Wretched Hive: The planet Nepscia (Galith Waste) is the canonical example. Its primary inhabited portion is one large red market – which is to say, it’s one giant bastardized offspring of Jackson’s Whole and Tortuga. It’s a… fun place to visit in the right frame of mind – but
Quöé and her clique called us staid, today, among a few other less polite assertions. Can you imagine that? Me! Staid! I didn’t understand what they meant until I remembered how they used to look at me and my cousins when we first got here, before we’d learned
Church Militant: The eikones revered by the Church of the Flame include two war gods, arguably so described: Dúréníän, eikone of righteous war, battle, conquest, strategy and tactics, and patron of the sentinels; and Kalasané, eikone of battle, courage, valor, victory through strength, and personal combat. Their combined religious order,
And here I answer a comment in the long form, because I think it deserves a longer and more general answer than would fit in just the comment post: To fill in some background first for those who aren’t regular or long-term readers, the thing that is particularly important
Stiff Upper Lip: Displays of talcoríëf (see: Blue and Orange Morality) are made of this. Aplomb, always aplomb. (Although, in fairness, well-executed talcoríëf does permit a little more enthusiasm than this – but is much the same where imperturbability is called for.)
…a deck of playing cards, in the typical Imperial style used for ómith and for some sub-games of kírasseth, contains 96 cards. 72 of these make up the six suits of twelve cards each, each with its particular elemental association: the suit of clouds, representing air and steam; the suit
Chess Motifs: Not strictly, since there isn’t chess, but the locals can and will treat you to a generous selection of larileth, iandaër, and kírasseth motifs – as seen, in the third case, in the title of “Princess of Clouds to Archetypes, Gilek-Four – Your Move“.
First there was the Adaptech Adventurer’s Pistol, and that was bad for those us who believe in trying to exert some sort of control over the proliferation of arms in our countries. Usually you can try and regulate the ammunition, or the fuel, or the high-density energy cells too,
“‘What is reality?’, you ask. Beneath all the photons and leptons and baryons and gluons, underlying space-time and quantum fields, out there in the realm of fundamentals where the natural ontologists and the ontotech engineers play, what actually is the world made from? What is underneath it all, what can
Sorry for the lack of fic-a-day in recent days. Unfortunately, I’ve been sleeping really badly and possibly have some sort of low-level plague, either or both of which have done quite a number on my creative faculties. Normal service (and catch-up) will be resumed as soon as possible.
The Chains of Commanding: The reason, especially given the circumscriptions around your power to actually effect change for the better, why it sucks to be a rúner.
Casual Interstellar Travel / Casual Interplanetary Travel: It’s a little complicated. Technically, yes, you can travel interstellarly fairly casually, since while you have to drag one end of your wormhole at subluminal speed to wherever you want it, interstellar travel to places where you have one already is pretty damn