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The Magician's Dialogue~ Week Four

Líros, 19th of Tàlniévis, 1306Spiders the size of black bears, and those are the small ones. A few boast sizes rivaling moose. And they're social creatures, living in great nests hidden in the meadows, sending out hunting parties to bring prey back to their hatchlings. I think they are try...

The Magician's Dialogue~ Week Three

Líros, 13th of Tàlniévis, 1306I know of seven day week cycles, so I do not think I am surprised by how short it is, but six days? I counted my diary entries up until this point. I thought about adding in dates, but, I didn't always write in my journal every day before I asked about the cale...

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accidentally posted week 6 dont read it in the email aaa damn it

The Magician's Dialogue~ Week Two

Líros, 7th of Tàlniévis, 1306*It is worse than I could have ever imagined. I am, in fact, lucky to be alive. To even exist now. I met the Psychomancer. I cannot remember her name. Loki? Lokali**? My head is spinning.She gave me two possibilities. It was the only two she could conceive of. Eith...

The Magician's Dialogue~ Week One

The Ever-Meadows Historical Society (Archivist Branch), on Líris the 13th of Coúmesálh, 1319, hereby authorizes this journal, recovered as part of the Informational Series on the 3rd Great War, to be reprinted for internal circulation.Reference Use Only.Note from the Editor: The thoughts and o...

The Magician's Dialogue~ Entry 003

UndatedThe first bed I've had in a long time feels good on my back. Days of a thin mattress and a thinner blanket under the stars does something to a woman. Bad things. Even if the stars are beautiful out here. With a steady supply of oil for lamps I can write well into the night, though I feel ...

The Magician's Dialogue~ Entry 002

UndatedThe first thing, the polite thing, to do, is to introduce myself, but things aren't always that simple. I can tell you- well now, who is this for, exactly? I am simply passing the time.I'm traveling with someone. He was kind enough to show me to this place, this island not on any maps...

The Magician's Dialogue~ Entry 001

The Mayfly Vignettes

The Veil of Calypso"So, I have a question." says Jade.Ephyrricie, who had just been sipping tea, stops abruptly and almost spills it out of her mouth. "Um- yeah?""How do the islands stay so well hidden? It didn't take much time for me and Witz to sail here from Chalchiuihtlan...

Akarian Characters!

i apologize for my handwriting: there are two sets of three columns: Name, Character, IPA. lower left quadrant says "Akarian Alphabet" -Akarbetagim-. the Latin Alphabet parts at least.and if anyones having trouble reading the character Names, heres the order again:BetaGimelDaletaElepaVetaGhe...

that one thing i promised in my earlier post

it was the Akarian Alphabet!So anyway, idk if ive talked about this elsewhere, but i based the Akarian Alphabet on the Phoenician one, with some alterations to fit the phonetic inventory. So now, here are the Letter names, in Alphabetical (or rather, Betagim) Order:BetaGimelDaletaElepaVetaGheUrauZai...

conlang numerals post because numerals fun

another numerals posting yeah? yeah. aight i dont know what it is about me but i keep not liking how my numeral system comes out, the ones i make for Akarian. i know some basic thingslike. base 6 radix. 6 unique characters in a positional notation system.but what ifnot positional???perhaps... biject...

Orthography Sample

I haven't been active in a while. Here's a little bit of something.

Lirkuen omo otol zeim ki mes em zeim nokh.

This is an old Akarian proverb. Transliterated, it means "To Master not Life but to Master Death is the Hallmark of Civilization."A gloss would look something like this:hallmark (literally, light-beacon) behind civilization to.master NEG life but to.master deathNotice the verb "Zeim"...

Her with the Hummingbirds Chapters 1-7

I feel like I have to do something. Eventually

4mattting

so like. when i started posting HwtH i had to- or rather i felt i had to embed a google doc b/c my text has footnotes that i can't figure out how to format on the text box in patreon. but i figured out a workaround. now all i have to do is copy/past and reformat all seven chapters and post em. e...

Chapter Seven

So I did say there wasn't going to be a chapter upload today BUT I went ahead and wrote the whole damn thing. So, here it is! I also want to let yall know that every chapter of Her with the Hummingbirds is right now free to read except this one (for one week) and the Chapter One Redraft. So with...

So, no new chapter this Friday

Exactly what it says on the tin. No new Her with the Hummingbirds chapter, primarily because I got caught up with a personal project. Something will happen on Friday though. I will be releasing all of my rough draft chapters for free, saving the Chapter One Redraft for patrons. That'll be all. G...

Chapter Six

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FxO30gnxFBlWeedBgLz131fYPk2gsyzozvIYrrtU5VY/edit?usp=sharingHuh. so uh, the Link template isnt working?? anyway this isnt why im posting late, i just forgot yesterday. also yall could expect a hiatus from me next week as i get caught up with actually writing these...

Redraft of Chapter One!

See see i told yall i'd post it later today. not gonna let a little thing like a lack of internet connection stop me! hahaha!!

so intonation right

im just wrapping up my final linguistics course (three more quarters and i have my bachelors woo!) and the topic is intonation.it's the pitch contour of speech and how it relates to meaning on a sentence and discourse level. there are high tones that mark new information, low tones that mark est...

Chapter Five

lol sorry about this one!

Fourth Chapter~!

its here! i dont have much else to say since im posting this late

Dull Hummingbird

oh hoh hoh hoho! Chapter three is now available! Enjoy~

Chapter 2: The Hummingbird Among the Flowers

The second chapter! woo! i have nothing more to say

Numerals! wait do i have a post about thi

Anyway, if there was another post about Akarian numbers just ignore it and read this one.So, Akarian Numerals are written in base six positional notation: ones, then sixes.The Numbers 1 through 5 are: Lai Rie Sou Mea Toe. The numbers 10 through 50 are La Ri So Me To- However, these numbers can't...

Her with the Hummingbirds: An Alyrä Novel

This is Draft 1 of my fantasy adventure novel, Her with the Hummingbirds. Each chapter will be uploaded for patrons only every Friday. This is the first major canon installment of Project Alyrä, with more coming soon. Enjoy!

Fim and Ker (and also an aside about Pätow)

Before I get started on Fim and Ker, I want to point out that the word Pätow would actually be an adjective in North Akarian, as it doesn't have a nominalizing suffix. It would mean "Earthy"! "Earth" in North Akarian, would actually be Pätowä, with that -ä suffix evolved ...

So about Paitol

I'm going to just do a quick run down of how Old Akarian (the progenitor of the Akarian Language Family, spoken by all magical creatures, evolves using the word, Paitol.Paitol /ˈ pʰa.i.ˌt̪ʰol̪/ from Pai + Tol (All, Every/ Land, Space, Territory, Area)After the Southern Catastrophe during t...

Major Rivers and Lakes

Major Rivers and Lakes of my world, Paitol/ Al-`aalem/ Cemanahuatl. I should really just call it Paitol but like, the two largest societies of the world, Astartia and Chalchihuitlan call it Al-`aalem and Cemanahuatl respectively. Not to mention that the arcane magical societies unknown to the world ...