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Here's a wind fruit rendered in Blender.

A very, very preliminary sketch of Yih. It doesn't really say anything I haven't made known already. Yih has an axial tilt of exactly 30 degrees, and a ring that casts a shadow on the subtropics and mid latitudes in the winter. Yih is slightly larger than Eart...

It's been a bit since I've played with Blender. Here I'm trying some ring dimensions for Yih. The red and cyan lights are just there to demonstrate the shadow the ring casts on the planet and the planet casts on the ring.

I think I'm going to go with my "consistency over realism" strategy on this one. I'd like the shadow to fall neatly inside the mid latitudes during winter, regardless of whether that's possible or not. The Earth texture is just a placeholder.

Not much justification for this one. I'm just playing around with InkScape.

Military nicknames are, I am told, not terribly flattering. They usually stem from inside jokes or embarrassing incidents. Here's how Tod got his. He seems to embellish more and more details each time he tells the tale, but it usually unfolds like this. He's h...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: 2024-10-24T13:34:09+00:00 What was the stereotypical alien like in yinrih culture before First Contact? The Great Commandment refers to aliens as "bone not of our bone, flesh not of our flesh, but with souls like unto our own." The Brig...

The great thing about having hands for feet is that you can punch someone and kick them at the same time. No deep lore here. Yinrih can mule kick, or is it mule punch?

I'm starting to finalize the look of their back legs. I think a more plantigrade stance makes sense. It makes them less canine but I think makes it more viable for them to use their rear paws for grasping.

From left to right, top to bottom: The Dinosaur The Husky The Monkey The Chameleon How the tail is carried while walking might depend on culture and personal preference, or one style could be normal across the species. The "dinosaur" style at top left would pr...

still not sure about their back legs. This pose definitely puts the "monkey" in "monkey fox".

There is an entire clade of small creatures filling rodent-like niches that have evolved the ability to store an electric charge in capacitor-like organs below their eyes. They can discharge these organs into any would-be predator attempting to eat them. These...

This is the fruit of the steadtree, a species of tree native to the equatorial rain forest on Yih. It is this tree that the yinrih evolved to dwell in, and this fruit co-evolved alongside the yinrih's nonsapient ancestors in order to use the yinrih as seed dis...

There was a period of natural religion prior to the Theophany that may have even preceded writing (akin to the ritual burials of the neanderthals). It is here that the most fundamental rites are established: a female shaman keeping the tribal fire lit and perf...

So it's the Winter solstice. Seeing as how this is supposed to be one of the high holy days in The Bright Way, I should probably flesh it out a bit. The Seasonal Feasts are meant to be considered together, as though they are in fact a single discontiguous cele...

Bit of a lazy one today. This is the retribution field generator featured in one of my stories. When activated, the cube creates a force field that absorbs the kinetic energy of incoming projectiles. Then it unleashes that energy back at the attacker. Honestly...

This is a front paw gauntlet used in yinrih powered armor, with the palm facing up. The purple pads on the digits and palm are force projectors (Commonthroat name TBD). They use Science™ to exert force at a distance. They can also generate a negative force nor...

This is an amnion, or suspension capsule. This is how yinrih missionaries survive interstellar voyages going slower than light. Womb ships are only able to reach about 0.1c. Since Focus and Sol are about 25 light-years apart, it took the Dewfall about 250 year...