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Snippet: A Saying

Alistair Young

Alistair Young

Jun 15, 2017

“Judge ye! And know that ye are judged in turn.”

– Tectar Asamis, Second Exemplar of Saravoné

culture, law
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worldbuilding

Crazy Eddie

As a brief cultural note, today, I happened to be looking something up on the Atomic Rockets Future Mythology page, and was reminded of Crazy Eddie. (The one from Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye, obviously. Even if, sad to say, that

Nov 4, 2024

Harmonious Calendar

Repent, Horologist! Said The Tick-Tock Man

Ladies and gentlemen, I take you now to - the calendar! Specifically, I take you to the Harmonious Calendar, the standard calendar used by Imperial chronometrists ever since the Founding (although in its basic structure it required little adjustment, primarily the setting of a new base point/year zero, and

Oct 5, 2024

culture

Occlusion

When they refer to Ochale as the Masked Empire, for those of you who don’t know, it’s not some tired cliché about inscrutability. Ochaleans quite literally wear masks from the day of their birth to that of their death. Their spouse will see their face, and their children

Jul 30, 2024

Harúnet (Promegi Matrix)

Blood Included

A phenomenon ever worthy of note is how much the overall culture of the Worlds has been shaped less by the direct influence of the Great Powers, or indeed by their cultures in themselves, but rather by misunderstandings of those cultures, in which others grasp the surface forms but not

Oct 2, 2021
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