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The Magician's Dialogue~ Week Four

Líros, 19th of Tàlniévis, 1306

Spiders the size of black bears, and those are the small ones. A few boast sizes rivaling moose. And they're social creatures, living in ...

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The Magician's Dialogue~ Week Three

Líros, 13th of Tàlniévis, 1306

I 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 th...

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

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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...

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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...

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The Magician's Dialogue~ Entry 003

Undated

The 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...

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The Magician's Dialogue~ Entry 002

Undated

The 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 simpl...

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The Magician's Dialogue~ Entry 001

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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 things

like. b...

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Orthography Sample

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

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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 (lite...

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Her with the Hummingbirds Chapters 1-7

I feel like I have to do something. Eventually

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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...

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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 th...

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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 rele...

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Chapter Six

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FxO30gnxFBlWeedBgLz131fYPk2g...

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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!!

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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 ...

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Chapter Five

lol sorry about this one!

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Fourth Chapter~!

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

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Dull Hummingbird

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

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Chapter 2: The Hummingbird Among the Flowers

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

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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...

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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 ...

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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"! "Ea...

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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.ˌt...

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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-`aal...

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