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by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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!
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
05 Aug 2012 00:02
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Planet Veribane (AMA)
Replies: 17
Views: 6023

Re: Planet Veribane (AMA)

And another one:

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by Shanhoia
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.

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by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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?
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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 ...
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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.
by Shanhoia
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?
by Shanhoia
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...
by Shanhoia
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 ...