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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 ...

Posted this in the Commonthroat thread, but this is pretty significant lore so here it is in the worlduilding thread. qfBqg /huff, early falling weakening whine, huff, short low weak growl/ refers to the fruits of two distinct species of tree. The two species...

Even though Tod is the only native Commonthroat speaker among the missionaries, his Moony accent makes it difficult for others to understand him at times. The other missionaries are L2 speakers who learned by consuming media from the AW as pups and with formal...

The hearthkeeper walks down the central aisle, striking the ground with the aspergillum held in her tail as she walks. When the hearthkeeper reaches the sanctuary steps, an acolyte pulls back the sanctuary curtain obscuring the star hearth. The hearthkeeper as...

Womb ships don't do atmospheric re-entry the same way as human spacecraft. They fully engage their reverse force projector array to bleed off all their kinetic energy until their ground speed is zero, then they drop like a stone into the atmosphere over the in...

So here's what fur patterns have come up in the lore so far: - solid black (Stormlight) - solid red (Sunshine) - red with black ears and black socks (Tod) - assorted brown shades * fawn with black mask (Sunshine's original coat color before I decided to ma...

So we're coming up on one year of this project. I thought I'd celebrate by posting my original overview of the setting that I posted on the worldbuilding subreddit. A lot has changed since then, and there's a ton of outdated lore. The taboo regarding eating in...

The more I think about it, the more the idea of knighthood being linked to mechs in the same way it's associated with horses in European culture makes sense. I've also decided that mechs as a concept evolved out of powered armor, with armor getting bigger and ...

The martial aspects of knighthood are largely downplayed outside of Hearthside, but some, such as Lodestar, undertake mech pilot training as a way to maintain tradition, and besides, who doesn't want to stomp around in a big metal robot? The cockpit is located...

There's a bit of a shibboleth between spacers and yinrih who live planetside regarding body language. Spacers are more prone to gesticulate while talking. They may do this with only their front paws, or use all four paws and their tail at once. When on a plane...

A helmet used with yinrih powered armor. A few things to note: There are ear guards. While this sacrifices some of the ears' motility it keeps them from getting damaged. Note the colored chevrons on the back of the ear guards. These aren't present when conceal...

Overbrooding syndrome is a psychological condition characterized by a hypertrophied parenting instinct. While it's stereotypically associated with female empty-nesters, it can manifest in either gender and occur at any age after reaching maturity. Before First...

There are a number of socieoeconomic conditions that could reasonably be called slavery around Focus. One practice during the age of decadence was a form of debt servitude whereby those who could not pay their tithes to the local lighthouse would be pressed i...