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- 30 Apr 2019 15:02
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Introduction thread(s)
- Replies: 723
- Views: 424799
Re: Introduction thread(s)
Hi! I am Shanhoia, and it looks like I was last active here ... about 7 years ago. Not actually sure what Shanhoia meant, or in what conlang. I guess 7 years is a long time. Since then, I've gone through new planets, new languages, new cultures - about the only constants have been a few characters w...
- 12 Aug 2012 02:14
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: All About/AMA Saltha
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1591
Re: All About/AMA Saltha
Wow, this is very detailed! Good stuff. I especially like the gestures! I have a few questions about women: What is the relative status of men and women? For instance, if a man's status comes from his number of wives, but a woman's from her husband's number of wives, then are women (economically spe...
- 09 Aug 2012 03:26
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6023
Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)
Thanks for all the questions and feedback, guys!
- 07 Aug 2012 01:57
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: How NOT to Conworld.
- Replies: 275
- Views: 87248
Re: How NOT to Conworld.
I think attitude, more than content, is what turns me off a conworld. On the intellectual side, I like to see people thinking things through to their (sometimes unexpected) logical conclusions, and making lots of neat connections between elements in the setting. So what bugs me isn't elves, it's whe...
- 05 Aug 2012 23:18
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: AMA about the Aidisese
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2844
Re: AMA about the Aidisese
The Aidisese are a multi-ethnic culture that resulted of the blending of several cultures... Aidis is geographically diverse, but much of the region is dominated by fertile grassland, savanna, and Mediterranean climate zones; the north is more mountainous, while the east is arid and desert Yay, ari...
- 05 Aug 2012 23:01
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6023
Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)
What about the humans there? Have they changed? Were some genes left behind on earth (blue eyes for instance)? Any new mutations? Well, they're better adapted for Veribane foods, diseases, and weather. Typical coloring and features vary by region/ancestry, but mostly fall within Earth ranges. For i...
- 05 Aug 2012 07:22
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6023
Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)
What lives in the deserts? Should we fear what lives there? Not the native sentients there, certainly. They're shy, quiet, cerebral people who will probably flee before you see them, folding up their highly efficient, compactable gear and leaping away, like lightweight-backpacker kangaroos. Some de...
- 05 Aug 2012 01:41
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6023
Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)
So how do the native sentients fit into this alliance of states? Are any of them part of the alliance, are they all non-compliants, or are they somehow outside the system? In general, what's the intersection there between humans and non-humans? Whew! Timaren, you sure know how to ask the hard quest...
- 05 Aug 2012 00:42
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656589
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
@Milyamd: Sorry, I thought that might be a new question, but it was hard to tell from your wording. I don't know the answer to that one either. @eldin raigmore: Awesome info! Thanks! Not fitting the scenario I'm currently working on, because there I really need an earthlike day, which I see now does...
- 05 Aug 2012 00:02
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6023
Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)
And another one:
- 05 Aug 2012 00:01
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6023
Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)
'Orbital shot' image of a Veribane globe I made.
Colors indicate vegetation-- red desert, yellow grassland, green forest, grey tundra.
Colors indicate vegetation-- red desert, yellow grassland, green forest, grey tundra.
- 04 Aug 2012 19:35
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6023
Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)
Is the owl thing you mentioned a mythical creature or native species? It's a native species. Due to the main vertebrate line being hexapods, the 'bird' equivalents are griffin-like. This one is very like an owl in niche and appearance. Are there any other non-native species besides humans? Cockroac...
- 04 Aug 2012 19:24
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: AMA about the Wageseen
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2478
Re: AMA about the Wageseen
What prompted the shift to sedentary life for the Ghoza city-dwellers? Was there an intermediate step between nomadic life and a full city? Semi-permanent settlements, perhaps, or villages?
- 04 Aug 2012 17:39
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656589
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
How to determine the limit where the celestial bodies can be not tidally locked? No, sorry. They are tidally locked. My question was: I'm trying to figure out how close together the planets could be, while staying intact and roughly spherical Because if it was a short enough distance, and they thus...
- 04 Aug 2012 06:03
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656589
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
@eldin raigmore: Yes, that was the kind of system I was envisioning -- similarly sized, mutually tidelocked planets with a barycenter outside both of them. Thanks, I hadn't worked out all that about the eclipses! I'm trying to figure out how close together the planets could be, while staying intact ...
- 01 Aug 2012 20:43
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6023
Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)
Hey guys, cbrxkhan's questions were great, but other than that I'm feeling a bit lonely in this thread. If no one has questions or comments on what's here, could you let me know what kind of thing you'd be interested in hearing more about? History? The World Alliance cultures? Lohalen? Other human c...
- 01 Aug 2012 19:25
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656589
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Thanks for the answers! Some clarifications:
No, like many people I use 'weird' for things far outside my experience. So tides wouldn't count.
And I meant two planets orbiting a central point.
No, like many people I use 'weird' for things far outside my experience. So tides wouldn't count.
And I meant two planets orbiting a central point.
- 01 Aug 2012 03:00
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1938
- Views: 656589
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Say you had a binary planet--like, a planet with a planet-sized moon. How close/fast could they orbit each other without breaking apart or weirdly distorting?
- 01 Aug 2012 02:52
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6023
Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)
It seems like maybe my first post was too broad and generic, so, at the risk of wall-of-text, I'll try to remedy that with a more detailed post. Zooming in on one particular culture: Ancient Lohalen. Lohalen was a militant, theocratic empire of ancient Veribane. The languages and religions of a wide...
- 31 Jul 2012 20:28
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The creatures of Wodnoria - AMA
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2200
Re: The creatures of Wodnoria
This is quite interesting. It looks like you've put a lot of thought into this ecology and how it evolved. Some questions: -How shallow is the water these organisms live in? -What's their internal anatomy like? Since they have shapes, I take it they aren't just amoeba-like blobs of cells, they must ...