Pictured: the wrong way to compliment your girlfriend. Not pictured: the ensuing beatdown.
Marj get those sandwiches out of there.
My blog has been severely lacking in demons lately. I need to correct this with something new, but for now!
She set out alone into the bleary expanse, pebbles rolling beneath her feet, spraying down the rugged hillside as she strained her eyes to the broken light of the first smatterings of dawn. Her body readied itself to feel the sun’s warmth, skin itching within thin layers of pelts, swaddled around her in the manner of the season. The fields were silent around her, scrub brush swaying softly amongst sweet and bitter gales that carried licks of chill and tastes of faraway bloodshed and the pall of life departing, far on the other side where the cliffs dropped more steeply, down in those craters and valleys where the broken lines on her face were carved.
She closed her dark eyes to take in the air. She was truly alone.
Fun with Fake Languages
When creating a fantasy culture, I personally find that the sound and properties of that culture’s language(s) are a key consideration, when you look at how deeply language can affect our own perception of the world and vice versa.
Alternatively:
I’m a crazy linguistics nut and it was only a matter of time before I would be wondering about how the demonfolk talk!
Using the basic phonology that’s been implied by the names we’ve come up with, I strung some gibberish together and fiddled with it until it looked reasonable. There is no real structure or meaning here, I just wanted to cement the basic feel of one of the languages/dialects that might be spoken.
Using this blunt method, I’ve created a theoretical excerpt of a folktale about a warrior named K’tena, which you’ll see below. What the story’s actually about is up to you!
Brute Force Worldbuilding
This may not be of interest to any but a few of you, but to force myself into doing some fast and loose worldbuilding for the place where these demonfolk I’ve been posting about live, I completed the project you’ll find below.
I’ve found challenges like 1sentence on Livejournal to be an interesting way to capture the spirit of a character or pairing, when done well, so I thought, why couldn’t the same be done for a group of people, or a place?
I used themeset Epsilon here, with the self-imposed rule that every sentence I wrote had to be, in theory, about a unique person, place, or thing, which would keep me from dwelling on the named characters we’ve already spent time doting on. It’s been difficult, but I’m not completely unhappy with the results.
So, if you are at all curious about this little world that’s slowing coming together, do have a peek, let me know what you think. Be warned that this is about demons, so expect a fair bit of violence.
Without further ado~
Ask #1: Childhood
“Jovan and Vanik, what are your worst childhood memories?”
For the record, this nonsense is what the previous picture was meant for…
