I love it! The same could be done with turning a “farspectral crystal” into a “farspeck” and then “specks”"Number One, get the Port on the sonic and tell them that bloody dragon is stirring up trouble again."
Yep. That works.
I’m thinking a farsonic is like a magical combination of telephone and radio. You can get broadcast programming, or use it for private two-way audio. A farspeck would be the same but including real-time visual images, so like a combo tv and early Zoom. And yes, I think I’ll put it forty or fifty years after yours. It’s actually not for a story, per se. It’s for a couple of audio scripts. One is a pastiche of a phone sex ad, but fantasy-ized. So, I needed a way to not just invent telephones.In my mind, my first story was set roughly in 1890. It sounds like your's is a few years later. Maybe your farspeck is the equivalent to a tv?
Which has given me another idea. Autolandaus are more common, and the Fire Mage guild has figured out how to keep a self sustaining fireball going for about 2 hours. They have set up recharging shops along the major routes, but if you need to go off them, you can hire a Mage to travel with you. A nerdy virgin Mage is hired by an aristocratic woman from Giltans Port because he's the only one available. I'm sure there's a story there somewhere.
Oh, and the stops -
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Thanks - no idea as yet. I'll let it stew for a while and see what happens. Gll needs a bit of fun in Eikclav first.
The Snowy Mountains in the SW? I was planning to give them an Anocot name for my story.
I’m talking about the same range, but up around Grennesh. It probably makes sense to have two, right? Especially if one’s an anocot name?
Wonderful! Please do write something! I don't believe we have anything so far about spirits, although there have been a few enchanted weapons written about that have held pieces of the souls of mortals. Kitara and The Wood Knot Warrior are two stories that come to mind.I happened on this thread and all of your terrific material by chance. This looks like a lot of fun. I have been wanting to do some kind of a fantasy story. Even though I enjoy reading them I have never tried to write one and the few times I have started have not really been very successful. But you have already provided many of the important parameters, so if you do not object I may try to contribute. I am actually a (retired) scholar of the ancient world, with a particular focus on religion and on death rites. So I might try to create something that stays in your parameters but expands to include some of the things I know something about. I haven't seen anything in your materials (well yet, haven't read everything yet) about an afterlife, like Hades. Or spirits inhabiting the realm. Is there a god or goddess of the afterlife? Anyway, I am just thinking out loud. I will study this a little more carefully. Thanks
Abi
Ooh, and I know this is a thorny one, but pronunciation...
@Nouh_Bdee - From my previous story
This is awesome! Thank you! So is “-or” and intensifier? Kinda like that opposite of a Spanish “-ita” or “-ito”?
I love it!I hadn't really thought too much about language last time out, but what you suggest sounds reasonable. Sll is a road, Sllor is a highway. Only used for inanimate objects they had before they migrated to Leinyere. If Anocot's found a new object that had a name in the Common tongue, they'd use that. They're pragmatic - not like the French.
Good lookin’ out, Russ!
What would be the funniest/best word to sound very similar to the word for "genitals" in the anocot language?
Hmmm... if I can find a way to work it into the misunderstanding I've got going on, I like it.
But your list showed Katn = steak... you want to lick my steak?Tail/genitals... All in the same area.
Good pick up... @Nouh_Bdee ?
That was the first option I had. It’s a language lesson, he’s telling her what anocot he already knows, like how to ask how you are, how to ask for a restroom, how to order a steak…
