“Finalize the recent history of the town of Shelisk”, said I. And cheerfully proceeded to: The end result is: now I know that the Shelisk citadel was always meant for a steward rather than for a local magnate, so any heraldry present will be related either to the crown of…
It’s been a while since I promised to do a post about Bereghin language, so here we go. Well, to be honest, this is gonna end up a series of posts, because it’s difficult to describe a language in a single post. I’m also setting up a WorldAnvil profile for…
I was actually working on the monetary system, but I needed to figure out what coins looked like, and I was already working on languages anyway… so this week’s lore post is gonna be about Kibran alphabets. For those who prefer the WorldAnvil format, the article is also available over…
Happy New Year, everyone! May 2022 be kinder to us all than 2021 has been 🥂 Because conlanging has been such an important part of my life for the last couple of months, I couldn’t contain the urge to actually make greeting cards in some of Halqueme’s languages. So here…
At War’s Edge webcomic episode 161 is up! The Consul might have an interesting conversation ahead of him. No translation to Halcian this week, because I found out that Celtic languages (and therefore, presumably, Halcian) have no infinitive verb form and instead use something called verbnoun. Still wrapping my head…
At War’s Edge webcomic episode 160 is up! So, yeah, that plan of Neia’s to talk to the editor even should the editor be dead already? Didn’t quite work out. Bonus #1. I do have another translation into Halcian for anyone who’s interested. Halcian is heavily based on Proto-Celtic, and…
At War’s Edge webcomic episodes 158-159 are up! Colonel Teyr has some questions. Citizen Ruig has some answers. There’s also a bonus. Thing is, I’ve had a really stressful few weeks, and I tend to do weird language-related stuff when I’m stressed. Like, at one point I read a Sumerian…
Translation convention is a great device and I love it (and use it) to bits. But sometimes it just causes issues. So — something of a language rant incoming 🙂 Both in the webcomic and in prose, I use English to represent the PoV language. Both Bereghins and Halcians in…
I just realized I missed this month’s monthly meditation. Whoops. This time I do have something of an excuse, though—I’m neck-deep in a new novel that I’ve taken up for this July’s camp NaNoWriMo. It explores life on the Bereghin Verge, where the human Realm of Bereg borders the mysterious…
At War’s Edge Page 110 is up! Lieutenant Gorrion has a drink and Sergeant Ditman has an idea. Notes:1. Ainir is lifted derived from Old Norse einir (juniper)2. The whole idea of juniper mead is partly inspired by gin (which uses juniper), but it’s definitely not gin. Probably something closer…