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I know this post is a bit old, but I thought it was worth a reply. My mind went in the opposite direction, with an instrument strapped to the yinrih’s back, which they could play with the tail, even while walking. I imagine this would be helpful for purposes in which the yinrih needs to be mobile, ...

Soma culture is more individualistic than most, and has better social mobility. A good heart & good intentions are highly valued, even if they don’t lead to good results. In conversation, compliments are highly encouraged and should be sprinkled throughout all conversations. These compliments, ...

Maybe "heretics" or "misotheists"? "Heretic" works but is pretty broad. "Misotheist" gets closer, and may fit depending on whether these agnostics actively despise these beings or simply distrust them. I think a term meaning "to ignore" or "to ...

Wish I could find the post but I remember reading someone comparing the relationship between D&D warlocks and their patrons as an investor buying a stake in a business. The patron gives a bit of their power to the warlock, which the warlock uses to accumulate more power or something that is retu...

What are the deities' / demons' attitudes toward mortals?

Here's a minor rewrite of The Tornado . I updated some worldbuilding stuff and hopefully cleaned up some of the more awkward wording. Jim surveyed the empty trailers around him as he sat in the lawn chair in front of his mobile home. Everyone else in this little student ghetto had left for spring br...

I’ve never seen you make this comparison before, but it seems like the closest looking creature to a yinrih is a lemur. They’re both basically monkeys with snouts. Lemurs are pretty close, but I like using woolly monkeys as a comparison because they have more equally proportioned limbs and a prehen...

Yinrih are about 200 cm long from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. The back is about 34 cm wide and they stand about 76 cm at the withers. The tail is slightly longer than the distance from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail, allowing them to comfortably bring objects wrapped in ...

On Newhome there is an influential moot named <rBcqg> /chuff, long low weak whine, short low strong whine, huff, short low weak growl/ (literally "abounding in ink") whose members own a controlling stake in a very large interplanetary spaceline/logistics company which was formed from the B...

After the dawn of the information age, as the Neoshamanist Mindseekers made strides in artificial intelligence, a debate emerged within the Bright Way. The Claravian magisterium regarded true conscious AI as impossible, but it acknowledged that something that perfectly mimicked a being with a ration...

𝚗𝚕𝙱𝙵𝚛𝚐 # Pronunciation short falling weak grunt, long rising strengthening whine, chuff, short low weak growl # Etymology 𝚗𝚕(to be at/in) + 𝙱𝙵𝚛𝚐 (room, chamber) # Definition ## Noun 1. a recluse 2. an anchorite/anchoress, especially a Farspeaker anchorite The proper English term is marked for gender...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Titan_submersible.jpg I may or may not have mentioned before that womb ships are based on the Titan . I started the Lonely Galaxy around the time this was in the news. The Bright Way's cavalier attitude toward death in pursuit of the Great Commandment ...

WizardOfWar wrote: ↑13 Jan 2025 02:57 They are very tall, And have moss facing you

I begin walking in the opposite direction of the moss.

I venture out and investigate the trees.

The following was a draft of a Terranesque story I attempted to write. It incorporated the idea of coexisting sapient predators and prey I mentioned in the random conworld ideas thread. Since the prey in that post were basically just rabbits I made the predators basically just foxes because I'm lazy...

((I'm assuming that I am a healthy adult human that is evolved to the point of behavioral modernity. If this is the case:))

I look to see what is around me in the cave.

I agree. Popular culture is something that works of science fiction and fantasy often fail to delve into (although I can think of some major exceptions). I tried writing a story along these lines, but lost steam. I might post the draft at some point anyway. It was exhausting trying to write a story...

Pawprint, eh? Were you inspired by this? Nope. I realized there needed to be a word for paw print, then realized that since yinrih are perennially unshod and since they can see thermal radiation, they should be able to see glowing trackways left on thermally conductive surfaces, though likely only ...

I think I need to make a fairly comprehensive update to the Commonthroat script. I have mentioned before that newly sapient yinrih wrote on leaves. In the back of my head I always imagined something similar to the Brahmic scripts of South and Southeast Asia written on palm leaves. Javanese is a part...