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…
Monthly meditations, continued =) The sixth month of the year on Halqueme is generally called the Grass-month. For most agricultural regions of the continent, is the time when all crops are planted and it’s becoming more and more predictable whether they will survive. It is also the time to make…
Monthly meditations, continued =) The fifth month of the year on Halqueme is generally called the Flower-month, or the Blossom-month, and is associated with the lerale of… …it’s a tricky one. His name is commonly given as Olnem—sometimes as Olhest or Olnes. Some say he is the lerale of sleep…
Continuing the monthly meditations by the way of worldbuilding =) The fourth month of the year, on Halqueme, is called the River-month. In the north is associated with the spring thaw, and in the south with the seasonal flooding. It is also associated with the lerale of Water, and with the…
I missed the last monthly meditation. It should have been on the lerale of Memory, and on love of learning, which is oddly symbolic. But this month we’re getting back on track. The lerale to be aware of during the Storm-month, the third month of the year, is the spirit…
The first month of the year, the one that follows the solstice and sees the increase in daylight, is generally called the Sun-Month. The lerale to be aware of in this month is Fate. Her symbol—which doubles as a symbol of the sun—is a wheel. There are two main ways…
In keeping with the traditions of Halqueme, the 15th is the day to reflect on a given topic. ~*~*~*~ After the playful eleventh month—the Mist-Month, the time of games and the lerale of Chaos—comes the twelfth month. It’s the last month of the year, the one which ends with the…
The opposite of play isn’t work. The opposite of play is depression. —Brian Sutton-Smith The focus of the Mist-month is the lerale of Chaos—and the virtue of humour/playfulness. Playfulness… is underrated. How many of us learned, growing up, that playfulness is silly and wrong and a waste of time? That…
One of the things that makes Ellur different from Earth (apart from magic and geography) is the presence of the leralath (singular: lerale). I believe I’ve described the leralath as anthropomorphic personifications before, but that’s not entirely accurate. It would be better to say that some natural processes (and possibly…
Since the word “boyar” has been popping up more and more in the webcomic, I think it’s time to talk here about the social structure of Bereg. And, naturally, about the historical inspiration behind it 🙂 We won’t touch the commoners today (surprisingly, they’re even more complicated), but we are…