail. The standard unit of time in scientific circles doesn't mesh n...

Yinrih have a caudal ganglion, which is a secondary brain located at the base of the tail whose original purpose was to control the tail, but which has evolved secondary functions as a sort of backup for the main brain. Yinrih can withstand head injuries that ...

While yinrih primarily rely on perfumes to communicate things like social status and rank, visual adornment isn't unheard of. Scoring or painting designs onto the writing claw, which is flatter and broader than the other claws, is probably the most common of ...

The Rite of Alightment is a ritual performed upon landing a womb ship. Ideally it's done in the presence of one or more alien sophonts, and is meant to communicate what sort of creatures the yinrih are, why they're here, and to serve as a gesture of good will ...

Every Yih week (12 days), Yinrih spend a full Yih day (a bit over 24 hours) in torpor. At no point are they unconscious, but they are sedate. The sensation is compared to the sedatives used in Human cataract surgery. They have delayed reaction time, dulled sen...

Languages don't usually have names so on the nose as "Commonthroat". Sure some official dialects have such names, like Putonghua for Mandarin, but those are introduced later. Commonthroat was originally spoken around the River on Yih, so rDBGHqBdp "River speec...

On some parts of Hearthside, it's illegal to deliberately shed one's fur as it's considered impersonating a healer. This becomes a problem when a fad for emulating human hairlessness arises after First Contact, and a black market develops for healer's balding ...