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I think, at least at first, the Bright Way might lose interest in the other planets of Focus after determining they're lifeless. This opens the door for Neoshamanists and other miscellaneous actors to swoop in and start getting the terraforming ball rolling. S...

It's spoopy season, so how about some good ol' fridge horror regarding metabolic suspension? What do we know about Amnions thus far? - They halt a person's metabolism while keeping the brain active. - They can present a simulacrum to the suspended person. - Th...

Adult yinrih are much more particular about their personal space compared to humans. There are a few expressions of affection involving contact shared between parents and their pups, as well as between littermates or unrelated playmates, but never between pare...

Tornadoes are called <rpLqqkjg>, from <rpLqg> (wind) + <qkj> (fell, evil). This term is the standard word referring to a tornado in Commonthroat. Yinrih synthesizing English often refer to tornadoes as fellwinds. The word comes from a particular branch of Miso...

Here's another brainstorming post. Unlike humanity, the yinrih don't have a concept of native or indigenous peoples. This is especially true on worlds other than Yih which were terraformed from lifeless rocks and populated by yinrih from scratch. There are a l...

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...